Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It further reported that membership was over 100 and when it reached 150 , subscriptions would be increased . |
| 32 | Jacobitism became attractive to a variety of different groups in the 1690s , including commonwealth Whigs , although at this time it still had little support in society at large . |
| 33 | It still had that ownership because under a hire purchase agreement property does not pass until the customer has paid all his instalments ( see paragraph 1–14 and Chapter 17 ) . |
| 34 | although in fact it still had some way to run ; the third were presents given when the case really was over . |
| 35 | Environmentalist groups have criticised the plan , because it still allows some logging in ancient forests , but say they are prepared to work with the Administration to improve it . |
| 36 | Heterosexism was a theory that was increasingly attractive to lesbian and gay socialists , but in the mid-1980s it still carried little clout in the lesbian and gay communities as a whole . |
| 37 | Despite some later rebuilding it still possesses much work from the oldest stave church in Norway . |
| 38 | But somehow , it still has that touch of glamour . |
| 39 | So generous is this bequest by birds to their young that a chick needs no additional food from which to build the flesh and bones and feathers of its infant body , and it still has enough energy left over to break its way out of the shell . |
| 40 | It is common practice to put a battery on charge when it still has some life in it . |
| 41 | BT believes it still has some way to go before it can match the performance of American telecommunications companies and is also anxious to stay ahead of European public sector rivals . |
| 42 | The second difference from the development charge was that though the levy would normally be paid to the seller , if ‘ when the land comes to be developed , it still has some development value on which levy has not been taken in previous sales , that residual value will be subject to levy at the time of development ’ . |
| 43 | While this figure is likely to have a fair range of variation according to the amount of crime in the catchment area of the newspaper and the general interest of the newspaper in reporting sex crime , it still gives some idea that it is only a small minority of local cases that get featured nationally . |
| 44 | More importantly , the city has long been a centre of manufacturing excellence ; why then should it still arouse such hostility ; is there something deeper to the disapproval of Birmingham than the quality of its goods . |
| 45 | It still retained such jurisdiction , and received some increase and confirmation of it , in the nineteenth century . |
| 46 | The blackbirds that saw it quickly treated this bird as though it were potentially dangerous and mobbed it , even when their fellows could not see the owl and so were making no noise . |
| 47 | On average , only 15 mites were found per thousand ants , but the researchers say that the mite 's habit of moving from one host worker to another , possibly because it quickly exhausts each host , means that it may have a greater impact on the colony than its apparent rarity first suggests . |
| 48 | IT HARDLY SEEMED ANY TIME AT ALL BEFORE THE DAYS started to get warmer and spring was here again . |
| 49 | It hardly takes much decoding to translate this into racial — indeed , not far from racist — terms . |
| 50 | Irrespective of any causal link , the additional personnel in joint assessments presumably comprised men who elsewhere would have been returned as wage earners or young and poor , but except in Kerrier , where it led to 880 native assessments comprehending as many as 1,179 individuals , it did not add greatly to the numbers of poorer men ; and if it tends to raise the true proportion to a clear quarter in a couple of hundreds , it hardly made any difference in West and Trigg . |
| 51 | ‘ It hardly contains any State secrets , ’ a royal expert said . |
| 52 | It always took some while for the Thing to wake up . |
| 53 | It always took some time after her departure to get back into the old routine again … into the old pleasant routine . |
| 54 | A verb always makes a link and it always represents some kind of movement . |
| 55 | It always works that way you know . |
| 56 | Well it is it 's still , it always causes some concern though , for those around you . |
| 57 | It always has that effect ! ’ |
| 58 | The public consultation exercise that was part of that erm Greater York study , and quite clearly the Greater York study was not a statutory plan , it was an informal plan , but it was the only way really that progress could be made in the absence erm of adopted local plans in Greater York , it was essential that that document was pursued to give a framework for the preparation of district local plans er and the greenbelt local plan , and the resolution that followed the consultation and the long body of work , and I 'll read it out , was that the development strategy for Greater York from ninety six to two thousand and six should be based on agreed sites within and on the periphery of the built up area , and that the residual requirement be met for the development of a new settlement or settlements located beyond the outer boundary erm of the greenbelt , a quite clearly there 's a major policy implication there that a new settlement was not acceptable within the greenbelt but would have to be er outside the outer boundary of the greenbelt , and the public consultation on that er study er attracted widespread support for a new settlement strategy in Greater York , all six authorities agreed that that was the direction er that had to be taken , it also had another benefit in that it enabled work on the York greenbelt local plan erm to proceed and that has now been taken forward to the stage where the enquiry terminated in May , it 's a joint enquiry in the greenbelt local plan enquiry , with a Southern Ryedale local plan enquiry in April ninety three , and we would hope that the inspectors report on that six month enquiry , when he considered all the objections to the er greenbelt proposals of the County Council , largely supported by the er District Council will be available er in the near future . |
| 59 | A study supported by the ESRC between 1986 and 1989 enabled the archives of the police forces in England and Wales to be catalogued ; it also enabled some pilot studies to be conducted into the recruitment patterns of the different forces , and the careers of policemen . |
| 60 | It also received little support from Siemens Nixdorf 's mid-range division , as a result of the confusion that followed Siemens merger with Nixdorf . |