Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [conj] it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been wide disagreement among historians concerning the chronology of population recovery , some suggesting that it started before the end of the fourteenth century , others favouring dates around 1430 and others again preferring the early sixteenth century ( 59 ; 75 , p.15 ; 99 , p.269 ) . |
| 2 | Some hold that it follows from this that the priest must be male : |
| 3 | The ways of doing this vary and it depends on your personal skills . |
| 4 | There are a number of reasons for thinking that such information transmission may be easier to manage if it occurs within firms than if it is subject to market transactions , and this means that there is a case for thinking that R&D activities ( particularly the D ) may have to be part of a vertically related structure that extends back into important input markets , and forward into downstream consumer markets ( see Teece , 1986 , Geroski , 1992 , and Jorde and Teece , 1990 , who apply these arguments to the antitrust treatment of co-operative R&D ventures ) . |
| 5 | The Bank of England is , of course , free to respond as it chooses to any such bids or offers but , as well as being concerned to finance the government 's borrowing needs on the best possible terms , the Bank has a publicly-expressed interest in the liquidity of the gilt-edged market . |
| 6 | This means that it depends on the host 's cells ' own energy-producing system to provide for its own growth and reproduction . |
| 7 | This means that it behaves in a similar way to the three directions that correspond to moving in space . |
| 8 | This means that it accounts for perhaps a third of the sales of ICI Chemicals & Polymers — about the same proportion as does the latter in the whole of ICI . |
| 9 | But other schemes are less contentious : partly because the extra money gained from child benefits and other payments which favour lone parents is less than the extra money lone parents gain when the whole household is living on supplementary benefit ; and partly because the public tolerates laxer or more generous administration in other schemes than it is prepared to tolerate when it comes to means-tested benefits for the poor . |
| 10 | ( This belligerent insistence on Washington 's right to behave as it chose in the interests of US ‘ security ’ must have aggravated Cuban fears . ) |
| 11 | It 's chip resistant , it 's easy to apply and it comes in a choice of twelve brilliant shades . |
| 12 | This idea of flexibility applies as much to exercise as it does to food . |
| 13 | Yet it seemed to me they had much to learn when it came to manners and plain humanity . |
| 14 | For example , if we consider the English phoneme , it is easy to show that it differs from the plosives and in its place of articulation ( alveolar ) , from in being lenis , from and in not being fricative , from in not being nasal , and so on . |
| 15 | In the darkness it was hard to see but it looked as if there was n't even a railing . |
| 16 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
| 17 | They 're done because the old-fashioned way of doing a , putting something together is a paste-up job , you 've got all these stories filed about all sorts of things , and then some editorial chap or chapess sits down with sort of paste and scissors and cuts the things off , and they tend to cut things off the bottom to make it all fit until it feels about right . |
| 18 | It is boring to have to say that ( it actually makes me twitch even as I do ! ) , but it is no good pretending that it works in any other way , because it simply does n't . |
| 19 | Many believe that it lies under the church of San Vincenzo in Prato , even though there is no historical record of the church before the year 806 . |
| 20 | ALL 141 people aboard a Boeing 737 died when it crashed into a mountain in China 's worst air crash yesterday . |
| 21 | On second thoughts , it might be better to say that it goes without saying that linguistic communication is a matter of conveying ideas or thoughts . |
| 22 | But you all said that it depends on his skill or his what 's his name |
| 23 | In particular to ensure that land that is restored to agriculture , forestry or amenity uses can be managed in a suitable way for a period after the restoration itself is complete to ensure that it returns to a proper level of productivity by an ‘ after-care ’ condition . |
| 24 | Late in 1949 , it was decided that Thornton Heath depôt with its narrow entrance and awkward shape , would be quite unsuitable to convert as it stood to a bus garage . |
| 25 | So we can distinguish then a third state in w which we can call an inactivated state and which will leave the channel closed , but also unable to respond as it would be able to do if it resided in a simple closed in a simple closed state which were responsive to gating . |
| 26 | If , however , a group is set an ambiguous task with an uncertain outcome and with little previous experience to draw on it is unlikely to succeed unless it operates as a team at the skilful level . |
| 27 | An SFA member must apply appropriate expertise and be able to show that it believes on reasonable grounds that an advertisement that it issues or approves is fair and not misleading . |
| 28 | It is important to note that the obligation is for the firm to be able to show that it believes on reasonable grounds that the customer understands the relevant matters . |
| 29 | To the last , Foucault himself remained suspicious of any ‘ progressive politics , if that meant that it continued to be linked to a ( hidden ) meaning , origin , or the subject . |
| 30 | She spoke and understood more English than had at first appeared but it seemed to be English she had got from the Kettering children , so she was easily understood by Jacqueline who would run to her , climb on to her lap , whenever the maid sat down for a moment and stay there silent and apparently overawed . |