Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively would the court regard the clause as so tainted by its attempt to exclude the liability for personal injury that it would also become unenforceable in respect of the liability for property damage as well ? |
| 2 | Khorramshahr , grimly dubbed Khuninshahr ( city of blood ) by some Iranians , was the subject of a good deal of contradictory reporting before it eventually fell late in October . |
| 3 | And we 've had a great deal of helpful cooperation and it 's very much erm going right into the schools , right into the whole system of government and control of the schools , erm and I think again is going to produce some very interesting results before too long . |
| 4 | Field archaeology attracts a great deal of interdisciplinary interest since it offers so many varied and interesting problems . |
| 5 | Marx sees such an argument as a subtle legitimation of private property as it existed in his time , because it made it basic to human nature . |
| 6 | This debate has wider implications for the study of political science since it emphasised major features of the process of governmental decision-making — the plurality of values of participants in policy-making , the plurality of actors involved , the emphasis upon perceptions rather than ‘ objective interests ’ and the fact that policy outcomes seldom reflect the values and preferences of one group . |
| 7 | Our echographic measurement of the antrum is too schematic for a physiological study of gastric motility but it is sufficient for use in crossover trials where each subject acts as his/ her own control . |
| 8 | The old quarter is indeed a concentration of Swiss life as it once was . |
| 9 | Many contemporary and subsequent critics have emphasized the extent to which The Big Parade ( 1925 ) is essentially a piece of romantic escapism but it was the film 's thoroughly sensible and balanced attitude towards war that earned it respect from discriminating critics in the 1920s . |
| 10 | Future prosecution for gross human rights violations was left to the judiciary despite widespread opinion that it was irredeemably tainted by past association with the military . |
| 11 | However , constraints of time and the intellectual range of those who have the teaching of criminal law in charge counsel pessimism , and unless and until the four-year degree is established legal education in general will suffer through the narrowing effect of criminal law as it is now taught . |
| 12 | The most recent development is the growing use of solar control and low-emissivity glass , which helps to retain heat in the winter and to prevent unnecessary solar gain in summer , often giving the equivalent effect of triple glazing when it 's used in conjunction with double glazing . |
| 13 | They were selected because it is clear that , judged by current psychiatric criteria , they all did suffer from episodes of psychosis — to introduce a technical term to be defined more precisely as we proceed through this and the following chapter , but which for the moment can be taken as synonymous with the layperson 's conception of mental illness as it occurs in its most disintegrative form and which especially refers to serious disorders , like schizophrenia . |
| 14 | However , the specialist team is distinguished by a particular approach , featuring high throughput of cases , and it has to be uncertain at this stage whether this is a consequence of its specialism or of an underlying distinction in the conception of social work that it may represent — what we have called a ‘ deep ’ structure . |
| 15 | Sussex smugglers traded in luxury goods , particularly wine and tea , essential to the maintenance of genteel civility and it took rare , almost obsessive , members of the landed hierarchy to take a consistently firm line against it . |
| 16 | This may be as crude a model of the public official as the models of ‘ protector of the public interest ’ , ‘ profligate incompetent ’ , insensitive automaton or neutral instrument of political will that it seeks to replace . |
| 17 | We have already seen that there were times when the High Anglican interest , supposedly the natural allies of strong monarchy , sought to challenge the powers of the Crown in order to protect the interests of the established Church ; we have also seen that Nonconformist and Whig politicians , who during the Exclusion Crisis became the champions of Parliamentarianism , had at times shown themselves prepared to defend the royal prerogative against Parliamentary limitation when it was being used to protect the interests of the Dissenters . |
| 18 | This week 's threat by Ofgas regulator Sir James McKinnon to take legal action against British Gas if it does n't reduce its prices is an indication of what can be achieved by forceful regulation of the privatised utilities . ) |
| 19 | There is an analogy with natural language and it would be ridiculous to suggest that writing an article or report using " Esperanto " infringed any copyright subsisting in the language . |
| 20 | In the words of , General Manager of the Entertainments Section , without management and dedication the would not have survived to become the major force in British theatre that it is today . |
| 21 | The MGFV is paid back to Ford Credit , but if you 've kept the car in good nick and it fetches more than the MGFV then you keep any profit . |
| 22 | In both the United Kingdom and Ireland an international agreement has no effect in municipal law unless it has been incorporated by legislation ; therefore in neither State could individuals use this provision to bring a legal action to prevent their government from entering into a new or modified agreement . |
| 23 | In many respects , therefore , it would appear that the family is a much less important institution in modern society than it was in the past . |
| 24 | The size of the service sector is an impediment to economic growth because it depends upon inflation to a considerable extent . |
| 25 | Leave the carriage at plain knitting and it will knit in the E position needles with ease on the first of the rows that follow . |
| 26 | See my jazz feature in this issue for an example of what I mean ; it has n't meant less coverage of Classical Music but it will mean we 're acting upon a good number of our readers ' wishes . |
| 27 | It is an integral part of modern culture that it is simply not possible to envisage a model of freedom , including that abstraction needed for the achievement of equality , which would not have as one of its component parts the tendency towards alienation . |
| 28 | This means that the budget is in itself an important part of financial accountability and it also means that the final accounts often include , for comparative purposes , budgetary information . |
| 29 | Brushing your teeth is so much a part of daily routine that it is sometimes easy to forget the importance of doing it properly . |
| 30 | It is enough to say that , especially after 1529 , Parliament became a more dynamic and a still less dispensable part of English government than it had been before . |