Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second technique is deconcentration — although functions may be departmentalised in a single central government department , it may nevertheless be desirable for administration to be dispersed from the geographical centre and into the regions and localities where it takes actual effect ‘ on the ground ’ . |
| 2 | This revised proposal was reflected in E 38 , Inventories , where it attracted considerable comment , with a sizeable minority , not surprisingly , arguing for the retention of LIFO . |
| 3 | The nutty edge is carried through into the flavour , where it meets pleasant hints of green apples and greengages . |
| 4 | This religious dimension is conserved as a sub text in many political ideologies , where it furnishes particular articles of faith in the self-emancipation of ethnic minorities , or in their special role as makers of their own history . |
| 5 | Where it employs professional musicians full- or part-time it should ensure that their salaries take account of their training and qualifications as well as of the time and contribution which they are expected to give to the worship . |
| 6 | Together they plot to undermine and ruin their errant spouses by hitting them where it hurts corporate types the hardest : their egos and bank balances . |
| 7 | Extensive shallow lakes or lagoons of salt or soda water , where it builds conical heaps of mud on which to lay its eggs . |
| 8 | Potential targets for arachidonic acid include not only the presynaptic terminal , where it may act to increase L-glutamate release , but also glial cells where it depresses L-glutamate uptake and the postsynaptic cell , where , for example , it can potentiate NMDA receptor-mediated currents . |
| 9 | Wheat was favoured , not merely because of its immediate importance as a basic food , but because it demanded least capital and least care , even where it meant wretched cultivations : only one-tenth of the cereal secano was farmed in regular rotations of wheat and legumes ; a quarter was cultivated only once every six or ten years . |
| 10 | Firstly , harmonisation of national policies , especially in areas where it offers obvious advantages , e.g. labour mobility . |
| 11 | And he told reporters before the meeting : ‘ I support the IRA 's right to engage in armed struggle — where it wages armed engagements is a matter for itself . ’ |
| 12 | The ribbon could be fed into a casting machine in another part of the building , where it cast single characters , producing a quality of type much better suited to bookwork than was a Linotype slug . |
| 13 | It has been pointed out that " unreasonableness " has been used in two ways in this area : ( a ) in an " umbrella " sense where it has been used as a synonym for abuse of power covering the various aspects of abuse of power already mentioned ; ( b ) in a substantive sense where it means manifest unreasonableness , a decision or exercise of power that is so unreasonable that no reasonable man would agree with it . |
| 14 | After commissioning a script from Buckaroo Banzai 's Earl McGroush and scouting locations , they quietly returned to their previous existence as bellhops , allowing Neuromancer to return to Gibson 's agent , where it attracts continual interest , notably from Robin Williams and a desperate Bruce Willis . |
| 15 | The natural habitat is the coastal waters of West Africa between the Rivers Senegal and Congo , where it makes occasional excursions into freshwater . |
| 16 | The company is contracted to look after engines at two big RAF bases , where it provides unscheduled attention beyond the scope of routine maintenance . |
| 17 | When the main ( COM or EXE ) file reaches a stage where it needs additional instructions from a subsidiary file , it calls up that file and runs through those instructions to complete the task . |
| 18 | Chloroguanide was not itself a pyrimidine , but it was sufficiently close for it to be tested in L. casei , where it showed interesting effects , resembling some of Hitchings ' compounds . |
| 19 | Above all , he seems to see only good in science , and ignores the dark side , where it has direct connections with exploitation , tyranny , and war . |
| 20 | Most important is GlavPU , the Chief Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Navy , at one and the same time an organ of the Ministry of Defence and of the Central Committee , where it has departmental status . |
| 21 | It has some effects , not obviously related , on coughing ( for which it is a useful suppressant ) and on the bowels ( where it causes inconvenient constipation ) . |
| 22 | An example is the idea that multiplying a number always makes it bigger — an idea correctly acquired from experience with whole numbers , but commonly carried over into work with decimal or fractional numbers less than one , where it causes widespread error . |
| 23 | The main feature of the bureaucratic-technical class is that although it lacks effective control over the means of production its members do have control over the labour of others in their subordinate position in bureaucratic structures . |
| 24 | International Relocation Company , which specialises in home finding for expatriates , recommends giving at least two weeks ' notice for an appointment with a British day school although it says international schools may be viewed at short notice . |
| 25 | Although it achieved classic status , it did not become generally known until the late Victorian period , when Frances Hodgson Burnett [ q.v. ] , who had read the book as a child , retold part of it from memory in St Nicholas in 1887 , and the proper text was ‘ rediscovered ’ . |
| 26 | By 1911 , when Italy 's newly launched first Dreadnought battleship was significantly named the Dante Alighieri , it claimed 50,000 members ; but although it enjoyed considerable official support it had little influence on government policy . |
| 27 | The use of multivariate analysis ( common in igneous geochemistry ) has been little applied to modal compositions of sediments , although it offers considerable potential . |
| 28 | The new year would see a disintegration of the unanimity of the DCAC 's supporters ; the committee had grave doubts about the wisdom of the PD march from Belfast to Derry , although it arranged material support and a welcoming rally for the marchers . |
| 29 | This makes London the leading cross-border lending centre , although it faces intense competition from Japan . |
| 30 | Although it required official sanction to perform intersexing , Roirbak doubted whether Jahsaxa was careless enough not to have seen to that . |