Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group has pinpointed 150 locations around the UK where it plans to open stores , particularly in Scotland , where it only recently opened its first store . |
| 2 | But so far , the feminist psychology of androgyny has only dealt with the power of discourses of gender in its self-criticisms , not in its investigations , where it continues to address femininity and masculinity on equal terms . |
| 3 | It moved three quarters of a mile downwind where it managed to hold station under its own power . |
| 4 | This type of so-called magic realism assumes major importance in the fiction of Asturias , Carpentier and Arguedas , where it serves to give expression to the magical-religious thought and mythical world-view of the Indian and Negro peoples of Latin America . |
| 5 | Although it sought to make schools accessible , it also held that attendance at them should be voluntary , that pupils should pay for the instruction they received , that public education should be developed gradually rather than immediately , and that , although schools would still be run by different agencies , societies and private individuals , they should teach the same things and be managed identically . |
| 6 | Even in Queen 's County , in the Great Heath of Maryborough , still technically in Leinster , they saw appalling signs of starvation — though it moved John far more than it seemed to move MacMinimum . |
| 7 | It took them half the time to get Kevin out to the Murphy cart than it took to get Liam sobered up again and it was Nellie who finally drove the cart away with its very full load . |
| 8 | As it was , RTD received far less investment than it needed to improve reception . |
| 9 | The clifftop factory at Nancekuke , Cornwall , began life as a nerve gas factory until it switched to control agents such as CS gas in 1956 . |
| 10 | In the hands of a great designer — Mondrian , de Staël , Rothko , Turner , Klee — the central void can be stressed until it appears to radiate energy . |
| 11 | If Parliament ceased to be a representative assembly , in any plausible sense of the idea , or if it proceeded to enact legislation undermining the democratic basis of our institutions , political morality might direct judicial resistance rather than obedience . |
| 12 | Similarly , if it chose to reduce taxation , that too would be democratically justified . |
| 13 | THE BBC need not worry about its future if it continues to show programmes like Arnold Wesker 's play Roots . |
| 14 | Sir Alfred had spent enough of Rubery Owen 's profits and was impatient for success ; BRM would be closed down if it failed to win races in 1962 . |
| 15 | Chris Ivory , chief executive at Bedale food firm Dalepak said he knew of a small company which would struggle to stay in business if it had to raise wages at the present time . |
| 16 | We are prepared to consider the decoy as a permanent option if it helps to slow people down and save lives . ’ |
| 17 | The resolution also ordered " all States in which there are funds of the Government of Iraq " to transfer proceeds to a UN escrow fund , and undertook to return to Iraq all monies so raised if it agreed to sell oil under UN supervision [ see pp. 38942 ; 38788-89 ; 38838 ; 39026 ; 39115 ] . |
| 18 | A local authority must apply to the court if it seeks to deny contact to a parent or any other person entitled under s34(1) or by virtue of a court order . |
| 19 | SCO 's development partner DEC will have to soldier on alone , if it has not been doing just that for some time ( UX No 364 ) , if it intends to put OSF/1-for-ACE on its MIPS R4000 machines . |
| 20 | But if the brooding house really does seem too much of a cliché to you , if it fails to set fire to your imagination , then there is an alternative . |
| 21 | Greenpeace has warned that the insurance industry could face catastrophic losses if it fails to take action . |
| 22 | Even if it fails to find favour from above , the document will prod British artists and their funders into clearer thought about the how and why of what they do . |
| 23 | This draft also has a separate provision relating to the imposition of conditions by the parties to a treaty , which a third party must observe if it wishes to take advantage of the relevant right . |
| 24 | In effect , when section 89 applies , the company if it wishes to issue equity shares for cash , has to do so by a rights issue , as described in chapter 13 or a similar process if it is a private company . |
| 25 | The Middle East Economic Survey , a trade publication which maintains close contact with OPEC delegates , said in a special edition at the weekend that the cartel might have to cut its output ceiling by 678,000 bpd more than already planned if it wanted to raise oil prices from levels around $18 a barrel . |
| 26 | The ego knows that if it has to make choices in the world of actuality it can not keep its cake and eat it too ; the id does not . |
| 27 | In the long run , a united Europe will attract support and become irreversible if it seems to make Europe more competitive . |
| 28 | ‘ If that happens the health authority is going to have to foot the bill for a taxi or ambulance if it wants to get people to hospital . |
| 29 | These restrictions , which dated from a congressional amendment to the US 1974 Trade Reform Act , effectively precluded most-favoured-nation ( MFN ) trading status for the Soviet Union unless it agreed to relax restrictions on Jewish emigration . |
| 30 | At present , Customs ' policy is to allow VAT incurred on holding company activities , unless it relates to exempt transactions , to be treated as a general overhead and recoverable according to its overall partial exemption status . |