Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] it [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This latest book turns the spotlight on the human aspects and it offers excellent entertainment . |
2 | Graphic Communication is a new subject in Scottish schools and it replaces Technical Drawing . |
3 | Although written many years ago , Lady Chatterley 's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press , and this pictorial account of the day by day life of an English game-keeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor-minded readers as it contains many passages on pheasant raising , the apprehending of poachers , ways to control vermin and other chores and duties of the professional game-keeper . |
4 | More or less handmade , a pocket-sprung mattress is expensive but the best bet for couples of differing weights as it gives each sleeper individual support . |
5 | It is particularly prevalent in developing countries where it claims 250000 victims each year . |
6 | Firstly , harmonisation of national policies , especially in areas where it offers obvious advantages , e.g. labour mobility . |
7 | The organisation has developed an assessment package which enables members to determine their quality positioning against internationally recognised role models and it runs common interest working parties where member companies can work together solving problems of quality progression and sharing knowledge and experience over such issues as benchmarking and the cost of non-conformance with quality . |
8 | The diameter of its mouth is 9½ feet and it weighs 17 tons — the largest bell in Britain . |
9 | It is certainly true that it is worth ‘ pooling ’ sovereignty in some areas since it makes more sense to do this than to act independently . |
10 | It would also have many applications in Third World countries since it uses rubber tyres in both modes and thereby has an incline capability of ⅙ This means that in Third World countries instead of flattening the mountains and filling the valleys to make them level to one could follow the contours of the countryside and enormously reduce civil engineering costs . |
11 | What does a claimant do then they 've got no money then for six weeks if it takes six weeks . |
12 | The unfavourable prospect for exports is perhaps the most damaging of Africa 's economic weaknesses since it implies continued dependence on unstable , and on the whole , unfavourable commodity markets . |
13 | So , next Tuesday and Wednesday , Christie 's in Amsterdam expects a full turnout of buyers when it sells 28,000 pieces of Chinese porcelain from a burnt-out junk shipwrecked around 1690 off Con Dao Island , Vietnam . |
14 | The idea has now reached dimensions where it requires some assistance by individuals with stature and/or money to legitimize its growth . |
15 | If a large customer is late in making payment , a firm may be unable to pay its suppliers unless it has spare liquidity . |
16 | PYRAMID TO TAKE $23m HIT AGAINST ITS FIGURES AS IT CUTS 110 JOBS |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Avoid flailing the vegetation in the gaps in the hedges because it prevents natural regeneration . |
19 | Counter-intuitively , keeping imports low may boost France 's trade deficit in manufactures because it prevents French firms specialising in what they do best . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Taken in by the slow-breathing soil creatures , the toxin accumulates in their bodies until it reaches lethal proportions . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . ’ |
27 | has to hit the uranium nucleus , and breaks it up into two other particles and it releases three neutrons . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 ) . |