Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Golf development will not normally be permitted if it causes unacceptable disruption to the public enjoyment of rights of way . |
| 2 | Speaking to the European Parliament ( EP ) after the summit Ruud Lubbers , Prime Minister of the Netherlands , said that the word federal had been dropped because it meant different things to different people . |
| 3 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 4 | But there is now a 60 per cent chance that a fish will be caught after it reaches 35 centimetres ( the legal limit to netting size ) . |
| 5 | Although this looked worse than it might have done since it covered fourteen months instead of twelve — the result of an adjustment to a different financial year — such figures demanded a response . |
| 6 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 7 | The government insists that it will only be restarted if it passes stringent safety tests , and that a technical council composed of Russian , American , French and German experts will oversee its operation . |
| 8 | The wound is then debrided if it contains devitalised tissue . |
| 9 | But Night Trap could not be exempted because it depicted violent actions involving realistic images of human beings rather than straightforward computer graphics . |
| 10 | Besides , an idea is n't always abandoned because it fails some quality control test . |
| 11 | The show has failed to appear in any TV popularity charts and eight of the original cast of virtual unknowns have been axed since it began last summer . |
| 12 | The bluefin is heavily fished as it fetches high prices in Japan where it is sold for as much as $40 a pound . |
| 13 | The National Gallery must be very satisfied to have concluded as it did last week . |
| 14 | The Ren & Stimpy Show , featuring possibly the most deranged comic duo in years , became an instant cult hit when it appeared last autumn in pilot form on cable channel Nickleodeon . |
| 15 | As we saw in this chapter , more recently it has been found that this account of processing can not be correct for at least three reasons : ( a ) there is evidence that syntactic and semantic processing is not delayed until the end of the clause ; ( b ) there is evidence that information about the specific wording is retained after the end of a clause if that clause contains nonspecific words which subsequent clauses will disambiguate ; ( c ) specific wording will also be retained if it has pragmatic significance . |
| 16 | At last night 's summit Denmark was also heavily criticised after it demanded further opt-outs before it will sign the agreement . |
| 17 | The Middle East Economic Digest of March 16 described this prediction of a budget surplus as surprising to many observers , but noted that , in the absence of figures for years more recent than 1984 , it could not be determined whether it implied higher income or a sharp reduction in public expenditure . |
| 18 | After her long successful career in criminal law a move to family law and civil proceedings generally is her preference and not chosen because it fits male prejudices about women . |
| 19 | Aldermaston was chosen as it met these requirements . |