Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [vb pp] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 That is a major anomaly which the British Parliament has accepted because it has no alternative .
2 If the husbands ask why there should be such a penalty , then I can only answer that it is because Parliament has enacted as it did . ’
3 British Aerospace has confirmed that it has built up a 1.7 per cent stake in the company .
4 THE Western Health Board has denied that it plans to close the accident and emergency unit at the Tyrone County Hospital .
5 It is also the cheapest and , because it ignores the gimmickry involved in unwanted screen displays and time-sorting for recording , the money has gone where it matters , into good quality audio .
6 If your Association has decided that it wishes to take up the offer of accommodation at South Gyle the Council needs to know :
7 The announcement a week ago that the company was seeking new equity financing made it pretty clear that the end was nigh for Littleton , Massachusetts-based massively parallel systems builder Alliant Computer Systems Corp , and the company announced last week that the boom has fallen when it fired all but 50 of its 225 employees and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection .
8 This experiment has succeeded because it held out the goal of political as well as economic barriers overcome , of a Europe united .
9 Coyle has shown that it pays to leave some distributed free space within a file .
10 Even the March sun looks changed as it splinters
11 Cleveland County Council has announced that it intends to close Church Bank on Church Lane in Elwick , near Hartlepool , for about three weeks from March 1 for work to be carried out to prevent a verge from subsiding .
12 Most sociological writing on the underclass has suggested that it has a potential for what Giddens calls ‘ hostile outbursts ’ — that is , riots or mass violence and public disorder .
13 Once the robot has confirmed that it has the right kind of plastic by its reading of an identifying bar code , it shreds the material ready for collection .
14 The Hon. Member for Aberdeen , North is no doubt aware that Grampian Transport plc has revealed that it paid about £5 million for Grampian Regional Transport .
15 Sabre has stressed that it had no formal link with Clydesale Office Equipment , which has now closed down .
16 Luckily , the picture has altered as it has become clear that in agriculturally wealthy areas , where farmers were often owner-occupiers , they lavished great attention on their houses .
17 The High Court has held that it has jurisdiction to hear an originating summons on the question of the Inland Revenue 's right to demand information where the taxpayer had no statutory right of appeal against the demand , and a failure to comply would result in a penalty ( p 101 ) .
18 The court has held that it means something more than " useful " , " reasonable " or " desirable . "
19 It is true that headline inflation has reduced since it peaked in 1982 with the infamous ‘ gotcha ’ .
20 Where the water 's stuck and it keeps coming down and it 's getting quite wide where anyone could slip in .
21 If on the other hand fertilisation of the egg has occurred and it becomes successfully implanted in the lining of the womb , levels of Progesterone will continue to increase throughout the pregnancy .
22 The European Commission has said that it hopes that the projects will receive formal approval by the end of the year .
23 Secondly , as my hon. Friend the Member for Neath ( Mr. Hain ) reminded the House , the Audit Commission has said that it costs £15 to collect £8 .
24 Interest in the code has grown as it has become clear how swiftly the end of the cold war has begun to undermine NATO 's defence base .
25 * The Department of the Environment has confirmed that it has no immediate intention of raising its target of recycling 25 per cent of domestic waste by the end of the century .
26 Article 18 states that this obligation lasts , inter alia , until the State has indicated that it does not intend to ratify the treaty .
27 Since the socialist government has said that it intends to pass this year 's defence bill anyway , it was the duty of the opposition to move a vote of no confidence .
28 THE BRITISH government has announced that it has set up a small stockpile of strategically important materials for use by industry .
29 The Australian government has announced that it intends to allow logging in all of the country 's forests except those already protected as reserves or national parks .
30 By refusing a referendum on Maastricht this Government has declared that it has no respect at all for the wishes of the electorate .
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