Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years university academic staff have enjoyed the unique position of having tenure for their working lives , the argument in support of this being that it protected academic staff from political pressure and avoided the possibility of someone being dismissed for expressing unpopular or unconventional views . |
| 2 | Conflict is personal in that it affects different people in different ways . |
| 3 | The particular benefits of this approach for this study were that it provided quantitative data on important treatment/intervention issues in a population where group-comparison studies alone would be inappropriate , because of the individual nature of each person 's challenging behaviour and the small number of potential subjects . |
| 4 | ‘ I had always thought that its grip on me was purely personal , ’ wrote Amanda , ‘ — I loved it simply because it was my home — but then I found that it caught other people in its web too . ’ |
| 5 | And it said medical staff unwilling to take part in operations should refer patients to colleagues who would . |
| 6 | A year later further serious violence occurred during the weekend of 10–12 April 1981 in the Brixton area of south London ; this resulted in many injuries and widespread damage , and it attracted enormous media attention . |
| 7 | ‘ Laughing when you should be crying ca n't be helped but it sends other people the wrong signals , so they may be shocked . ’ |
| 8 | This was always an unofficial research body , but it employed full-time staff , was housed at Central Office , and used the full machinery of party publicity to make itself known . |
| 9 | But it predicts massive sales and energy savings only if heat pumps penetrate the space-heating market . |
| 10 | Trapping data into files in this way can be extremely useful because it changes ephemeral data into a permanent list . |
| 11 | Such ‘ integrated development ’ is vital for any long term protection of elephants , and other wildlife , because it gives local people a stake in conservation . |
| 12 | John has always said that prejudice is hard to combat because it means changing people 's inner feelings , ‘ their hearts and minds ’ . |
| 13 | Your attitude is important because it shows other people how you feel . |
| 14 | Shall we just say that a checkerboard solution is unjust by definition because it treats different people differently for no good reason , and justice requires treating like cases alike ? |
| 15 | There 's an important element in this crisis and , in a sense , the government 's reaction , belated as it is , shows a recognition that the crisis , as it affects gay people , can only be stopped or delayed , deferred or whatever through involvement with the gay community — and that 's an odd recognition in this climate . |