Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [conj] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sexton quoted in Ranson ( 1990:115 ) argued that " it supposes that the wisdom of parents , separately and individually exercised , is more likely to achieve higher standards more quickly and more acceptably to the public than the collective wisdom of present bureaucrats , no matter how well-meaning those bureaucrats may be " . |
| 2 | It concludes that the loading of chlorine in the atmosphere will peak at 4.1 parts per billion by volume ( ppbv ) at the turn of the century , and not return to " safe " levels of 2 ppvb until 2060 . |
| 3 | It concludes that the causes of the increase in exclusions are difficult to define . |
| 4 | An important aspect of the Esso case is that it illustrates that the restraint of trade doctrine is not simply applicable to those restraints which continue after the end of the contract period . |
| 5 | It adds that the exclusion of certain part-time workers from employment protection rights , pensions and the contributory benefits system only serves to reinforce assumptions about women 's economic dependency . |
| 6 | It allows that the existence of a sensible thing need not consist in its actually being perceived but , rather more weakly , in its being perceivable ; in allowing this it would certainly be more acceptable to common sense . |
| 7 | It warns that the spread of vast computer data banks means it will soon be possible to identify individuals walking along a street , whether or not they have committed a crime : ‘ The new PNC2 police national computer will be capable of storing digitised photographs to which detectives will have instant access . ’ |
| 8 | The concept of cohesion is a semantic one ; it refers to the relations of meaning that exist within the text , and that define it as a text ; it occurs when the interpretation of some element in the discourse is dependent on that of another . |
| 9 | It happens that the break-up of the great southern continent of Gondwanaland began during the age of the dinosaurs . |
| 10 | It is obvious that a pretty problem arises when the test of domicile refers the English courts to the law of a country which applies the test of citizenship and it happens that the citizenship of the person in question was British . |
| 11 | It inquires whether the conception of community has undergone any change as a consequence of the crowd phenomenon . |
| 12 | This concentration on hardware is , I think , partly responsible for the rather limited international view taken by this approach : it envisages that the bunching of innovations which generates long cycles also generates international ripples so that the innovations are diffused through the leading capitalist countries and the long cycle is international . |
| 13 | It says that the rate of exchange rate appreciation implied by the futures market will equal the difference between US and UK interest rates . |
| 14 | Yet it says that the amount of government research cash spent by industry is ‘ pitifully low ’ . |
| 15 | If you draw a triangle with corners x , y and z , then it says that the length of the side between x and y is no more than the sum of lengths of the other two sides . |
| 16 | It says that the statement of accounts will be made up of : |
| 17 | Equation ( 5.4 ) is a respecification of the process driving the quantity of money : it assumes that the quantity of money in period t equals its value in period t - 1 plus a constant , g , plus a function of the shocks to aggregate demand in periods t - 1 and t - 2 . |
| 18 | It assumes that the interests of workers are national , rather than class interests , which may not always be best for the workers , as a class . |
| 19 | Hume 's argument , however , does not hold water for the simple reason that it assumes that the question of the possibility of significantly ascribing identity to objects as ontological existents can and should be decided via an analysis of the conditions of their identification , whereas the simple fact is that the concept of an entity as a potential topic of discourse is analytically linked with , and hence inseparable from , that of identity . |
| 20 | It is known as matrix modelling because it assumes that the price of a bond is made up from each component of relative value taken separately . |
| 21 | It assumes that the rationale of obedience is in all the intricate facts of social organisation and in no one group of facts . |
| 22 | Quite the contrary , it assumes that the nature of criminal definitions and their application are factors that influence people 's decisions whether to comply with them or not , and are therefore an issue for correctionalism . |
| 23 | This strategy has two basic flaws : * it assumes that the profile of the " average consumer " is adequately representative of the majority of buyers within the market . |
| 24 | In most cases it assumes that the burden of tax falls where the legal form says it falls . |
| 25 | And it observes that the use of regulation or taxes instead of the market creates inefficiencies and slows economic growth . |
| 26 | It confirms that the attitude of Her Majesty 's Government has not changed and that there is still no single body exercising administrative authority in Somalia . |
| 27 | As well as tidying up the whole system , it re-affirms that the doctrine of saints has a place , but not the central place , in Catholic piety . |
| 28 | It shows that the percentage of overall population growth due to migration is to be : |
| 29 | It shows that the proportion of female enrolments has been growing steadily , though it is still some way short of parity . |
| 30 | Therefore the structures seen in ( 1a ) are acceptable ( where boldened material = expanded dip ) : whereas the structures seen in ( 1b ) are debarred : The treatment of these expanded dips is very plausible since it shows that the distribution of elements within the verse-line can be derived from phonological behaviour : verbal prefixes , for example , are exempted from the constraint on expanded dips , just as they are labelled as extra-metrical in word-stress derivations . |