Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it did not institute systematic means of monitoring school curricula to check on whether or not inspectorate advice was being followed , nor did it devise systematic means for exerting pressure on schools to follow this advice . |
| 2 | Research also suggests it discourages some people from re-offending . |
| 3 | That is why , on the costing basis , we are right to say that it represents another 10p in the pound on basic income tax . |
| 4 | This project looks at the Youth Training Scheme and asks : is it helping young people of either sex to break into fields of training and work that are non-traditional for their sex ? |
| 5 | Furthermore , it gave valuable information about the Permian sequence ; in particular it penetrated 370 ft of Upper Permian salt , and the 1800 ft of lavas and tuffs believed to be Lower Permian . |
| 6 | The particular benefits of this approach for this study were that it provided quantitative data on important treatment/intervention issues in a population where group-comparison studies alone would be inappropriate , because of the individual nature of each person 's challenging behaviour and the small number of potential subjects . |
| 7 | ‘ I had always thought that its grip on me was purely personal , ’ wrote Amanda , ‘ — I loved it simply because it was my home — but then I found that it caught other people in its web too . ’ |
| 8 | It covers 550 staff across the board , from the finance department , through to housing , in 12 remote sites . |
| 9 | It has 460 people on its books — all of them far better qualified than Macaulay Culkin in the hit film Home Alone — who are ready to take up temporary residence anywhere from John O'Groats to Land 's End . |
| 10 | It has 36 aircraft on order and 34 under option . |
| 11 | Its current revenue budget is £317 million gross and it has 15,000 staff of which 8,000 are teachers . |
| 12 | And it cost sixty pence in this country to buy , buy a small bar of chocolate . |
| 13 | The Commission imposed a four-year supervision order in August 1990 against the West German company Advanced Nuclear Fuels GmbH for serious violations of safety regulations when it transported 130 kg of enriched uranium through Luxembourg in what purported to be empty containers . |
| 14 | It consumed 25 mpg around town , 46 mpg at 56 mph and 32 mpg at 75 mph . |
| 15 | It measures 135 mm x 54.5 mm x 160 mm . |
| 16 | Made from chipboard with ash veneer , it measures 85 cm by 40 cm by 153 cm ; diameter of mirror , 40 cm ; £796 , designed by Peter May for Ligne Roset |
| 17 | It measures 170 cm by 260 cm , £250 |
| 18 | Although PRO wo n't confirm that it paid some $600,000 for the suite ( UX No 406 ) , the decision to plump for 88open 's testing technology was thought to be purely financial : ‘ we could n't afford to spend that kind of money developing our own alternative , so we bought in . ’ |
| 19 | I wanted to do it to help other people in this position . |
| 20 | For many years university academic staff have enjoyed the unique position of having tenure for their working lives , the argument in support of this being that it protected academic staff from political pressure and avoided the possibility of someone being dismissed for expressing unpopular or unconventional views . |
| 21 | It surfaced last year during the trial of Frank Beck , former head of a Leicestershire children 's home , who used it to abuse young people in his care both sexually and physically . |
| 22 | Conflict is personal in that it affects different people in different ways . |
| 23 | It killed five people in England last year . |
| 24 | It requires all people to be involved in a ceasefire and a total cessation of hostilities if the aid that we are willing to send — we have sent £8 million to Somalia since early last year — is to get to the people who desperately need it . |
| 25 | It employs 5,000 people in Northern California . |
| 26 | It employs 5,000 people in Northern California . |
| 27 | But do you get the reduced rate , is it reduced forty percent for all sort of categories whether you 're married , single ? |
| 28 | It lost all fruit along the way and by the time it received an export licence it was beyond drinking . |
| 29 | British Aerospace was amongst the features today when it lost 12 pence to four hundred and fif , five hundred and forty one pence on rumours that the Saudis had cancelled some Tornado options . |
| 30 | It handled secret data for the research departments of major companies . |