Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb -s] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Trail starts at the south-east of Brighstone Forest where it meets another long distance route — the Tennyson Trail . |
| 2 | Financial support , however , is relatively easy to document where it concerns those wealthy enough to have money , property and other possessions to dispose of in wills , or indeed in their lifetimes . |
| 3 | Secondly , at any time in the relevant period the property given to the donee must be enjoyed by the donee or it seems any other person to the entire exclusion or virtually to the entire exclusion of the donor . |
| 4 | That does n't necessarily mean biggest , although it requires some critical mass in each country , and only in selected industries in each country ’ Carroll said . |
| 5 | What is perhaps most remarkable about this grassland is that it is only maintained under active management even rabbits were introduced by the Normans and , although it resembles some periglacial assemblages of plants , it must have been reconstituted after the forest maximum unless there were extensive grazed glades in that period . |
| 6 | The transition from water to land required not only the perfection of a walking limb , but modifications to the hearing system , palate , eyes and so on , and Ichthyostega had already established most of these terrestrial modifications , so it is in no sense an ‘ ancestor ’ , although it has many ancestral features . |
| 7 | This engrossing spectacle fascinates the predator who may eventually devour the tail , although it has little nutritional value . |
| 8 | He was so strong a character — and he meant so much to me — that although it 's many many years since I worked with him , he was in a way always there — it has been a strength in reserve — that there was Basil if you needed him . |
| 9 | The pluralist account is descriptively sound , therefore , but may be open to the charge that it ignores this broader vision of socio-economic and political change . |
| 10 | language … gives structure to experience , and helps to determine our way of looking at things , so that it requires some intellectual effort to see them in any other way than that which our language suggests to us . |
| 11 | They have an ingenious device called a " lens ' , whose shape appears to be mathematically calculated so that it bends these silent rays in such a way that there is an exact one-to-one mapping between objects in the world and an " image " on a sheet of cells called the " retina " . |
| 12 | The avoidance of blackmail may become so over-riding an objective that it obscures all other logic . |
| 13 | The product itself , for example , though useful may be so commonplace or so inexpensive that it has little intrinsic interest outside its own application . |
| 14 | This proved to be a fateful oversight since one of the most devastating criticisms to be levelled at Keynesian macroeconomics in recent years has been that it has such shaky foundations in microeconomics . |
| 15 | It is only when we remember that it has many internal parts , all obeying laws of physics at their own level , that we understand the behaviour of the whole body . |
| 16 | However , the view of style adopted here implies that it has many mundane aspects , and that style is not simply a property of poetic or even just literary texts . |
| 17 | The Calderdale TEC says that it has many young people waiting . |
| 18 | It means that it has fewer aural clues from which to decipher the sense . |
| 19 | What I wanted to say was that when I read the Annual Report I was rather surprised to find that there is no reference to the er report of the committee under the chairmanship of Bob , Bob on the organization of the R Y A and then I realized that it probably did n't come to the Council till after the end of the year that we have under consideration but it did seem to me that it has some contentious and some very interesting and rather good points in it and I wonder if we could be told how the consideration of it is getting on . |
| 20 | One of the reasons it thinks that COSE is interested in its participation is that it has some key technology that in typical DEC fashion , it has failed to trumpet . |
| 21 | The tribunal is not restricted to evidence acceptable in a court of law ; provided that it has some probative value the court will not reassess its weight . |
| 22 | But it has never really shown that it has any new ideas about where it should end up . |
| 23 | The snow is so white that it reflects any available light . |
| 24 | The most obvious definition for labouring poets is that it includes all those whose support normally depended on manual work , either their own or that of their families . |
| 25 | If it is difficult to defend where the line is drawn , it may be that the line is drawn in the wrong place and that it should be drawn instead so that it includes all those who were infected because of NHS treatment — not just some . |
| 26 | The polarisation of views , inherent in the structure of a dialogue , may oversimplify complex issues at the heart of the debate , but we hope that it highlights several important conflicts which remain unresolved . |
| 27 | One important part of the citizens charter is not so much that it contains many individual ideas and proposals for change , but that it is intended to change the entire attitude of public servants and the way in which citizens approach them . |
| 28 | I 'm not gon na go over t what my colleague has said but what I do wan na know is when are the Labour Party gon na get hold of some issue and make some sort of mileage out of it , because we 've got a number of sponsored MPs and we ca n't get 'em off the doorstep at election time , but when it comes about doing summat for us and consider the fact that it affects many many people and we talk about the links that the Labour Party and the trade union has , I think the Labour Party 's already severed 'em , as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 29 | The problem with this type of promotion is that it undermines any sensible perception which purchasers of children 's books might have of what constitutes value for money . |
| 30 | One of the work 's main strengths is that it covers all social positions . |