Example sentences of "it [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The various classes of ordinary business investor are : ( 1 ) A company that has , or has a holding company or subsidiary that has , net assets or a called up share capital of £5,000,000 ( or , if it or a holding company has over 20 members , £500,000 ) ; quoted companies and their subsidiaries are therefore almost always ordinary business investors . |
| 2 | Occasionally she was caught for a fraction of a second with images of a pig 's cot wall with a black cat on it or a square stone chapel silhouetted in Sunday dusk , but these were inconsequential visitations , debris from the past uncovered by the rhythms of a particular song or the set and angle of a passing face , a passing mood . |
| 3 | Either that report or a summary of it or a basic valuation prepared from the same materials is used by the building society for the purposes of section 13 . |
| 4 | A is a trustee of property for B , i.e. A has a legal right which he is bound to use for B's benefit ; B is said to have an equitable right to it or an equitable estate in it . |
| 5 | Assuming a treaty to be within the authority of the protecting State , should a claim be brought against it or the protected State ? |
| 6 | Ten thousand pounds will build you the highest column in the world , and will produce an astonishing effect ; fifty thousand pounds would not serve to erect an arch , and when it was erected you would have doubted which , it or the Royal Exchange , was the more magnificent object ; therefore I exhort you to keep to the columnar form . |
| 7 | The original may be physically damaged if a cup of coffee is spilt over it or the magnetic impulses on the disk representing the program may be destroyed or altered by exposure to a strong magnetic field . |
| 8 | To a French aviator , flying sublimely over it all , the Verdun front after a rainfall resembled disgustingly the ‘ humid skin of a monstrous toad ’ Another flyer , James McConnell , ( an American , later killed with the Lafayette Squadron ) noted after passing over ‘ redroofed Verdun ’ — ; which had ‘ spots in it where no red shows and you know what has happened there ’ — that abruptly there is only that sinister brown belt , a strip of murdered nature . |
| 9 | The box hedge is solid as a wall as far as the corner , but just round there it ends , and that short side is privet , and there 's a place in it where an old wicket 's been taken out , and the gap has n't grown in completely yet . |
| 10 | He did not as yet know all the details of how they had died , and what had gone before , but rumour had it that no great physical strength had been involved so that you could not rule out a woman as the killer . |
| 11 | It seemed to Alexei as he considered it that a great deal of effort must be required to sustain such a relationship , and he could not imagine how his father could be bothered with it , or how the women could be content . |
| 12 | We regularly take it that a causal circumstance is linked by way of a causal chain or sequence to its effect . |
| 13 | We do indeed have it that a causal circumstance necessitated its effect . |
| 14 | What do we have in mind in taking it that a causal circumstance makes an effect happen ? |
| 15 | How much more likely is it that a professional boxer , for example , would suffer permanent bodily damage , than a kidney donor ? |
| 16 | How was it that a major piece of canal engineering came to be constructed on one of the least profitable stretches of a minor and dilapidated canal , in the heart of rural England , at a time when the prospects for canals were at their gloomiest ? |
| 17 | Legend has it that a real giant terrorised the locals . |
| 18 | So does , it that a new one |
| 19 | Evolution must surely have seen to it that a good proportion of our thoughts are true of the world , and so in some simple sense the mind must perform computations which record the world and direct our behaviour appropriately . |
| 20 | How was it that a limited company made a contract otherwise than in the course of its business ? |
| 21 | Why is it that a specific person has the indefinable ‘ It ’ and another has not ? |
| 22 | How is it that a large cavern with a high roof may be formed underground ? |
| 23 | If we take it that a Conservative defeat is most probable , we assert the subjunctive conditional . |
| 24 | Somewhere in the middle of the fifteenth century , legend has it that a little girl was tending sheep here when a young lady came to play with her . |
| 25 | But it needs to be borne in mind , before we embark on the various ways of doing this , that it is by no means a universally accepted need nor is it that every bereaved person with whom we come in contact will need ‘ help ’ . |
| 26 | Why was it that every single time she did one little thing that was the least bit out of line she got caught at it ? |
| 27 | There is something decidedly odd about objecting to it that the mere psychological fact that one alternative is more pleasant than another can not by itself be a reason for choosing it . |
| 28 | Is n't it that the unconscious and the ego comes through |
| 29 | ‘ What is it that the Roman poet Catullus said ? |
| 30 | Whichever of these two ( not very clear ) alternatives we adopt ( see 12. 2 — 3 ) , the point remains that whatever memory does provide is not a separable check on our taking it that the new sensation resembles the old . |