Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By these measures it sought to ensure that direct entry and thesis-entry members were at least of an equivalent calibre to student graduates . |
| 2 | There was some criticism of the company when it became known that certain Drexel employees had been paid bonuses totalling $250,000,000 only months before the bankruptcy was filed . |
| 3 | The excitement was intensified when it became known that some time previously a railway clerk named Winter , who kept a black retriever , had shot himself in the porter 's cellar but Durham had claimed that he was unaware of the tragedy when he had encountered the ghost . |
| 4 | Instead of local authorities having the inherent right , or what in England is called the common law right , to conduct their affairs as they wished , it became established that local authorities could only do those things which Parliament had authorised them to do . |
| 5 | Since then it has expanded and this year Stoddard designers were invited to participate . |
| 6 | Now it has emerged that Soviet tanks are being fitted with two or three layers of the reactive armour , which probably renders the tandem warhead ineffective . |
| 7 | Although the present Conservative government would claim to be concerned about unemployment , it has argued that falling unemployment can only be achieved by ( a ) reducing the rate of inflation , since this would raise the real value of a given level of money spending in the economy , and ( b ) stimulating the operation of markets , especially the labour market , so that changes in the relative price of labour can come about more easily and thus ‘ price people into jobs ’ . |
| 8 | It has accepted that progressive aging of the population necessitates a parallel increase in numbers of doctors . |
| 9 | It has decided that individual states can refuse imports of waste from neighbouring countries , but only if they can prove that the trade is dangerous to their health or environment . |
| 10 | It has warned that recycled packaging can cause bacteria and harmful chemicals , including those used for de-inking , to migrate into the food . |
| 11 | ( a ) whether it has established and maintained management information systems and internal control systems that are sufficiently reliable and relevant to provide the board with |
| 12 | First , it has meant that those genes are favoured that have the property of ‘ cooperating ’ with those other genes that they are likely to meet in circumstances that favour cooperation . |
| 13 | It has meant that proposed talks with Forest over his return to the club have been put on hold , and the transfer is not expected to be completed until the weekend . |
| 14 | In the late 1980s it has seemed that social workers and their agencies have been caught in a political crossfire between being criticized on the one hand for allowing some children to suffer unnecessarily , sometimes to the point of death , at the hands of their parent(s) or guardian(s) , and on the other hand of intervening unwarrantably into other families and removing their children inappropriately . |
| 15 | The League Against Cruel Sports set up an undercover operation which it says proves that some hunts make up to twenty thousand pounds a year without paying tax.Huntsmen say the League is resorting to desperation tactics . |
| 16 | The Government is yet to announce the number of councils it intends to introduce though present thinking favours about 30 . |
| 17 | for each database details file in turn , it checks to see if that file already exists and only creates the file if it does not exist . |
| 18 | The transformation of all the richness , diversity and plenitude of natural wealth into commodities is the highest purpose of the global economy ; and it requires intensifying and continuous dispossessions , in one form or another . |
| 19 | But although the deputies said they clinched an agreement on the charter on Thursday morning it began to collapse when Lebanese leaders , including the Christian army commander , Michel Aoun , and the Druze leader , Walid Jumblatt , criticised it . |
| 20 | Fingers are being kept firmly crossed at British Coal HQ as it waits to see if faulty roof bolts led to the recent accident at the Stillingfleet colliery , part of the new Selby complex , when the collapse of a roof trapped five miners underground for over a day . |
| 21 | Although I am not clear in my own mind what " literary " means in the title The Literary Language of Shakespeare ( for it seems to suggest that non-literary language is not included ) it is apparent that Hussey aims to stress the literary rather than the language in his account of Shakespeare . |
| 22 | The requirement to " be able to show " that a firm believes on reasonable grounds that an advertisement is fair and not misleading might imply no more than that the burden of proof is on the member , but on balance it seems to imply that hard evidence should be maintained to justify a particular advertisement . |
| 23 | It preferred to insist that industrial democracy should be imposed by a means that had to be in principle unsustainable : that is , by the appointment of representatives of trade unions to the boards of directors of industrial enterprises . |
| 24 | It means realising that any imbalance between our physical , emotional , mental and spiritual selves causes a loss of inner harmony and a sense of dis-ease . |
| 25 | Given trust as a first condition , the changes which followed each stage of review , assessment and evaluation came more easily — even if it did mean that some criticisms had first to be voiced and discussed ( JM Dobson conversation , 1990 ) . |
| 26 | It had argued that adequate pension support for the elderly would encourage them to retire and thus increase younger workers ' employment prospects . |
| 27 | By the time the conferences actually began in December , it had realised that real interests were at stake . |
| 28 | When the Scottish Office published the Touche Ross report it had stated that further work on costing might be needed . |
| 29 | The government kept the army small in the past mostly because it had noticed that autocratic regimes with large armies are vulnerable to military coups . |
| 30 | We can be fairly certain that such a reaction did occur , not merely because it is observable among modern primates , but because it had to exist if young males were , in due course of time , to supplant the fathers , and this , for the purposes of reproduction , they had to do . |