Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The defendant garage was liable in damages because it took eight weeks to repair a motor vehicle when a normally competent garage would have taken about five weeks . |
| 32 | The Commission imposed a four-year supervision order in August 1990 against the West German company Advanced Nuclear Fuels GmbH for serious violations of safety regulations when it transported 130 kg of enriched uranium through Luxembourg in what purported to be empty containers . |
| 33 | PYRAMID TO TAKE $23m HIT AGAINST ITS FIGURES AS IT CUTS 110 JOBS |
| 34 | The electricity distributor yesterday cut tariffs by 1pc for 1.3m customers as it announced pre-tax profits of £111.2m . |
| 35 | The electricity distributor yesterday cut tariffs by 1pc for 1.3m customers as it announced pre-tax profits of £111.2m . |
| 36 | An area of mystery is rational to God , but faith must suspend judgement and not press human reason to answer questions when it has insufficient information . |
| 37 | Avoid flailing the vegetation in the gaps in the hedges because it prevents natural regeneration . |
| 38 | Counter-intuitively , keeping imports low may boost France 's trade deficit in manufactures because it prevents French firms specialising in what they do best . |
| 39 | He was joined by Peter Sheppard a few years later when it became apparent that so much information was potentially available from flight recorders that it needed another man to help interpret all the data . |
| 40 | Not only does it constitute the object of its own criticism , it also contains a number of theories of this criticism , and in a recursive move that can truly be termed deconstructive , it presents criticism of these theories and it narrativizes this criticism . |
| 41 | Taken in by the slow-breathing soil creatures , the toxin accumulates in their bodies until it reaches lethal proportions . |
| 42 | This approach to viscoelastic theory is reasonably successful in the low modulus regions but it requires considerable modification if the high modulus and rubbery plateau regions are to be described . |
| 43 | This kind of access to recording facilities is not of course practicable in many language teaching situations but it has considerable potential on intensive courses where students have many contact hours . |
| 44 | The model is couched in ex-ante terms as it specifies expected security returns as a function of the expected return on the market portfolio . |
| 45 | Underlying inflation , which provides a better guide to cost pressures as it excludes volatile mortgage interest rates , was slightly stronger at 3.4 per cent , up from 3.2 per cent in January . |
| 46 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 47 | Vienna , Virginia-based Legent Corp warns that it expects to report net profit of about $18.4m or $0.52 per share for the second quarter ended Aprch 31 , compared with the $0.44 before charges that it reported last year ; turnover will be about flat with the $102.5m a year ago : the news caused a bloodbath in the Legent share price , which slumped 16% , $6.125 , to land up at $33.25 . |
| 48 | has to hit the uranium nucleus , and breaks it up into two other particles and it releases three neutrons . |
| 49 | Meanwhile , the BBC SSO is holding fire on balloting its members until it receives more information about the merger to create a National Orchestra of Scotland , which would double as the orchestra for both the BBC and SO . |
| 50 | It enrolled less than 50 members but it attracted active support from up to 2,000 sympathizers . |
| 51 | There are final decisions still to be taken over the introduction of the speed controls but it seems likely humps would be in place by September this year . |
| 52 | In the context of this chapter , however , it is particularly important to deal with the corporatist perspective on the politics of organised interests since it provides some kind of challenge to the pluralist perspective ( even though pluralism and corporatism share a number of basic assumptions ) , and it fleshes out elements of the left critique of pluralism ( even though much corporatist theory is hostile to a Marxist theory of the capitalist state ) . |
| 53 | The new Holiday Inn at King 's Cross , London , will also have a Landis & Gyr system , controlling energy , fire and security systems and elevators when it opens next year . |
| 54 | Leigh 's retainer as a consultant has supported the space , which held five exhibitions until it closed this fall . |
| 55 | There are 98 ways that a quark can travel between two points if it interacts three times with gluons . |
| 56 | The Commission is only likely to open proceedings if it has serious concerns about the impact of the merger on competition in the EC . |
| 57 | Size provides a cushion to the vicissitudes of markets but it creates other problems . |
| 58 | Not only does it close four more pits but it threatens five power stations in the area . |
| 59 | The rule that costs follow the event is important in negotiations because it adds another factor to the equation . |
| 60 | Bornstein ( 1979 ) also suggests that fingerspelling would not be useful for young children since it involves fine perceptions and handshapes which they themselves may not be able to form . |