Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite its apparent relativism , in practice it defined alternative centres of cultural authority primarily in terms of their difference from the norm of English culture , not in their uniqueness and their discontinuities . |
| 2 | As a rule it contains varying proportions of base or less precious metals . |
| 3 | For the short term it sees patchy signs of improvement and no speedy recovery . |
| 4 | Football had been a traditionally rowdy and sometimes violent game , but as a regulated spectator sport it provided novel opportunities for conflicts between the players , referees and fans , and there is a well documented history of pitch invasions , attacks on referees and players , and fighting between rival fans throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century and into the new century . |
| 5 | For the language teacher it provides powerful clues concerning the causes of the sensation of floundering in conversation to which we referred earlier . |
| 6 | In town it requires vast amounts of arm-flailing lock but is never what you could call light . |
| 7 | Every day it serves identical food to 19 million people and swallows $1.3 million profits . |
| 8 | From the top it provides magnificent views of the city 's famous skyline . |
| 9 | Although the merger gave Roh control of 216 of the 299 seats in the National Assembly it provoked widespread resentment on the grounds that it effectively removed the elected opposition . |
| 10 | I welcome the Bill , even though on the surface it hands considerable powers from Parliament to Ministers . |
| 11 | If , for whatever reason , a husband initially commands higher rates of pay than his wife it makes economic sense for him to ‘ specialize ’ in paid work and let her shoulder the brunt of the partnership 's unpaid chores ( Becker , 1981 , 1985 ; for a critique see Owen , 1987 ) . |
| 12 | For a while it organised mass meetings outside Eastbourne and Rye and sought to push up wages during the harvest season . |
| 13 | It is essential , therefore , that when the water industry prospectus is published next month it provides comprehensive information on all 10 authorities . |
| 14 | Last week it announced first-quarter contributions of £11.1m from CMB — the result of the £900m merger between Metal Box and the French Carnaud company . |
| 15 | The pace of change was desultory , and the district only began work on contracting under the impetus of the neighbouring district it provided acute services for . |
| 16 | At its worst it may have been a parasitic racket representing only itself to the detriment of all , but on the larger canvas of society it gave political power to a narrow group of substantial landowners in loose alliance with merchant princes and the small towns which returned members to Parliament . |
| 17 | Like other unions we suffer from the severe loss of members due to unemployment and we are appalled at the devastation of family life when the breadwinner 's been sha cast on the scrap heap and the behaviour of the government it throws whole communities into depravity without a chance of any hope for the future and their children . |
| 18 | He was rehearsing Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night and the lines had fled ; what he hung on to was the physical business , and when he did some of it to the mirror it seemed poor stuff for the old Living Boomerang . |
| 19 | 3 At waterfall it climbs steep bank on right and descends to cross footbridge . |
| 20 | In the case of the News International ban it offered clear guidance on how the professional should react . |
| 21 | In addition it limits public understanding of government ability , inhibits the explicit establishment of public sector planning programmes , and leads to inefficiency and lack of accountability on the part of departmental and programme managers . |
| 22 | In addition it followed Roman Law on rape . |
| 23 | The publicity is fairly short-lived , of course it has tremendous effect on the British media , and we 're all very , very happy for the families of these people |
| 24 | ‘ I remember when we first came here on honeymoon it did wonderful things to you , Stephen . |
| 25 | This Act is very important in the commercial world ; in addition to being a very comprehensive regulator of contracts of sale it implies important terms into contracts such as requirements that the goods must match their description , be of merchantable quality , be fit for their purpose and that the seller has the right to sell the goods . |
| 26 | In corridors and classrooms throughout the county it bears silent witness to the perception of the man who formed it , to his generous breadth of outlook and to his integrity . |
| 27 | In the gut , the main symptom of candidiasis is said to be bloating and wind , because as the yeast ferments its food it produces prodigious quantities of carbon dioxide gas . |
| 28 | But in the end it shows total respect for the people who fought and died . |
| 29 | This type of remembering , which comes unbidden , through the sense of taste or touch or smell , is what Marcel of course calls ‘ involuntary ’ or ‘ affective memory ’ , and in contrast to intellectual memory it recaptures past experience in its lived immediacy . |
| 30 | Or at least with the way it converts internal formats into PostScript . |