Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the British state began its policies of social interventionism from 1945 , it succeeded in fragmenting the local power base of unionism by centralizing the sources of welfare and making them at least in part available across the sectarian divide . |
| 2 | The humanitarian side of the Enlightenment , the emphasis it laid on making the ordinary man happier through religious toleration , economic progress and education , always made a genuine appeal to him . |
| 3 | This is an extremely important result , both because of its policy implications which we shall consider later in this chapter and because of the scope it offers for testing the rational expectations hypothesis . |
| 4 | Mr Smith believes it lies in treating the educated public as reasonable people and facing up to the fact that their expectations do need satisfying . |
| 5 | It starts by taking the present population a as the population of the base year , and proceeds to age the population , er adding births and subtracting deaths to get a population in the projection years . |
| 6 | Can such an approach produce change in psychology , or is it confined to exposing the endless subtle differences between signifiers and signifieds ? |
| 7 | It concentrated on talking the public back to work by exaggerated claims of the numbers of people at work . |
| 8 | When it came to producing the overall figures for coal and nuclear generation in its annual reports the CEGB used a system of ‘ historic cost ’ accounting . |
| 9 | Louis Gerstner clearly decided that discretion was the better part of valour when it came to facing the blue rinse brigade at the annual meeting in Tampa , Florida yesterday , and just before the meeting , IBM Corp announced that its diminished dividend would be unchanged at 54 cents a share for the first quarter ; there had been fears that the company would cut it again . |
| 10 | Her approach to academic seminars would seem to confirm some of the claims that she was totally out of her depth when it came to discussing the new discoveries which she had allegedly made . |
| 11 | In the past year they have lost a bishop in a love-child affair but over the past few days they had more faith in prayer than in their politicians when it came to saving the Digital computer plant . |
| 12 | ‘ I had no choice when it came to rescuing the helpless victim of an unknown accident . |
| 13 | A school has had a restricted spending function when it came to utilising the limited amount of money available to buy books and equipment under its capitation allowance . |
| 14 | Its retina forms a cup around a spherical lens , and it sees by moving the light-sensitive cup beneath the lens . |
| 15 | Its function is more directly linked to consumption , which it promotes by shattering the imaginary possibility over and over , repeatedly reopening the gap of desire . |
| 16 | It aims at amplifying the bare details of physical development and putting these into their context of emotional development and developmental psychology . |
| 17 | In particular it relies on estimating the final cost of the investment , the amount and timing of returns , the rate of return on the alternative investment ( the ‘ hurdle rate ’ ) and the rate of real deterioration of items of productive capital . |
| 18 | So ESA is having to cough up rather more than it bargained for to insure the European communications satellite that , if all goes to plan , Ariane will place in orbit on its next launch in June . |
| 19 | Until this exchange the violent turn in Chant 's eye had never unsettled Estabrook , but it did now , preventing him as it did from meeting the other man 's gaze directly . |
| 20 | Hence the government faced a dilemma , which it resolved by breaching the strict insurance principles and extending the scope of the unemployment benefit scheme . |
| 21 | It works by identifying the key skill gaps and providing a structured approach to the delivery of the training . |
| 22 | ‘ It works by cooling the liquid slag with a water jet and turning it into granulated slag . |
| 23 | " The heart and soul of a resource collection is not material at all : it lies in the structure of thought it exhibits , in the creative association it provokes and in the opportunities it provides for training the young learner in how to learn and think . " |
| 24 | Er it begins by subtracting the institutional population from the total population in order to get the private household population . |
| 25 | It begins by delineating the epistemological shift : the old order could be termed ‘ History ’ , a continuous and chronological historiography , including Hegelianism and related forms of Marxism , with its philosophies of history , its assumptions of a rational , progressive and teleological historical development , its desire to discover a meaning in history , its questioning of the relativity of historical knowledge , and its use of categories such as tradition , the history of ideas , the oeuvre , the author and the book . |
| 26 | It begins by defining the augmented nature of the product or service being purchased , and looks at the derived characteristics of demand for goods and services in these industrial markets . |
| 27 | Some people are ‘ naturals ’ when it comes to helping the elderly , because they are affectionate , imaginative and capable . |
| 28 | When it comes to using the right tools for the job it is also important to realise that the final output from a desktop publishing system is not always the end product . |
| 29 | When it comes to handling the environmental crisis there is undoubted strength but also a flaw in the Western democratic system which has triumphed so dramatically , both ideologically and materially , at the end of the twentieth century : its political and economic well-being depends on growth and the prospect of ever-increasing wealth and improved standards of living . |
| 30 | When it comes to achieving the right weight for health , and maintaining it , some of us are going to have a far harder task than others . |