Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It tumbled against the German mark — ending perilously close to its critical floor in the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 2 | It agreed after a difficult session ( marked by objections from Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union over terminology ) to recommend the dispatch of an EC-based mission to Yugoslavia to supervise the fragile ceasefire , and also to send a CSCE " good offices " mission to assist political dialogue . |
| 3 | Contracting for other parts of the group , and even other manufacturers , provides a good half of the company 's income , and , just as importantly , enables it to invest in a high level of machinery which could not be justified for the volatile business of light aircraft manufacturing alone . |
| 4 | This approximation is shown by the dashed horizontal line in Fig. 2 b , and it agrees with the numerical results significantly better than we would have expected . |
| 5 | The historical significance of this book is therefore multi-levelled : it is a reminder of the intellectual scope of one of America 's leading feminist art historians , it testifies to the changing interests of the discipline of the history of art and , perhaps most importantly , it charts the developing priorities and concerns of the American women 's movement . |
| 6 | I am inclined to say that ‘ Here ’ , in answer to ‘ Where are you ? ’ is true only in so far as it basks in the reflected glory of such genuine truths as , ‘ Here ’ , said as I point into the flower-vase , having been asked , ‘ Where is it ? ’ in the course of a game of hunt-the-thimble . |
| 7 | But in a sense it failed through the same sort of determination that gained him the earlier success on April 27th . |
| 8 | It failed for the simple reason that no coherent principles or policies came forward to replace the old ones . |
| 9 | It applied to a special form of law embodied as a matter of convenience in a single document . |
| 10 | Lord Fraser ( at p813 ) stated : The Crown contended that the definition in s454(3) ( now TA 1988 ss681(4) ) applied to all transactions that did not have a bona fide commercial reason , and that it applied to the present transaction , the sole reason for which was to avoid tax . |
| 11 | As for the residence requirement , despite the fact that it applied in the same way to British nationals , it constituted covert discrimination on grounds of nationality in so far as , by the very nature of things , nationals of other member states were less likely to be ‘ resident ’ in the United Kingdom than British citizens . |
| 12 | Before the child is ‘ tamed ’ through its first ta'kwakomena lessons , it plays with a mixed-gender pack of free-roaming , small children . |
| 13 | I thought I heard the music of fairies , which is believed to render men forever enthralled to wonderland , and it plays in a responsive mind all life long . |
| 14 | Pity it plays like a dented tin can , really . |
| 15 | There was a rival party in the field , the Ghana Congress party ( GCP ) , founded in 1952 by Dr Busia ; it included several of the erstwhile UGCC leaders , but despite some impressive names it operated from a narrow base . |
| 16 | It operated within the limited confines of government at the centre , and in a society as localized as Scotland , did not necessarily have an impact on the domestic affairs of the country as a whole . |
| 17 | On the credit side , the local base of the Poor Law meant that it operated in a face-to-face world where people and their problems were known . |
| 18 | The remainder of this chapter will investigate this type of system as it operated in the international economy from the Second World War until 1973 . |
| 19 | Lord Justice Neill said an examination of the Royal Charter under which the Jockey Club was set up and of the powers conferred on it suggested that in some aspects of its work it operated in the public domain . |
| 20 | Anyway , his standing in society was far too high to have it blackened by the indiscreet infidelities of a wife bored with her husband 's success . |
| 21 | and then thump it with a huge mallet and it splits along the natural lines of the grain . |
| 22 | What the hell did I get it for — to have it sit on the fucking shelf ? |
| 23 | The choice of the new analogy is not arbitrary , but neither is it justified by a rigorous proof ; by the conceptual readjustment problem-solving becomes easier . |
| 24 | ‘ And I want it to go on the same way till I 'm free to offer you more . ’ |
| 25 | What is a voidable title and how it differs from a void title can best be shown by an example : A owns some goods which he sells to B who in turn sells them to C. If the first contract ( i.e. Between A and B ) is valid then title passes from A to B. If it is void for any reason then it is no contract at all and no ownership passes to B. If it is voidable then it is initially valid but can be avoided ( set aside ) later . |
| 26 | In this respect it differs from the four perspectives discussed earlier in the chapter , which converge in adopting a social model of health for a restructuring of priorities and goals . |
| 27 | No , no , it 's not only their own er we have got er entries from W I members of other villages , but mainly its from the members who live in the villages and of course that is the beauty of the book , where it differs from the normal travel book , it 's the story of villages by people who actually live in them . |
| 28 | It differs from the ordinary railway by using lightweight trains , calling at more convenient places and operating economically by the use of advanced technology now available for the custom-built rapid transit systems . |
| 29 | It differs from the other consumer goods in the private market in four ways . |
| 30 | He also said that he would not undertake to follow best practice while it differs from the operational guidelines . |