Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Golf development will not normally be permitted if it causes unacceptable disruption to the public enjoyment of rights of way . |
| 3 | Its transponder means it can be located if it becomes detached from its lift wire and umbilical . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Almost every product on sale in this country is barcoded so it provides immense game-play possibilities . |
| 9 | Unfortunately an island working day needed to be swiftly curtailed once it grew hot . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , the sealed-off stretch is being vandalised while it stands idle . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Nationwide announced that 300 redundancies will be made when it closes 58 of its 361 estate agency branches . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Once this conventional world had been established , it was easily recreated until it became traditional . |
| 16 | After the war , ‘ unfilled ’ vinyl was used because it had much less surface noise , and a few sets of unfilled vinyl 78s were made for early hi-fi buffs . |
| 17 | The government insists that it will only be restarted if it passes stringent safety tests , and that a technical council composed of Russian , American , French and German experts will oversee its operation . |
| 18 | The referendums had been called after it became clear during the campaign leading up to the June Maastricht referendum that the Irish Constitution 's restrictive abortion provisions could clash with EC rights to freedom of movement and information [ see p. 38942 ] . |
| 19 | Old providers of employment are artificially kept alive until a point is reached when it becomes obvious that support must be switched off . |
| 20 | There are some exceptions to the rigours of this rule : an oral agreement was allowed to be proved where it formed one comprehensive contract with the written lease ( Walker Property Investments ( Brighton ) Ltd v Walker ( 1947 ) 177 LT 204 ) ; and a tenant in breach of the user covenant in his written lease was allowed to prove an antecedent oral collateral contract permitting the breach complained of ( City and Westminster Properties ( 1934 ) Ltd v Mudd [ 1959 ] Ch 129 ) . |
| 21 | Luckily the rug was never pulled although it came close . |
| 22 | The wound is then debrided if it contains devitalised tissue . |
| 23 | therefore investigated recognition memory for conversation in a ‘ soap opera ’ and found that the surface form of an utterance was remembered if it carried some pragmatic meaning . |
| 24 | But Night Trap could not be exempted because it depicted violent actions involving realistic images of human beings rather than straightforward computer graphics . |
| 25 | Besides , an idea is n't always abandoned because it fails some quality control test . |
| 26 | The show has failed to appear in any TV popularity charts and eight of the original cast of virtual unknowns have been axed since it began last summer . |
| 27 | ‘ If the worst happens and it spreads I reckon help should have arrived before it gets serious . ’ |
| 28 | Plans to introduce an interim budget were abandoned after it became clear that the budget deficit would be larger than anticipated . |
| 29 | Was the herb Good King Henry — seen growing at Acorn Bank and at Hardwick — eaten because it tasted good , or because it was a valuable source of vitamin C ? |
| 30 | The bluefin is heavily fished as it fetches high prices in Japan where it is sold for as much as $40 a pound . |