Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the western consensus based on the traditional liberal interpretation has now broken down , many of the most distinguished scholars in the field remain firmly committed to it and it continues to inform conventional wisdom among non-specialists in the West . |
| 2 | Fortunately for the Government , this short debate in the House of Lords seems to have attracted little attention from the press , and it continued to receive general approbation for the exhibition , with the relevance of the competition remaining largely unquestioned . |
| 3 | Information & Business Systems Tirana , a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Co , says it has won a $480,000 tender financed by the European Community to computerise Albanian government institutions : the project consists in supplying and installing 350 base units to the government offices , Reuter reports ; the company says it has already donated a Precision Architecture RISC Unix system worth $250,000 to the Tirana Polytechnic University and it hopes to sell another system in Albania within the next year . |
| 4 | In the eyes of the Department of Energy , wave power on a large scale is uneconomical and it ceased to fund such projects following reviews in 1983 and 1985 . |
| 5 | Rafael Valls acquired an appealing half-length portrait of Miss Juliana Copley by Lawrence ( lot 29 , est. £50,000–70,000 ) for £92,000 , but doubts had been expressed about the condition of the second Lawrence in the sale , a grand full-length portrait of John Allnutt ( lot 30 , est. £300,000–500,000 ) , and it failed to attract any bids . |
| 6 | The National Assistance Act seemed to turn its back on this doctrines yet it failed to jettison the view entirely and it failed to provide financial resources sufficient to enable the Board to avoid having to distinguish between the claims made by applicants , particularly as regards their more unusual needs . |
| 7 | And it goes to show these sportswomen are shrewd as well as skilled . |
| 8 | This had the effect of making the differences between owl and diurnal raptor digestion appear greater than it really is , and it seemed to confirm earlier reports of minimal effects of digestion in owls ( Reed & Reed , 1928 ; Duke et al . , |
| 9 | And it helps to generate new energy because there is a belief . ’ |
| 10 | The pluralist perspective makes no attempt to criticise British politics , and it chooses to bend democratic theory in a conservative direction so that it justifies and defends the established order . |
| 11 | If consumerism is to be as important as this suggests , then the definition of consumer needs to be wide : it must include the ‘ hidden consumers ’ who do not have much contact with social services departments , and it needs to include both clients and their carers . |
| 12 | It has been adopted by many authors and consultants and it seems to mean many things , depending on the author and context . |
| 13 | Hence the individual soon knows , from this genetic information , what its form and structure is ( its morphology ) , and it begins to acquire behavioural characteristics . |
| 14 | Guar gum is a complex polysaccharide which can not be digested or absorbed and it appears to have two effects . |
| 15 | It monitors the activity of banks , which are required to submit monthly reports to it , and it attempts to spot any bank that is likely to face difficulties . |
| 16 | ‘ The National Grid does not own the land on which the pylons are to be built and it has to negotiate some form of agreement with the landowner , ’ he said . |
| 17 | ICI fertilizers is also Europe 's leading liquid CO2 producer and it intends to stay that way , selling some 400,000 tonnes per year of product to industries as diverse as nuclear power and soft drinks . |
| 18 | It appears to give legal authority for an apparently open-ended power to intercept and it fails to constrain that power by an adequate framework of judicial or parliamentary scrutiny . |
| 19 | Thursday dawned bright and blue and it decided to stay that way all day through . |
| 20 | Pressure for this was considerable and it appeared to have popular support . |
| 21 | Gerver ( 1980 , personal communication ) had reported a high correlation between these measures and foreign language interpreting abilities , and it appeared to make little difference which language the text was presented in . |
| 22 | The more of these properties a dummy possessed the more strongly it was mobbed , but it seemed to make little difference whether the object was a stuffed owl with real plumage or an owl-shaped piece of painted wood . |
| 23 | Immigration to Britain , a country of net emigration ( which means that more people emigrate from it than immigrate to it ) did not in itself throw up social problems but it served to highlight social deprivation . |
| 24 | The paper was relaunched in a new format as the Sun , but it failed to win up-market readers , while the old loyalists were put off . |
| 25 | Management by exception enables a manager to devote his or her energies to significant deviations ; this does not mean that he or she ignores all other results but it helps to focus managerial effort . |
| 26 | At one time , the Hang Seng Index was down 116 points , but it recovered to close 98 points lower at 4,827 . |
| 27 | But it tends to achieve each draw with a high , shared score . |
| 28 | Often a change of publisher does wonders for an author , but it seems to make little difference to this man 's sales . |
| 29 | Selection for technical education continued to take place , generally at thirteen , but it tended to reflect existing patterns set by two years of secondary schooling so that grammar school successes were unlikely to change in mid-stream . |