Example sentences of "[pron] it [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To me the Navy has always been unrivalled for the style in which it clothes ceremonial occasions , and these dinners , from the entry of the President 's party heralded by nautical airs from the marine band , to the ritual procession of the baron of beef through to the ( sometimes seated ) loyal toast , are no exception . |
| 2 | you know those orange drinks , which it says real oranges in nine times out of ten , it is n't there 's always some additives and what have you |
| 3 | The really intriguing historical problems , which await further investigation , concern the manner in which policy-makers reacted to this inaccurate information in determining policy and the way in which it affected external relations , especially with international financial institutions , in particular the International Monetary Fund . |
| 4 | 21 ) who explicitly rejected the ‘ classical doctrine ’ of democracy , according to which it embodies distinctive ideals concerning participation in political life and the relationship between political leaders and the people , and replaced it by another theory of democracy as ‘ competition for political leadership ’ : ‘ the democratic method is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people 's vote ’ ( p. 269 ) . |
| 5 | One of the more striking aspects of the table of results is the way in which it highlights certain configurations of sentences which are almost invariable across all groups . |
| 6 | Far below , in the street opposite the 550 building , stood the tall statue of the Garment Worker , strangely distorted from this angle , and around the plinth on which it stood ant-like figures of vagrants and layabouts sat , oblivious to the cold . |
| 7 | He surmised that every bird possesses a form of template upon which it tries different notes until it finds the correct ones . |
| 8 | It is not clear whether the date of composition of The Epistle of Mixed Life precedes or follows Scale 1 with which it has close affinities . |
| 9 | The late Sir Peter Scott was the founder , in 1961 ( WWF is the only one of the Big Three which has British origins ) , and international headquarters are in Gland , Switzerland , in the same building as the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources ( IUCN ) , with which it has close relations ( and which , in turn , is close to UNEP ) . |
| 10 | Moscow has increased the number of countries with which it has commercial dealings from four in 1960 to over twenty by the end of the 1970s , but the volume of trade has not exceeded $30 million with more than eight ( Argentina , Brazil , Uruguay , Peru , Bolivia , Mexico , Colombia and Nicaragua ) and it is only with Argentina , Brazil and Nicaragua that it has risen above the $100 million level . |
| 11 | Britain had its supporters outside the Six , notably the Nordic states with which it held regular meetings within Uniscan to discuss and coordinate views on European developments and their possible implications . |
| 12 | And , of course , the state is linked directly to the sphere of production , for which it performs necessary functions , being also an arena within which the class-struggles are fought out . |
| 13 | Given the close link which the Scarman Report established between questions of policing and the ‘ wider social context ’ , the programme of action which it outlined contained proposals not only about the reform of the police and the introduction of new methods of policing and riot control , but about employment policy , social policy , and policies on racial discrimination . |
| 14 | A particular point of contention is likely to arise where a group claims that it was unaware of an intention to hold a march by a group to which it holds opposing views until some time within the notification period . |
| 15 | In particular , he suggests that the educational system has a marked effect on the production and reproduction of scientific knowledge , and criticizes it for the ahistorical way in which it teaches scientific problems , theories , experiments and proofs . |
| 16 | AMERICAN scientists have uncovered a previously unrecognised aspect of the anti-viral effect of interferon , to be added to the already wide range of mechanisms by which it fights viral infections . |
| 17 | It assumes that a user wants to work only within NeXTstep , not on a Unix command line , something it claims other products have failed to realise . |
| 18 | She did n't catch what he said — his words too soft and indistinct — but his half-grin told her it had smutty connotations . |
| 19 | The dog , as might be expected , looks in both directions — towards the grave , whose total incapacity to understand rights it shares , yet also towards the human being with whom it has appetitive instincts in common . |
| 20 | The company , which has been in the hands of receivers since February , faces the prospect of its production lines halting after a judge refused to rule that a crucial supplier , to whom it owes large sums of money , was legally obliged to continue providing vital components . |
| 21 | To them it represented infinite riches , well worth committing murder for . |
| 22 | The League , in a report on the KKK , cites what it calls secret meetings in North Carolina and Arkansas of the two most powerful Klans , the Invisible Empire and the KKK Knights , where leaders , including Thomas Robb , Slater 's mentor , told members to begin lowering the racist rhetoric and avoid lawsuits . |
| 23 | It denied denying what it called groundless accusations about embassy involvement in the attack . |
| 24 | Formed by Beamish in 1918 as a patriotic organization dedicated to the eradication of what it termed alien influences in British life , the Britons campaigned for the forced expulsion of Jews from England and for the revoking of the Act of Settlement of 1700 , which would ensure that immigrants and their descendents would be ineligible to hold public office . |