Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the arrival of scientific methods in the twentieth century , we have been able to determine the essential nature of a healthy diet , and with it make dietary changes based on knowledge . |
| 2 | In respect of the Genocide Act , the judge said , it created criminal offences described in the Genocide Convention that were not previously criminal . |
| 3 | It exhibits other features found in the Avenue mosaic ( e.g. the fan-flower of sixteen petals with a guilloche knot at its centre , and the lotus buds which occupy the angles of the pavements ) , and which are here associated with pelta-urns with volutes of two or three bands , ( i.e. motif stylistically closer to those at Chedworth ) . |
| 4 | Harney 's death was a political assassination , it triggered nationwide riots followed by the biggest murder investigation South Africa has seen . |
| 5 | Table 4 shows the bank 's initial position ; it has total deposits amounting to £10,000 and is just maintaining its 10 per cent cash ratio by holding in its tills £1,000 in cash . |
| 6 | The rattlesnake is a more formidable enemy , because it has infra-red detectors to see in the dark and makes virtually no noise as it glides along . |
| 7 | A rare native of Southern England , it has bell-shaped flowers chequered with pink , purple and white . |
| 8 | Mind you do n't your tongue with that I tell you what they had in er Woolies market as well , I do n't know whether you 've seen them and I do n't , I 've not got you know an old Argos catalogue to compare prices , cos they 've not got it in the summer one , but they have them in the winter ones , it 's like a , a tool box , but it 's on wheels and you make it up , you , you know all the screws and the wheels come out and you 're not , it 's all plastic , I think it must be from age three , because of the little bits , and it 's like erm , I 've seen it somewhere , where I 've been , it has little figures sat in this erm , what would you , it 's like erm , a bit like a truck , yeah , and it 's got the , the figures in it |
| 9 | It is hoped that this chapter will not be dismissed as an arid academic ground-clearing exercise , since it has important things to say about the most appropriate way to approach the subject of the book . |
| 10 | A Bill may be ‘ hybrid ’ , i.e. whilst the Bill as a whole is of general application , it contains particular provisions applying to particular persons specifically . |
| 11 | It helped fourth-century Christians to come to terms with the paradox that the privileged , wealthy , and powerful post-Constantinian church actually was also the church of the martyrs . |
| 12 | The solar wind carried its own magnetic field , and as this sweeps past it causes electrical currents to flow in the Moon . |
| 13 | It features patterned papers to buy by the sheet : 20in by 25in is £4.83 ( first quality ) , £2.41 ( second quality ) : or you can buy it made up into boxes , albums , desk sets , lampshades and photo mounts . |
| 14 | In Yugoslavia 's biggest postwar strike , nearly 700,000 workers in Serbia 's textile , leather and metallurgical industries stopped work on April 16 to demand that the Serbian government pay them the guaranteed minimum monthly wage , backdated to January , and that it abolish new taxes introduced at the end of 1990 . |
| 15 | Actually , that is too great a relaxation , sinced it allows genetic values to range from minus infinity to plus infinity . |
| 16 | Although that has meant that not much can be done , in principle it is a good idea in that it forces underwater sites to compete with land sites for funding , and tends to keep the attention on the point that it is archaeology we are talking about . |
| 17 | It begged male comps faced with a female colleague to " Be kind to her if you ca n't wed her or shift her , " and went on : State broadly and fully wherein we are sinners Remembering that many of us are breadwinners For mothers and sisters whom we must assist , hence We claim with yourselves equal right to existence |
| 18 | It computes various parameters used in the measuring process . |
| 19 | ‘ It takes real guts to carry off such a successful fraud . |
| 20 | A month later , PW made a breakthrough : it gained access to Mr Naqvi 's personal filing room where , among 6,000 files , it found the evidence it needed major customers colluding with BCCI in the falsification of accounting through the use of nominee arrangements , hold harmless arrangements and payment of fees to individuals to ensure cooperation , as well as proof of links between BCCI and the International Credit and Investment Corporation group . |
| 21 | Ductal cannulation was rated as ‘ easy ’ if cannulation could be achieved immediately , and as ‘ difficult ’ if it required repeated attempts leading to obvious trauma to the papilla . |
| 22 | In 1906 a herdbook for the ‘ race rouge flamande ’ was opened , with members all over West Flanders , and it included red animals found to the north of the main breeding zone as well : only external appearances were taken into account until 1920 , when a breed society was formed . |
| 23 | Counter-intuitively , keeping imports low may boost France 's trade deficit in manufactures because it prevents French firms specialising in what they do best . |
| 24 | In Spain , the paradox of Europe is that it is both the whip to modernise Spain by destroying structures of corporatism , grandeur and clericalism that held back the country for centuries , and , at the same time , it demands enormous sacrifices paid by the poor as Solchaga and Gonzáles seek to achieve a capitalism and productivity equal to levels set in northern Europe . |
| 25 | The GPS system made its public debut in the recent Gulf War when it enabled allied troops to navigate at night across hundreds of miles of desert to within a few metres . |
| 26 | Often , it deploys explanatory frameworks taken from traditional and egalitarian feminist psychology . |
| 27 | In the churches , traditional orthodoxy of a more or less pre-Enlightenment character fought to retain its footing , but alongside it grew other movements ranging from what today would be called Conservative Evangelicalism to those which were consciously progressive , liberal and modern . |
| 28 | Where … as in a mature legal system , we have a system of rules which includes a rule of recognition so that the status of a rule as a member of the system now depends on whether it satisfies certain criteria provided by the rule of recognition , this brings with it a new application of the word ‘ exist ’ . |
| 29 | It means new funds going into the banks as a result of liquidating assets have cost more . |
| 30 | Translated into 10 languages , it highlighted human rights abuses against Guatemala 's Indian population including members of Menchu 's own family who were killed by security forces in 1980 . |