Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the western consensus based on the traditional liberal interpretation has now broken down , many of the most distinguished scholars in the field remain firmly committed to it and it continues to inform conventional wisdom among non-specialists in the West . |
| 2 | Fortunately for the Government , this short debate in the House of Lords seems to have attracted little attention from the press , and it continued to receive general approbation for the exhibition , with the relevance of the competition remaining largely unquestioned . |
| 3 | And it continued to prove tactful and wise to respond to such displays with great calm and care . |
| 4 | Information & Business Systems Tirana , a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Co , says it has won a $480,000 tender financed by the European Community to computerise Albanian government institutions : the project consists in supplying and installing 350 base units to the government offices , Reuter reports ; the company says it has already donated a Precision Architecture RISC Unix system worth $250,000 to the Tirana Polytechnic University and it hopes to sell another system in Albania within the next year . |
| 5 | Marie and Bella sat on until the sun left the gardens and it began to grow cold . |
| 6 | In the eyes of the Department of Energy , wave power on a large scale is uneconomical and it ceased to fund such projects following reviews in 1983 and 1985 . |
| 7 | Rafael Valls acquired an appealing half-length portrait of Miss Juliana Copley by Lawrence ( lot 29 , est. £50,000–70,000 ) for £92,000 , but doubts had been expressed about the condition of the second Lawrence in the sale , a grand full-length portrait of John Allnutt ( lot 30 , est. £300,000–500,000 ) , and it failed to attract any bids . |
| 8 | The National Assistance Act seemed to turn its back on this doctrines yet it failed to jettison the view entirely and it failed to provide financial resources sufficient to enable the Board to avoid having to distinguish between the claims made by applicants , particularly as regards their more unusual needs . |
| 9 | And it goes to show these sportswomen are shrewd as well as skilled . |
| 10 | This had the effect of making the differences between owl and diurnal raptor digestion appear greater than it really is , and it seemed to confirm earlier reports of minimal effects of digestion in owls ( Reed & Reed , 1928 ; Duke et al . , |
| 11 | The effect of the decision was to give women the choice of an abortion during the first six months of pregnancy if they could find a doctor to carry it out , and it came to have enormous symbolic importance for feminists . |
| 12 | The left wing impact caused the aircraft to yaw sharply left and it came to rest erect on a heading of 150°M around 3.5 metres beyond the initial impact point , with the nose embedded 1.3 metres into the demolished lower comer of the building . |
| 13 | And it helps to generate new energy because there is a belief . ’ |
| 14 | The pluralist perspective makes no attempt to criticise British politics , and it chooses to bend democratic theory in a conservative direction so that it justifies and defends the established order . |
| 15 | The Commission is multi-disciplinary and it exists to provide independent medical opinions to consent to treatment ; to keep the powers of detention under review ; to prepare a Code of Practice ; and to visit and interview detained patients and investigate individual complaints . |
| 16 | If consumerism is to be as important as this suggests , then the definition of consumer needs to be wide : it must include the ‘ hidden consumers ’ who do not have much contact with social services departments , and it needs to include both clients and their carers . |
| 17 | My practice has not encountered serious practical problems different from those of other fundholders and it seems to remove some of the difficulties of the existing scheme in that it resolves the problem of what referrals are within the range of services that can be purchased . |
| 18 | It has been adopted by many authors and consultants and it seems to mean many things , depending on the author and context . |
| 19 | This would seem to run counter to the idea that receptor activation initiates a cascade of diverging biochemical pathways that conspire to produce an effect ( cell division , in this case ) ; and it seems to require that multiple kinases phosphorylate a small number of substrates , which , in turn , feed signals into a smaller number of Ras activators . |
| 20 | The circular acknowledged that the main burden of providing such care would fall on the local authorities and it aimed to ease this by extending provision for the transfer of NHS financial resources to those local authorities or voluntary bodies that offered to develop community care projects specifically for long-stay hospital patients . |
| 21 | New events , new people are cropping up , and it begins to seem possible that life can go on , but people can still say wounding and painful things . |
| 22 | Hence the individual soon knows , from this genetic information , what its form and structure is ( its morphology ) , and it begins to acquire behavioural characteristics . |
| 23 | Guar gum is a complex polysaccharide which can not be digested or absorbed and it appears to have two effects . |
| 24 | The mission of Teesside TEC is to promote and contribute to the economic growth of Teesside and it aims to do this by fostering individual initiative , community teamwork , business development and quality training . |
| 25 | It monitors the activity of banks , which are required to submit monthly reports to it , and it attempts to spot any bank that is likely to face difficulties . |
| 26 | ‘ The National Grid does not own the land on which the pylons are to be built and it has to negotiate some form of agreement with the landowner , ’ he said . |
| 27 | They do n't seem to want to make every part fantastic and extreme and beautiful , and it has to look fantastic … ‘ |
| 28 | ICI fertilizers is also Europe 's leading liquid CO2 producer and it intends to stay that way , selling some 400,000 tonnes per year of product to industries as diverse as nuclear power and soft drinks . |
| 29 | It appears to give legal authority for an apparently open-ended power to intercept and it fails to constrain that power by an adequate framework of judicial or parliamentary scrutiny . |
| 30 | However , no equipment will last for ever and it started to become obvious that I would need to update before too long . |