Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Community law is applied through the courts of the Member States , where it takes precedence over any national law ; Martin Howe again : |
| 2 | In addition to rule-making , thereby reducing the degree of uncertainty confronting workers and management , it can also be a vehicle for resolving disputes , a power relationship and , where it takes place at enterprise or plant level , it may be regarded as a form of participation for workers or their representatives ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 3 | Legally registered only since late February , Rukh also performed well in the west of the republic ( a nationalist heartland ) , where it took control of the Lvov city soviet . |
| 4 | The company , which makes high barrier flexible packaging for the food industry , moved machinery , materials and all its support equipment from Courtaulds ' Bridgwater site , where it began life in the mid-1980s , ten miles down the motorway to a purpose-built new unit . |
| 5 | The river is placid here , where it becomes patient in its long run to the sea and decides to slow and look at the land it passes through . |
| 6 | Windows has a number of files where it stores information about how it has been configured . |
| 7 | It occurs in localized zones where these properties are functionally important , for example near the wing articulation of many insects and in the metathorax of fleas , where it forms part of the jumping mechanism ( p. 945 ) . |
| 8 | In relation to Bourdieu 's concept of habitus , the artefact was noted as playing a pivotal role in social reproduction , where it forms part of a reconciliation of objectivist accounts exposing the mechanisms which create the subject in history with an interpretation of the social subject 's role as active agent in the formulation of historical strategy . |
| 9 | One gets this sense of the safety net in relation to various different types of assistance : money , child care , accommodation , even personal care , where it runs counter to the notion that the most natural first line of support for elderly and dependent people is their families . |
| 10 | Ackroyd pastiches Dickens in form rather than style — which is to say that this book is very long , Dickensianly long ( the main text signs off at page 1084 , where it gives way to a fat coda of source notes , bibliography and index ) . |
| 11 | For all of them the lungs push air through a narrow opening where it causes friction of various kinds . |
| 12 | When used with the bare infinitive , it denotes a direct experiencing of , and so contemporaneity in time with , an occurrence and can often be replaced by see — although it denotes perception in a more abstract way than the latter — or by have in its experiential sense : ( 93 ) Rather surprised to find them break fence at this season . |
| 13 | The vector graphics are well-executed , although it takes time for your eyes to adjust to what 's going on . |
| 14 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 15 | " Conspiracy to injure " is another civil wrong which can be invoked against media falsehoods although it requires proof of an agreement where the sole or dominant purpose is to injure the plaintiff . |
| 16 | But although it brought victory to the Black Prince , the battle of Nájera was to be the cause of the renewal of the war which had been halted in 1360 . |
| 17 | In network management software , it positions NCR 's StarSentry as a ‘ clear leader ’ over HP OpenView , although it praises OpenView for its superior security features , and SunNet Manager for its ‘ excellent foundation which third parties have built on . ’ |
| 18 | Guy's/St Thomas 's Hospital could become the second major centre , although it faces competition from the Royal Brompton/Chelsea and Westminster for the provision of paediatric cardiac services , and from St George 's linked to the Royal Marsden ( Sutton ) for cancer services . |
| 19 | The sub-discipline , if such it is , can be regarded as an aspect of stratigraphy , although it makes use of geochemical and geophysical techniques . |
| 20 | Although it stood cheek by jowl with the factory , it was a place apart , a business apart , and an interest apart . |
| 21 | This was one of the largest silk mills in the vicinity , although it started life as a corn mill . |
| 22 | In the north , at Corbridge , a large building with a veranda and an ornamental fountain has been claimed as a mansio , although it started life as a winged-corridor house probably during the third century . |
| 23 | Amnesty said that it had evidence of children being detained , either on suspicion of illegal political activities , or with their fathers , some of whom were serving heavy sentences for their alleged involvement in the attempted coup of 1981 [ see pp. 31353-54 ; 31563 ] . |
| 24 | To the extent that the purchaser is willing to accept this reduction of the absolute nature of warranties , it should be on the basis the vendor acknowledges that in all circumstances it has made full and proper enquiries and investigations ( see clause 13.6 of the standard sale agreement — Appendix III ) ; ( i ) to provide that the vendor shall not be liable if the purchaser completed the sale at the full purchase price despite the fact that it had knowledge of a particular breach of warranty . |
| 25 | The plane was loaded down so much that it had difficulty in skimming the tops of those large mountains , but I was not troubled , thinking that the pilot was a well-trained American , until after an hour of this mountain hopping a small Chinese face appeared at the cockpit door and said , ‘ Is you all all-lite ? ’ |
| 26 | The shareholders of the holding company entered into a shareholders ' agreement which stated that it had precedence over the Articles of Association , and clause 3 of that agreement provided that " no further share capital shall be created or issued in the company … without the written consent of each of the parties hereto " . |
| 27 | She did not add that it had blood on it , although she knew that too , having just read the forensic report . |
| 28 | In a later phase in the same litigation , the Court of Appeal held that it had jurisdiction in appropriate cases to order the transfer of assets subject to a Mareva injunction from one foreign country to another , enforcement considerations being especially relevant . |
| 29 | The only difference was that it said Phd at the end of it |
| 30 | As was noted earlier , proponents of specialization claim , among other things , that it permits a greater development of knowledge and/or skills , and that it facilitates liaison with other agencies through increased awareness of how other disciplines work . |