Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [prep] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the university is to act as the " cultural centre for the whole community " , with literature as the " central civilizing force " , it needs to be capable of discrediting those students who " are actually too lazy or incompetent to do an honest day 's work " . |
| 2 | We need such data and it needs to be sensitive to regional variations . |
| 3 | Later on in the article he repeats this ; ie. ‘ not only does the tenon need to be pretty much where it needs to be relative to the thickness of the wood . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It has to be tall to really taste nice . |
| 6 | Thus if leadership is to be practised throughout the organisation then it has to be consistent with political objectives and compatible with the role of the politician . |
| 7 | It has to be ready for that okay ? |
| 8 | It has to be transparent in order that the background , or other characters which pass behind , can be seen through it . |
| 9 | Toronto-based CAE Industries Ltd reports that its CAE-Link Corp unit has won a contract from the UK Ministry of Defence for a higher formation battle trainer for the British Army : terms were not disclosed , but CAE-Link will develop , install and maintain a command-and-control trainer to simulate a round-the-clock battle in real time for up to six weeks , creating the battlefield communications flow between the staff being trained , higher headquarters and subordinate unit headquarters ; it will consist of a central server networked to 170 controller and operator stations at two sites in the UK and Germany ; it has to be transportable for use at other training sites . |
| 10 | It is explained by the combination of the first two conditions , and since it is a performative purporting to affect the rights or duties of another , it has to be public at least in intention . |
| 11 | The politics of the situation probably means that it has to be sensitive to the traditional concerns of the governments themselves but it also has to provide strong arguments for deviations from generally accepted accounting principles for business . |
| 12 | ‘ If a firm is interested in Rhone-Alpes , then it has to be interested in the region intrinsically . ’ |
| 13 | Thus , if a subsidiary company is sold off by the group with surrendered ACT , it ceases to be available for offset . |
| 14 | Dance is firstly a physical activity and if it is obscured by complicated costumes , props , machinery , lighting and stage effects , it ceases to be relevant to anything but the cleverness of the producer . |
| 15 | ‘ But when technique enters into every area of life , including the human , it ceases to be external to man and becomes his very substance . |
| 16 | It ceases to be true of the great tit as a matter of fact , because if you follow populations of the great tits westward across Europe , the Middle East and Northern India into Southern China , they gradually change and become smaller and darker . |
| 17 | However , as it tends to be dry at the ends , we trimmed off an inch and tamed the frizz with heated rollers . |
| 18 | Finally , because it tends to be selective in terms of the types of people involved , migration also has the power to produce substantial and rapid changes in the population composition of individual places . |
| 19 | It hangs too much on the concept of class and fails to explore the changes and complexities that bear on this ; it tends to be gross in its handling of the power of business ; and it is unsure in its handling of the power of organised labour , seeing it both as lacking in any real power , but as somehow having the potential to become a ferocious force capable of transforming the capitalist system totally . |
| 20 | They will be showing fledgling superstars what it takes to be successful in the business and give an insight into studio sampling and computer techniques . |
| 21 | It appears to be futile in that inevitably one finds oneself conceiving something else . |
| 22 | The pathogenesis of this finding is not known but it appears to be unrelated to any effect of the diabetic state on platelet prostacyclin receptors as prostacyclin binding appears to be normal in diabetic platelets ( Shepherd et al , 1983 ) . |
| 23 | Explicitly or implicitly , the various theories treat aggression as an absolute discrete ‘ thing ’ , which , when it appears to be absent in a particular society , has somehow to be accounted for . |
| 24 | It appears to be contrary to what the Criminal Law Revision Committee and Parliament intended when they established " dishonesty " in the 1968 Act . |
| 25 | In some ways it is similar to second language acquisition , but it appears to be different in that it starts from the natively acquired dialect as a base . |
| 26 | That is not to claim that illus.1 wholly corresponds to what was used in 1790 , or even 1806 : but on the other hand , it appears to be plausible in the light of these important contemporary writers . |
| 27 | It pretends to be dead of lack . |
| 28 | I mean it seems to be available for youngsters but afterwards |
| 29 | Specifically in Highways and Planning , if you look at the previous report , the enclos following profile one , you will see that in the Highways Planning Department excepting the offices , it is almost entirely male , and I think this is , it 's for the Director of Highways and Planning to say in the end , I think this is an acknowledgement by him that in the way that you mentioned nevertheless it seems to be apparent in some way , shape or form , women are not getting equal opportunity in that department . |
| 30 | In Xenopus embryos , the intracellular level of calcium oscillates during the cell cycle , reaching a peak at mitosis , when it seems to be responsible for triggering nuclear envelope breakdown at prophase . |