Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Greece 's have become a lot worse than most other people 's because of a couple of things those centuries it spent under Ottoman rule did to it . |
| 2 | Offices It works in this fashion : If you were working in a suite of offices , you might , if you were so inclined , have one office dedicated to word processing , one for drawing , another for accounting and so on . |
| 3 | In summary then , the reasons for choosing The Machine Gunners include the opportunities it offers for various aspects of personal involvement on the part of the reader and its curricular potentials with regard to related topic , theme , and language work . |
| 4 | Partnerships should look at the case for an education service , in terms of the opportunities it presents for sensible planning , provision for population migration and demographic change , best use of scarce and expensive resources , effective curriculum and professional development , smooth transition between the ages and stages of education , and quality education for all those with special educational needs . |
| 5 | Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ . |
| 6 | It also has a joint venture with a waste management company , which delivers Crec computers it collects from municipal waste sites and which Crec , in turn , pays to dispose the extracted hazardous materials . |
| 7 | The processor can interpret several elements of the picture at once ; in other words it acts in parallel fashion . |
| 8 | IF the sophisticated modern diesel engine now makes economic sense for small cars , the savings it offers for bigger cars are more worthwhile . |
| 9 | I believe in the case of these baths it took about one man year to do that transformation . |
| 10 | He was making a careful examination of the bowls and plates it contained in dusty confusion . |
| 11 | These examples suggest that while antislavery could not become an explicit test of membership of chapel communities it did in many cases become a norm of memberships and of a minister 's identity . |
| 12 | This was the aspiration of increasing numbers of provincial antislavery militants ; how closely they approximated their aim and what tensions it provoked with parliamentary abolitionists , especially Buxton , can be observed in part through examining the use of the delegate conference or convention . |
| 13 | Silphium laciniatum , from the prairies of the central and southeastern states of America , is another six-footer , sometimes more , whose large , deeply divided foliage is far more ornamental than the yellow daisies it produces in late summer . |
| 14 | Among other matters it dealt with lay control of monasteries , excesses of dress among churchmen , and the immorality and drunkenness of Anglo-Saxon clergy , and ordered the holding of diocesan synods to implement the decrees of the council . |
| 15 | x Unix operating systems and on to Solaris 2. x and naturally does n't want to share all the goodies it has in 2. x with 1 . |
| 16 | I would like to outline some of the major terms of the legislation , the far reaching implications it has for unemployed people and what we as a local group are trying to do to combat it . |
| 17 | By the following morning Mr Reynolds was apyrexial and although his temperature was recorded every four hours for the next five days it remained within normal limits . |
| 18 | It makes law depend on distinct social conventions it designates as legal conventions ; in particular on conventions about which institutions should have power to make law and how . |
| 19 | The intensity of the field is generally weak , falling to 10–20% of the initial strength over most of the Earth 's surface , but in places it rises to high values . |
| 20 | Michael Russell , the party 's vice-convener for publicity , accused Labour of selling out on all the promises it made to Scottish voters at the last election . |
| 21 | With bank interest over the years it amounted to some £320,000-certainly enough to meet the Ingard cheque . |
| 22 | Polgar resolved to do the same , although for years it resulted in severe poverty . |
| 23 | Accordingly , the Agricultural Training Board , like similar organisations , needed to consider the priorities it gave in these areas . |
| 24 | If free-market conditions had generally prevailed , and if the BEA had got all the investment resources it required at low interest rates , this conclusion would be unassailable . |
| 25 | Thus the death of Catherine I of Russia in 1727 and the changes it produced in Russian policy in the Baltic brought about a reconciliation with Britain after a long period of antagonism ; the death in 1762 of the Empress Elizabeth meant Russia 's immediate withdrawal from the Seven Years War ; and the accession to the throne of Frederick II was an essential preliminary to the Prussian attack on Silesia in 1740 . |
| 26 | One can either directly estimate the value of all the final goods and services ( a variant would be to estimate what every branch of production adds to the value of the goods it uses as raw materials ) . |
| 27 | The Vale of White Horse say they 're disappointed at the decision … but Oxfordshire County Council are satisfied at the 58 conditions it imposes on National Power . |
| 28 | The chart on page 70 provides an informal profile of each course and an indication of the qualities it asks of each student . |
| 29 | In local situations it leads to mutual respect between generations and among different sectors and levels of society . |
| 30 | At the centre of the conception is high youth unemployment which , it is assumed , in the case of males leads to crime and trouble with the police ; in the case of females it leads to single-parent families . |