Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German Air Ministry building in the Leipzigstrasse , for example , which had been a target since September 1940 , remained unscathed until it suffered slight damage in a US daylight raid in 1944 ! |
| 2 | Others followed suit until it became standard practice in the group . |
| 3 | The proposed shoe factory , for example , would make a return on capital of around 15% if it sold running shoes for 1,000 roubles a pair . |
| 4 | Such a gene could pay for itself if it motivated little girls to in fact compete with their brothers for what their brothers might otherwise er get uncontested . |
| 5 | THE only way men could be relied on to take the proposed male contraceptive pill would be if it enlarged certain parts of their anatomy in the way the female pill enlarges breasts . |
| 6 | All experience showed that an attack had some prospect of success only if it had numerical superiority in a ratio of at least 3 : 1 . |
| 7 | The more cross-holdings there are , the less chance of success for any outside raid on Hongkong Land , even if it had semi-official backing from the Chinese government . |
| 8 | The government of Taiwan announced on May 11 that the vessel was free to dock in the country but that it would not be allowed to return if it violated international law by making unauthorized broadcasts to the mainland . |
| 9 | He threatened tough action to control council spending — even if it meant painful limits on Tory authorities . |
| 10 | I hate to think what effect it would have on our deficit if it included realistic costings of the value of their time . |
| 11 | Over the next 12 months , it will buy another 1.89% in the open market , and gets an option on a further 4% for another $150m from Olivetti 's shareholders ' syndicate by June 1994 ; that adds up to 9.92% , which if it paid current prices for the shares it buys in the market would represent a total investment of about $330m . |
| 12 | Representatives of the NAC met the Guild Council on 21 October and made it quite clear that the NAC could not continue to recognize the Guild as the youth section of the Party if it retained sympathetic affiliation to the Young Communist International . |
| 13 | It had the right to annul the first round of voting , if it found sufficient evidence of irregularities , and to organize new elections within two months . |
| 14 | Ever a man for taking the particular to exhibit the general , this allowed him a global crack at the Scots : he claimed that they were not interested in doing anything unless it had natural awkwardness in it : ‘ What can not be done without some uncommon trouble or particular expedient , will not often be done at all . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Moreover , as specialized professionals , medics warmed to an ideology of national efficiency precisely because it privileged rational experts over those generalist administrators who had earlier curbed the power of the Simonian specialist . |
| 17 | Because it had negative assets of £1m , and Cables and Flexibles and Seacoast turned in below-par results , Biermann said there were insufficient distributable reserves to pay a final dividend . |
| 18 | Cedars , he told them , was a special school because it had special teachers with special skills and training . |
| 19 | Throughout the Communist world , the videotape recorder was the greatest status symbol because it implied ready access to a constant supply of Western videotapes . |
| 20 | Not surprisingly , Shaughnessy found it ‘ extremely disturbing , because it suggested serious wrong-doing by the government and suggested that Pan Am employees placed the bomb on Flight 103 ’ . |
| 21 | The Great Storm was a setback to woodland conservation because it drew public attention to trees and woods without adding to public understanding . |
| 22 | The city 's Central Station incorporates a large viaduct section over Argyll Street , which is locally nicknamed the Highlandman 's Umbrella , because it provided useful shelter for the homeless and unemployed in the city . |
| 23 | Was the government-supported Remploy , for instance , a good thing because it provided sheltered employment for disabled people , or a bad thing because it ghettoised them ? |
| 24 | Gloucester 's power was valuable because it ensured royal control of a significant and troublesome part of the country . |
| 25 | Gloucester 's power was valuable because it ensured royal control of a significant and troublesome part of the country . |
| 26 | But Washington said that while it had prior knowledge of the plot hatched by three disaffected officers , it did not actively back it . |
| 27 | But while it proposed interim restrictions on the consumption of HCFCs — used for making foam insulation — it stepped back from proposing to outlaw their production in the EC , from where they could still be exported to developing countries as a substitute to the much more harmful CFCs ( chlorofluorocarbons ) in refrigerators and air conditioners . |
| 28 | This debate has wider implications for the study of political science since it emphasised major features of the process of governmental decision-making — the plurality of values of participants in policy-making , the plurality of actors involved , the emphasis upon perceptions rather than ‘ objective interests ’ and the fact that policy outcomes seldom reflect the values and preferences of one group . |
| 29 | The wearing of pig badges by a large group of staff , many of whom were members of middle management , after the Deputy Head , Peter Moors , had suggested that pork was less suitable than turkey for the school 's Christmas dinner , since it prevented Muslim boys from taking part . |
| 30 | This car has rewritten the rules that underline the supermini concept , since it won European Car of the Year in 1983 ( Peugeot 205 was second ) and it has won just about every award possible . |