Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group has pinpointed 150 locations around the UK where it plans to open stores , particularly in Scotland , where it only recently opened its first store . |
| 2 | But so far , the feminist psychology of androgyny has only dealt with the power of discourses of gender in its self-criticisms , not in its investigations , where it continues to address femininity and masculinity on equal terms . |
| 3 | It moved three quarters of a mile downwind where it managed to hold station under its own power . |
| 4 | Where it had covered Forster 's face , his neck , chin , mouth , nose and one cheek , the skin and lips had gone , as if etched away by acid . |
| 5 | By the middle of the year the ALP was also in control of every state government except New South Wales , where it had lost power in 1988 . |
| 6 | The Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) won Lower Saxony from the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) , which had held it since the mid-1970s ( in coalition with the Free Democrats since the last state election in 1986 — see pp. 34503-04 ) ; the SPD also retained its absolute majority in North Rhine-Westphalia ( with 11,000,000 voters Germany 's most populous state ) , where it had held control for 24 years . |
| 7 | The price of software in Moscow has remained stable so far , despite the sharp drop in the dollar-rouble exchange rate last month : market researcher Soft Market polled 20 software dealers in Moscow and found that prices are steady in spite of the currency fluctuation and Borland International Inc 's use of a US dollar benchmark for its rouble products sold in the former Soviet Union — where it had set rouble prices according to local conditions , it now takes a dollar price and converts it into roubles at the market rate . |
| 8 | Where it does develop theories , it tends to found them on a specifically female individual consciousness , assuming that , if we learn to think and feel gynocentrically , we can overcome patriarchy . |
| 9 | The Law Commission has now proposed the abolition of the marital-rape exemption , bringing English law into accord with the many other jurisdictions where it does constitute rape for a husband to have non-consensual sexual intercourse with his wife . |
| 10 | This type of so-called magic realism assumes major importance in the fiction of Asturias , Carpentier and Arguedas , where it serves to give expression to the magical-religious thought and mythical world-view of the Indian and Negro peoples of Latin America . |
| 11 | The company denied huge redundancies at its Edinburgh plant although it admitted ax-ing Sunday and overtime working , banning non-essential recruitment and introducing voluntary early retirement . |
| 12 | Owen believes , for example , that lepidopteran populations fluctuate so widely due to entirely natural causes that the use of pesticides had little effect on them — although it does affect ground predators . |
| 13 | Germany 's noblest grape the Riesling , called the Rhine Riesling in Australia , is the most widely planted classic variety in Australia , although it does have difficulty in finding a niche in our market . |
| 14 | In fact , the employers ' central confederation ( BDA ) does not engage in collective bargaining and , although it does provide information and guidance to its affiliates via its collective bargaining coordination committee , its pronouncements on wages take the form of non-binding recommendations . |
| 15 | It is the first time the industry has been able to purchase cover for long-term environmental damage although it does buy insurance against sudden pollution incidents or claims from disasters such as explosions . |
| 16 | This is followed by an extensive section on the optimisation of column variables , although it does lack details of the increasingly useful column temperature control technique . |
| 17 | Although it sought to make schools accessible , it also held that attendance at them should be voluntary , that pupils should pay for the instruction they received , that public education should be developed gradually rather than immediately , and that , although schools would still be run by different agencies , societies and private individuals , they should teach the same things and be managed identically . |
| 18 | Although it had followed Cusick 's design , the model was not judged to look busy enough . |
| 19 | Chris Webb reported a quiet year for the planning committee , with only 78 applications , most of them for extensions , alterations and change of use , although it had included plans for low cost housing . |
| 20 | Debt rescheduling agreements [ see pp. 37393 ; 37729 ] had reduced some of the pressure on the government , which , although it had committed forces on the allied side in the current Gulf war , identified with popular support for Iraq [ see p. 37940 ] . |
| 21 | Although it had held power in several of Canada 's western provinces , however , the Ontario result marked the first occasion upon which the party had won a provincial election east of Manitoba . |
| 22 | Hence Juice was probably not as big a box-office success as it might have been , although it did make money . |
| 23 | Although it has kept NATO 's military command at arm 's length all these years , France does not want to see the Americans , still the basis of Europe 's security and stability , pull out completely . |
| 24 | The borough welcomes the presence of the unified command , although it has caused consternation in parts of Wales and the north-west . |
| 25 | In total , the group has spent £5.1m on acquisitions over the past six months , although it has retained £3m net cash . |
| 26 | Tragically this forecast has come true — although it has taken managers 18 months to realise it . |
| 27 | Separate from curriculum and assessment , a third element in the 1988 Act , although it affects teaching staff only indirectly , still has the potential to affect the whole future of a school . |
| 28 | The Bolivian Workers ' Centre ( COB ) , the main union confederation , contacted the Spanish news agency EFE on March 9 to report that it had received communiqués from the Bolivarián Military Movement ( MMB ) , a dissident grouping within the military , which claimed that " discontented " elements within the army were willing to follow the example of fellow officers in Venezuela [ for Venezuela coup attempt see pp. 38759-60 ] to stem corruption in the government and the higher echelons of the armed forces . |
| 29 | Amnesty said that the torture of those detained by the army and police was a daily routine , and that it had received reports of more than 200 cases of torture over the past two years , but believed the true figure to be much higher . |
| 30 | On 15th July the company announced that it had received elections accepting the Enhanced Scrip Dividend Alternative from the holders of 177,631,159 ordinary shares in Johnson Matthey . |