Example sentences of "[num] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sex Discrimination Act 1986 made it unlawful for an employer to discriminate between men and women as regards retirement age . |
| 2 | Secondly , until 1926 , at law ( as opposed to equity ) no limited interests in chattels personal could be created — the notion of estates had no application to chattels personal till the Law of Property Act 1925 made it possible to create an entailed interest in them . |
| 3 | Yes , fifty given it exactly the same way . |
| 4 | Second , Titles V and VI make it explicitly clear that just as with other aspects of Community life , the institutions of the EEC , in particular the Commission , are to be fully involved in ‘ Union ’ foreign and home policy . |
| 5 | Yet Labour had a double advantage with the electors : its leaders had served with complete loyalty in the coalition , and had thereby secured valuable experience of government , mostly , to be sure , on the home front ; but the party in Parliament had also by its single rebellion in 1943 made it clear to all that it was dissatisfied with the coalition 's progress towards social reform . |
| 6 | The Bakufu 's inability to demonstrate military superiority over Choshú0 late in 1866 made it apparent to all that the Tokugawa no longer possessed the force majeure on which their power ultimately depended , and with their opponents allied with each other under the banner of imperial rule the Tokugawa 's fate was sealed . |
| 7 | A greater distance from the events of 1680s made it easier for people to develop a nostalgic longing for the return of the exiled Stuarts as the solution to the nation 's ills . |
| 8 | One guide in 1861 ranked it with St Paul 's and Buckingham Palace and began its report : ‘ We are not a race of giants , but we enter on gigantic works . |
| 9 | A Northern force faced with several desecrated graveyards and missing bodies in 1986 found it easier to describe it as the work of vandals . |
| 10 | The long period of Conservative government from 1951–64 made it easier for Labour MPs , released from electoral inhibitions , to press for abolition . |
| 11 | It is already being said that if Wales keep them below 30 points it will be a moral victory . |
| 12 | But the general thrust of the above discussion is relevant to all such cases : whatever the alternative to Ord. 53 procedure for dealing with a particular issue , the question is whether the peculiar features of an Ord. 53 make it inappropriate to use the alternative in the particular case in question . |
| 13 | However , the steadily increasing weight of express trains in the 1890s made it obvious that more powerful locomotives would be required . |
| 14 | Alternatively the higher mobility of the shift produced by this protein ( Figure 2b ) suggests that it may be smaller in size than Oct-1 allowing it to bind adjacent to bound NF1 and activate gene expression synergistically . |
| 15 | The official results announced on Dec. 30 made it apparent that the second round of voting scheduled for Jan. 16 , 1992 , would almost certainly produce a FIS government . |
| 16 | When you forty pee it 's like eight pounds |
| 17 | ‘ With over 300 covers it was probably too big as a fish restaurant and while it stayed successful for some time as The Chicago Meatpackers , the area around it , in the West End of London , has changed in two major ways . |
| 18 | WHITBREAD yesterday denied that the 12 deals it is finalising to lease more than 1,000 pubs to regional brewers and pub chains go against government orders , aimed at loosening the big brewers ' tie . |
| 19 | Apart from women sterilized for contraceptive purposes , 6 per cent of women aged 16–44 claimed it would be difficult or impossible for them to have children . |
| 20 | Alpha itself is slightly yellowish , and is close to Theta , which is decidedly red ; Theta has an M-type spectrum , and when at its brightest the colour is detectable even with × 7 , though × 12 shows it better . |
| 21 | The aggregate responses to the Innovation Advisory Board 's original recommendation for a UK R&D scoreboard indicated 49 supporting it , 22 against it , with a sizeable number ( 35 ) neither agreeing nor disagreeing . |
| 22 | 2 Tell it in your own words . |
| 23 | His audience of around 300 loved it , shouting ‘ No ! ’ with gusto after each of Mr Major 's ‘ Do we really want … ? ’ questions and feigning hysterical laughter at his put downs to the hecklers . |
| 24 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |
| 25 | He bought the eighteenth-century Letheringsett Hall from the Breretons , and in 1808 engulfed it in Greece , adding this south front of giant Doric columns , which were an exact copy of the temple of Delos on Isis . |
| 26 | He enjoyed cricket , visiting Australia in 1902–3 to watch it , was fluent in French and German , and quoted Shakespeare , Goethe , and other poets at length by heart . |
| 27 | As 105 puts it : It is hard to miss the wit in such poems , or in the earlier profession of incompetence : It would be a dull-witted reader who interpreted such poems literally , or who took au pied de la lettre such conventional statements of bondage as this : Self-depreciation ( sometimes called ‘ the modesty topos ’ has been a rhetorical device since the beginnings of literature and continues in full flourish today . |
| 28 | 2 Does it identify everyone or everything in the picture ? |
| 29 | The castle changed hands many times during the Scottish Wars of Independence and remained a thorn in the crown until James V sacked it in the sixteenth century ; but before the level of the loch was raised in the 1930s , |
| 30 | However , FRS 2 makes it clear that the group should provide against the debit minority interest where there is a commercial or legal obligation , whether formal or implied , to make it good . |