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

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1 The House refused demands it stripped Muawad of his parliamentary immunity .
2 In addition , it is seeking to bring the credit periods it offers wholesalers into line , at 60 days .
3 In its early days it attracted support from a wide range of anti-Francoist groups , including Catholic workers ' organizations , but subsequently it came increasingly under the control of the communist party .
4 There 's a walled cemetery on one side and well in those days it had railings round the cemetery on the other side .
5 However , their analysis goes beyond encouraging us to ’ vote with our feet ’ , to a condemnation of consumerism itself : Both for the environmental destruction it causes and the damaging messages it sends women through ads that constantly tell us we 're ’ not being discreet enough ’ .
6 Card Creator is a run of the mill greeting card maker , but other than the normal borders , clip art and messages it allows use of freehand drawing and writing to personalise the cards .
7 In the mid-1980s it became part of the electricians ' union the EEPTU .
8 For nearly 300 years it achieved notoriety for its private madhouses .
9 The Committee for Education gave special attention to the question of college libraries and set up a working party in 1974 to advise on provision in colleges proposing to diversify their courses , and over the next three years it offered guidance on ways of assessing the quality of provision , emphasized the importance of the standing of the head of the library service or resource centre , of consultation with the library in course development , and of initiating students into making effective use of the library and learning resources .
10 Hewlett told Electronic News that it had n't seen any fall-off of interest in the HP9000 Series 1200 machines it buys OEM from Sequoia , but if it did , it could ‘ take over what it needed , whether that 's technology rights or manufacturing rights or whatever . ’
11 Anyways it kept sort of almost conventional and now it 's essentially A four .
12 The reason the trade union movement should support the Maastricht Treaty is it 's the only Treaty that is on offer , there 's nothing else on offer but it 's a reasonable Treaty , it has differences in the U K and the reasons it has differences in the U K is the one Mr Major came back last December tell us what a wonderful opportunity it was for Britain , what a wonderful success it was for Britain that he 'd opted out of the Social Chapter .
13 As the stepping rate is increased the pull-out torque gradually reduces , until in some cases it reaches zero at a finite speed , the value M shown in Fig. 5.8 .
14 In severe cases it gives rise to the condition known as spina bifida .
15 It 's an allergic condition , usually pretty harmless , but in a very few cases it causes oedema of the larynx — that 's what we 've got here . "
16 East and South restores the balance of exhibitions in terms of gender , the type of work it displays , the cities it takes place in and the opportunities it offers to artists .
17 Fear is an ugly four-letter word yet , at times it takes hold of all of us .
18 The disturbances it creates bounce off objects , which are then sensed by the water waves they reflect .
19 Although in adults it exhibits flu like symptoms , it can be disastrous if passed on to a baby .
20 For others it costs £18 for six days .
21 To others it brings relief from the merciless summer heat .
22 In literate society , these interlocking conversations go on ; but they are no longer man 's only dialogue ; and in so far as writing provides an alternative source for the transmission of cultural orientations it favours awareness of inconsistency .
23 The one unambiguous method of obtaining such cells it to disaggregate embryos to single cells and observe the cultures at a defined time interval as discussed in Section 3 .
24 Last year Astra revealed the results of a two-year study it had conducted on ranitidine ; at high doses it promoted cancers in the stomach .
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