Example sentences of "[subord] it [be] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the policy-making area is technical and complex , public officials have a decided advantage , even though the state may not have a total monopoly of technically relevant knowledge in policy areas where it is pursuing corporatist arrangements . |
| 2 | The aim throughout the year will be to cover all aspects of accompaniment ; Piano in October , Percussion in January , Taped Music in March and , finally in June a Music Workshop where it is hoped qualified teachers will bring along tapes and records that they have used in their classes and which might be helpful to other teachers . |
| 3 | Teacher support groups are increasingly being set up to provide the opportunity for greater honesty , and it can be less threatening for people who feel isolated to join one of these than it is to make individual overtures within their own staffroom . |
| 4 | And this man came to the door , and he went to get the hold belt , that should just have a tape recorder on conversation just throughout the week so it 's getting all sorts of rubbish going in there , |
| 5 | Some cloners think Sun regrets making previous Sparcstations too easy to knock off so it 's putting some obstacles in the way . |
| 6 | It remained as one of the Abbey 's treasures until it was stolen some years ago . |
| 7 | The doctrine that mental disease did not have a physical cause became widely established , so much so that a study published in 1915 which reported definite changes in the left cerebral hemispheres of schizophrenic patients was largely ignored until it was rediscovered 70 years later . |
| 8 | If it is to have empirical consequences it must rule out many other ways of understanding the pattern of metaphors . |
| 9 | The legislature 's vote was an embarrassment for Mr Kravchuk , but it has left Ukraine with a paralysed government at a time when the country must react swiftly if it is to survive increased prices for Russian fuel . |
| 10 | At the moment paid employment ( even if it 's making rubber ducks for export ) brings status and income , whereas work , which we all do to keep going and may well do voluntarily in our communities , carries neither income nor status . |
| 11 | She said the Church could not afford to refuse to ordain women if it was to win more supporters . |
| 12 | more public expenditure : the King 's Fund researchers provided a tentative estimate that spending would have had to be just under £400 million higher in 1987/88 if it was to match 1981/82 levels , taking into account changing demand and technology ; |
| 13 | His Honour John Slack in allowing the appeal told the RSPCA that it needed to clean up its act if it was to secure future prosecutions . |
| 14 | It could n't be any plainer if it were raining floppy discs . |
| 15 | When its heroine , Dorothea , first entertains the illusion that marriage to Mr Casaubon will confer upon the everyday-the aspect of great things , she makes one exception to the frustration of her efforts as a single woman to lead a significant life in that period in England : ‘ I do n't feel sure about doing good in any way now ; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I do n't know ; — unless it were building good cottages — there can be no doubt about that . ’ |
| 16 | Now they are exchanging information right away , and not waiting till it is published two years later in a scientific journal . ’ |
| 17 | Cleared , were dispersed , and what have you got next , anyway after that , that that 's obviously a very problematic thing , because it 's using poetic images which are very difficult to move into modern standard English , but what have we got for the rain of heaven please ? |
| 18 | While it was printing two things happened . |
| 19 | RICHMOND Royal Park in southwest London has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest because of the wildlife preserved there since it was created three centuries ago . |
| 20 | Since it was restructured five years ago ( see Nature 332 , 197 ; 1988 ) , the CSIR has tried to obtain a larger proportion of its income from both the private and public sectors for consulting . |
| 21 | It has a proven track record , creating 71,000 new job opportunities since it was formed seven years ago . |
| 22 | Microsoft Corp told Reuter that its retail shipments of the MS-DOS 6 upgrade , which have sold more than 2m copies worldwide since it was introduced two weeks ago , are supply-constrained — it just ca n't duplicate the thing fast enough . |
| 23 | This means that tax evasion is depriving the state — and the people who benefit from what the state can do for them , whether it is building better roads and hospitals or cleaning the seashore or guarding the frontiers — of a sum amounting to about 10% of the current official national income . |
| 24 | According to the Post , the government watchdog took the step because it is battling with the two companies over discount and marketing data , which it reckons it needs in order to determine whether it is paying fair prices for computer products . |
| 25 | The choice of economic incentive ultimately depends upon the purpose of this strategy , whether it is to reduce specific types of pollution generally or in given geographical areas , to reallocate funds for investment in pollution control or to compensate victims of air pollution . |
| 26 | The incidents came at a time when Sellafield was already facing prosecution for allegedly not taking proper safety precautions at its high-level waste processing plant ( see above ) and when it is seeking new authorisations for discharges into the air . |
| 27 | But it too uses passive tests most frequently when it is studying female subjects . |
| 28 | Dr Bob Woodward and his brother John became interested in the pavement when it was uncovered some years ago . |
| 29 | The discovery that oriented bars and edges were the trigger features for neurons in the visual cortex was enormously exciting when it was made thirty years ago , but Levick followed up their discovery and found that there are orientation selective neurons in rabbit retina as well as the directionally selective ones shown in Figure 4 . |
| 30 | INVESTORS who piled into North West Water when it was floated three years ago are on the crest of a wave . |