Example sentences of "it [verb] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week it agreed in principle that Switzerland could take part in projects where its participation would strengthen the research effort . |
| 2 | At the beginning of last year it agreed in principle a 15-year deal covering fuel supplies and reprocessing at a cost of £2.7 billion , but the contracts have not yet been signed . |
| 3 | Despite the many problems which still faced the proposal to introduce an EC-wide company charter , the Commission defused some of the more acrimonious disputes surrounding company taxation , when it agreed in April 1990 to drop plans for an EC-wide system of personal and corporation tax , in favour of a policy of co-ordinating the various existing systems . |
| 4 | Both as social models and as models of narrative functioning , structuralist theories have gained wide currency within the institutional framework that determines how literature is read and the role it plays in society . |
| 5 | However , it remains to be seen how the class struggle , and the part it plays in history , are to be analysed . |
| 6 | In particular , they point out that the phenomenon of monitoring can not be confined within the restricted role it plays in Monitor theory : |
| 7 | One does n't have to be a reader of Shakespeare to know that there are many enduring human characteristics , but when it comes to work , and the part it plays in individuals ' lives , what they bring to it , and their expectations of it , one sees an enormous rate of change . |
| 8 | He concludes that ‘ it is not too strong to say that the marriage law as it operated in practice in England from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries was a mess ’ ( p. 135 ) . |
| 9 | The share of Africa and Asia then plummeted to less than 2 per cent by 1815 , although it doubled in value . |
| 10 | They had left the paddock gate open , and Joe had taken advantage of it to go in search of more of the nice green apples he remembered having enjoyed so much the previous day — but this time he did n't reach Jessica Turvey 's orchard ; he got himself trapped in the marsh . |
| 11 | Half of this increase occurred in America , where the farmed area trebled in this period ( it quintupled in Australia and grew two-and-a-half times in Canada ) . |
| 12 | it differs in direction and speed from the true wind experienced when standing still . |
| 13 | Mainstream elitism is now represented by writers such as Keller and Aron , as we discussed earlier ; this refers mainly to the interactions and functions of ruling and strategic elites , and though it differs in emphasis from earlier writings , these writers appear to have normative assumptions not radically removed from those of the classical elite theorists . |
| 14 | It is therefore part of the mix of benefits a company offers its customers , although it differs in essence since the initial objective is to minimise its necessity . |
| 15 | One final point to be remembered about contributory negligence is that it differs in effect from a finding of negligence . |
| 16 | If you do not feel the tinkling , repeat the hum but make it lower in pitch . |
| 17 | In the face of a severe crisis relating to international reserves the government devalued the currency twice , in February and in March , and allowed it to float in September . |
| 18 | It mean in fact that they were thinking of abstractions in quite a different way from the way we think of them . |
| 19 | Furthermore , as drafted , the Agreement would allow the Purchaser to claim damages on the tortious measure as well ( essentially the difference between what the Purchaser paid and the market value of what it got in return ) because the Agreement incorporates not only warranties , but representations as well . |
| 20 | In the case of Descartes , it eventuated in laws of motion , one of which resembles the principle of linear inertia that was so basic to Newton 's analysis of the relationship between force , mass , and acceleration . |
| 21 | It revealed in September that it was looking for either an outright buyer or a substantial injection of capital for a minority stake in order to expand the publication . |
| 22 | Women have grabbed rock by the balls and made it squeal in agony . |
| 23 | I remember the screech of the horn and the blur of the car as it passed in front of me . |
| 24 | The author of the Anonimalle Chronicle , however , who evidently had some admiration for Gaunt 's achievement , believed that the army only began to suffer in this way when it wintered in Gascony . |
| 25 | Unhappily , the section does not appear to authorise him to do so , since it refers in paragraph ( a ) to ‘ the constable , ’ a reference back to the constable who has issued the warning in the first place . |
| 26 | Then the time to locate an address in I 2 will be : I 1 will only be created when it is quicker to search I 1 and then the track to which it points in I 2 , than to carry out an average length search of I 2 . |
| 27 | In my dreams I was admitting the full implications of my habit of self-denial , that is , that it amounted in effect to life-denial . |
| 28 | It goes in stages , as follows : |
| 29 | And it goes in front . |
| 30 | The next stage is to persuade it to remain in position while you move away , with the leash lying on the ground . |