Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Psyching-up ’ is what this mental preparation is often called , and for some it starts days before an event . |
| 2 | After that it required ratification by the 19 EEA parliaments and the European Parliament . |
| 3 | And because of that it tipped Ruth 's heart so desperately she curled her arms around his neck and clung to him . |
| 4 | When the United States regulated its coinage under the legislation of 1792 it displayed independence by designating the silver dollar as the basic unit . |
| 5 | Most of all it took discipline . |
| 6 | Disney and Eisner denied the rumours but one stock market source said : ‘ Whenever you get a clearing of the decks like this it sparks concern in the market . ’ |
| 7 | Once and for all it put Fascism back on the street . |
| 8 | And above all it gives Stephen Dixon at the Bell a chance to cultivate his clientel . |
| 9 | It was , and is , a vast , sparsely populated plain with countless lakes and some of the world 's mightiest rivers , rivers which had to be crossed , but above all it has trees , mile after mile after mile of primeval forest , called the taiga , which , even today , is inhabited by tigers , bears and wolves . |
| 10 | When the White Paper on Educational Reconstruction was published in 1943 it contained references to three possible ‘ types ’ of secondary schools — grammar , technical , and modern . |
| 11 | The HGT-1 human gastric cell line is similar to acid secreting parietal cells in that it possesses H 2 receptors , histamine sensitive adenyl cyclase , and Cl channels , which are activated by histamine by a cyclic adenosine monophosphate ( cAMP ) dependent mechanism . |
| 12 | This insulting behaviour had the desired effect in that it raised tempers in Paris , where all political groups , together with virtually the entire press , broke out in a clamour of hostility to Prussia , at the same time castigating their own government for refusing to take a strong line . |
| 13 | According to the causal direction hypothesis , Emerson 's task is disembedded in that it requires children to consider causal connectives in a way which differs from their usual communicative function . |
| 14 | The " question " violates Grice 's maxim of quantity in that it requests information which the captain neither needs , nor is interested in , and implicates not his concern at Anderson 's threats but rather his awareness of the professor 's empty pomposity . |
| 15 | Third , the ‘ pinch point ’ at the entrance to St. Giles St. is a good idea in that it slows traffic intending to turn left off The Mound ; however , there is a similar problem at the top of Market St. , and a raised paved crossing there , perhaps also with a pedestrian crossing , would be an improvement . |
| 16 | The public consultation exercise that was part of that erm Greater York study , and quite clearly the Greater York study was not a statutory plan , it was an informal plan , but it was the only way really that progress could be made in the absence erm of adopted local plans in Greater York , it was essential that that document was pursued to give a framework for the preparation of district local plans er and the greenbelt local plan , and the resolution that followed the consultation and the long body of work , and I 'll read it out , was that the development strategy for Greater York from ninety six to two thousand and six should be based on agreed sites within and on the periphery of the built up area , and that the residual requirement be met for the development of a new settlement or settlements located beyond the outer boundary erm of the greenbelt , a quite clearly there 's a major policy implication there that a new settlement was not acceptable within the greenbelt but would have to be er outside the outer boundary of the greenbelt , and the public consultation on that er study er attracted widespread support for a new settlement strategy in Greater York , all six authorities agreed that that was the direction er that had to be taken , it also had another benefit in that it enabled work on the York greenbelt local plan erm to proceed and that has now been taken forward to the stage where the enquiry terminated in May , it 's a joint enquiry in the greenbelt local plan enquiry , with a Southern Ryedale local plan enquiry in April ninety three , and we would hope that the inspectors report on that six month enquiry , when he considered all the objections to the er greenbelt proposals of the County Council , largely supported by the er District Council will be available er in the near future . |
| 17 | In presenting the majority opinion , Justice William J. Brennan noted that the new statute had been framed to penalize all flag burning , regardless of motive , but contained " the same fundamental flaw " in that it suppressed expression with which the legislators disagreed . |
| 18 | In some instances , management have done this because they have believed that de-skilling is a counter-productive strategy in that it lowers morale , commitment , motivation , and optimum use of human resources . |
| 19 | The LEA scheme concerned is an unusual one in that it combines school self-evaluation with an inspection which provides something of an external evaluation of the exercise . |
| 20 | Squatting is an anabolic exercise in that it promotes growth in all other muscle groups as well as specialising on the legs , |
| 21 | It has certain defects in that it produces action only after an error has been established . |
| 22 | Er if you have a lot of money they can be a good idea er in that it takes capital out of your estate to provide income say children or spouse . |
| 23 | The revision phase of the operation differs from the initial phase in that it takes account of weaknesses ( and strengths ) inherent in the stock from previous years ' book buying , and also in that it provides indications of the need for weeding the stock of individual categories , in addition to purchasing . |
| 24 | We 've attempted to design a system which is friendly in that it takes account of the different needs that a person will have at different times while trying to communicate with a computer . |
| 25 | The dialectic of labour produces a different effect , on a differently constituted subject , than that of language in that it involves subjection to the world of nature . |
| 26 | Militarisation worked for the Nazis as it had for the Prussians in that it helped control large numbers of people , allowed a cheap and easy growth of populist emotion and nationalist identity and became the mainspring of industry by providing demand . |
| 27 | On the other hand , it seems likely that a positive function in the evolution of human society has been exercised by envy in that it maintained variations of individual behaviour within tolerable bounds and maintained a mutual bond , policed by envy and the fear of envy , between all the differentiated members of a society . |
| 28 | The law , rather , reflects social changes in that it permits marriages that have in practice effectively ended to be legally dissolved . |
| 29 | Erm this meant that how that er erm some of the problems actually arose from the outline landlord itself er by land law itself in that it discussed land reform in very general terms and the policy towards middle and rich peasants was left unclear erm which meant that how that classes were being mis-classified and the movement was getting out of hand . |
| 30 | It has an additional significance in that it links science and ethics ; it unites theory and practice . |