Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] it " in BNC.

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1 But is Mr Kinnock wise , having trimmed — having trimmed to a wiser policy , but all the same egregiously trimmed — is he wise to insist that the British people respect Labour for the changes it has made ?
2 It is the most transparent of the fictions it espouses , and is as unrealistic as it is unfair .
3 It was also much more sophisticated than English in the words it used to describe kinship relationships .
4 Western institutional theorists have concerned themselves with the problem of ensuring that the exercise of governmental power , which is essential to the realization of the values of their societies , should be controlled in order that it should not itself be destructive of the values it was intended to promote .
5 It is rare , today , for a substantial Act of Parliament to be comprehensive of the matters it deals with .
6 Before anyone commenced the diet I asked them to seek approval from their G.P. There was no doubt from the comments I received that their doctors were delighted with the format of the diet and were equally delighted with the results it achieved .
7 Competence becomes manifest at that age ; and it is essential to search for its precursors to test whether current techniques are too blunt to detect ‘ latent competence ’ , current models too imprecise to point research optimally in that direction , and current theory too stark in the distinctions it draws to serve the interests of process models .
8 A further example is when an organisation which has been trading for many decades finds itself increasingly out of touch with the market and the organisation 's internal culture and style is no longer appropriate to the markets it is trying to address .
9 ‘ The catering industry is unique in the challenges it offers young people and every effort must be made to ensure that it plays a central role in careers advice , ’ he said .
10 3.1 Scope : activities restrained In order to demonstrate that a particular provision is reasonable between the parties it is necessary to demonstrate that the scope of those activities is reasonably referable to a legitimate interest , although it is not necessary to have absolute consistency between the restraint and the relevant interest .
11 By 1980 , the memory research community was reasonably sure about the things it did n't believe in .
12 Persistence can occur if a virus escapes the full force of the defence mechanisms ( for example if the patient 's immune system is suppressed for any reason ) , or if the virus is not particularly lethal to the cells it infects .
13 They would see that it has inherited the cruel and violent tendencies inherent in the origins it shares with Judaism .
14 With a relatively tiny home market , Ericsson is always short of the resources it needs to stay at the leading edge of its chosen industry , where the cost of major development projects is measured in hundreds of millions of dollars , and although it has developed its own TMOS Telecommunications Management and Operations Support software suite — which runs under Unix — it needs the muscle of a company like Hewlett-Packard to exploit the product .
15 With Word 's facility , you 're stuck with the fonts it supplies .
16 The reality of such disability is evident in the limitations it imposes on aspects of everyday life .
17 By the time of his first visit in 1779 , there had been a county gaol in the town for over two centuries but although the building he visited was only thirty-three years old he was very critical of the facilities it provided .
18 Unlike Pete he smelled nice — Sally thought it was Old Spice — and when he pressed his hips against hers she was excited by the sensations it aroused , not revolted as she had been with the Teddy Boy at the youth club dance .
19 And though the Tory woman 's hat is a high art form now decayed and lost , as is that of the elegant crossing of Tory wives ' legs on a platform far above , and though the party has become more catholic in the women it attracts , there is a still a discernible type of Tory woman .
20 The tribunal also ruled that a 1982 McBride article in the Australian Journal of Biological Sciences was false and misleading in the details it gave about rabbits used in an experiment with another drug .
21 Being close to the offices it serves , there is no fryer thus avoiding cooking smells , which in turn means a natural emphasis on healthy eating .
22 However , the tribunal rejected the employer 's reasoning , holding that if such reason were to be valid after the appeals it would have had even greater validity before .
23 Having talked sensibly to Anna about her chosen course of study , I am certain she is aware of the demands it will make on her .
24 She was awakened in the mornings by cocks crowing , and it was so quiet in the evenings it seemed everyone must go to bed before dark .
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