Example sentences of "it [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It arose because some neighbours in my street effectively started behaving which was totally antisocial . |
| 2 | It concludes that damaging levels of sulphur are deposited on 75 per cent of all European forestry , with the most severe impact occurring in those eastern countries which were once communist . |
| 3 | Extensive work by gerontologists on service provision for old people and their responses to it suggest that cheaper alternatives to some costly services might enable more of the elderly to remain fitter and independent of institutions for longer . |
| 4 | With limited exceptions , it proposed that all functions of local government be undertaken by a single authority in each area . |
| 5 | First , it allows that many kinds of circumstances can contribute to the course of events , and secondly it enables us to understand how these may combine to bring about dramatic and unexpected social changes which Althusser calls ‘ ruptures ’ . |
| 6 | ( 4 ) It happens that many systems of equations , particularly those of some physical relevance , have simple behaviour for extreme values of a parameter . |
| 7 | Later , in a chapter entitled ‘ The Application of Paint ’ it says that recent books on decoration have ‘ done more to debase the traditional approach to decoration than to further an appreciation of its subtleties ’ . |
| 8 | and I second agenda and erm we ask for your attention to para three point four er which is the financial part of this budget really and it says that some contingencies in nursery schools should be increased , erm that it is actually allowed for in the later budget erm the tax payer budget will be . |
| 9 | This is not a useful approach , because it assumes that all forms of intelligence are of the same qualitative type . |
| 10 | In many respects it seemed that feminist aims regarding women 's rights in the public sphere had been achieved . |
| 11 | It seemed that both parts of his duchy were now in a state of unrest . |
| 12 | Robert himself disappeared , and it seemed that Scottish attempts at independence had yet again been humbled . |
| 13 | It claimed that some teachers in the primary school had allowed performance in the basic skills of reading , writing and arithmetic to be adversely affected by their inadequate understanding and hence uncritical application of child-centred , or informal , methods . |
| 14 | ‘ It lacks but ten minutes to eight of the clock , ’ it snarled . |
| 15 | So far it appears that other monuments in care have not been affected , although Mousa Broch has yet to be visited . |
| 16 | Although the old grammatical drills and exercises do not seem to have raised standards of composition , it appears that new ways of teaching language can be of help . |
| 17 | It appears that certain ways of applying the criterion of independent maximisability are valid only for established senses . |
| 18 | Although all these studies have been conducted in adult subjects , it appears that higher levels of systolic blood pressure are present in adolescent diabetics compared to non-diabetics both in Europe ( Florey et al , 1976 ) and the USA ( Moss , 1962 ) . |
| 19 | It appears that industrial skills in Britain are more often transferable between employers , partly because of the apprenticeship system , whereas in France , they are less so because of greater use by employers of in-house training and up-grading . |
| 20 | In summary , then , it appears that incoming variants of /a/ are associated with core Belfast vernacular , while incoming variants of /Ε/; are associated with careful higher-status speech . |
| 21 | Numbers are very small , and of course tabular data are only an extremely crude summary of a very complex range of feelings ; however ( excluding those whose attitudes were not known or impossible to summarise ) , it appears that three carers in the action samples felt the strain had lightened , four that it had remained the same and five that it had worsened . |
| 22 | In the Edinburgh area at the moment there are several organisations very willing and enthusiastic to pay for and carry out much-needed upgrading of the Union Canal towpath , but it appears that different departments of BW are giving different reactions . |
| 23 | Since the mid-1980s when the satanic child abuse scare first came to Britain , it seems that many workers within Social Services in particular have been influenced by this thinking . |
| 24 | It seems that most designers of fibreglass pools are not water gardeners , for the shelves are often narrow and curved making it difficult to accommodate a traditional square planting basket . |
| 25 | Thirdly , it seems that both groups of critics would want to see greater support given to natural families , in general , to help them to care for their children more effectively and to prevent the need for substitute care arising . |
| 26 | It seems that some designers of upright cookers think they can get away with dowdy styling and primitive features . |
| 27 | Then , in the early part of this century , the quantum theory appeared ; its details need not concern us except for the fact that it implied that all forms of matter and energy came in tiny discrete packages called quanta ( by ‘ discrete ’ is meant that you can not have half a quantum ) . |
| 28 | It follows that recent rises in unemployment may have had a relatively greater impact on property-owning white-collar workers than was the case in the early 1980s ; moreover , the latter will also be more highly geared than average . |
| 29 | It follows that these transformations on their own can not be used to generate genuinely non-colinear solutions from colinear ones . |
| 30 | If we print all this area from within a rubberband box , as we have been doing , it means that four sections of the printout will make up the width of the design and the height will need the total height of squares used for the design , divided by 38 . |