Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , it the Insured considered the risk to the camera but decided that it would be safer in a locked car than taking it to where he was going he could demonstrate that precautions were taken even if they subsequently proved inadequate and the car was broken into and the camera stolen . |
| 2 | Where it is not supported , the reason is often , as suggested by Rundquist ( 1980 , 1983 ) , because the spending patterns are already set by the geography of demands ( one would not expect large spending on subsidies for cotton farmers in New Hampshire , for example ) and the goal of the pork barrellers is rather to get plenty of money for the programme than to direct it to certain areas rather than others . |
| 3 | This is a technique developed by Lotus for making these modular features available while at the same time allowing you to see the document page — so you can edit a drawing while viewing it in context . |
| 4 | It 's a throw-in to David of Blackburn , down the right hand side , that one 's headed on by Stewart , the clearance from , is picked up by David who nipped in there ahead of and now here 's once more down the inside left channel , pushing it up towards the edge of the penalty area where holds it up well , they 're working well at the moment down that left hand side as gets it across , a snatched header comes in and it 's pushed behind by Chris for a corner kick , and we 're at the midway point of the second half , with Shrewsbury leading three two , Alan will describe it for you . |
| 5 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 March 1991 the defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the donee of the power of appointment , the defendant 's mother , Mrs. Mary Steed , did not know that she had been appointed attorney by the defendant and accordingly could not have known that she had any power to deal with his property when she executed the transfer of 4 September 1979 , and that in those circumstances the plea of non est factum ought to have succeeded on the judge 's finding that the donee was tricked into signing the transfer ; ( 2 ) the judge having rightly concluded that the transaction as affected was not a sale , save possibly at such a gross undervalue as to vitiate it as a sale , should therefore have held that the transfer was void and ineffective ; ( 3 ) the judge having rightly concluded that he retained a discretion to rectify the charges register against the registered holder , notwithstanding , as he found , that ( i ) the title of the mortgagors , Mr. and Mrs. Hammond , was merely voidable and not void , and ( ii ) that the registered holders of the charge were bona fide mortgagees for value without notice of the facts giving rise to voidability , then wrongly exercised his discretion to refuse to rectify since the considerations in favour of rectification could hardly have been stronger and his refusal to exercise his discretion was tantamount to denying the effective existence of such discretion , as if it was not exercised on the facts of this case it could never , or virtually never , be exercised at all ; and that , in the premises , the judge had erred in law in placing excessive reliance upon ( i ) and ( ii ) above to the exclusion of the other considerations which favoured rectification . |
| 6 | He seems to me to be swimming in dangerous waters here , but then Mr Evans-Pritchard probably knows that Rigoberta Menchu has better things to do with her prize money than spend it on litigation . |
| 7 | But for him to go self-employed will cost him more money than doing it on the bl black market . |
| 8 | He has grasped that it is more profitable to attack the Government for incompetence and negligence than to present it as a systematic and all-too-competent conspiracy against the people . |
| 9 | In 1956 , Break found a small net disincentive effect , with an extra 3% of the population claiming higher taxes to be a disincentive to further work than claimed it to be an incentive . |
| 10 | the sad news for golfers is that you 've a better chance of watching the sport than playing it at the Oxfordshire club … membership is being limited to 750 and the joining fee is twenty five thousand pounds … |
| 11 | Mr Papandreou paid lip service to the clean-up while condemning it as a political plot to end his career and destroy his party . |
| 12 | Here the dog will have the benefit of family companionship , but it is best to advise the person concerned not to let your pet off the leash when taking it for a walk outside . |
| 13 | ‘ He would not have been such a fool as to do it in front of witnesses . ’ |
| 14 | Just slipping and dropping a wing while loading it into the trailer will cause hundreds of pounds ' worth of damage , and although most gliders are insured , every accident eventually results in higher premiums and higher costs for gliding enthusiasts . |
| 15 | At the instant of applying the excess rudder , it speeds up the outer wing-tip , creating more lift there , and gives the inner wing ‘ sweep back ’ in relation to the airflow , thus increasing the tendency to tip stall on that wing while reducing it on the other . |
| 16 | Jarman does not so much wear his homosexuality on his sleeve as brandish it like a day-glo banner . |
| 17 | More the kind of face-lift marketing men give an old product when launching it with a new package , less a shift of political culture and strategy rooted in the configurations of modern social change . |
| 18 | It 's faster to read data from the cache than to load it from the hard disk . |
| 19 | I would rather lose my self than share it with Syl . |
| 20 | By making sure the pigment or glaze was transparent , I could gauge the build-up of colour while mixing it in the palette . |
| 21 | Transpower , Mizuno 's unique energy conversion compound absorbs initial impact shock whilst converting it into positive forward movement . |
| 22 | These birds would later peck a dry bead when offered it on test and therefore serve as controls for the methylanthranilate-trained group , for they had not learned to avoid the bead . |
| 23 | If the military do n't use the area often , they can not cause as much distress to the natural environment as opening it to the public would . |
| 24 | There was no easier way of embarrassing another Arab state than to charge it with betrayal of the Palestinian cause . |
| 25 | This call the lesser chamber because to distinguish it from the greater chamber . |
| 26 | Yet others may deplore British nationalism while taking it for granted that there is some homogeneous group called the British , thus conceding the basic premise for a British nationalism . |
| 27 | you see Sister makes all these arrangements , it 's she who does so many of the arrangements , she has made the arrangements about there being no coffee , several people have come to me and said I do n't know why you 've got to stop coffee because we can always go over and have lunch anyway , you know , er after the coffee , but Jean came to me she said look I 'm giving you this , and she gave me three pounds , she said I would much rather that was put into this , there your charity thing than take it across the hall , she said my Margaret wo n't go over there any more , because they , they say , you know , put in for your lunch what it would cost |
| 28 | I 'll have to watch out with Robert and that lot because telling it to Mr , he 's worried , is it a story and all that lot . |
| 29 | In 1946 , Trinidad and Tobago held their first elections under universal suffrage and , for these politically and culturally fragmented islands , the ensuing decade would be of the utmost importance , for it would see the emergence of a political leader who , through the Peoples Nationalist Movement , would revolutionise the political life of the colony whilst propelling it toward independence . |
| 30 | It goes without saying that stating the problem is not the same thing as solving it in practice ! |