Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pulled the coat off him and flung it onto the hawthorn bushes where it rested upside down , spilling the contents of the torn pockets . |
| 2 | The long-term judgment is based on Goldman 's view of Sun 's business as 80% to 85% client side where it thinks Windows , especially NT , will dominate in client/server systems , even where high-performance client products are needed . |
| 3 | Both Salomon Brothers Inc and more importantly Goldman Sachs & Co have moved Sun Microsystems Inc shares off their recommended buy lists : basically Goldman thinks Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and Intel Corp 's Pentium are going to be more than Sun can handle , hurting its ability to improve earnings on a sustained basis over the next year or so and impeding its gains in market share ; Goldman believes Sun 's financial model may need to change more quickly than the company can realise ; the long-term judgment is based on Goldman 's view of Sun 's business as 80% to 85% client side where it thinks Windows , especially NT , will dominate in client-server systems , even where high-performance client products are needed . |
| 4 | The CNAA 's procedures , its concern with the total academic environment in which its courses were offered , had led it — at a time when its relationships with the institutions were under intensive discussion — to a position in which it could directly influence the management and operation of an institution where it perceived weaknesses , as well as the institution 's own relationships with governors and the local authority . |
| 5 | State on your tax return income from which tax has not been deducted at source and will therefore be assessed for tax by the Inland Revenue if it forms part of a more substantial income : |
| 6 | In a statement on July 15 Shamir 's office said that Israel would take a " positive view " of Assad 's reply if it enabled Israel to conduct " direct and unmediated negotiations with Syria " . |
| 7 | He writes : ‘ It may be that when we ‘ invent ’ the past , especially the lived past , we serve our self esteem by creating an idealized image of our experience , holding it in our heads until it yields measures of virtue' . |
| 8 | In the great store wars to get customers in , supermarkets invented the ‘ loss leader ’ — lines such as bread on which they were prepared to make a small loss if it lured people in . |
| 9 | LABOUR delegates were warned yesterday that the party would lack electoral credibilty if it promised increases in public spending which could only be met by higher borrowing or taxes . |
| 10 | For example if a person who has £3,000 capital receives a monthly pension of £200 paid into their bank account , this should not be assessed as an increase in savings unless it remains unspent at the time the next payment is due . |
| 11 | On the most trivial of levels it could be claimed that Version 3.0 had caught up with Ventura because it supported stylesheets and graphics wraparound . |
| 12 | Growth is obviously preferred by people in organizations because it reduces conflict to manageable proportions ( Pfeffer 1981 ) . |
| 13 | The authors argue that newborn screening for Duchenne muscular dystrophy decreases emotional distress because it avoids delays in diagnosing the disease , and without newborn screening two or more boys could be born with Duchenne muscular dystrophy before parents realised that they were at risk of having an affected child . |
| 14 | The practice of providing secondments to education and business is unique in education business liaison because it requires participants to transcend the barriers of classroom or workplace to break out of their normal work pattern behaviour and to learn by direct experience from others ' work settings . |
| 15 | He hated the word department because it suggested bureaucracy . |
| 16 | Saying ‘ this ’ or ‘ they ’ ‘ red ’ is better practice because it entails use of pronouns which ‘ symbolise what concrete objects belong to the category ’ . |
| 17 | It is a necessary step if IBM is to remain competitive in networked environments because it enables data to move at the same speed between the CPU and peripherals as it moves over Ethernet . |
| 18 | The atomic theory thus came by the 1860s to have two functions : it might be a fundamental theory of matter , about which it was appropriate to argue in a very general way ; or it might be a teaching aid , helpful to students who learned it as a dogma because it made sense of a great number of facts . |
| 19 | But the harsh fact is that the UN was able to operate effectively in liberating Kuwait because it suited US national interests to undertake this task ; and America and its allies clearly preferred to operate with the Security Council 's approval . |
| 20 | Nepotism is selfish behaviour having the appearance of altruism since it benefits relatives as well as ones own concerns . |
| 21 | National insurance was , as Lloyd George recognized , a most convenient device for a government short of revenue since it drew finance from workers and employers without the politically unpopular necessity to increase income tax . |
| 22 | Messrs Lyall and McGiven will soon realise that you can only get away with boring , negative football whilst it bring results — ask John Duncan . |
| 23 | SYLVESTER Stallone took a £1.2 million pay cut to save his latest movie after it went £15 million over budget . |
| 24 | After sex the man should withdraw his penis before it gets limp , as otherwise the rubber may come off . |
| 25 | Central principal John Dornan said details of the report were known to school management months before it became public — and a recent re-inspection is expected to show the school has made ‘ significant improvements ’ . |
| 26 | These show that it takes Dagenham nearly twice as long to produce a Sierra car as it does Ford 's Genk plant in Belgium . |
| 27 | Use of ‘ joint reward system ’ deserves special mention as it indicates management problems in implementation . |
| 28 | Even if it is n't true , James 's position was an excellent stimulus for research as it forced people who would adopt an alternative position to consider very carefully how else emotions might come about . |
| 29 | So it 's no good when it says Scotland it 's not a erm Yeah now what 's wrong with it ? |
| 30 | However , such a policy could not be seen in isolation as it had implications for practice more generally , including procedures and training . |