Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It duly noted that extra money would not necessarily buy better health . |
| 2 | The following features of a statutory redundancy payment emerged : ( 1 ) The obligation was imposed on the employer ; ( 2 ) It only arose on dismissal and might never arise if an employee worked until retirement , whether voluntary — early retirement — or at an agreed date , each of which was based on contract ; ( 3 ) It only arose if certain preconditions were proved ; ( 4 ) It applied to all employees who had worked for at least two years with an employer ; ( 5 ) Certain classes of employee were excluded , eg redundant employees refusing suitable alternative employment ; employees under a fixed-term contract of two years or more , who had renounced their redundancy rights in writing ; ( 6 ) A voluntary redundancy could be under a contractual statutory scheme , and under such a contractual scheme it was often the equivalent of early retirement by agreement ; ( 7 ) In no way could a redundancy payment be described as a deferred emolument or pay ; it was a monetary compensation for the disappearance of a job . |
| 3 | Based on the shape of this receptive field , they then search for the stimulus that gives the best response from it , and in Figure 7 you see that one particular cell responded best to movement of a bar oriented at a particular angle , and also that it only responded when this bar moved in one direction . |
| 4 | Some staff added other minor errors or disagreements but it soon emerged that some departments did not think that the report was fair and they criticized the general conclusion relating to their department . |
| 5 | It thus seemed that serial processing was confined to verbal stimuli . |
| 6 | It further recommended that greater effort should be made to employ and promote teachers from ethnic minority groups , though without positive discrimination or lowering of standards . |
| 7 | It further alleged that 10 prisoners died in 1989 [ for death in August of two Kurdish hunger strikers see p. 36857 ] . |
| 8 | However , it quickly emerged that this declaration was backed by fewer than a quarter of the Platform delegates at the congress . |
| 9 | It also said that 1,751 people had been detained without trial due to their political affiliation . |
| 10 | The Movement recognised this , as it also recognised that administrative pressures were working against a concerted attempt to preserve religious unity . |
| 11 | It also recommended that all equity transactions should be published immediately , except those larger than the value of NMS , whereby publication will occur within 90 minutes . |
| 12 | It also recommended that new entrants to the industry should be encouraged to attend short induction courses providing practically oriented instruction and information on opportunities in industry ; and that craft education should be founded on two interrelated phases , normally completed within two or three years depending on whether or not full-time study is included , leading to a national craft qualification . |
| 13 | It also meant that well-trained war-horses were immensely valuable assets . |
| 14 | It also meant that financial institutions put less of their funds into gilt-edged stocks and , in consequence , were more ready to purchase other fixed-interest securities . |
| 15 | It also affirmed that closer ties with Egypt were dependent upon Egypt 's taking steps to sever ties with Israel . |
| 16 | It also insisted that each committee must recruit candidates to be trained by the Union to act as local health workers . |
| 17 | It also required that industrial action be supported by union members in a pre-strike ballot if the union was to be exempt from civil action for damages arising from the dispute . |
| 18 | It also suggested that two sets of countries — Colombia and Yugoslavia , and India , Indonesia and Pakistan — were receiving inadequate attention . |
| 19 | It also stated that public money had been used to fund two other black organizations , the Federal Independent Association ( FIDA ) , a conservative group strongly opposed to sanctions , and the Eagles , which anti-apartheid activists alleged was responsible for vigilante actions in the townships . |
| 20 | It also showed that many companies remained ignorant of relevant environmental legislation at national and EC level . |
| 21 | It also showed that these consequences occur not only in those who are severely injured , but also for the very many people who suffer minor injury or are uninjured . |
| 22 | He was told : ‘ We try to keep the panelling for three years , to get it thoroughly seasoned while other wood is dried artificially if required before it has time to get seasoned … we use chiefly mahogany , oak and walnut , a vast amount of teak — one of the most useful woods in railway construction — sycamore ; yellow deal for partitions , roofs and floors ; elm we find of very little use , but we are now very partial to Padouk wood [ from South Australia ] , though the workmen do n't like it much on account of its toughness ’ . |
| 23 | It now seemed that military action to push Tito 's forces out of the area might be the only course . |
| 24 | It surely meant that those detectives did n't think that the madman had done it . |
| 25 | It blandly stated that each government had " gained a better understanding of the thoughts and aims of the other " . |
| 26 | The show came under attack before it even opened because one critic said it contained erotic love scenes , a roller skating comic and a simulated sex act . |
| 27 | This was probably such an advance that it completely replaced and earlier form of life , whatever that may have been . |
| 28 | It subsequently emerged that one reason for his decision was that he had taken into account the fact that publicity about the complaint would be politically damaging for the Government at that time . |