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

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1 How it operated provided an intriguing study to which much detailed work was devoted .
2 It revealed that the main examiners of food labels were women , particularly and those in the higher socio-economic brackets .
3 In 1972 it expected that the new system of fewer and larger local authorities would prove more efficient .
4 Even more obvious is the influence of law and order ideology on the 1991 Criminal Justice Act 's strategy of ‘ punishment in the community ’ , which we have termed ‘ punitive bifurcation ’ since it insists that the non-custodial measures whose use is to be encouraged for less serious offenders are to be punitive rather than rehabilitative in intent and nature .
5 It postulates that the actual rate of inflation which prevails at any moment in time may be decomposed into two constituent parts : ( a ) an expectational component , measured by the variable , ( b ) an excess demand component , measured , as in the Phillips-Lipsey model , by the magnitude of f(U) .
6 To this end it announced that the electoral commission was to be reconstituted in order to free it from political influence and manipulation .
7 The High Court in Dublin sparked a huge controversy on Feb. 17 when it ruled that a 14-year-old girl , who became pregnant after allegedly being raped by the father of a friend , could not travel to the United Kingdom for an abortion .
8 It recommended that every possible assistance and encouragement should be given to the railway in pursuit of its aim .
9 It recommended that the second stage of the process towards EMU , as envisaged in the 1989 Delors plan [ see p. 36598 ] , should begin on Jan. 1 , 1993 , and should be as short as possible .
10 Consequently , it recommended that the financial limits should be abolished .
11 It recommended that the preliminary hearing be abolished , that the district judge be required to conduct the hearing on an interventionist basis , that he or she be required to give reasons for a decision and explain the rules of law and that specific guidance should be provided on the expenses recoverable for small claims .
12 It recommended that the three Belfast teacher training colleges come together on a single site .
13 It thinks that a sensible way would be to standardise on windows , icons , menus , and command box style via agreement on specific languages — such as C , C++ — for all interfaces , with reusable source code modules , rather than on specific product-oriented solutions .
14 There are two different ways in which the existence of an alternative remedy can affect the availability of judicial remedies : it might entirely preclude the award of a judicial remedy , or it might give the court a discretion to refuse a ( discretionary ) remedy if it thinks that the alternative remedy is adequate .
15 But the Committee do not have to agree to this if it thinks that the new information is not important .
16 Any new module needs to have a distinct identity and market — SCOTVEC feels that it would be confusing to employers to have a proliferation of modules and titles and so the Catalogue sub-committee will not accept a new proposal if it thinks that the same outcomes can be achieved by suitable fleshing-out of an existing module .
17 Not till later was it diagnosed that the mental breakdown which destroyed Hoskyns crept upon him for a year or more before he died .
18 It presumed that the particular classroom layouts and patterns of organization commended would promote children 's learning more effectively than any others .
19 Tragedy involves the past , and it arose when the Greek awareness of time was becoming clearer and stronger .
20 But as we have seen , Bukharin argued that such a method was quite wrong , since it presupposed that the two sectors were wholly antagonistic , whereas they formed a contradictory unity , a living totality .
21 It maintained that no new code for the assessment of compensation or the collection of betterment would be adequate if this individualistic system remained .
22 It maintained that the two elements taken together constituted the record and the material must be retained in a way that includes all the pertinent information .
23 Hailing the decision as a major breakthrough , campaigners say it signifies that the tuna-dolphin issue is being taken seriously by British industry and will lead to other negotiations between industry and environmentalists .
24 The day after Marlene Dietrich 's death , it reported that the legendary actress ‘ had German , French , British and American newspapers delivered each morning , and devoured them while drinking Fortnum 's Prince of Wales tea ’ .
25 ‘ But such anxiety will not stop it happening if the Soviet Union should ever allow it to happen or be unable to stop it happening ’ .
26 A great late run by Chats saw it fizzle as the winning post came too soon for them , victory went to the in form Likely Lads team of Patsy McGee , Kieran Ferry , Eamon Devlin , Frank Ferry , Daniel O'Connell and Brian Deehan .
27 It concludes that the red squirrel is in decline because it is far less efficient at using woodland food than its rival — the North American grey squirrel .
28 The use of words and symbols to influence other people in predictable ways requires that the child must be able to represent mentally the relationship between the symbol ( word or gesture ) , the meaning for which it stands and the intended effect on the other person .
29 It illustrates that the main bulwark thrown up by the United Kingdom constitution against oppressive laws is not that Parliament is rendered unable to pass them , but that democratic procedures , principled administration and measure of common sense are accommodated within it .
30 The wall is not as steep as it looks and a pleasing sequence of stretches and foot-changes , made all the more enjoyable by more excellent protection , leads to a stopping place just short of the arête .
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