Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great deal of time and energy has gone into dealing with anomalies and revising the formula for funding so that it distributes more fairly on the basis of need . |
| 2 | Martin Luther King had a vision as personal and private as the sleeping child or the cross-legged meditator , but he turned it outward as a prayer for peace so that it became shared . |
| 3 | The Eastern District also featured prominently among the appendices to the evidence , where there were several tables of information about selected Districts : the Eastern was a good choice for inclusion here because it embraced almost twice as many branches as any other District , it covered a distinctive part of the country and its relatively-high level of students ' and members ' financial contributions tended to show the WEA in a good light . |
| 4 | But the term ‘ canon ’ was being used for the standard of authentic teaching given by the baptismal confession of faith well before it came to be used for the list of accepted books . |
| 5 | When it 's a mizza , of course especially if it creates 25 new jobs . |
| 6 | It aroused a lot of opposition initially because it upset the existing viewpoint : " How can a black hole emit anything ? " |
| 7 | However , as they had mostly lost significant amounts of weight already and it had n't occurred to me to ask them to measure their weekly progress in terms of inches , the results , whilst remarkable , were only visual . |
| 8 | It seems incredible to me that I had n't thought of separation before but it dawned on me suddenly one day that there was a way out and I could leave . |
| 9 | In talking to ordinary policewomen , we found many themselves adopt notions of gender differences in order to explain the marginalization of their duties , although others prefer this kind of work simply because it makes it easier to manage their difficult and conflicting roles as policewoman , wife , and mother . |
| 10 | The replacement ratio measures income in and out of work so that it measures net-of-tax earnings minus work-related expenses as compared with out-of-work transfer payments contingent upon the status of being unemployed . |
| 11 | Whilst these proposals were still before the King , the army marched on London and expelled the leading Presbyterians from the House of Commons so that it came under the control of the Independents . |
| 12 | The second is to increase the establishment of HMI so that it employs thousands of people , but I do not believe that a centralised civil service approach is desirable . |
| 13 | The Methodists first established a chapel for worship in 1828 , in a small building later converted into the Oddfellows Hall , and so named until a couple of years ago when it became a private residence . |
| 14 | When you played Hammersmith a couple of years back and it got to that point in the song , I looked around and a lot of people were craning their necks , checking out how that was done . |
| 15 | But you know it surprises me I mean I know the church is , is closed and it 's been closed for a couple of years now and it looks a sight because now I do n't know how many members they 've got , at least a couple of them could go in there and cut all the brambles down . |
| 16 | Unfortunately for Labour the Korean War by 1951 was having an adverse effect on the British economy and precipitated another balance of payments of crisis just after it seemed that Britain could dispense with Marshall Aid . |
| 17 | Anyway , I 've been sober for a couple of days now and it changes your perspective a bit . |
| 18 | Provide waste management programmes for the safe disposal of waste so that it does not adversely affect the health and safety of employees , the public , or the environment . |
| 19 | Certainly there appears to be some sense in restricting any changes in the law of incest so that it continues to be an offence for a parent or grandparent to have sexual relations with a child aged 16 or 17 , because children of that age are often dependent and living at home , and so the conditions for exploitation are still present at that age . |
| 20 | Alternative readings or critical analysis of this entrenched reverence for a rule of law ( which at times may well be out of step with a wider interpretation of ambiguous social behaviour ) smacks of subversion simply because it denies the primacy of the institutional framework . |
| 21 | General Sherman … has raised up an army on the four sides of Joseph just when it seemed most probable that he was about to escape … |
| 22 | So lots of things like that it transforms . |
| 23 | Thus a Dean of Durham , and an ex-Bishop of Durham , and a complicated patronage secretary who popped out of holes like a rabbit , and a doctrine of apostolic authority , and an Archbishop of York , and a desire to follow the calling of God even if it looked unlikely , winkled a professor out of a career to which he seemed to have been born . |
| 24 | The first : ‘ quality is conformance to requirements , ’ means that a product or service is of quality only if it meets the customer 's requirements . |
| 25 | This is obviously of real help to a lot of people even if it does n't help everybody . |
| 26 | ‘ There were obviously a lot of people there when it took place . |
| 27 | There 's a lot of traffic here and it takes me quite a bit to cross all the roads to get to where I want . |
| 28 | Companies should publish their statements of compliance only after it has been reviewed by the auditors . |
| 29 | Racism of this kind is constantly experienced by black people at all levels of society even if it takes the more subtle form of simply being treated differently . |
| 30 | All experience showed that an attack had some prospect of success only if it had numerical superiority in a ratio of at least 3 : 1 . |