Example sentences of "[subord] it [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Because it always involves raw materials and techniques it is always dependent Upon a context , and is not to be thought of , in humanist vein , as an isolated expression of the essential creativity of human beings . |
| 32 | Developing the objective of enterprise democracy , while it too involves theoretical/ideological activity , can also be a matter of practical struggle . |
| 33 | Given Shakeshaft 's conservatism , and the BEA 's long power station construction times , relative backwardness was indeed inevitable , since it effectively placed eleven years between the trial of new technology in America and its first adoption in Britain . |
| 34 | It is also ideal if currency is required , since it normally lists new titles in the same month as publication . |
| 35 | The Soviet Union is reluctant to cut back on its oil supplies to Romania , since it still needs Romanian meat and consumer goods more than Ceausescu needs Soviet imports . |
| 36 | A divergent process can also be regarded as having the most undefined behaviour possible , since it forever performs internal actions in an effort to decide what its behaviour will be , but never makes any progress . |
| 37 | In all then , Telecom would probably have outlaid £14m — allowing for very modest fees on the purchase — before it actually laid one brick , and that is if it got planning permission . |
| 38 | It is common practice to put a battery on charge when it still has some life in it . |
| 39 | In this respect the UK system , though it also has substantial defects , is superior , as I shall now try to establish . |
| 40 | The public-interest objective is harder to reject , because it is eminently reasonable that public policy should be concerned with more than just economic efficiency , though it clearly generates considerable uncertainty for firms about what they may and may not do . |
| 41 | At the end of one hour her back was aching as if it had been kicked all over by a mule ; but she went on doggedly , though it soon became absolute agony . |
| 42 | Though it still controlled local government , it lost some of its power of patronage and could no longer direct national policy in favour of its clientele . |
| 43 | Though it now has few East European customers it has proved that with cheap , intermediate technology and a limitlessly flexible approach to business , it is possible to sell exchanges to Russian cities . |
| 44 | The proposal to delegate responsibilities to local authorities was anathema to the Thatcher government in particular as it profoundly mistrusted local government and had progressively weakened its influence . |
| 45 | The history of the Ottoman Empire , for example , is only dealt with here in so far as it immediately affects non-Turkish Europe . |
| 46 | It is mainly used as a phosphate source which , as it also contains some lime , has an alkaline reaction . |
| 47 | The use of ozone as a reactant in absorption systems is relatively new but one increasing in popularity as it reportedly requires lower dose rates and reaction times , is less susceptible to changes in water temperature and acidity or alkalinity and produces no harmful by-products . |
| 48 | Even at the same time as it publicly commends higher education , seeking out the graduate entrant , spending large sums on publicity to this end , and funding access to degree courses on scholarships , it also holds to a central ethic of distrust of the academic . |
| 49 | During 1991 and after 10 years of negotiations , the START treaty was signed , and in itself it is indeed only a start as it still leaves enormous stockpiles of delivery systems and nuclear warheads , enough to reduce most of our planet to a radioactive cinder heap . |
| 50 | As the problem stands , it is a little unfair , as it really conceals two parts : |
| 51 | Such planning , involving as it always does public action — provision of good educational opportunity , good public housing and health care , competent attention to drug addiction , family counselling , adequate welfare payments — is systemically resisted by the contented electoral majority . |
| 52 | The second structure , involved in the line of dialogue round the graveside , is more exposing , for it really tests each participant 's commitment to the affective aspect of the event . |