Example sentences of "[pron] it [vb -s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group at the University of Hokkaido is trying to isolate this chemical , which it calls glycinoeclopin A. So far the group has managed to obtain a tiny portion — 0.5 milligrams — of the substance and now it is trying to discover the chemical structure of the material . |
| 2 | So Xionics does not get involved in selling its computer network , which it calls Xinet ; instead it has handed responsibility for this to a distributor . |
| 3 | Micro Focus Plc has come up with a new method for charging for licences to its Unix software , which it calls Unix Concurrent User Licensing . |
| 4 | The visitor to an auction may be caught up in the excitement and drama of the event , but the climate of opinion in which it takes place has been created by scholars and critics as well as businessmen . |
| 5 | It seems that the mode of politics in any situation is governed as much by the actors and interests involved , as by the geographical scale at which it takes place . |
| 6 | It relates punishment to the economic structure of the society in which it takes place and to the class interests furthered by penal practices and ideologies . |
| 7 | it is difficult , however , to appreciate that significance without knowing something of the context in which it takes place . |
| 8 | Within a single interaction — say , a conversation — participants need not maintain an unvarying relationship among each other , the linguistic event , and the context ( both wide and narrow ) in which it takes place . |
| 9 | I 'd like to erm just say a few words about erm the three erm reductions in the budget of the erm er the erm community services erm the erm deletion of the arts budgets , you probably have heard this before , but I I do think it 's a great pity that erm when it was on the basis and I think very little knowledge of un and understanding with erm er of what arts is about which is to delete one of the , was one of the erm the the erm things in this council which we actually do best , it 's one of the things which has attracted attention from way beyond Cambridge erm and which is undoubt has undoubtedly to communities in which it takes place , erm as far as the erm erm oh the erm community , staffing of community centres erm this looks like erm in calculations involved handing over the r the management to the community centres to erm volunteers . |
| 10 | The style of the leader may vary , as may the content of the leader 's vision and the context in which it takes root . |
| 11 | When he writes of prayer , he compares it with ‘ a lark rising from his bed of grass and soaring upwards , singing as he rises , and hopes to get to heaven and climb above the clouds ’ , and so the lark continues through clause after clause , buffeted by storms from which it takes refuge , until finally ‘ it did rise and sing , as if it had learned music and motion from an angel as he passed sometimes through the air about his ministries here below ’ . |
| 12 | This kind of argument reads well in Callinicos ' hands , but it is worth reminding ourselves of the unattractive reality to which it bears witness . |
| 13 | In what ways have the false doctrine of abstraction , and the equally mistaken materialism to which it lends support , been a ‘ great source of errors and difficulties ’ in our search for knowledge ? |
| 14 | The scale on which it registers experience can be adjusted upwards or downwards . |
| 15 | The rate at which it uses energy , it 's the rate at which it 's using the energy . |
| 16 | So this debate is not about saving foxes , it will achieve nothing for animal welfare it is not about the merits or otherwise of fox hunting , from which it diverts attention , it is about the county council seeking to make hollow gestures against their tenants ' rights . |
| 17 | Apple also added two new versions of its AppleShare file and print services , AppleShare 4.0 and AppleShare Pro , which it says offer increased performance and a wider range of file and print options . |
| 18 | It must be even-handed in the way in which it reduces effort , understandable , believeable and flexible enough to be realistic . |
| 19 | In essence , a new unincorporated business will pay tax in the tax year in which its first accounting period ends ( rather than the year in which it commences trade under the present system ) , but will pay tax on at least a full year 's profit in the tax year in which it ceases to trade . |
| 20 | For every long contract to which it becomes party there is a matching short , for every dispute with a seller ( though disputes are so rare as virtually never to occur ) there will be an equal dispute with a buyer , and for every case of force majeure in delivery there will be an invoicing back from buyer to LCH and from LCH to seller . |
| 21 | Answers to these and other questions should allow us to develop a more accurate picture of the impact of tax on people 's earnings and hence the extent to which it redistributes income within Britain . |
| 22 | The real threat of hypocrisy to the Christian community , as indeed to all others , is the impenetrability with which it conceals evil . |
| 23 | That class qualifies as a species because all the members will breed with other members of the class , but not with plants from outside the class ; but there would be no justification for saying that the class also represented a genus and a family , if the larger taxonomy of which it forms part did not exhibit branching at these levels . |
| 24 | We may define a social movement , in broad terms , as a collective endeavour to promote or resist change in the society of which it forms part ; l but this statement needs to be qualified in some way if we are to retain a clear distinction between a ‘ movement ’ and a ‘ party ’ . |
| 25 | Example 4:1 Clause preventing landlord from charging VAT in the event that the landlord elects to waive any exemption from value added tax in relation to the demised property or the building of which it forms part , no value added tax shall be added to the rent reserved by this lease Example 4:2 Clause preventing landlord from waiving exemption from VAT ( 1 ) not to elect to waive any exemption from VAT in relation to the demised property or the building of which it forms part ( 2 ) on any assignment of the whole or part of the reversion expectant on this lease , or the grant of any concurrent lease of the whole or part of the property , to procure that the assignee or lessee gives a covenant in the terms of this clause |
| 26 | Example 4:1 Clause preventing landlord from charging VAT in the event that the landlord elects to waive any exemption from value added tax in relation to the demised property or the building of which it forms part , no value added tax shall be added to the rent reserved by this lease Example 4:2 Clause preventing landlord from waiving exemption from VAT ( 1 ) not to elect to waive any exemption from VAT in relation to the demised property or the building of which it forms part ( 2 ) on any assignment of the whole or part of the reversion expectant on this lease , or the grant of any concurrent lease of the whole or part of the property , to procure that the assignee or lessee gives a covenant in the terms of this clause |
| 27 | ( Note : To conform with its practice in all other major territories , General Accident has changed the basis on which it reports class results within its UK account . |
| 28 | Of particular importance in explaining the disclosure practices of such companies are the industry a company operates in , its size , profitability , extent of overseas operations and the ways in which it raises finance . |
| 29 | The collection of essays edited by Joyce ( 1987 ) is an important contribution to the history of work , not only for the satisfying ways in which it challenges orthodoxy about the social and political role of work , but also for its advocacy of the need to rethink work as a social construct . |
| 30 | It is situated just beyond the saw mill and by the side of the canal , from which it draws water . |