Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [vb mod] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a bid to defuse local hostility to the scheme , the 150-strong club has offered Braintree District Council a range of conditions it says would be acceptable if planners granted permission . |
| 2 | However , the company 's spec calls for it to support six to eight P5s which it says should be capable of 250 transactions a second . |
| 3 | The benefits of this legislation and the protection it affords should be available to all the people of the city . ’ |
| 4 | The company is also developing two new materials which it hopes will be strong enough to fill cavities in the back teeth . |
| 5 | The model of top-level policy-making it generates will be applicable outside the specific context of 1938-41 , and is intended to aid our understanding of both British politics and the nature of foreign policy as an activity . |
| 6 | ‘ The DTI does not under-estimate the problems likely to be encountered in respect of some of these blocks and so it has not offered any acreage which it believes would be impossible or completely impractical to explore . |
| 7 | At the same time the government is rushing ahead with non-economic reforms which it knows will be popular , such as tightening up the conditions for acquiring French citizenship and clamping down on illegal immigration . |
| 8 | It is critical , however , that practitioners bear in mind the basic principles of income tax namely that if income arises in the United Kingdom it is subject to income tax or if the taxpayer is resident in the United Kingdom income which is his wherever it arises will be chargeable to income tax . |
| 9 | The whole point of this sort of book is that the solution when it comes should be startling and unexpected . |