Example sentences of "it [adj] [conj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find it strange that people with whom I have been associated should now accept that independent bankers control so much of our destiny . |
| 2 | Is it possible that bolt in my arm should have been through my heart ? ’ |
| 3 | Erm just remembering say I had to put four O Hs with N H , I was sometimes I was getting it right sometimes I was getting it wrong and stuff like that . |
| 4 | The preface makes it clear that interest in the past in Saudi Arabia — as in all countries — is directly linked with present prosperity . |
| 5 | Merely to count all the details that it is necessary to accumulate from the preparation of a scenario and score through rehearsal to public performance should make it clear that co-operation from other artists as well as from dancers is required . |
| 6 | This authoritative ruling makes it clear that defects in appearance , if of sufficient degree , can render a vehicle unmerchantable . |
| 7 | Lawrence makes it clear that consent to or authorisation by the owner of the taking by the rogue is irrelevant . |
| 8 | He thought it fortunate that improvements in male characteristics were passed on in some measure to women , otherwise the man would have become as superior in mental endowment to women as the peacock is in plumage to the peahen . |
| 9 | Nor is it impossible that bands of laeti or gentiles were settled in some , if not all , during the late fourth century , but unfortunately the relevant chapter of the Notitia Dignitatum , which listed these barbarian recruits to the Roman army in Britain , is missing . |
| 10 | However , the dramatic reduction in processing costs which are occurring makes it likely that systems of this power will soon be more widely available . |
| 11 | Nor is it likely that rocks with SiO 2 70% could be derived directly from the mantle . |
| 12 | Is it soft and prey to pest and disease ? |
| 13 | As MP for Derby from 1868 to 1880 Plimsoll had for years attacked the shipowning interest and the government which supported it hip and thigh on the unnecessary loss of life and property at sea , attracting great publicity in 1875 by being ordered to retire from the House of Commons following a particularly violent denunciation of their callous and self-interested behaviour . |
| 14 | The NSPCC considers it outrageous that children in the greatest need are denied the help they need because of the bureaucratic delays of an inefficient legal system . |
| 15 | As regards property , it should be noticed that law and practice , to a large extent , make it unlikely that property of any considerable value will come into the direct ownership of an infant . |
| 16 | Is it safer than energy from coal or oil ? |
| 17 | One oil company , for instance , considers it essential that details of every crude oil futures trade done anywhere in the world reach its head office computer system within two minutes of the trade 's being concluded . |
| 18 | Although the latter cases are probably a diminishing minority , especially now that budgetary delegation under LMS has made it essential that heads in their turn delegate a greater proportion of their managerial functions to senior staff , our studies indicate a more general need for primary schools to continue to review the role of deputy headship , to define more exactly the range of tasks it is appropriate for someone at that level of seniority to undertake , and to ensure that all deputy heads have appropriate job specifications . |
| 19 | ‘ ( 1 ) For the purposes of this Part of this Act the Court of Appeal may , if they think it necessary or expedient in the interests of justice … ( b ) order any witness who would have been a compellable witness in the proceedings from which the appeal lies to attend for examination and be examined before the court , whether or not he was called in those proceedings ; and ( c ) subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , receive the evidence , if tendered , of any witness . |
| 20 | Mr. Wadsworth submits that we should approach the present application on the basis of those words in the introduction to section 23 , namely the court ‘ may , if they think it necessary or expedient in the interests of justice , ’ make the necessary order . |
| 21 | The fortunes of the coffee and tea industries have already been discussed above , and it uncertain whether Kandyans in coffee districts had by 1900 recovered the standard of living which they had attained in the early 1870s . |
| 22 | But leaving dowry aside , how far is it true that payments of brideprice ( bridewealth ) from the husband 's kin to the wife 's kin always serve to " legitimize the children of the marriage " ) As usual the answer is not straightforward . |
| 23 | Occasionally , they make unsubstantiated contentions : is it true that women in social work ‘ are not aware of and are uncomfortable with , the control part of the work ? |