Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb -s] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Insofar as municipal systems set limits to the use of force and punish at least some of those guilty of crimes of violence it has some success as law and an undisputed claim to be regarded as law for as long as the officials of the system pursue these objectives by taking steps against non-compliance ( Hart , 1961 , pp. 79–88 and 213ff . ) . |
| 2 | This gerbil is strictly nocturnal in contrast to some of the more common rodents , and as a result it suffers more predation by the owls than do the others . |
| 3 | An amino acid is a chemical sub-unit of a protein , and ultimately everything that happens in a cell it produces some kind of protein , so you can see that erm the triplet or produces erm which is one of the , one of the er amino acids and so on and there are also punctuation marks U A A or U A G means stop , as does U G A , so when , when a R N A template running through a gets to a sequence which reads , where was it now , U A A it stops reading because it knows it 's got to the end of the gene . |
| 4 | To those with no operational experience such as MPs , Courts of Enquiry , magistrates etc. , it can appear a sensible and foolproof system , but in practice it has many deficiencies . |
| 5 | Mill 's ‘ harm-to-others ’ principle seems simple , but in practice it has many problems . |
| 6 | Over the piece it shows more beauty and riches than reality can master . |
| 7 | On this basis it makes more sense for an investor to invest in promise than in reality . |
| 8 | At the moment it seems that Labour is poised to pick up a good swathe of its targets — but not , yet , quite enough of them to put Mr Kinnock safely into Downing Street . |
| 9 | Perhaps they will one day , but at the moment it seems some way off . |
| 10 | I think it 's a perfect example of rumour feeding on rumour , that once something gets into the market place it causes all sorts of entrepreneurial people out there to think there 's an opportunity they ought not to miss . |
| 11 | Based on Berkeley BSD4.3 Unix and built on Carnegie Mellon Mach 3.0 foundation it supports all Macs from Powerbooks up and runs off-the-shelf Apple applications whilst simultaneously running Unix programs . |
| 12 | On the one hand claiming Darlington is in such a bad state it needs more Government help , on the other claiming the town is a thriving local centre . |
| 13 | While there are obviously problems in developing and using this type of notional scale it has some utility . |
| 14 | In a broader sense it includes all relatives living together or accepted as a family , including adopted persons . |
| 15 | Thus as a formal method of scrutiny it has little value . |
| 16 | 4(5) This Act applies in respect of births after ( but not before ) its passing , and in respect of any such birth it replaces any law in force before its passing , whereby a person could be liable to a child in respect of disabilities with which it might be born ; but in section 1(3) of this Act the expression ‘ liable in tort ’ does not include any reference to liability by virtue of this Act , or to liability by virtue of any such law . |
| 17 | ‘ This Act applies in respect of births after ( but not before ) its passing , and in respect of any such birth it replaces any law in force before its passing , whereby a person could be liable to a child in respect of disabilities with which it might be born ; … |
| 18 | Again it is generally definable only through social custom but in this case it has more significance since the breaking of social taboo may have adverse effect on the child . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , as it stands at present it has many deficiencies , because : |
| 20 | In the main it causes few problems , but in recent years there has been a rise in cases that cause conflict for the advice worker . |
| 21 | If there is any money in the account it earns some interest , if it goes into the red you pay some interest . |
| 22 | And the G M B demands that when the good committee report it makes such behaviour illegal . |
| 23 | As a monument to extravagance of taste it has few equals in England , although it may not entirely justify the descriptions of a series of upended turnips stuck on boxes or St Paul 's pups which two irreverent contemporaries , William Cobbett and Dean Smith , bestowed on it . |
| 24 | So specifiers will need to know not just that a tile meets EC requirements , but — crucially in northern Europe — in what way it meets those requirements . |
| 25 | The framework I want to propose rests upon a regard for the importance of the active , interpreting self in social interaction ; for the way it perceives , makes sense of and works upon the actions of others and the situation in which it finds itself ; the way it pursues goals and tries to maximize its own ( often competing ) interests ; the way it pursues these things by combining or competing with other selves ; the way it adjusts to circumstances while still trying to fulfil or retrieve its own purposes — and so forth . |
| 26 | The way it works these days is just so divorced from everything we 're familiar with back home . |
| 27 | But in the time it takes these children to ask for a drink of water an accomplice has slipped in the back and helped himself . |
| 28 | The depth of flavour results from the warm climate , which ensures all the grapes are ripe , sweet and juicy when picked ; the wine is oak aged , during which time it develops much complexity . |
| 29 | Being an alkaline-loving plant it requires some calcium content . |