Example sentences of "it [vb past] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After redesigning from scratch the way it processed orders from customers , it has cut delivery times from 8-12 weeks to ‘ days ’ even while using 35% fewer people to do the job . |
| 2 | It mistook excuses for reasons . |
| 3 | To her it was just a means of getting from A to B , but she welcomed its invention because it lessened cruelty to horses . |
| 4 | It recommended expansion of universities ' science teaching and the creation of colleges of advanced technology . |
| 5 | The Japanese company 's Bluebird model , the first to be built at its Sunderland factory , never rated : dealers thought it lacked pzazz for executives . |
| 6 | To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me . |
| 7 | Smith argued that where a print run — or more likely a reprint — had left hundreds or thousands of unsold copies , it made sense in times of crippling warehouse costs and tight cash flows to unload slow-selling stock . |
| 8 | For the most part it made use of trackways already established and ancient , though it is possible that new pieces of track were trampled out where the direct line required it . |
| 9 | State law could not provide discipline because it met resistance from consciences . |
| 10 | In part it involved differences in perceptions about the boundaries of people 's work and what they contributed : in general , professionals and parents tended to see themselves as concerned with the young person and their life as a whole , but they saw others as being restricted in their work and concerned only with limited aspects of the young person . |
| 11 | Thirteen per cent think that it improved resources ; 12 per cent that it changed priorities , 9 per cent that it changed allocation of resources and 7 per cent think that it improved teacher-pupil relations . |
| 12 | Well we were lucky in that we 've been able to do , have a , a very good relationship with a company called well known in the marine side and they put in forty five thousand pounds into er the scheme and promised that before Christmas and that was reading the paper one day in November the , the Robert the National Heritage Minister saying that they may be , may , if you 're lucky , going to put some money into sport and er so we contacted them and we were one of the first sports to get , had money doubled as they say in the bingo hall , so we er we now have ninety , ninety thousand pounds and which I wh has been distributed or will be distributed in the , in the following way so that 's how we 're gon na spend it and er these er , the administration represent we were basically overwhelmed with enquiries and s we took on a person in order to , to do it , the normal R Y A staff had already got enough on so we took on a girl called Sara who answers all the queries on the Year of Youth Hotline and erm we are also running the boat shows , the four or five N B L challenge which is the flagship event for our sponsors which is er I wo n't go into the , the details but is a , a talent fight , talent spotting event for under sixteen year olds around the country and it provided fleet of dinghies , the prize for which is a dinghy which is not , not a bad prize I think you 'll agree . |
| 13 | Though it created problems in times of political crisis , it was the price one had to pay for pursuing high ideals . |
| 14 | National insurance was , as Lloyd George recognized , a most convenient device for a government short of revenue since it drew finance from workers and employers without the politically unpopular necessity to increase income tax . |
| 15 | This was carried out by Sachs ( 1967 ) and it compared recall of sentences which had just been heard with recall of sentences which had been heard earlier in a passage . |
| 16 | On the other hand if Herakleophorbia was eaten in excess it caused illnesses like tumours and cancer in humans . |
| 17 | However there were indications that Congress would delay proceedings until it received assurances of improvements in Mexico 's human rights record and evidence of fair elections [ see below ] . |
| 18 | Darwinian evolutionism is an example of a theory that was adopted by middle-class thinkers because it portrayed Nature in terms that paralleled their preferred framework of society . |
| 19 | For years the headscarf was frowned upon and sometimes banned on the ground that it encouraged dissent among children of different religions . |
| 20 | From the beginning , it claimed credit for outrages in widely separated places in Ulster . |
| 21 | it sweetened news of losses with an improved interim dividend . |
| 22 | It showed 14pc of respondents were kept waiting for services , while many complained that the gardening was of a poor quality . |
| 23 | The permission of the Chief Constable was also a disadvantage in the field because it raised doubts among respondents about the purpose of the researcher 's questions over and above those that naturally arise from the political situation in Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | With regard to what he said about Stratford school , if he had taken rather more interest in the school when it was in the control of Newham and insisted on the school keeping up to reasonable standards and if he now put pressure on Newham LEA to ensure that it raised standards in schools , he would be doing more for his constituents than he is by his performance today . |
| 25 | The Social Attitudes Survey can shine some light on this relationship , since it collected information on respondents ' experience of unemployment in the past five years , as well as the respondent 's current economic status . |
| 26 | A FREEZE in the annual grant to the Royal Scottish National Orchestra was announced yesterday by the Scottish Arts Council when it released details of grants totalling almost £20 million for 1993-94 . |
| 27 | It needed robustness of relationships as well as discussions and arguments which were free of pomposity . |
| 28 | More important , it sanctioned struggle by men to mitigate the interminable labour of their women . |
| 29 | It was a clear manifestation of the industrial and cultural ethos which the coal companies were fostering : it believed that trades unions should be concerned with industrial issues only , and not wider political goals ; it gave privilege to local autonomy rather than general solidarity ; it favoured compromise with employers ; and it eschewed strike action . |
| 30 | It included readings of poems and prose by South American writers such as Jorges Luis Borges , Stephen Dobyns , Isabel Allende , Ariel Dorfman , Claribel Alegria , Caly Domitilia Canek and Martin Steingesser . |