Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] it [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , he realised that for political reasons it would be very difficult to do less than had been proposed in the Bill introduced in 1938 . |
| 2 | For administrative reasons it would be undesirable for base rates to change every time money market rates changed , but if the change is large enough , then a base rate change becomes necessary . |
| 3 | If , for each country , is constant over time it follows that will be a constant , although of course for different countries it will be a different constant . |
| 4 | If the exchange suspects that a trade has been effected for improper purposes it must investigate this . |
| 5 | However , research on Indian students learning English suggests that to learn the language for commercial purposes it may also be effective to have instrumental motivation . |
| 6 | Well after extensive tests it can be revealed that they are human and they do have a heart . |
| 7 | Depending on the time of year , the Chelt at this point is often no more than a trickle , although after heavy rain it can rapidly become a muddy torrent , rushing through the fields ( and now beneath the M5 motorway ) , via Butlers Court , to the next mill at Boddington . |
| 8 | With the increased number of market-makers after Big Bang it would be expected that spreads and commissions would fall , |
| 9 | For similar reasons it will be difficult to argue that action taken by the exchange in good faith in the interests of the exchange as a whole is intended to induce a breach of contract , merely because this is an incidental side-effect . |
| 10 | The unreliability of reported mergers has been argued for most strongly by Labov and his colleagues ( Labov , Yaeger and Steiner , 1972 ; Labov , 1975 etc. ) , and for inner-city Belfast it can be argued that meat is not really merged with mate , despite the fact that people believe that it is a merger . |
| 11 | If you want to go sailing , play volleyball or have a round of mini golf it wo n't cost you a penny and the kids can be left in the Pirates Club while you spend the afternoon doing things you want to do … but you may have a job persuading them to leave a few hours later . |
| 12 | ‘ If they gave hard facts instead of patronising advertising it would be better . |
| 13 | What a fine piece of historical irony it would be if from the heart of this wounded part of Europe there were to emerge a politics that would begin to show us how to be at home in the world , decently balancing the requirements of social justice and economic sufficiency , of finite nature and what we call human nature . |
| 14 | With all this it is rather slow to grow and frequently when the culture plate is examined for evidence of gonococcal growth it will be found to be overgrown by other bacteria or yeasts , making it difficult or impossible to identify the gonococcus . |
| 15 | That had stopped the Ministry ‘ dead in its tracks ’ and it had come to the conclusion that if it denied premium to the rearer of suckled calves it would eventually be challenged by a hill farmer before the European Court . |
| 16 | ‘ I know that if Ken had had any kind of sexual relationship it would n't have been with anyone he knew well . |
| 17 | Thus , when it is intended to export a product to a number of different countries it may , and often will be , necessary to carry out separate tests at several different conditions of temperature and humidity . |
| 18 | Most of this chapter is devoted to a description of five sets of case studies of the new technology , showing the wide variety of different impacts it can make on the nature of work . |
| 19 | In the absence of magnetic saturation it can be shown ( Roters , 1941 ) that the torque produced is proportional to the square of the phase current in a variable-reluctance motor and linearly proportional to the phase current in a hybrid motor . |
| 20 | USING THE American motion picture industry as a gauge of public interest it would seem that through the post-war years the American public was content to uneasily ignore the catastrophe that was Pearl Harbor . |
| 21 | This means that if it is of public interest it will appear in all the newspapers and no particular paper will have the incentive to try to procure a scoop . |
| 22 | Now electrolysis is the permanent removal of hair by the insertion of a very small needle attached to a machine and you press the button on the needle holder which releases current , and that cooks the hair , it actually cooks the root of the hair , but each hair has to be individually treated , so if you 've got quite a lot of coarse hair it can take a lot of time , and a lot of money . |
| 23 | Yet , while it could play down the challenge of British fascism it could not ignore the threat of European fascism . |
| 24 | They present a critical agenda involved in a current cultural confrontation — questioning the ideological partiality of a neo-conservative critical perspective , which apparently refuses to confront the terms on which it asserts its authenticity and which limits the range of cultural artefacts it will admit as civilised discourse . |
| 25 | Taking equation ( 4.29 ) to represent the economist 's model , it is easy to see that he would recommend to a government that if it wished to achieve a higher level of real output it should raise the rate of growth of the quantity of money . |
| 26 | In a world of perfect competition it would not be possible for managers to deviate from the profit-maximization norm for any length of time even if they were tempted to pursue their own rather than the shareholders ' interests . |
| 27 | In the South Wales region it is expected that the annual quantity required from this source will rise from about 2.8 mt to 3.6 mt over the 20 year period , despite the fact that as a proportion of overall consumption it will fall from 15% to 10% . |
| 28 | In the South Wales region it is expected that the annual quantity required from this source will rise from about 2.8 mt to 3.6 mt over the 20 year period , despite the fact that as a proportion of overall consumption it will fall from 15% to 10% . |
| 29 | Sihanouk 's plan was unacceptable to Soviet leaders anyway since like the proposal for a neutralisation of contemporary Afghanistan it would imperil the retention of the socialist structure of government in the neutralised state . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , TNCs do introduce much useable technology into the Third World , and while it may not lead to the conquest of global markets it may still have a very positive effect on industry and employment in particular countries . |