Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It involves sharply cut three-piece suits , or carefully pressed Italian pastel casuals for the male , and a whole range of feminine clobber in similar icecream pastels for women , including the down-market fashion accent of summer 1984 : totally impractical white fabric ankle boots . |
| 2 | The Authority missed the opportunity to use PNP resources to bring about change here : it needs now to explore other avenues . |
| 3 | It has increasingly displaced common law as the most extensive form of law in Britain and it is the most definitive of the four . |
| 4 | It has simply encouraged existing subscribers to switch from non-qualifying to qualifying policies . |
| 5 | … it is clear from the historical development of the audiovisual movement that it has generally ignored psychological theory , stressing group presentation of materials without explicit regard for individual differences in learning ability ( op. cit. : 194 . ) |
| 6 | It has also generated considerable disagreement . |
| 7 | It has done so admirably , but it has also generated immense interest among local wildlife . |
| 8 | It has also made extensive alterations to its Regulations to cover the carrying out of these procedures and subsequent registration of the dairy-goat progeny . |
| 9 | The much publicised case of Ben Silcock and the health secretary 's response to it have once again revealed important differences among mental health care providers about which care is most necessary ; it has also emphasised underlying uncertainties about whether community care for people with a diagnosis of severe mental illness can ever really work . |
| 10 | It has also provoked extensive networks of defensive alliances , as we indicate later on . |
| 11 | It has also given legal effect to the judicial monitoring procedure , but there is no accountability of the Commissioner to Parliament despite the concern about this type of procedure which was raised in public after the Massiter affair . |
| 12 | This has usually resulted in richer grassland and a different land use , frequently to the benefit of local settlements , but it has also deprived local centres of former defensive or navigable areas of water or marsh . |
| 13 | It has also adopted nuclear power as a solution to the greenhouse effect . |
| 14 | It has also introduced excess payments for when goods are stolen from people 's cars . |
| 15 | Since 1980 it has also considered new technology and long-term unemployment . |
| 16 | It has also meant visiting customers worldwide , but he admits that his greatest pleasure came from meeting the company 's own employees around the globe . |
| 17 | It has also held discreet discussions with the Hungarian Government -although progress is slow . |
| 18 | It has also taken full control of its Spanish pharmaceuticals business , ICI-Farma , announced a £150million investment in a Taiwanese chemicals plant making the raw material for polyester fibre and trimmed its UK fertiliser business . |
| 19 | Since then , there has been a history of militancy and while McAlpine 's has brought dramatic improvements in wages and conditions , it has also imported English managers , resented in this staunchly Welsh-speaking region . |
| 20 | And it has also provided financial backing for research into alternatives to the use of animals . |
| 21 | It has also encouraged rural-urban migration as rural areas suffered severely from worsening economic conditions during the 1980s . |
| 22 | It has just announced special tools which will allow developers to write products for the unlaunched Windows NT which can run immediately on the new Windows 3.1 . |
| 23 | Rogers Communication Inc 's Toronto-based Rogers Cablesystems says it has successfully demonstrated Digital Video Compression on its cable system : the technology will give Rogers cable subscribers ‘ near video-on-demand ’ capability and offers more flexibility , it says . |
| 24 | Candle says it has successfully tested key DCE components within its Distributed Computing Server component in an MVS-OS/2 client-server environment and says it is the first implementation of DCE on an MVS system . |
| 25 | First models only arrived from the Kuala Lumpur factory in March 1989 but it has since doubled budgeted sales here ( topping 18,000 by the end of 1990 ) , outsold Hyundai and Seat , and has a higher market share than several more illustrious name . |
| 26 | Whatever the merits of these arguments , there can be little doubt that for much of its existence the LDDC has not sought out partnership arrangements with elected local bodies — it has pursued market-led strategies whose impact on local communities has proved far from advantageous ; it has largely ignored local planning procedures ; and there has been little public accountability of its Policies and spending . |
| 27 | However , it has yet to take concrete steps to stop atrocities , or bring their perpetrators to justice . |
| 28 | I understand that it has already achieved positive results and it shows just what British industry can do . |
| 29 | But in industrial countries in particular — or in countries that abut industrial countries — the rain has been growing steadily more acidic in recent decades , to the point where it has already done severe damage to ancient buildings and statues , where it is has virtually destroyed vast numbers of trees in continental Europe ( notably Germany ) and killed most of the life , including the fish and crayfish , in many of the lakes and rivers of Scandinavia . |
| 30 | The council would not say what the ‘ procedure ’ for dealing with stores will be over the next three Sundays until the matter is discussed by the Environment and Public Health Committee , but it has already authorised legal action against large stores which continue to open . |