Example sentences of "[pron] it [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | what pushes well if you go to somebody it pushes the cost up does n't it ? |
| 2 | For the rest , excepting those who attend independent schools , the Act may be judged on the extent to which it promotes the interests of all children . |
| 3 | The Teddy Boys also coexisted with compulsory military service — which is so often wheeled out as a panacea for the troubles of youth — and national service was even condemned in the 1950s as ‘ a positive adverse influence on young people ’ because of the way in which it interrupted the transition from school to work and encouraged an ‘ eat , drink and be merry ’ philosophy . |
| 4 | It will be argued that one of the central features of the business company is the way in which it centralizes the authority to manage the capital which it aggregates from its investors in the hands of corporate managers . |
| 5 | The Foreign Ministry , in a diplomatic note on Sept. 15 , 1989 , called on the Soviet Union to renegotiate the 1986 fishing agreement allowing Soviet vessels to fish in Argentine territorial waters [ see p. 34673 ] , failing which it said the agreement would not be extended on its expiry in March 1990 . |
| 6 | The Sub-Committee examined the contribution which each proposal made to the Development Programme and the extend to which it met the Council 's stated objectives for Phase 2 Pilots . |
| 7 | The market price of an asset is simply the present value of the income stream to which it entitles the owner . |
| 8 | It was not the existence of the risk which mattered , so much as ( a ) the degree to which it enhanced the prejudice already created by the great publicity which all these matters had attracted in Hong Kong during the preceding years , and ( b ) the degree to which this additional risk could be neutralised by the trial judge when the B.M.F.L. prosecution eventually arrived at a hearing : see Reg. v. Kray ( 1969 ) 53 Cr.App.R. 412 . |
| 9 | Ideally , the Bank would like to sell all tap stock at or above the published issue price — minimum tender price or certified price at which it acquired the stock — but this is not always possible ; inevitably there are occasions when the Bank is holding unsold stock and when rates of interest rise and bond prices fall . |
| 10 | Subsequently , the landlord entered into a mortgage agreement in which it assigned the reversion to Hua Chiao Bank , with provision for reassignment upon redemption . |
| 11 | Although the government has to operate within the context of the economic realities of the day and " should " have regard to the long-term interests of the economy as a whole , critics of adversary politics point out that a short-term concern for vote maximisation at the next general election is never far from the government 's mind and this conditions the way in which it manages the economy and makes economic policy . |
| 12 | The United States space shuttle Discovery landed safely on Oct. 10 after a flawless four-day mission during which it launched the Ulysses space craft , a joint project of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) and the European Space Agency ( ESA ) , on a US$750,000,000 five-year mission to investigate the Sun 's unexplored polar regions , its magnetic field and the solar wind . |
| 13 | A different form of control liability will , however , apply if the dominant undertaking — whether or not a shareholder — has formalised its relationship with the public company concerned by a control contract which provides for it to manage the company and in which it offers the minority shareholders a buy-out or , at the shareholders ' option , to pay them an annual protected dividend . |
| 14 | It was conceded that the advantages within a college are clear ( Williams 1987:490 ) : The increased awareness of the college environment which it offers the manager permits more forceful and effective action on his or her part … |
| 15 | The people choose the government and the government carries out the policies on which it fought the election and controls the Commons and civil service . |
| 16 | In practice this was done by a compromise , the thin skin being stiffened by attaching to it spars and stringers , with which it shared the load , the whole rather elaborate surface forming a shell stiff in bending and therefore unlikely to buckle . |
| 17 | For our purposes , however , no harm will be done if we distinguish two uses of ‘ I believe that … ’ . one in which it expresses the tentative belief that what is specified by the following wording is so , the other in which it expresses the belief or awareness that the speaker has the belief . |
| 18 | The way in which a municipality legislates and the way in which it administers the legislation it enacts and conducts itself in relation to activities which it lawfully undertakes can not but create a municipal reputation , be it good , bad or indifferent . |
| 19 | The proper modernist artefact is always held to be aesthetically pleasing precisely to the degree to which it exemplifies the adage that form follows function ( Benton and Benton 1975 ) . |
| 20 | Gears are fitted to the standard 57 h.p. motor , through which it drives the axle . |
| 21 | The HIGH STREET runs from George IV Bridge to John Knox 's House , beyond which it becomes the CANONGATE , part of the medieval burgh which grew up around Holyrood . |
| 22 | Each returns carrying a crop full of water with which it wets the walls of the main part of the nest . |
| 23 | It is one of the ‘ true ’ whales in that its mouth is furnished with plates of baleen ( whalebone ) through which it filters the water from the shoaling small fish on which it feeds . |
| 24 | In the process the West may have sold itself a weapons portfolio which it lacks the means to produce in quantity . |
| 25 | Near Marston Doles the route turned south , past Priors Hardwick , Upper and Lower Boddington to Aston-le-Wall , near which it crosses the Banbury-Daventry road . |
| 26 | In extreme circumstances a minority , and especially a national minority , finding itself in such a position may simply decide to secede and create a society and state in which it forms the majority . |
| 27 | The rate at which its expectations have been rising strongly suggests that by the end of the year , the figure will be even higher than 40,000 , which is already 12% of the 344,000 with which it started the year . |
| 28 | The Meien valley road climbs up west from Wassen through varied alpine landscape including tunnels , through one of which it traverses the Susten pass summit ( 2,224m , 7,295ft ) . |
| 29 | Altogether the Grand Trunk Canal had five tunnels and seventy-six locks on its ninetythree mile course from the Mersey to Shardlow , near which it entered the Trent . |
| 30 | Thus , for instance , the implied term that goods supplied under a contract of sale should be fit for the buyer 's purpose ( SGA 1979 , s14(3) ) only applies if the buyer makes known to the seller the purpose for which it wants the goods , relies on the seller 's skill or judgment , and does so reasonably . |