Example sentences of "and [subord] it [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It 's sort of grid iron pattern streets on the south side of the High Street ; on the north side that 's all disrupted by the castle and , as far as one can tell , when the town and the area around it , the Rape of Lewes , was ceded to William De Warren , most of the local powers of the Town Council such as it was were taken away and subverted and the town became a minorial borough and although it sent Members of Parliament to Westminster from the end of the thirteenth century , it only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation , because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms .
2 One box in Lincolnshire had the manifestations of a poltergeist or mischievous ghost apparent in the building but it was of a gentle nature and although it moved cups of tea and generally showed its mischievous attributes , it never hurt anybody and was not vicious or dangerous .
3 In general , if one individual is able to make its future actions plainer than another and if it derives benefit from doing so ( which does not seem implausible in a social context ) , then we should expect evolutionary change in the effectiveness of such signals .
4 Either way , the club remains legal and if it brings relief from pain on the greens then , say salesmen , it is worth every penny .
5 To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me .
6 Undertaking an obligation to obey the law is an appropriate means of expressing identification with society , because it is a form of supporting social institutions , because it conveys a willingness to share in the common ways established in that society as expressed by its institutions , and because it expresses confidence in the reasonableness and good judgment of the government through one 's willingness to take it on trust , as it were , that the law is just and that it should be complied with .
7 Entry to this body was much sought after by wealthy young men , because of the prestige it conferred and because it guaranteed proximity to the Emperor .
8 And because it makes use of the speed of light for complicated parallel interconnections , it can still handle the large volume of calculations — or weighting as it is called — involved in the learning process quickly .
9 Held , refusing the declarations , that a basic valuation prepared by an employee of a building society was an ‘ action taken by the society in relation to ’ the grant of a further advance within section 83(1) of the Act and since it constituted part of the society 's process of administration , such a valuation , if negligently prepared , could amount to maladministration within paragraph 1 ( d ) of Part III to Schedule 12 to the Act ; that , on the documentation used by the plaintiff societies , a house buyers ' valuation prepared by an employee created a contract between the society and the borrower , which if negligently prepared could amount to a breach of the society 's contractual obligation within paragraph 1 ( a ) of Part III to Schedule 12 ; that although the alleged want of due skill and care might relate to matters not affecting the society 's assessment of the adequacy of the security , the valuation was in reality a single process amounting to an action within section 83(1) ; and that , accordingly , the ombudsman had jurisdiction under the scheme set up under the Act to investigate and determine complaints arising out of basic valuations , house buyers ' valuations , and , since there was no relevant distinction in the nature of the contractual relationship , structural surveys by a society 's employee in the same circumstances ( post , pp. 145A–H , 150B — 151A , H — 152A ) .
10 What the set most lacks is the always recognizable quality of élan , and while it deserves investigation by Debussyans , it can not earn unqualified acceptance .
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