Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was claimed that it made rural communities vulnerable to guerrilla reprisals . |
| 2 | Staff at the Commission have claimed that it has insufficient funds to do this . |
| 3 | Instead it is thought Meiko will use the Fujitsu Ltd VP single-chip vector processor for floating point operations alongside the Texas Instruments Inc Viking SuperSparc for scalar operations , although Meiko has said that Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's HyperSparc will be considered once it became available ( UX No 385 ) , and that the i860 could work with the new architecture if required . |
| 4 | Golf development will not normally be permitted if it causes unacceptable disruption to the public enjoyment of rights of way . |
| 5 | Its transponder means it can be located if it becomes detached from its lift wire and umbilical . |
| 6 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 7 | The meaning of " written standard terms of business 's has already been considered and it seems clear that s3 will always apply to terms in standard terms of trading . |
| 8 | Speaking to the European Parliament ( EP ) after the summit Ruud Lubbers , Prime Minister of the Netherlands , said that the word federal had been dropped because it meant different things to different people . |
| 9 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 10 | The value of prosection was stressed since it offered three dimensional knowledge to the medical students and post-graduates and many future surgeons would be trained to dissect and explore the body through these preparations . |
| 11 | But there is now a 60 per cent chance that a fish will be caught after it reaches 35 centimetres ( the legal limit to netting size ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Almost every product on sale in this country is barcoded so it provides immense game-play possibilities . |
| 13 | Some of my colleagues have accepted that it became discredited , but they are still trying to a certain degree to defend it . |
| 14 | Unfortunately an island working day needed to be swiftly curtailed once it grew hot . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , to some extent it can be said that it fulfils some of the functions of the preambles in Community texts to which I have just referred . |
| 16 | We gave a few outlines of schemes of work and bits and pieces of information , but I would n't have said that it caused any great feeling of self-analysis . |
| 17 | In defence of Maxim 's interpretation , it should be said that it comes closer than usual to the notated metronome marks . |
| 18 | If a British multinational invests in plant abroad , it is often argued that it weakens British industry because the resources could have been used to invest in new production in the UK . |
| 19 | Marxism has sometimes been regarded as a positivist approach since it can be argued that it sees human behaviour as a reaction to the stimulus of the economic infrastructure . |
| 20 | We have already seen that it rejects any notion that God is changed . |
| 21 | We have already seen that it leaves unexplained one prominent feature of judicial practice — the attitude judges take toward statutes and precedents in hard cases — except on the awkward hypothesis that this practice is designed to deceive the public , in which case the public has not consented to it . |
| 22 | Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending . |
| 23 | I already have an estimate from Woodlands Incorporated and it seemed satisfactory to me . " |
| 24 | It was the first show of emotion she had made and it did more to make Wexford believe her story than all the documentary evidence she had furnished him with . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , the sealed-off stretch is being vandalised while it stands idle . |
| 26 | Although this looked worse than it might have done since it covered fourteen months instead of twelve — the result of an adjustment to a different financial year — such figures demanded a response . |
| 27 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 28 | Nationwide announced that 300 redundancies will be made when it closes 58 of its 361 estate agency branches . |
| 29 | Another typical resistance is met when it becomes clear that despite everything that is being achieved in terms of family understanding and awareness , individuals are sticking rigidly to old patterns of interaction and behaviour . |
| 30 | It appears , therefore , that synaptogenic mechanisms have been strongly conserved and it seems likely that similar molecular and genetic pathways control these interactions in Drosophila and other organisms . |