Example sentences of "it [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were times when her preoccupation with ‘ basket power ’ , with the sovereignty of the consumer seemed part of a conception of political change that was both reformist and restricted , not least because it failed to challenge domestic discourses of women 's roles ; but such attention has to be seen in the context of a commitment to conceptions of political radicalisation based on personal development . |
| 2 | For them , the survey embodied the scientific method because it sought to make basic observations of the phenomena of interest and out of this formulate generalisations . |
| 3 | The river needs to be deep enough for the otters to swim and catch fish , the dog otter eating two or three pounds of fish every day , it needs to have thick covering of vegetation along the banks and above all , the water must be clean , fresh and not polluted in any way . |
| 4 | It helped to start whole categories of publication , such as free sheets , Sunday paper colour magazines , and successive speciality magazines ( yachting , autos , DIY , computing ) . |
| 5 | It tried to decrease independent expenditures of PACs by repealing existing tax credit , thus making it more efficient to look for small individual contributions and thereby reduce the power of the PACs . |
| 6 | If it examines them separately , it tends to reiterate dominant discourses of working-class social or even biological deviance , by studying working-class subjects ' inadequacies at work , their problems when unemployed , and their failures in education . |
| 7 | The committee considers that the draft is acceptable from the subsidiarity standpoint , as it aims to establish cross-border freedom of services and investment . |
| 8 | It helps to avoid potential conflicts of interest , but equally it has pitched for business against its parent — and won . |
| 9 | KnowledgeWare Inc , Atlanta warns that it expects to report non-recurring charges of $20m for its fiscal third quarter to March 31 from acquisitions and restructuring and expansion of product lines , and that this will lead to a loss for the quarter and for the year ; it also says that lower revenues combined with operating costs associated with the acquisitions are expected to contribute to a third quarter operating loss ; it looks for growth in European revenues . |
| 10 | Milpitas-based Adaptec Inc is making hay with its disk controllers from the boom in personal computer sales generated by the price war , and says it expects to report net profit of about $50m , 1.90 per share for its fiscal year to March 31 1993 , on sales more than double last year 's $150.3m . |
| 11 | Vienna , Virginia-based Legent Corp warns that it expects to report net profit of about $18.4m or $0.52 per share for the second quarter ended Aprch 31 , compared with the $0.44 before charges that it reported last year ; turnover will be about flat with the $102.5m a year ago : the news caused a bloodbath in the Legent share price , which slumped 16% , $6.125 , to land up at $33.25 . |
| 12 | It expects to have early silicon of UltraSparc-I in the fourth quarter of next year . |
| 13 | It expects to have early silicon of UltraSparc-I in the fourth quarter of next year . |
| 14 | While there is no conclusive evidence to suggest that Syria has been attempting to develop nuclear devices , it continues to purchase large quantities of heavy weapons and missiles from China and has illegally proscribed certain areas in Syria from IAEA inspection . |
| 15 | It continues to offer tantalising glimpses of a future where programs and documents , taken together , are part of some bigger story . |
| 16 | Though the commission could buy by agreement it had to have effective powers of compulsory purchase if it was ‘ to ensure that the right land is made available at the right time ’ . |
| 17 | But when Sweden 's shipbuilding industry slid into decline , it had to seek other ways of long term survival . |
| 18 | The appeal for tolerance by gesturing to lists of Famously Artistic Homosexuals is one of the classic tropes of gay self-justification — it goes ‘ Sappho , Michaelangelo , Shakespeare … and me ’ — and it needs always to be resisted because it seeks to extend contemporary definitions of sexuality back to incorporate historical periods when categorizations of the sexual were quite different . |
| 19 | It attempts to heighten local awareness of cultural heritage . |
| 20 | It is only through feminist psychology 's attention to work like Ladner 's Afrocentric sociology , that it comes to consider specific features of black girls ' socialization in their families and communities ( Williams 1979 ) . |