Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To protect the carrier against conflicting claims by more than one holder it became customary for bills of lading and letters of credit to require that delivery of the goods , or payment of the documentary draft or letter of credit by a bank be made against presentation of the ‘ full set . ’ |
| 2 | Crumbling masonry means it needs millions of pounds of building work to make sure it is safe . |
| 3 | Perhaps it owes that to influences from its earlier history . |
| 4 | Hume 's complex moral philosophy can not simply be equated with emotivism , but it has much in common with it . |
| 5 | His marks appear overstruck by that of Paul Crespin on ambassadorial plate issued to the Earl of Chesterfield [ q.v. ] in 1727 ; although George Wickes [ q.v. ] supplied the Bath presentation cup to Frederick Louis , Prince of Wales [ q.v. ] , in 1739 , it has much in common with a contemporary series of cups with De Lamerie 's mark . |
| 6 | Developed from the Romanesque craft , it has much in common with Dutch , northern German and Polish examples . |
| 7 | It has thousands of entries on all the aspects of the worldwide game . |
| 8 | Although the laryngeal mask does not protect the airway against gastric contents , it has potential for use in resuscitation and emergency medicine when intubation is impossible and a patent airway can not be maintained with a face mask . |
| 9 | By now it contains hundreds of names from all over the world . |
| 10 | It cost 400 to book for a night . |
| 11 | Is it considered legitimate for members of a discipline to reflect critically on the discipline which provides them with their intellectual identity and status ? |
| 12 | ‘ Old people bringing something out of the attic they 've never cared for , and then seeing it fetch thousands of pounds at auction . |
| 13 | It had followed the logic of its foundation by expanding its subject and institutional frontiers , embracing studies it believed important for access to and provision of higher education , and for routes into diverse employments in industry , commerce and the professions . |
| 14 | It extracts thousands of gallons of water from the river . |
| 15 | It seemed incongruous in relation to the events of the last week . |
| 16 | It seemed early for Mum to be back but I did n't think anything of it . |
| 17 | Blenheim Palace has the kind of gardens to intimidate most keen amateurs but it welcomed hundreds of enthusiasts to its first autumn flower show , opened by palace owner the Duke of Marlborough . |
| 18 | It calculates this by class of business on the basis of a separate carry-forward of deferred acquisition expenses after making allowance for investment income . |
| 19 | Although the dollar ended lower against most other currencies in London , it finished unchanged at $1.6045 against the pound . |
| 20 | Now I 'm an ex-gardener I 'm a horticulturist it take roughly about forty years for trees to reach maturity it does n't say much for our planners if they plan to put those trees there and then now are gon na have them up again it sounds much like change for changes sake and that that it basically my comment . |
| 21 | All contributing organisations receive acknowledgement on their specific vehicle as it travels hundreds of miles between schools , demonstrating commitment to the need for technology based skills for girls as well as boys . |
| 22 | And turning away from calls to battle and the accompanying rise in blood pressure , it seems reasonable for teachers of literature to go on teaching what they have been trained to teach , and what they like , understand , and are familiar with , without also having to take on many varieties of history — intellectual , cultural , political , social , economic , artistic , and musical — not to mention sociology , the study of popular culture , including the merest graffito , and , inevitably , literary theory . |
| 23 | It seems likely from Gregory v Kelly [ 1978 ] RTR 426 that they will simply take a global figure , and not aggregate separate percentages for each type of contributory negligence . |
| 24 | The National Council for Voluntary Organisations said that while much of the SORP was appropriate to the needs of larger charities , it feared those with incomes of less than £100,000 a year may ignore it because of the extra administration , cost and complexity it involved . |
| 25 | She said it 's a big , big cut off , if your phone rings you 're out , so of course the phone were ringing , then it went to one in post , no it never , it went first from Ann from Lynnette then to Ann and then it went to Kathy and then it went to erm somebody else and then it come to me but I 've got seven hundred thousand pounds worth of money on my desk that I were banking and Jane had got that job and Jane was on post in cash cos she ai n't got a job cos that thing with them shoes did n't take off and do you know |
| 26 | North called it ‘ a bit of a horror story ’ and , for once , he understated : it went wrong from start to finish , and ended with the wrong missiles , still with their Israeli markings , piled on the ground in Tehran . |
| 27 | The debris included empty wine bottles , food wrappers , part of a loaf of bread so hard the sparrows would bend their beaks , and a half-empty tin of baked beans with enough penicillin growing in it to supply most of Soho for a year . |
| 28 | It means four times P times Q times R. |
| 29 | It may not be the most fashionable branch of medicine but it puts thousands of patients on hospital waiting lists each year . |
| 30 | But it is not merely that shabbiness makes the great house seem less daunting : in its decay , it becomes acceptable as part of English history . |