Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , in the longer run , it may present the UK financial sector with new competitive challenges which currently do not exist . |
| 2 | His views are taken to task by Lancelot , the hero of Kingsley 's Yeast ( 1848 ) : ‘ It may suit the Mr Lyles of this age … to make the people constantly and visibly comprehend that property is their protector and their friend , but I question whether it will suit the people themselves , unless they can make property understand that it owes them something more definite than protection . ’ |
| 3 | In such cases the committee may ask the firm for explanations or it may ask the JMU to visit the firm to find out whether there are any procedural difficulties or weaknesses that need to be remedied if its registration is to continue . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the Government has stepped in to underwrite the cost of bomb damage to shore up confidence in the British insurance industry and the reputation of the City of London as a world financial centre although that , ironically , may encourage just as much as it may discourage the IRA . |
| 5 | It should complement the Bishop 's Park which by then , it is hoped , will be kept in a better state than it is at the moment . |
| 6 | ICS will contact all known investors with the firm , which acted as an adviser on investments , life assurance and unit trusts , and any others not hearing from it should contact the ICS , although declaration of default does not necessarily mean all investors will be eligible for compensation . |
| 7 | The only stipulation is , if you use the PA system as a Voice Evacuation tool , it must meet the BS 5839 standard which means that all speaker circuits , eproms and amplification are fully monitored for faults or breakdown . |
| 8 | A rebel faction hinted it might leave the LDP , destroying the party 's lower-house majority . |
| 9 | We can only reach the conclusion — which will be noted by the further education sector in Scotland — that the reason behind the Government 's proposal for a further education funding council is that it might help the Bill 's passage . |
| 10 | There were additional concerns in Europe , given that the SDI programme was designed to ensure immunity for the United States and that it might prejudice the US commitment to European security in the event of nuclear war . |
| 11 | Then again , it might win the FA Cup and that will bring in megamoney from higher attendances and advertising , so the shares go up . |
| 12 | Such technology once in place may signal a new era of competition : for example , it might allow the Chicago exchanges to try to wrest some of the specifically European interest rate and index derivatives away from the Europeans . |
| 13 | Also disappointing , not to say extremely disturbing , is the likelihood that if those zero-wind conditions persist , it 'll take the Angelina a week to get even half way towards the horizon . ’ |
| 14 | After 1967 Jordan hoped that it could recover the West Bank , and believed for some years that this would be possible . |
| 15 | For example , in one case the government sought an interim injunction to restrain a drug company from disobeying a statutory order regulating the price it could charge the NHS for its drugs ; and in a recent series of cases local authorities have sought interim injunctions against traders to restrain them from opening their businesses on Sunday in breach of Sunday trading laws . |
| 16 | Gynaecologist Mr Ian Mackenzie of the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford , has noted that it could save the NHS between £10 and £15 million a year , which could be used to shorten waiting-lists for other forms of gynaecological care . |
| 17 | Dr Canning , secretary of the Cleveland local medical committee , felt it could compromise the BMA 's political independence . |
| 18 | The fall of Terry Venables as chief executive at Spurs will not have missed his attention — and it could strengthen the Liverpool manager 's bid to persuade £2m defender Neil Ruddock to come to Anfield . |
| 19 | On April 3 the Front of Socialist Forces ( FFS ) led by Hocine Aït Ahmed announced that it would boycott the June elections , which it described as " a real farce because everything is done in accordance with FLN interests " . |
| 20 | Moreover , if Olwyn went to bed at an earlier time it would obviate the Jones ' need to reinforce aspects of her bad behaviour ( for example giving in to tantrums and providing positive attention for hitting ) . |
| 21 | While all the objections to the Fouchet Plan were interrelated , the main factor influencing its rejection was ultimately the fear that it would weaken the Rome treaty and whatever political objectives it implied , to the advantage of the national capitals , especially Paris . |
| 22 | Environmentalists had criticized the project on the grounds that it would damage the Danube valley ecosystem . |
| 23 | Marubeni was to make a definite decision on whether it would carry the Axil workstation products depending on reaction at the show . |
| 24 | It would never get rid of the damned things permanently but at least it would give the Ryans a breathing space . |
| 25 | But if this reading of the Reeve 's character , and of the relationship between teller and tale , were true , it would leave the Reeve almost uniquely condemned amongst the Canterbury pilgrims . |
| 26 | Arguing that Glasgow wages were already higher than those in Edinburgh , and pointing out that the Glasgow printers had successfully blacked firms trying to employ women , he went on ( in rather clotted prose ) : I am satisfied that the employment of female compositors in Glasgow , while it would increase the total volume of work done there and admit of the natural development of the Glasgow book trade , would not injure the position of the Glasgow men printers , while it would enable the Glasgow printing trade , employed as well as employers , to obtain and retain work which at present ought to come to Glasgow , or at least might come to Glasgow but now goes to Edinburgh . |
| 27 | In the light of the report the Louvre , knowing that it would inherit the Richelieu wing from the Ministry of Finance , due to move to new premises in the east end of Paris , began to study the best way to redistribute its collections . |
| 28 | ( France had announced on June 3 that it would sign the NPT — see p. 38314 — leaving China as the only permanent member of the UN Security Council not bound by the treaty ) . |
| 29 | A recent study by the Centre for International Economics in Canberra suggests that it would cost the EC $52 billion a year . |
| 30 | Charnley then appealed to the Scottish League , but the management committee decided that it would support the Paisley club . |