Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these days of restrictions on capital investment it makes good sense to adapt to current and probable future needs when incurring capital expenditure . |
| 2 | In the discussion of inter-generational talk it emerged that code switching from English to Creole was relatively infrequent , and was not usually as a response to another speaker using Creole , although it sometimes was . |
| 3 | In the short term it proposes increased monitoring to ensure that the highest standards of pesticide use are maintained . |
| 4 | Against the dollar it lost 1.9 cents to finish at $1.5585 . |
| 5 | A month later , PW made a breakthrough : it gained access to Mr Naqvi 's personal filing room where , among 6,000 files , it found the evidence it needed major customers colluding with BCCI in the falsification of accounting through the use of nominee arrangements , hold harmless arrangements and payment of fees to individuals to ensure cooperation , as well as proof of links between BCCI and the International Credit and Investment Corporation group . |
| 6 | It was these which made progress relatively slow , and which on occasions even led the High Authority to bow down to views expressed in the Special Council of Ministers even where under the treaty it had undisputed authority to act . |
| 7 | In a broader sense it includes all relatives living together or accepted as a family , including adopted persons . |
| 8 | For the distinctions a conception draws between legal rights and other forms of rights and between legal arguments and other forms of argument , signal the character and limits of the justification it believes political decisions provide for state coercion . |
| 9 | In the end it took ten minutes to get the Cambridgeshire police Land Rover turned past McLeish 's squad and their vans , and away back up to the stable . |
| 10 | However , as a matter of principle it annoys Hon. Members to think that Welsh Members should adopt such an attitude , because millions of pounds of English taxpayers ' money are directed towards Wales . |
| 11 | Morland has also issued new profit forecasts today showing that next year it expects pre-tax profits to rise by twenty-eight per cent . |
| 12 | Morland has also issued new profit forecasts today showing that next year it expects pre-tax profits to rise by twenty-eight per cent . |
| 13 | Lois Brown was critical of the length of time it took many publishers to make deliveries . |
| 14 | But in the time it takes these children to ask for a drink of water an accomplice has slipped in the back and helped himself . |
| 15 | At that time it had two units located in Wilmslow and Knutsford . |
| 16 | At that time it makes good sense to separate males from females . |
| 17 | In fact it took some time to make effective progress , in part because of institutional changes ; Lord Portal replaced Lord Reith , and in 1943 a separate Ministry of Town and Country Planning was set up . |