Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new subject of International Relations must find the best ways of making leaders aware of the dysfunctional nature of war , or , if it failed in this , appeal directly to the populations concerned . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Because it applied to all bodies everywhere , the universe had at last become a universe . |
| 4 | Now at that point , when she received the letter and read the policy , erm we could have given her a better cover if it applied to that particular vehicle . |
| 5 | The Administration decided that it applied to any coal owner who had actively sought to mine the coal up to the day the law was passed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Seymour features brilliant humour and some of the best puzzles and animation even seen in the arcade adventure , but it plays with all the style and grace of a drunken elephant ! |
| 8 | A sign has meaning , not in virtue of something accompanying it , ‘ thinking ’ , but in virtue of the part it plays in some ‘ form of life ’ . |
| 9 | In the first edition of the Fact File , we gave a detailed description of the system as it operated before these changes . |
| 10 | It operated in many markets , and its competitors were all over the world . |
| 11 | where it splits into all the |
| 12 | Is it to go to all the members of your organisation , is it to be read by the Board of Directors only , is it to be studied by the upper echelon of the scientific staff , or is it for the eyes of your boss only ? |
| 13 | The question then arises as to how this pragmatic enterprise differs , if it differs at all , from the kinds of activity which are customarily carried out under the name of research . |
| 14 | In many ways it is a BoP lookalike — the technology must be very similar for the two programs — but it differs in many respects . |
| 15 | ‘ It differs in that it lacks the double characteristic of agape — the acceptance of the unacceptable , or the movement form the highest to the lowest , and , at the same time , the will to transform individual as well as social structures . ’ |
| 16 | This operation is evidently an extension of the I operation ; instead of adding multiples of a different row ( or column ) to a given row , it adds multiples of the same row ; however , it differs in that now the determinant is l . |
| 17 | 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 " . |
| 18 | All of the family members should be encouraged to put forward their viewpoint even if it differs from that expressed by others . |
| 19 | Ophiomedea duplicata may be mistaken for a juvenile Ophiotrema alberti , it differs from that species by the following characters ; the jaw shape is as wide as long not longer than wide as in O. alberti ; there are fewer oral papillae and oral tentacle scales than in O. alberti , the ventral arm plates are bell shaped with a distinctly widened distal edge , the ventral arm plates of O. alberti being more pentagonal or rectangular with rounded edges and the distal edge indented but not widened . |
| 20 | If dyspepsia is to be used to identify a particularly high risk group ( such as coal miners ) , then we must know the rate of dyspepsia in the group we are studying and the extent to which it differs from that in the general population . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Empson 's work thus comes close to the theories discussed in the last chapter , which approach the literary text through its linguistic form ; it differs from most of these , however , in being less systematic and theoretical , and in particular in being less influenced by developments in modern linguistics . |
| 23 | One essay may have both first-class and abysmal features and yet be graded neither A nor F ; instead it may get a C which fails altogether in letting us know that it differs from another essay graded C which is consistently of that quality in all its parts . |
| 24 | ‘ We will be studying this programme very closely to see if it crosses over that legal line . |
| 25 | If it crosses over that line , being mad will turn into being a lawsuit . ’ |
| 26 | World market : The global market for solar energy is worth about $500 million , two-thirds of it shared among many tiny private companies . |
| 27 | This was no minor commitment ; nor was it treated as such . |
| 28 | The amazing thing about this second ‘ Carry On ’ was not so much that it succeeded at all , but that it outgrossed the first in the series . |
| 29 | When you played Hammersmith a couple of years back and it got to that point in the song , I looked around and a lot of people were craning their necks , checking out how that was done . |
| 30 | Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ . |