Example sentences of "[pron] it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In analysing the ideology of the underground , recent work has underlined the extent to which it reflected social change and popular pressure within Russia . |
| 2 | Two recent attempts to invoke the EEC competition rules before the English courts were : Shearson Lehman 's attempt to prevent the London Metal Exchange fixing a closing-out price for tin contracts in existence as the time of the collapse of the tin market ; and Macarthy PLC 's attempt to obtain an injunction restraining a share allocation and discount scheme introduced by a pharmaceutical wholesaler , which it alleged distorted competition . |
| 3 | The lineage of Unix System V Release comes from the SVR4.1 Enhanced Security release , from which it inherits B1/B2 security , but SVR4.2 extends the modularity of that release with the isolation of processor-specific source code modules from the main body of common code . |
| 4 | if the return to Conservatism is to be something more than the transient apparition of a spectre from the past , and its voice in national affairs not merely to be a sepulchral warning against the dangers of rash courses , the Conservative leaders must bestir themselves to some purpose … [ the Conservative Party ] must be ready to meet the programme of the Labour Party not simply with a non-possumus but with an alternative which will in some measure satisfy certain of the needs which Labour is concerned to satisfy , and at the same time avoid the perils with which it insists Labour policy is beset . |
| 5 | Its surface area would dissipate heat continually at the same rate at which it exceeded ambient temperature , and it would need 8100 kilocalories of solar radiation in addition to its metabolic increment . |
| 6 | We must entertain doubts about Baden-Powell 's enthusiasm for Hooligans , and the extent to which it represented Edwardian wish-fulfilment rather than real accomplishment . |
| 7 | ( 5 ) The fraud or dishonesty of the vendor In addition to fraud and dishonesty insurers will specifically exclude liability for the wilful failure by the vendor to disclose matters of which it had actual knowledge . |
| 8 | Much of the rest of his life was dedicated to opposing British financial policy and the monetary straitjacket in which it placed British industry . |
| 9 | This is not the place to conduct a survey of Karajan 's Berlin recordings but it must be said that the 1962 Beethoven cycle was a tour de force , the finest of its kind since the Toscanini to which it paid partial homage . |
| 10 | Sumitomo Bank has stuck with NCR equipment for every generation of its banking systems since the implementation of the First Online system in the 1970s , and the defeat means that NCR now loses its last big customer account and one for which it maintained considerable investment in mainframes — even developing the 9800XL series , last of its mainframes — especially for Sumitomo . |
| 11 | It demonstrates the principle that the EEC 's worst-managed and least successful policies are those in which it has unrestrained jurisdiction . |
| 12 | The Court of Justice is composed of thirteen judges and four Advocates Generals , who guard the interpretation and application of the Treaties and EC laws , over which it has final authority . |
| 13 | The Group 's share of results of associated undertakings [ hereafter called associated companies ] is included in respect of companies in which the Group owns at least 20 per cent of the equity and over which it exerts significant influence . |
| 14 | For one school of modern historians this programme ( to which it attributes transcendent importance in the development of Carlism ) represents a reversion to a traditional monarchy ruling with the historic Cortes and subject to God and the law , a via media between imported liberalism and the equally foreign ministerial despotism of the eighteenth century , a truly Spanish solution of the political problem of modern Spain . ’ |
| 15 | In fact , in regard to whom it allowed free entry into Britain , the 1971 Act differed mainly in the words used . |
| 16 | Repeated failures in fostering are obviously very damaging to a child to whom it means repeated rejection . |
| 17 | ‘ Why is it , ’ he asks rhetorically , ‘ that musicians in general do n't like to play Berliozz ? they themselves have told me it takes fierce discipline to play the music in true ensemble ; it takes a lot of rehearsal to sound fluent at the tempos Berlioz often requires . |
| 18 | He thought he heard the clatter of it in the roads , oh it it had awful stuff of that kind . |
| 19 | I just like it when you open it it says happy birthday . |
| 20 | SHL Systemhouse , the new owner of the remains of Interactive Systems Corp — now minus the Lachman technology piece ( see front page ) — is targeting client/server computing and what it calls transformational outsourcing through its new buy , thinking competitor Anderson Consulting may be asleep at the switch . |
| 21 | IBM Corp is expected to announce today that it is switching to what it calls value-based pricing for mainframe software , charging on either a per-user or elapsed time used basis ; the company issued a cryptic statement in response to the Financial Times story alleging that Louis Gerstner had put the break-up of IBM on hold , saying that Gerstner had not said such a thing for public consumption and that he had no plans to do so . |
| 22 | In the enterprise of seeking to understand consciousness as something more manageable and decently scientific than what it calls ghostly stuff , it is understood as yet less than ghostly stuff . |
| 23 | InfoNow Corp , Boulder , Colorado pioneer of what it calls electronic commerce , using digital technology such as CD-ROM , new media , security , encryption , digital transmission to deliver products , has completed a private placing of stock , raising gross proceeds of $1.65m . |
| 24 | If the BBC review degenerated into Tory revenge for what it considers long-standing bias ( a particular hobby-horse of Heseltine ) , then he will have failed . |