Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] [det] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's a perfect example of rumour feeding on rumour , that once something gets into the market place it causes all sorts of entrepreneurial people out there to think there 's an opportunity they ought not to miss . |
| 2 | Enthoven pointed out that whereas the NHS efficiently contained costs at the macro-level it provided few incentives to consistently reward efficiency and high performance at the micro-level , and indeed penalised both . |
| 3 | In addition it made some recommendations to BRAC , one of which was to encourage BRAC to make a greater effort to cooperate with the local village practitioners . |
| 4 | As a monument to extravagance of taste it has few equals in England , although it may not entirely justify the descriptions of a series of upended turnips stuck on boxes or St Paul 's pups which two irreverent contemporaries , William Cobbett and Dean Smith , bestowed on it . |
| 5 | The framework I want to propose rests upon a regard for the importance of the active , interpreting self in social interaction ; for the way it perceives , makes sense of and works upon the actions of others and the situation in which it finds itself ; the way it pursues goals and tries to maximize its own ( often competing ) interests ; the way it pursues these things by combining or competing with other selves ; the way it adjusts to circumstances while still trying to fulfil or retrieve its own purposes — and so forth . |
| 6 | But this time it took fewer repeats before the horse calmed and stopped . |
| 7 | In fact , on any view it started many years before that , though in a haphazard manner . |