Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Major defied the wise saw which says that the British people are happy to pay more tax in order to get better public services , and played the issue of Labour 's higher taxes for all it was worth : it was worth the difference between an overall majority of 21 and a hung Parliament . |
| 2 | In particular , with the imposition of liberal democratic institutions after 1947 it is widely felt that ‘ the Japanese have elected to forego the assertion of the right to the expression of untrammelled personal freedom in the . |
| 3 | There will be a Raffle as on previous such occasions and to raise funds for this it was suggested that we hold a ‘ Bring and Buy ’ home produce and cake sale at the October Q.T. Day . |
| 4 | For several centuries after this it was persecuted . |
| 5 | To the readers of 1850 it represented on the one hand a great Romantic apologia , though the stress on the French Revolution would not have pleased ; on the other hand it could be seen as specifically a mid-Victorian poem , contemporary with the work of Tennyson , George Eliot and Matthew Arnold . |
| 6 | One press comment on this was that in the eyes of some it was all too late . |
| 7 | It then fell to 37,440 by the beginning of the following year , but in the first six months of 1989 it rose by 20 per cent to 45,1()0 and by a further 29 per cent to over 58,000 in the second half of the year . |
| 8 | During the summer months of 1986 it became clear that this approach enjoyed strong backing from the United States and Britain . |
| 9 | Militarisation worked for the Nazis as it had for the Prussians in that it helped control large numbers of people , allowed a cheap and easy growth of populist emotion and nationalist identity and became the mainspring of industry by providing demand . |
| 10 | Chepstow is unusual among British castles in that it was built largely of stone from the first with no primary timber phase . |
| 11 | You 're listening to B B C Radio Oxford and Talking Sport , twenty six minutes past five it is ; we 're going to change sports now and have a little chat about speedway , because one or two things have happened nationally and locally on the speedway scene . |
| 12 | However , when making projections about the health status of future generations of elderly it is important to recognize that cohort effects may be very influential . |
| 13 | It is likely to be easier to commit crime in urban areas in that it is easier to be unnoticed and to remain anonymous in such areas . |
| 14 | Any change to a field will have some knock-on effect on other areas in that it will modify the overall pattern of student choice . |
| 15 | Moreover Pt I has other limitations in that it does not in any case apply to all products , neither does it cover damage to business property or to personal property below £275 . |
| 16 | It also contrasted with the tenants ' associations in that it was not directly representative of those whose cause it espoused . |
| 17 | It has been argued by Dr Snell that the fact that overseers were often of humble stock themselves was crucial for the social order of rural communities in that it " facilitated agreement and mutual respect between the ranks and orders of parish society " . |
| 18 | It was unusual compared with the other countries in that it actually represented a decline ( of 2% ) from the 1971 figure . |
| 19 | As this model had some rather obvious shortcomings in that it identified the freedom to publish with individual property rights of purchase and sale of newspaper titles , it was necessary to overlay the libertarian ( laissez-faire ) position with an element of social conscience . |
| 20 | Systems analysis has important advantages in that it can handle both complex biophysical relationships ( which is more difficult in a rigid mathematical programming approach ) and can include the effects of policy instruments and other hitherto exogenous social and economic variables . |
| 21 | It also has other economic advantages in that it requires fewer facing bricks than solid walls ! |
| 22 | One result of this has been the pervasive influence of linguistic methodology upon such studies of objects as have developed in recent decades ; and while the rise of semiotics in the 1960s was advantages in that it provided for the extension of linguistic research into other domains , any of which could be treated as a semiotic system ( e.g. Eco 1976 : 9–14 ) , this extension took place at the expense of subordinating the object qualities of things to their word-like properties . |
| 23 | This form of collaboration is said to have several advantages in that it offers greater control over research and development linkage by better managing the interface between public sector research and industry . |
| 24 | The invention of printing , a key technical stage in the technology of distribution , had remarkable early effects in that it made technical distribution much easier but in conditions of relatively unaltered social distribution . |
| 25 | At times like this it would be nice if we lived nearer could help out . |
| 26 | In cases like this it is time to think carefully about which parts need perhaps to be emphasised and which part need to be toned down . |
| 27 | In cases like this it 's sometimes best to leave people alone to grieve . ’ |
| 28 | For a family with particular needs for quiet it was ideal , and when Mr Cohen was well a short walk took them into this repose of diverting potential . |
| 29 | As Bromberg tells us at the beginning of her excellent mixture of history of science and politics , ‘ The US government has supported a research programme in fusion energy since 1951 , and in the 30 years through 1980 it has expended more than $2 billion . |
| 30 | and about two weeks after that it was diagnosed that she had cancer of the ovary . |