Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It once owned 1,000 acres in what was then Ceylon , where it created plantations to process palm oil ( at that time the main raw material in candles ) , and it built an entire village , Bromborough Pool on Merseyside , for employees . |
| 2 | It should also be recognised that while this chapter has stressed the view of language as a process , it is nevertheless the case that , at some point , children do reach a level of mastery where it makes sense to describe them as having acquired knowledge of an abstract set of rules which can be used to express meanings . |
| 3 | The amendment requires the court to give reasons if it does not make a compensation order in circumstances where it has power to do so . |
| 4 | In this regard reference may ‘ within the programmes of study teachers will be free to determine the detail of what should be taught ’ , although it urged teachers to prepare schemes of work to ensure consistency within a school . |
| 5 | This directory , although it includes clearinghouses established outside the USA , highlights the problem of the large number of state and specialist clearinghouses in the USA and the possible need for some co-ordination and co-operation between them . |
| 6 | Although it has plans to start a new record label in 1993 , its current activities include television services and amusement machines . |
| 7 | The firm has no firm plans to adopt SunSelect 's Windows-on-Unix Wabi system — although it has rights to licence — saying the technology still lacks support for MS-DOS and drivers . |
| 8 | This is one hypothesis by which coal miners may have an increased risk of developing gastric cancer , although it has ben noted recently that not all carcinogens are mutagens . |
| 9 | I thought for two days that the machine had swallowed it and it was only on the monday morning on the way to the bank that I found that it had miraculousloy reappeared in my wallet again . |
| 10 | But London Ambulance Service categorically denied that it had plans to cut off phone lines , saying that it had only authorised one disconnection at Park Royal Ambulance Station , West London , because crews had locked themselves in . |
| 11 | In the United States the Supreme Court , in Marbury v Madison ( 1803 ) 1 Cranch 137 , declared that it had power to decide whether or not the Acts of Congress conformed with the Constitution . |
| 12 | The majority of the Court of Appeal held that it had jurisdiction to quash the judge 's order . |
| 13 | The Divisional Court held that it had jurisdiction to review the visitor 's decision and that the visitor 's decision was wrong in law . |
| 14 | The United States attempt to modify its own declaration in April 1984 was an implicit acknowledgment that it believed Nicaragua to have a valid declaration . |
| 15 | The Kabul government said this week that it believed Pakistan intended to supply the guerrillas with chemical weapons for use in the Jalalabad battle . |
| 16 | Over forty years ago , Sutherland 's ( 1940 , 1945 , 1949 ) contribution to our knowledge and understanding of corporate crime was so significant that it led Mannheim to comment that if there were a Nobel Prize for Criminology , ‘ Sutherland would have been one of the most deserving ’ ( 1965 : 470 ) . |
| 17 | Steve laughed so unnaturally that it caused Ruth to widen her eyes at him with surprise . |
| 18 | The danger with this was that it caused believers to look to their own faith rather than to Christ alone for the assurance of their salvation . |
| 19 | In a statement issued on March 28 the Mongolian Foreign Ministry announced that it expected Russia to abide by a March 1990 Soviet-Mongolian agreement which stipulated that all Soviet troops would withdraw from Mongolia by Aug. 30 , 1992 [ see p. 37318 ] . |
| 20 | China was so remote from Europe that when silk first became available for the wealthier classes in Imperial Rome no one knew where it came from , but the fact that it reached Rome shows that these two civilizations were not totally devoid of contact with each other . |
| 21 | The problem with the former , i.e. the standard on depreciation , is that it requires organizations to provide for depreciation of fixed assets having a finite useful life . |
| 22 | The point of the idiom of companionship is that it allows individuals to form and to dissolve ties with one another with greater ease and frequency than would the idiom of shared substance . |
| 23 | Similarly , Marshall Sahlins 's work on the Hawaiian islanders in his Islands of History , though far more acutely aware of contending multiple narratives trying to ascribe different significances to the same happenings , is also organised so that it allows Sahlins to present a narrative wherein conflicting stories/histories are mapped out in a framework which explores these histories ' interpenetrations , their assimilations of each other rather than their refusals of each other . |
| 24 | One advantage of this approach is that it allows time to test the technologies that build the confidence on which sensible arms control rests . |
| 25 | ‘ The benefit of massage is that it allows patients to talk to someone on a one to one basis . |
| 26 | ‘ The benefit of massage is that it allows patients to talk to someone on a one to one basis . |
| 27 | It may be that the mischief to which Lord Wilberforce was alluding toward , namely that it allows buyers to avoid an improvident bargain , would in any case be solved if the Law Commission Proposals on Sale and Supply of Goods No 160 ( 1987 ) had been implemented by the Consumer Guarantees Bill 1990 . |
| 28 | Regretfully she decided not to wash her hair ; it was so thick that it took ages to dry and she was sure his patience would n't last that long ; also she had to get to work . |
| 29 | In just the few seconds that it took Roebuck to de-rail Shelford , a whole new Marty Roebuck fan club was born . |
| 30 | He seemed familiar , so familiar indeed that it took time to sink in . |