Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newco should apply to be registered for VAT before it contracts to purchase the business . |
| 2 | In such situations its decision should only be overturned for bias when it acted in such a way prior to its decision that it could not properly have exercised its discretion , taking due account of its interest in the proceedings . |
| 3 | That humans also fail on these sentences was regarded as support that it reflected how humans process ambiguity although arguments exist against this inference ( Briscoe , 1987 ) . |
| 4 | You see , an island like Hodges is so occupied with copra that it produces nothing else . |
| 5 | I was fostered with Millie and it went from there . |
| 6 | But , when she was down in the country , I had a BSkyB dish installed in London and it took her 24 hours to find it . |
| 7 | As you know the magazine is edited in Leeds but it has always been a rule that there should be no Yorkshire influence . |
| 8 | The problem is one which can not ultimately be resolved in pedagogy but it needs to be recognized , not in negative terms as a licence either for imposing fixed ideas or for random expediency , but as a positive incentive for continuing enquiry , which will be sensitive to the circumstances of different learning/teaching situations . |
| 9 | It is because of the universality of the threat to freedom contained in homophobia that it becomes highly important that we try to avoid both the language which dissociates us from sexual acts by others in which we do not want to participate , and the attitudes which that language represents . |
| 10 | I 'm a sucker for coastal walking and am naturally attracted to Dorset as it offers some of the best in the country . |
| 11 | Many people are attracted to Yugoslavia because it offers such great value for money . |
| 12 | A car involved in a fatal accident on the M1 Motorway is believed to have caught on fire before it crashed . |
| 13 | Would the idyll she had dreamed of be there again , not smashed to pieces as it seemed to be ? |
| 14 | Ahead of her the canal turned in a broad left-hand sweep , its line dominated by trees until it disappeared beneath the parapet of a bridge . |
| 15 | The parade ground was surrounded by trees and it had rained in the night ; the cobbles under our feet were wet and puddled . |
| 16 | ‘ Except in the celebrations that greeted the end of World War II , I have never seen England look as unashamedly delighted by life as it did during the World Cup , ’ Arthur Hopcraft has written . |
| 17 | The political right is attracted by workfare because it resents the idea that people might be paid by the state to do nothing . |
| 18 | In India , dowry taking has long been forbidden by law but it persists strongly even in the cities . |
| 19 | It has been particularly effective in providing a secure home base for families that have been physically scattered by emigration and it seems quite possible that small-scale farming of this kind may enjoy a new vogue , with the greater appreciation of self-provisioning , especially for fuel , to say nothing of the scenic beauty of the places where it is carried on . |
| 20 | The term ‘ strategy ’ , as a way of conceptualising management actions , refers to long-term policies pursued by management and it implies , according to one common approach , that management has a choice between alternative possibilities with respect to the best ways of attaining its labour relations objectives — within the constraints set by the external environment . |
| 21 | Obvious because it stares you in the face as you walk in to the corrie , and also because you can see that the icicle has n't quite formed despite rumours that it does . |
| 22 | Let's have a defence review so both the military and the industries are prepared for change when it comes . ’ |
| 23 | Painting , architecture ( as its most pure ) , and literature have a definitive form or text , and although the same can be said of drama whilst it remains on the printed page , its conversion to the performing medium allows a great deal more flexibility than music ever can . |
| 24 | She was polite about the leeks and lumpy cheese and said a similar thing could be done with endives and it looked at first as if the lunch was going to prove a slightly awkward affair . |
| 25 | The grid is protected from damage by a she et of clear acrylic over which the stylus can be moved with ease although it does scratch . |
| 26 | But The Sun thought that ‘ the meeting was a bogus one , if it was held at all ’ , further alleging that this clandestine organisation ( which said that it had met in secrecy because it feared Hooligan reprisals ) was a put-up job by someone in the pay of The Daily Telegraph . |
| 27 | This is not done in man because it leads to Charcot joints and a deafferentation phantom , two signs the horse may not be able to display . |
| 28 | Although OS/2 can run DOS ( and in turn DOS applications ) it has not been as widely accepted in Europe as it has in America . |
| 29 | THE SALVATION Army was warned that it might be the victim of an elaborate fraud weeks before the charity revealed in February that it had been defrauded of £6.2 million . |
| 30 | This orientation , Siemens suggests , was imposed from Teotihuacan where it had special astronomical and ritual significance . |