Example sentences of "[subord] it [be] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A large aerogenerator programme is at present underway in the Netherlands where it is hoped that wind will be supplying about one quarter of Dutch electricity demand by the year 2000 . |
| 2 | Cleanaway can take liquid PCBs at its Ellesmere Port establishment , where it is building another plant which will take capacity there to 48,000 tonnes annually . |
| 3 | The experience curve itself was developed from the concept of the learning curve , which had been used for many years in industries where it was observed that labour time fell as the workforce accumulated experience in producing more of a particular type of unit . |
| 4 | The second exception was established in Tuberville v. Stamp where it was held that liability extended to a fire originating in a field as much as to one beginning in a house , but if the defendant kindles it at a proper time and place and the violence of the wind carry it to his neighbour 's land , that is fit to be given in evidence . |
| 5 | Northwestern Bell Telephone Co et al , where it was held that proof of an organised crime nexus is not required for RICO to be invoked , it is now clear that the draconian penalties applicable under RICO may be used against insider dealers . |
| 6 | For discussion of adequate display of notice , see Tevan v. Motherwell District Licensing Board ( No. 1 ) 1985 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 14 , where it was held that display of a notice within a post office was sufficient . |
| 7 | This was applied in Dixons Ltd. v. Roberts ( 1894 D.C. ) where it was held that section 14 did not catch a trader who gave a false indication that a refund would be given on any goods purchased , if within seven days the customer was able to buy the same products locally more cheaply . |
| 8 | It would have made a compact little home except it was painted dark brown like the corridors . |
| 9 | Public Health Nursing is still to a large extent task-oriented and the findings in a survey of the work load of the Public Health Nurse in Ireland in 1986 showed that only a small percentage of time ( 0.2% ) was spent directly on health education , although it is acknowledged that health promotion is a component of tasks and policy in all aspects of their role . |
| 10 | It was a manifesto for change , and although it was given greater publicity by the Tories and the local press than by the Labour Party , it was with this manifesto that Labour increased its majority in Haringey . |
| 11 | Cristiani agreed on Dec. 1 to the removal of the officers , although it was anticipated that Ponce would not be dismissed immediately . |
| 12 | ‘ We believe it is no more difficult , no more expensive and no more labour intensive to provide healthy , nutritious , tasty , well-presented food than it is to provide unhealthy food . |
| 13 | Mendès-France thereby demonstrated that it was more important to him to keep the French army free from supranational controls than it was to prevent German rearmament . |
| 14 | Once it is accepted that management involves technical expertise , the court could , without departing from the existing but anomalous principle that the standard of care is linked to the attributes of the director , impose an appropriately higher standard , given that most executive directors of large companies do have considerable business experience . |
| 15 | Once it is accepted that surrogacy is unlikely to cause any serious harm , the idea that it could be used for social rather than medical reasons should lose much of the horror and condemnation with which it tends to be associated . |
| 16 | Once it is established that insider dealing ought to be a criminal offence , the question becomes : how much do we punish and why ? |
| 17 | Once it is agreed that legislation should be prepared , the civil servants consult with the outside pressure groups , they clear their ideas with other interested departments and negotiate any financial aspects with the Treasury . |
| 18 | One consequence was this : once it was accepted that scripture stood alone outside tradition , and could be interpreted correctly by anyone with a pure heart and God-given rationality , it was not too big a step to suggest that the same could also be said of nature . |
| 19 | Formerly part of the Ottoman Empire , Egypt was a British protectorate from 1914 until it was granted nominal independence in 1922 . |
| 20 | If it is decided that use of a measure of material deprivation is informative and conceptually sound , then simple measures based on easily available and regularly updated measures would be preferable to the opaque and statistically complex derived indices . |
| 21 | if it is accepted that biotechnology is here to stay , how can it be controlled to the best advantage ? |
| 22 | If it is accepted that ability to consume is the major determinant and indicator of economic status — and that is implicit in the common concern over the ‘ standard of living ’ of different groups in society — then the conclusion must be that retirement is only one of a number of factors that affect economic status , and retirement alone is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for economic dependency . |
| 23 | If it is accepted that representative or indirect democracy is at best an inadequate substitute for personal participation , and that everything possible should be done to ensure that the views and wishes of the people are represented as accurately as possible within such a system , it must surely follow that representation should be in proportion to the weight of opinion in the society itself . |
| 24 | In the last chapter , I discussed the kinds of things the brain must be doing if it is to generate observed behaviour . |
| 25 | It is as well to appreciate that a body in free fall from a fixed starting event will follow different geodesics if it is given different starting velocities . |
| 26 | If it is agreed that project work has a great deal to offer in terms of developing reading , but recognised that these opportunities tend not to be exploited to the full , it is necessary to examine ways in which project work can be designed to make fuller use of its potential . |
| 27 | The main programming problems are likely to arise in the correct timing of the phase excitation changes ; the program segment responsible for the time delay between Steps must be carefully written if it is to provide accurate timing , as well as perform a useful secondary function . |
| 28 | The disciplines of active life in the sense of worldly help to others , or the necessity for study , are to be like " stikkes " laid on the burning coal that represents man 's innate desire for God and needs to be nourished if it is to provide full light and heat ( 35 – 9.397 – 449 ) . |
| 29 | Processes such as DVI , for example , will need to improve radically if it is to provide acceptable video at HDTV standards . |
| 30 | The Pratt Green Trust seeks to represent the interests of the churches in this area , but needs wider support from the Church if it is to make much progress . |