Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In retrospect it is hard to judge the extent to which the success of this policy ( and , for all the worries it caused at the time , it was a success by comparison with the economy management disasters of the 1960s and 1970s ) was due to good management , and the extent to which it was due to external and internal economic factors outside government control , in particular to the postwar recovery and the stimulus provided by the continuing military activity of the ‘ cold war ’ . |
| 2 | For the next twenty-six years it languished at the back of Bispham Depot , until driven under its own power to the Works in February 1960 for renovation . |
| 3 | The profits of a manufacturing company are achieved by selling the goods it makes at a price in excess of its costs . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , the JMP-1 has no input on the back and so in some ways it falls at the final fence , because I ca n't really see how you can set it up to work in a neat and user-friendly rack ; you 'd have to wire the thing up every time you gigged it . |
| 5 | For a continuously varying trait ( let us use human size as an example ) , the value of the trait in an individual is probably determined by what genes it has at a large number of genetic loci , together with the effect of the environment . |
| 6 | And they then say well right , cos every time an accountant does your books at the front of your , the actual like er the booklet what you get on your accounts it says at the front something like these accounts have erm have been audited but only erm we have taken the word of Mr that what he said is right . |
| 7 | Sometimes , Spiller explained , the grating slid easily , at other times it stuck at an angle . |
| 8 | It also calls on the government to act on the relevant commitments it made at the UNCED summit [ see ED 59/60 ] , and on the major supermarket chains to provide information on the biodiversity of the foods they stock . |
| 9 | Its own frequency plan , which it issued last year , seeks chunks of the spectrum 2.8 M Hz wide , instead of the 2.2 MHz sections it uses at the moment . |
| 10 | And if a developer could not immediately secure rent from premises it builds at the dock , the Private Finance Initiative would provide it in the short-term , until the property market improves . |