Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it also managed to chip some of the woodwork , curious to think that I was offered as war damage compensation five pounds to re-case the piano , you could n't of had it repolished for five pounds , but thinking was working class people should n't have pianos , I 'm certain that was at the back of , of the gentleman whose job it was to evaluate war damage , he certainly raised his eyebrows every time we told him , what either a piece of furniture or crockery or cutlery which had been destroyed had cost and he was so foolish after er the house had been almost flattened as de demand bills as proof of evidence that your figures were correct |
| 2 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 3 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 4 | But a Washington court could stop the launch today , if it agrees with anti-nuclear activists that the space probe 's plutonium generators are unsafe , writes Mark Champion . |
| 5 | Dr Solomon 's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows ( what a mouthful ! ) is a very quick performer , it zoomed through 157 Megabytes of files on our Victor V486M 's 200 Mb hard disk in just 47 seconds ! |
| 6 | One of the tsar-reformer 's great achievements was the foundation of the Russian navy , much of it consisting of wooden galleys propelled by the collective muscle-power of conscript or convict oarsmen . |
| 7 | President of the Europe Commission , Jacques Delors , would like to see it as the only EC currency , but John Majors wants it to circulate alongside other currencies . |
| 8 | A proposal for the reform of the Italian railway network advocated the dismissal of the board if it failed for two years running to achieve performance targets ( Santoro 1985 ) , and the Spanish Socialist government has similarly toyed with the idea of sacking unsuccessful chairmen ( Tamames 1983 : 371 ) . |
| 9 | I did n't think it applied to technical consultants . |
| 10 | Because it applied to all bodies everywhere , the universe had at last become a universe . |
| 11 | The following features of a statutory redundancy payment emerged : ( 1 ) The obligation was imposed on the employer ; ( 2 ) It only arose on dismissal and might never arise if an employee worked until retirement , whether voluntary — early retirement — or at an agreed date , each of which was based on contract ; ( 3 ) It only arose if certain preconditions were proved ; ( 4 ) It applied to all employees who had worked for at least two years with an employer ; ( 5 ) Certain classes of employee were excluded , eg redundant employees refusing suitable alternative employment ; employees under a fixed-term contract of two years or more , who had renounced their redundancy rights in writing ; ( 6 ) A voluntary redundancy could be under a contractual statutory scheme , and under such a contractual scheme it was often the equivalent of early retirement by agreement ; ( 7 ) In no way could a redundancy payment be described as a deferred emolument or pay ; it was a monetary compensation for the disappearance of a job . |
| 12 | It plays with such ideas , to a Shavian pitch of exaggeration : but it is not a novel of ideas , any more than it is a heartless game . |
| 13 | Analysis of the atk protein product will shed light on the role it plays in B-cell pathways , particularly in view of the fact that src -related protein-tyrosine kinases such as blk , fyn , lyn and lck , and others have already been implicated in B-cell activation . |
| 14 | In the first edition of the Fact File , we gave a detailed description of the system as it operated before these changes . |
| 15 | Essentially he held to the line taken by the Ministry of Health in the 1930s : the school medical service was primarily educational , and had never been designed as a complete child health service , nor as an agency to relieve poverty as such — indeed , it operated within strict terms of reference set down by Parliament ; systematic medical inspection of evacuees would have been impossible in the conditions of panic and devastation forecast by all civil defence planners before the war ; many of the evacuees ' problems , such as bed-wetting , had cleared up quickly . |
| 16 | The respondents tried to distinguish the former on what it is submitted is the irrelevant ground that it operated in legal systems , such as the French , in which the criteria for establishing jurisdictional competence did not always guarantee a close connection between the defendant and the forum . |
| 17 | It operated in 69 countries worldwide . |
| 18 | It operated in many markets , and its competitors were all over the world . |
| 19 | They mostly supplement the picture of the Soviet political system , how it operated in different circumstances and how it created and controlled its nuclear-energy network . |
| 20 | As we shall see , a gene may increase in frequency not because it increases the fitness of its carrier but because it associates with other genes that do , or even because it is in a sense parasitic on other genes . |
| 21 | She did n't want it to go to social workers but the police |
| 22 | We shall discuss it in a variety of ways throughout the chapter and consider how it differs between theoretical frameworks . |
| 23 | In many ways it is a BoP lookalike — the technology must be very similar for the two programs — but it differs in many respects . |
| 24 | However , it differs in two ways from the approach long-wave theory takes to industrial change . |
| 25 | Where it differs from such discourses ( those associated with Bateson ( pp. 81–2 ) and Wright ( p. 88 ) , for example ) is in Leavis 's insistence upon the " exercise of the sense of value … controlled by an implicit concern for a total value-judgement " , and based upon " familiar " literary works , " the nature and quality of which are immediately obvious " . |
| 26 | The above description of a session as an example of consultative joint problem-solving will have shown how it differs from other forms of support such as counselling , giving advice , or supervision . |
| 27 | We need now to consider the question of the nature of pedagogic research , how it differs from other kinds of research activity , and what implications arise from such considerations for the education of teachers . |
| 28 | It 's all down to confusion rather than deliberate ignorance , so it 's worth covering the whole idea of shareware , how it differs from other types of software such as public domain , and what the user 's obligations are both legally and morally . |
| 29 | We will look at these two aspects of the regulationist framework in the context of the UK economy , before considering how it differs from world-system theories . |
| 30 | It differs from most kouroi in having the right foot forward and the arms raised from the elbow , something ( probably a bow ) grasped in the left fist and something lying on the open right palm . |