Example sentences of "[pron] it [verb] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Qualities such as the physical condition of the member of the opposite sex , the resources it holds and the extent to which it bears characters that have been subject to sexual selection can all affect whether or not it is chosen ( see Halliday , 1983 ) . |
| 3 | The bee-eater 's beak is slender and apparently delicate , a pair of slim forceps with which it plucks bees and other insects from the air . |
| 4 | Later , when the Northern Ireland Office was established , it relied heavily on it for the information on which it based security and political activities . |
| 5 | The department is closely linked with the Royal Observatory with which it shares accommodation and world class research facilities . |
| 6 | If such an advance is realized , it represents one more step in a progression in which the antidiscipline , that is , the field treating the next level of organization below the one under scrutiny , is partly replaced by the synthetic enterprise to which it gave rigour and impetus ( Wilson , 1977 ) . |
| 7 | Often Asian women coming from joint families in the Indian subcontinent to join their husbands in Britain do succeed in making the necessary emotional adjustment , but for many of them it takes months if not years ; for some coping with the total emotional dependence on the husband alone is just not possible . |
| 8 | Likud has consistently argued that it wants to deal only with local inhabitants of what it calls Judea and Samaria ( the West Bank and Gaza ) . |
| 9 | tell you what it seems ages since I was in the first year , but not very long since I was in the second year |