Example sentences of "of [art] [noun] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Medical experts no longer approve of this method of dieting — largely because of the limits it places on the intake of cereals , fruit and root vegetables . |
| 2 | When he struck it hard against the trunk of the tree it seemed solid and did not break or splinter . |
| 3 | The NSP said that as a result of the discovery it had arrested 62 people on charges of violating the National Security Law and the Military Secrets Protection Law . |
| 4 | This was a great age of Catholic history and the importance of the Council can only be appreciated if the strength of the Church it triggered into a spiral of reform — a strength that had steadily grown beneath the surface in the pontificate of Pius XII — is well appreciated . |
| 5 | The Environment Secretary , Michael Heseltine , has refused an application for the construction of a toxic waste incinerator near Doncaster in South Yorkshire , because of the threat it poses to water supplies . |
| 6 | Women 's work in sweated trades ( defined with some difficulty by a Select Committee on the subject in 1890 as work carried on for inadequate wages and for excessive hours in insanitary conditions ) , was also opposed because of the threat it posed to motherhood and the rearing of an imperial race . |
| 7 | The World Bank has admitted that many of the projects it funded in Brazil during the 1970s and 80s resulted in massive environmental degradation and the eviction of over 100,000 poor farmers and their families , many of whom were forced into the shanty-towns of major cities . |
| 8 | It , from the requirements of the standard it does only imply where you have n't got a covering letter or anything like that with it . |
| 9 | One of the qualities of jade that contributed most to social harmony was the musical nature of the notes it emitted when struck . |
| 10 | Unemployment thus helped to shape the politics of the age , and some political changes were clearly the result of the problems it raised , although long-term social changes were clearly evident in permitting the Labour Party to replace the Liberal Party as the progressive party of British politics . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've always said so because of the problems it causes and the way it upsets people . |
| 12 | Unfortunately for IBM , the catalogue does show up some of the problems it has pricing and delivering its own product lines — of the X-terminals in the catalogue for instance , IBM 's Xstation 130 , priced at £3,574 , is both more expensive than any of the Network Computing Devices Inc and Tandberg Data A/S models listed , and the only one to take 15 days for delivery rather than 96 hours for the rest . |
| 13 | One of the problems it seems , that I can see about this , is that the little sort of semi- diagram , you could almost reverse the , the and have the same sort of problem in other words . |
| 14 | Indeed if a BBC nationwide survey in 1987 is to be heeded , the CAB can be confident that the public is aware of the service it provides and makes good use of it . |
| 15 | Perhaps , however , among the 10 per cent who do not know of the CAB , there are many people in difficulty who might be helped if only they were aware of the service it provides . |
| 16 | In some parts of the country it has been the practice to sell freehold land for building , and to take the price in the form of a perpetual rentcharge created by the purchaser ; this practice took the place of the more common building lease . |
| 17 | ‘ . In its call for ‘ rigorous constructive argument ’ and a general reorganisation of the political , social and economic structure of the country it articulated the frustrations of a broad spectrum of opinion with existing policies . |
| 18 | In spite of the sacrifice it had made for the High Dam at Aswan , whose turbines generated megawatts of electrical power , Wadi Half a still had no electricity . |
| 19 | It is possible that the strength of the daily clock also decreases in the aged ; this would mean that the amplitude of the rhythms it influences would decrease . |
| 20 | With a relatively tiny home market , Ericsson is always short of the resources it needs to stay at the leading edge of its chosen industry , where the cost of major development projects is measured in hundreds of millions of dollars , and although it has developed its own TMOS Telecommunications Management and Operations Support software suite — which runs under Unix — it needs the muscle of a company like Hewlett-Packard to exploit the product . |
| 21 | For example , the tribunal may have been motivated by resentment at a particular member 's share of the market , or have suspended the member , not for bona fide reasons , but because of the opportunity it gave their firms to acquire some of the suspended member 's customers . |
| 22 | However , at the beginning of the novel it seems that even this admirable lady , for she is definitely a lady , can not think totally by herself — she is guided by the abominable Mr. Slope . |
| 23 | The federal project in Europe would in some respects have enlarged Westminster 's competence , because of the capacity it accorded Europe 's national governments to take on the world 's financial markets and thus broaden the taxing , spending and borrowing options that have been , up until now , in the shadow of highly conservative directors of international capital flows . |
| 24 | Each cylinder index entry gives the address of the cylinder it refers to , and the highest key on the cylinder . |
| 25 | One of the ingredients it requires is hydrogen , a gas that is produced in great quantities during volcanic eruptions . |
| 26 | The Council is proud of the contribution it has made to business life since 1931 and aims to continue serving its members for many years to come . |
| 27 | Secondly , when the Department asked about the balance and breadth of the curriculum it found that few authorities encouraged schools to discuss the issues and it was mainly through routine visits of advisers that concern for balance and breadth was promoted . |
| 28 | ’ Anyone who has had the privilege of handling the book , even though he may never possess it , will not dispute the wisdom of the £13,000 it has fetched . |
| 29 | ‘ What I have found in the region is that because it has experienced more downturns than other parts of the UK it has a resilience to the dips the economy may take , ’ he said . |
| 30 | There was not enough food being grown on the farms and the government could not afford to pay for all of the grain it had requisitioned from the farmers . |