Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The knowledge which it produces at any time is tentative and always open to challenge by further evidence . |
| 2 | The knowledge it produces at any time is tentative and always open to challenge by further evidence . |
| 3 | That position now is the same as it stands before this legislation is passed . |
| 4 | It has for many years been the most widely used method of social research . |
| 5 | It has for some time been considered a most urgent need to extricate mentally handicapped children from long-stay hospitals and stop their admission to them , and there has , as a result , been a sharp fall in the numbers of mentally handicapped children in hospitals . |
| 6 | The twentieth century has seen the growth of a considerable literature on management as an acquired skill and it has for some time been possible to obtain academic management qualifications . |
| 7 | It has for some years been established beyond doubt that Elisabeth used her long period as custodian of her brother 's works and papers ( during which time she wrote and rewrote his biography , as well as overseeing the editing of his works ) to misrepresent important aspects of his life and thought and , in extreme cases , to falsify letters and unpublished writings . |
| 8 | It has at all times been an act of faith and a declaration of belief , the faith and the belief that a society and a nation will fare best , in this world and the next , where the most promising of its youth are withdrawn at a critical period of their development to spend several years in close and intimate proximity with one another and with those whose talent and delight is the pursuit of knowledge of all kinds for its own sake and the communication of that talent and delight to their successors . |
| 9 | It is quoted in full : 6 Private residence exception : separated couples Where a married couple separate or are divorced and one partner ceases to occupy the matrimonial home and subsequently as part of a financial settlement disposes of the home , or an interest in it , to the other partner the home may be regarded for the purposes of Sections [ 222 to 224 of TCGA 1992 ] 101 to 103 as continuing to be a residence of the transferring partner from the date his or her occupation ceases until the date of transfer , provided that it has throughout this period been the other partner 's only or main residence . |
| 10 | erm , on four , er , again I do n't know what pigeon fanciers or pigeon er , what their views are on this , but you see , this is another European directive erm , there is a risk it says of this disease being airborne , it can be airborne , and it was shown that racing pigeons could introduce the disease to commercial flocks . |
| 11 | If a clock travels from P 1 to P 2 then the time interval it measures between these events is called the proper time Δτ , with . |
| 12 | Is it correct to claim , as Marsh does , that aggression is ‘ the inflicting of physical hurt ’ with its associated aim of ‘ subduing or achieving dominance over a rival ’ ( 1978 : 33 ) or should one follow Eibl-Eibesfeldt 's broader definition and classify behaviour as aggressive ‘ if it leads to another party 's being hurt ; this includes not just physical hurt ( injury or destruction ) but any kind of hurt , including annoyance , taunts or insults ’ ( 1978 : 29 ) ? |
| 13 | ‘ It leads to more ideas being put forward and the benefits to each company will be greater . ’ |
| 14 | It calls for this union 's sponsored MPs not to pair with Tory M Ps . |
| 15 | Another important field that will not receive the attention it deserves in this book is the whole area of music . |
| 16 | The Jewish faith was affected by liberalizing tendencies , but the most important development it fostered during these years was not theological but political . |
| 17 | The issue of conscription was a particularly tender one for the union , for it had for some time been under pressure from the Admiralty over breaches of the obligation of seamen , nominally enforced by the Board of Trade , that sailors should be on board their ships on time and hence not delay sailings . |
| 18 | To such an end it had for some time been seeking to intensify contacts with both Tehran and Baghdad . |
| 19 | The surviving corner showed that it had at some stage been thickened to 7½ft or possibly , as the plan suggests , extended to form a buttress or column base . |
| 20 | Lord Diplock said : " What it does in that capacity is governed by public law ; and although the legal consequences of doing it may result in creating rights enforceable in private law , those rights are not necessarily the same as those that would flow in private law from doing a similar act otherwise than in the exercise of statutory powers . " |
| 21 | we shouldn we should n't get carried away , however , by this er focus on its managerial agencies , agency , and think that everything it does in this respect is conscious , because a lot of the processes that occur in the ego are actually not conscious . |
| 22 | The typical duration that it spends in either mode is very long compared with the source period . |