Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 A Bill may be ‘ hybrid ’ , i.e. whilst the Bill as a whole is of general application , it contains particular provisions applying to particular persons specifically .
32 It is largely derivative , but it contains some stories written from his own experience and that of his personal acquaintances , including an account of his family and its devotion to St Stephen 's church , Launceston .
33 It wants such work halted until a ‘ Human Eugenics Advisory Committee ’ has been set up which includes civil liberties experts and representatives for the disabled .
34 It helped fourth-century Christians to come to terms with the paradox that the privileged , wealthy , and powerful post-Constantinian church actually was also the church of the martyrs .
35 The solar wind carried its own magnetic field , and as this sweeps past it causes electrical currents to flow in the Moon .
36 In 1976 the Layfield Report , Local Government Finance , suggested that a local income tax should supplement the rates , although it listed many difficulties associated with such a venture .
37 The second part is a V version of the 68040 for laptop computers : it adds power-saving circuitry designed to double battery life .
38 Otherwise , if they take the long route , it adds ten days going from Guam in the Pacific to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean .
39 The UK , Cambridge-based firm says demand has been generated by volume sales of the low-end SparcClassic workstation , which does not run earlier versions of Sun 's operating system : it ships this month priced at £140 — £200 for a development pack .
40 It plans new satellite launches in the next two years which will provide full global coverage .
41 It features patterned papers to buy by the sheet : 20in by 25in is £4.83 ( first quality ) , £2.41 ( second quality ) : or you can buy it made up into boxes , albums , desk sets , lampshades and photo mounts .
42 It uses two microprocessors working in parallel for maximum reliability , and each microprocessor has a nonvolatile memory to aid service diagnosis .
43 Robbins ’ Dances at a Gathering could be called a romantic ballet because it uses classical technique coloured by natural emotional expression .
44 In Yugoslavia 's biggest postwar strike , nearly 700,000 workers in Serbia 's textile , leather and metallurgical industries stopped work on April 16 to demand that the Serbian government pay them the guaranteed minimum monthly wage , backdated to January , and that it abolish new taxes introduced at the end of 1990 .
45 In the early 1970s he introduced a type of tournament competition called knockdown , which , since it allows full power strikes to the body , he believed was the only true test of a karateka 's fighting ability .
46 Actually , that is too great a relaxation , sinced it allows genetic values to range from minus infinity to plus infinity .
47 and if you look in the blue box , bottom left to begin with it says this chapter looks at the way in which human beings treat animals .
48 It seemed that danger lurked in the ever-present shadows .
49 In 1768 he patented a method for hardening and preserving wood , which was effectively applied to several warships and publicized by an eight-page advertisement ( 1770 ) ; it describes thirty-one items tested at his Great Tower Hill works , ranging from brewing implements and wooden pipes for London waterworks to twenty-five gun-carriages treated for the Tower of London garrison .
50 The International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) announced on Feb. 3 that Libya had agreed to allow it to inspect any sites rumoured to be involved in the development of nuclear weapons .
51 Although that has meant that not much can be done , in principle it is a good idea in that it forces underwater sites to compete with land sites for funding , and tends to keep the attention on the point that it is archaeology we are talking about .
52 As it happened this period coincided with the arrival in Vancouver of Andrew Allan , later one of Canada 's all time great producers , and he was accompanied by his ‘ unofficial fiancee ’ that talented actress Judith Evelyn .
53 In 1971–79 it approved financial assistance amounting to £87.5 million ( at 1979 prices ) for the Highlands and Islands as a whole , of which £52.2 million for loans and shares ( including projects directly administered by the Board ) and £35.4 million grants ( see Appendix 3 ) .
54 It predicted future power needs in the classic manner , by assuming they would continue to grow at 9 per cent per year .
55 On the one hand , the local situation and knowledge about it encouraged some people to retire at the same time as they were made redundant .
56 It recycles this information according to the attractability of a specific energy pattern existing at the physical level when the conditions the conducive .
57 It begged male comps faced with a female colleague to " Be kind to her if you ca n't wed her or shift her , " and went on : State broadly and fully wherein we are sinners Remembering that many of us are breadwinners For mothers and sisters whom we must assist , hence We claim with yourselves equal right to existence
58 It costs three pounds to join for two years , or five pounds to join for five years .
59 It is time the Labour Party explained how it sees non-sectarian politics developing in Northern Ireland .
60 It computes various parameters used in the measuring process .
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