Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sentiment has not been helped by sharp profit downgrading from such pillars of Japanese business as Sony , Matsushita and Pioneer , though computer group Fujitsu recently said it expected current profits to be modestly increased . |
| 2 | Entitled Challenge , it ‘ will be progressive in the sense that it understands Christian faith to be of necessity a commitment to the cause of all who are oppressed , discriminated against or unjustly treated . ’ |
| 3 | Does it make more sense to be beaten 62–7 or play tight competitive fixtures like Southland and NZ Universities as England ‘ B ’ did . |
| 4 | It causes woman-centred psychology to be much more restricted to the concept of a purely psychological subject than egalitarian feminist and even some traditional psychologies are . |
| 5 | The significance of the concept of the linguistic variable is that it allows quantitative statements to be made about language use , so that Speaker A might be said to use more or less of a particular variant than speaker B , rather than categorically to use it or not to use it . |
| 6 | It allows traditional practice to be infected with transgressive ideals ’ . |
| 7 | It allows short extracts to be presented . |
| 8 | Blocking will not usually increase the probability of having to read data from a given track , except insofar as it allows more records to be stored on that track . |
| 9 | The local county court often has the advantage of being nearer than the High Court District Registry , its rules are less strict and it allows more steps to be taken by post than does the High Court . |
| 10 | It is also a particularly useful structure because it allows further information to be stored at the nodes . |
| 11 | By a notice of appeal dated 20 May 1992 the health authority appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the court had no jurisdiction to grant a mandatory injunction requiring a health authority to cause specified medical treatment to be given , alternatively , no jurisdiction to order it to cause such treatment to be given against the professional judgment of its servants or agents ; ( 2 ) the judge had erred in holding that he was not bound by the decision in In re J. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 33 to hold that there was no such jurisdiction ; ( 3 ) there had been no material before the court to justify the judge granting a mandatory interlocutory injunction since ( a ) there was no evidence that the health authority owed J. any enforceable duty to provide the ordered treatment , or that such treatment would be in his best interests ; ( b ) there was uncontradicted evidence before the court that the treatment ordered would be painful and ineffective to give J. a prospect of long term survival and ( c ) there was no material establishing that there was a reasonable or any prospect of a final order being granted in the terms of the interlocutory order ; ( 4 ) if the court had jurisdiction to make the order the judge erred in the exercise of his discretion in that ( a ) he had failed to give sufficient weight to the uncontradicted medical evidence or to the undesirability of seeking to force a doctor to act against his professional judgment and/or requiring the employer of the doctor to do so , ( b ) he had failed to consider that the order was capable of interfering with the health authority 's duty to care for other patients , and ( c ) by its terms the order was too imprecise to enable the health authority to be able to ascertain how it should be complied with . |
| 12 | It assumes each age to be of equal significance and represents the total number of children born ( on average ) to each woman of a hypothetical cohort throughout her life . |
| 13 | In fact , to refuse a parent 's request would not be a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights , even though it requires such convictions to be upheld . |
| 14 | It requires all people to be involved in a ceasefire and a total cessation of hostilities if the aid that we are willing to send — we have sent £8 million to Somalia since early last year — is to get to the people who desperately need it . |
| 15 | Writing an Introduction As we have said , it takes much practice to be able to write essays well . |
| 16 | It urged civil servants to be as helpful as possible and to withhold information only in the interests of national security and ‘ good government ’ . |
| 17 | scale is not linear and it puts enormous weight on being alive and not much on whether you are active or working . |
| 18 | It pays these creatures to be very conspicuous indeed . |
| 19 | And by the end of the year , it expects further sites to be fully operational in Spain and Italy . |
| 20 | It said it expects initial products to be high-end servers and so it turned out in most cases . |
| 21 | The court office can not refuse to issue proceedings by the process requested by the plaintiff/applicant merely because it considers such process to be inappropriate ( Baker v Thatcher ( 1984 ) 134 NLJ 863 ) . |
| 22 | D'Hazeville 's was described in The Saturday Review as ‘ tame and commonplace ’ , although the assessors and Burn thought that it had sufficient merits to be placed fourth on their War Department lists . |
| 23 | It enables accurate determinations to be made of the elastic constants of anisotropic materials and in principle all the elastic constants can be found . |
| 24 | It enables different theories to be understood in a historical , chronological sequence , one set of theories developing from and often criticising previous work . |
| 25 | Wall-mounted spotlights are useful , but the ability to reposition the light slightly as well as alter the direction of the beam is especially desirable as it enables different features to be highlighted as the seasons change . |
| 26 | By attempting to create rules for the exercise of power , the people subject to it have some hope of being able to control it and to make it legitimate in their own eyes . |
| 27 | The Committee was explicit about what it considered these pressures to be , saying that they had ‘ encountered several cases in which young men have been induced by means of gifts or money or hospitality to indulge in homosexual behaviour with older men ’ . |
| 28 | At least , it leaves key questions to be re-answered by Macmillian 's apologists . |