Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were times when her preoccupation with ‘ basket power ’ , with the sovereignty of the consumer seemed part of a conception of political change that was both reformist and restricted , not least because it failed to challenge domestic discourses of women 's roles ; but such attention has to be seen in the context of a commitment to conceptions of political radicalisation based on personal development . |
| 2 | For them , the survey embodied the scientific method because it sought to make basic observations of the phenomena of interest and out of this formulate generalisations . |
| 3 | It involved identifying common concerns of teachers and then producing stimulus materials to initiate and focus discussion and trigger groups working on them to devise their own plans of action . |
| 4 | The river needs to be deep enough for the otters to swim and catch fish , the dog otter eating two or three pounds of fish every day , it needs to have thick covering of vegetation along the banks and above all , the water must be clean , fresh and not polluted in any way . |
| 5 | It also says it has received new supplies of needed parts and should meet current demand on most products during this quarter . |
| 6 | The Wall Street Journal has been going through Richardson , Texas-based Cyrix Corp 's prospectus for its proposed initial public offering ( page seven ) and finds that the company has a hitherto undisclosed dispute with Texas Instruments Inc over licensing and manufacturing issues — Cyrix says it has received limited supplies of chips from Texas , and as a result ‘ assumes it will not receive any products from Texas Instruments in the future ’ ; the dispute could give Texas , which has a licence to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name , the right to sell all current and some future Cyrix products through the term of the five-year agreement , making it harder for Cyrix to develop its own brand name identity ; the current manufacturing agreement with SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV would be able to meet its needs to the end of the year , after which it would need to buy its own manufacturing facility , expand its contracts with the two firms , or do a deal with another chip maker ; earlier this month , SGS-Thomson signed a new contract agreeing to supply chips to Cyrix to the end of 1994 , and gets the right to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name . |
| 7 | It has enabled joint training of staff to deal with the prominent client groups : gay men , drug users , and people who have contracted HIV through contaminated blood . |
| 8 | Rather , over the past twenty years it has created discrete areas of fashion which do not automatically seek to emulate or follow one another . |
| 9 | There is evidence that it has killed large quantities of worms , crabs , molluscs and starfish . |
| 10 | For much of 1980s , it has devised urban policies of a more imaginative and consensual nature than central government was able to create in England . |
| 11 | It has affected different parts of the country in very different ways . |
| 12 | The private sector does not aim to produce a comprehensive system of health care ; in Britain it has developed specialized aspects of health care provision . |
| 13 | Yet at the same time , it has challenged central features of the Soviet view . |
| 14 | Right from the start of the period and up to this present time late in the twentieth century , it has provided numerous examples of the manner in which mankind has failed again and again , in his efforts to mitigate the suffering inherent in the ruthless laws of evolution by replacing them with something better , something which it called ‘ civilisation ’ . |
| 15 | Social disorder is not new but throughout history , it has had varying degrees of prominence as a problem . |
| 16 | Given the effect of the Transfer Regulations , the purchaser will be particularly concerned to ensure the vendor warrants that it has disclosed accurate details of all the terms of employment of all the employees . |
| 17 | It has published major studies of the likely impact of the Channel Tunnel on Kent , consulted widely with local people , and petitioned vigorously during the passage of the Bill . |
| 18 | Since Malinowski made no secret of his earthy , materialist view of man 's motives it is odd that it has taken modern exponents of transactional analysis and game theory so long to recognize his pioneering achievements in this field . |
| 19 | It has delivered electronic versions of standard technical reference books from publishers McGraw-Hill and the CRC Press in the US , and also has its own titles . |
| 20 | It helped to start whole categories of publication , such as free sheets , Sunday paper colour magazines , and successive speciality magazines ( yachting , autos , DIY , computing ) . |
| 21 | As was pointed out earlier , it responded to popular taste , observing new taboos about racism and sexism , just as it helped demolish old ones of sexual modesty and obscene language . |
| 22 | It tried to decrease independent expenditures of PACs by repealing existing tax credit , thus making it more efficient to look for small individual contributions and thereby reduce the power of the PACs . |
| 23 | The Iraqi government submitted a 300-page report which it claimed gave full details of its arms of mass destruction . |
| 24 | If it examines them separately , it tends to reiterate dominant discourses of working-class social or even biological deviance , by studying working-class subjects ' inadequacies at work , their problems when unemployed , and their failures in education . |
| 25 | The committee considers that the draft is acceptable from the subsidiarity standpoint , as it aims to establish cross-border freedom of services and investment . |
| 26 | It helps to avoid potential conflicts of interest , but equally it has pitched for business against its parent — and won . |
| 27 | The revolution at Northampton may have been different but it did have uncanny echoes of what had gone on at Neath . |
| 28 | But it did need permanent supervision of weapons , gunpowder , and equipment ; and this was provided by the emergence under Henry VIII of a centralized Ordnance Office . |
| 29 | KnowledgeWare Inc , Atlanta warns that it expects to report non-recurring charges of $20m for its fiscal third quarter to March 31 from acquisitions and restructuring and expansion of product lines , and that this will lead to a loss for the quarter and for the year ; it also says that lower revenues combined with operating costs associated with the acquisitions are expected to contribute to a third quarter operating loss ; it looks for growth in European revenues . |
| 30 | Milpitas-based Adaptec Inc is making hay with its disk controllers from the boom in personal computer sales generated by the price war , and says it expects to report net profit of about $50m , 1.90 per share for its fiscal year to March 31 1993 , on sales more than double last year 's $150.3m . |