Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidence to support this general contention has been found in Warwickshire and Devon , where it appears that new building has been concentrated mainly in the major settlements of the hierarchy . |
| 2 | The regulations give some guidance by directing that an application may be refused where it appears that any advantage accruing would only be trivial , where the simple nature of the proceedings would not normally require the assistance of a solicitor , or where funds from another source were available but not pursued . |
| 3 | The union had already moved from its fine premises in Buckingham Street , Strandon 22 September 1894 as an economy measure and eventually found a more permanent home , along with the Green 's Home branch , at the Maritime Hall , West India Dock Road , London E. where it remained until Head Office was moved to St.George 's Hall , Westminster Bridge Road , London S.E. in May 1921 . |
| 4 | Private Acts of Parliament could be used to overcome opposition ; 472 between 1770 and 1779 , 2000 in all ( Darby 1973b ) , although it seems that more land was enclosed in the seventeenth than in the eighteenth century . |
| 5 | It is a building of great age dating back to the end of the 12th century , or the beginning of the 13th , the actual date of its building has been lost , but Fielding gives us a clue in his records by naming the first Chaplain as Michael de Painton , before 1319 , and William de Kucklestane Chaplain of St. Lawrence 1319–44 and also of Dode , so it seems that Upper Hailing shared a Minister these many years ago . |
| 6 | It would be extremely unattractive to any group of workers or management to enter a serious bid if they had been told by the Scottish Office that the bid was so contemptible that it would not even qualify for assistance if it failed because another bid from within the same management or work force had been judged as superior . |
| 7 | The discussion was not conclusive but views were expressed that , while there was no such obligation on the Central Authority , if it felt that good grounds existed for an appeal , it could properly act . |
| 8 | The Clause was wrong if it meant schools could not have proper and adequate discussion , but if it meant that local authorities should not promote homosexuality then Mr Roberts would support it . |
| 9 | The OFT investigates complaints if it appears that these trade associations are not following their own guidelines and , as a final sanction , the OFT can withdraw its endorsement . |
| 10 | Conceptually it was tempting to argue that greater flexibility would allow the sentencing court more discretion if it concluded that full suspension could not be justified , but that a brief experience of imprisonment might have some deterrent effect without first offenders remaining long enough in prison to become acclimatized . |
| 11 | The Report of the Franks Committee in 1957 was recognized by Robson as ‘ an important landmark in our constitutional history ’ , largely because it accepted that administrative tribunals are ‘ a valuable and permanent part of the machinery of justice ’ and went much further ‘ than the grudging admission of the advantages possessed by tribunals accorded by the Donoughmore Report ’ . |
| 12 | Because it considers that capitalist economies are fundamentally in dis-equilibrium and each regulation system which controls them breaks down eventually , its view of history does not include the regular and predictable cyclical pattern of long-wave theory . |
| 13 | This is not a useful approach , because it assumes that all forms of intelligence are of the same qualitative type . |
| 14 | His tax , known as a property tax , worked better because it realised that efficient assessment and collection were more important than raised levels . |
| 15 | In other areas , notably in relation to the right of freedom of association and collective bargaining , the Commission is abstaining from any action , because it believes that these measures are best dealt with by social partners of industry , or , as appropriate , by the Member States . |
| 16 | This is interesting both because it suggests that non-Hebbian forms of potentiation occur in the hippocampus , and because it provides implicit evidence for the existence of a diffusible extracellular messenger ( see text ) . |
| 17 | The coat-of-paint approach is doubly mistaken because it suggests that fundamental issues of social justice , democracy and political and economic power are not raised by the struggle against racial subordination . |
| 18 | Some firms that make TV sets like the idea of the tree and branch system because it means that profitable electronics must be built into the receivers which they sell . |
| 19 | This regulation of registration often causes bad feeling because it means that Chinese people friendly with foreigners are easily recognised and traced . |
| 20 | The observation that the period of the sleep/wake rhythm differs from 24 hours is important because it indicates that environmental cues can not have been responsible . |
| 21 | Although this is consistent with a considerable body of evidence suggesting that successful innovations couple technological expertise with a range of marketing skills ( see the overview in Freeman , 1982 ) , it is important because it shows that this coupling process can be market mediated . |
| 22 | The decision marks a significant development because it shows that national copyright law can not be used to justify conduct which is incompatible with the objectives of Article 86 . |
| 23 | But there is some good news , because it seems that some people are beginning to take seriously the problem of graduate unemployment . |
| 24 | The EC is blocking pork and beef imports because it claims that American slaughterhouses are unsanitary ; the Americans are blocking some wine imports because they have not tested a drug used in its production . |
| 25 | It is dependent on the stability of existing states of affairs since it assumes that future situations will be predictable replicas of those in the past . |
| 26 | Their Lordships consider this to be a false analogy , since it presupposes that intellectual property rights have a situs similar to immovable property . |
| 27 | The underlying motive here ( although the word ‘ motive ’ is misleading since it suggests that such strategies are not genetically driven but are a product of conscious strategy ) is again ‘ the selfish gene ’ and its reproductive success . |
| 28 | PRESSURE is mounting on the Government to look at alternative means of toughening the law on Scotland 's knife thugs after it emerged that urgently-awaited legislation has been edged out of the parliamentary timetable . |
| 29 | The credibility of the European Community scheme under which clean beaches are awarded a " blue flag " has been seriously undermined after it emerged that blue flags had been awarded to 11 beaches in Italy which the government had previously registered as too dirty for bathing . |
| 30 | There was no time for him to get up the steps and past the door before it opened and deadly talons reached for him in the darkness . |