Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although its development from infancy to early adulthood has been much examined , the part it plays in later life has been largely neglected . |
| 2 | Somehow , after that , they succeeded in restoring a semblance of what counted as normality in their relationship to the weekend , and it passed without further conflict . |
| 3 | it contributes to better market forecasting at the concept stage of development ; |
| 4 | Repeated use is perceived as necessary in order to survive , yet at the same time it contributes to further decline . |
| 5 | It just shows , I think , how vigilant Councillors need to be when you get all these documents , and you do get many of them if you 're a District County Councillor , and how necessary it is for you to read them and study them and to remember because these things are very very important when they 're put in when it goes to higher authority at that time . |
| 6 | IF the sophisticated modern diesel engine now makes economic sense for small cars , the savings it offers for bigger cars are more worthwhile . |
| 7 | His impact was such that it led to further villainy — as the probably gay hit man in the Big Combo ( 1955 ) , as a rapist and murderer in Ride Lonesome ( 1959 ) , as Lee Marvin 's psychotic side-kick in The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance ( 1962 ) as well as more conventional heavies in Gunfight at the OK Corral ( 1956 ) , The Tin Star ( 1957 ) and How the West Was Won ( 1962 ) . |
| 8 | The picaresque vitality of Richardson 's novel begins to wane early in the third volume ( a frequent fate of follow-ups ) and , as a theatre audience does not have the opportunity to plough through stodgy bits in their own time , we felt it made for better drama to kill Pamela ( in the novel she comes near to death ) before the dramatic conflict itself dies . |
| 9 | If it passes on lower costs to its customers in the form of lower prices it may be open to the accusation of behaving in a predatory fashion . |
| 10 | FRANCE and Germany pledged yesterday to defend the French franc if it came under further attack from speculators , but they dismissed suggestions that they might link their two currencies in a mini monetary union . |
| 11 | In order to protect itself from the conflicting , volatile and diffuse demands of political groups , it retreated into greater bureaucratism . |
| 12 | They pursue reliability just because they know it leads to lower costs and increased market share . |
| 13 | This process can be painful and revealing but it leads to greater self-awareness — the first step to unambiguous communication . |
| 14 | In the mental health field the voluntary sector is , on the whole , well organized and effective but it suffers from lower levels of charitable donations compared with more immediately appealing charities such as those for children , cancer research or research into heart disease . |
| 15 | They may range from a brief mention of a thirteenth-century tithe barn near the manor house , to a fully detailed true-to-scale plan of a building as it existed in earlier times , but which is now changed . |
| 16 | It is the prostate gland which , when it enlarges in later life , as it often does , may cause difficulty in passing urine . |
| 17 | ‘ These data provide a plausible explanation for the French paradox , ’ says the Lancet , but it calls for further studies . |
| 18 | Two books are supplied with the disks , one of which can be extremely confusing at times as it applies to earlier versions of the program . |
| 19 | ( a ) Once a shareholder has incurred a debt or liability to the company , it has an equitable charge on the shares of that shareholder to secure payment which ranks in priority to later equitable interests and , it seems to earlier ones of which the company had no notice when its lien became effective ; and ( b ) in determining whether the company had notice , section 360 has no application ; if the company knows of the earlier equitable interest ( because , for example , a transfer of the shares has been lodged for registration even if that is refused ) it can not improve its own position to the detriment of the holder of that known equitable interest . |
| 20 | At first sight similar in size and shape to the academic article , it emerges on closer inspection as a very different animal to that often unlovely and cumbersome beast . |
| 21 | His initial concern was with the transition from work to retirement and he has subsequently been involved in work on health education , notably the role of community care as it relates to older people . |
| 22 | In addition though , and we come on to them in a second , it asks for further reductions to be added to that if possible . |
| 23 | The coal industry in West Germany is under attack from many quarters because of the costly protection it enjoys from cheaper imports . |
| 24 | The victory of supporters of Rafsanjani 's " moderate " administration in the October elections for the Assembly of Experts [ see above ] , coinciding as it did with higher oil revenues and regional political developments as a result of the Gulf crisis , worked to strengthen the administration and effectively silence the Islamic regime 's " radical " wing suspicious of internal reforms and of economic and political opening to the West . |
| 25 | The crucial factor is whether technology provides new jobs at a higher rate in new activities than it eliminates in older industry . |
| 26 | What we do find , however , is that women 's work is not so divorced from the work of men as it becomes in later times . |
| 27 | But what was very enthralling about the jury service argument was the effect it had on older people themselves . |
| 28 | The habit of this dominant Quaker in the BFASS of arranging deputations to ministers and approaching kings and emperors brought even less of a result than it had in earlier generations . |
| 29 | Until comparatively recently there was a general belief or tacit agreement within the community that the later years of life were a time of " all passion spent " — that sex stopped or should stop with the menopause in women and that it continued into later years only in old men who were awarded the epithet " dirty " . |
| 30 | For ex for instance , they er , often confided in one another , usually when they to see what they actually er share each other 's deepest thoughts , and this continued throughout later life , it could be argued bu but it continued throughout later life and what they , they often communicated by er , by letter . |