Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [am/are] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commission 's substantive decisions and the level of fines it imposes are subject to review by the European Court of First Instance , which is given power to increase fines as well as to cancel or reduce them . |
| 2 | When a person is seeking employment , council membership and the demands it imposes are unlikely to recommend him or her to prospective employers . |
| 3 | it thinks are appropriate . |
| 4 | Right , oh yes it 's got a , a lot of discrepancies , but the point is that the discrepancies it has are explicable in terms of what the discrepancies were trying to hide and correct and to that extent it 's a bit like psychoanalysing an individual patient . |
| 5 | Once an agreement has been registered in the register of restrictive agreements ( which is open to public inspection ) , the Director General may refer it to the Restrictive Practices Court for a decision on whether the restrictions it contains are contrary to the public interest . |
| 6 | The State Administration for Environmental Protection has made public the names of 3,000 businesses which it says are responsible for the lion 's share of China 's industrial pollution . |
| 7 | But , because it 's a command language and not a page description language the facilities it possesses are adequate rather than sophisticated . |
| 8 | The issues it raises are likely to be addressed in evidence and also in reports provided to the court by the guardian ad litem and others . |
| 9 | We can apply the test to the technical and technological subjects , and not only those , but the professional subjects also ; and the boundary line will run now on this side , now on that ; but the things that it divides are different in kind , and only on one side of that line lies what we ought to allow to be education . |
| 10 | As for the reliability of the source , both the fact that it is recent and the broad view which it takes are encouraging . |
| 11 | It 's an essential feature of 3i that the positions it takes are long term . |
| 12 | In the first case the item in question is cheap to produce but the parts to which it assembles are difficult to design and the assembly process demanding . |
| 13 | In the first case the item in question is cheap to produce but the parts to which it assembles are difficult to design and the assembly process demanding . |
| 14 | For instance , Tyrell 's employees , who it seems are human , are all old or ill . |
| 15 | What it excludes are mass produced images , popular images of childhood , equally subversive or ideologically determined which punctuate our daily lives . |
| 16 | Even if the intermediary is an ordinary business investor ( see page 36 below ) , the customer agreement will have to be a private customer agreement if the indirect customer route is adopted and any of the intermediary 's clients to whom it relates are private . |
| 17 | The resultant succession certainly looks like a " layer cake " , but the process of formation and the record it preserves are different . |
| 18 | Research and development costs £20,000 : these are sunk costs and it follows are irrelevant to the decision . |
| 19 | Acer Inc claims to have the ‘ world 's first single Pentium chip multiprocessor upgrade technology , ’ the engine for the fastest entry-level server ever developed : details of what it means are scarce . |
| 20 | While the comprador class may ( but not necessarily ) admit that its interests and those of the foreigners it serves are antagonistic to those of co-nationals , the transnational capitalist class conceives of its interests and the interests of the global capitalist system that it serves , as identical with those of national development . |
| 21 | Marketing thrives in an atmosphere where the future direction of the corporate entities it serves are chartable . |
| 22 | Otherwise , the freedoms that it implies are likely to atrophy through lack of use . |
| 23 | ‘ The way I understand it firms are obliged to take on disabled men from the war . ‘ |
| 24 | Exchange turnover and the commission income it generates are key factors in the determination of profitability and hence share prices . |
| 25 | In working towards the growth of a total quality culture it seeks to impact on all aspects of Scottish life , encompassing corporate responsibility and individual quality awareness both of which it believes are fundamental to long-term Scottish success . |
| 26 | SyQuest Technology Inc , Fremont , California has had enough of French start-up Nomai SA and has started legal proceedings in Paris to stop the sale of what it claims are illegal copies of SyQuest removable Winchester disk cartridges and to obtain other legal relief : the complaint was filed before the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris ; it already has an injunction against the company in the US , but Nomai has continued to ship its cartridges outside the US , which SyQuest believes is in violation of both the original temporary restraining and subsequent stipulated order . |
| 27 | Watchdog lists FIVE of Lundgren 's movements it claims are dangerous . |
| 28 | Survival International , in co-operation with Minewatch , has published details of activities by some of the world 's major industrial companies which it claims are responsible for causing serious damage to the traditional lands of tribal people in the Americas . |
| 29 | SNH , in its submission to Lord Donaldson 's inquiry on the prevention of pollution from merchant shipping , identifies measures which it claims are vital to the protection of Scotland 's marine and coastal environments . |