Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While media seemed to have little influence on driving behaviour , both groups of drivers felt that it showed cars in an unrealistic light — only seven percent thought otherwise . |
| 2 | When , in this situation , the person defamed sought to issue a writ , and the Member concerned asked the House of Commons to treat the matter as a breach of privilege , the Committee of Privileges recommended that it do so but the House , by a small majority , rejected this recommendation . |
| 3 | Vodafone Group Plc claims that a survey by the Office of Telecommunications shows that it provides the best quality of service available to mobile phone users : Vodafone has more than 820,000 of the 1.4m UK subscribers and in its first quality survey Oftel monitored 120 routes across the UK , finding that Vodafone had an overall success rate for call connection of 93% against 88.7% for Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd ; some 95.8% of calls on Vodafone 's network from mobile to fixed line phones were set up and completed at the first attempt , said Oftel , compared with 92.5% on Cellnet 's network ; fixed to mobile on the same basis were 92.4% for Vodafone and 89.8% for Cellnet ; Cellnet reckons it comes out tops in trials of hand portables in the Greater London area . |
| 4 | Even Rampant Rottweilers are preferable to an XR2 with a double row of headlights blazing as it roars up behind you and a sticker in the back window which taunts you with ‘ Blondes Have More Fun ’ as it races past into the distance . |
| 5 | The imperfect monitoring of actions means that it takes time for types to self-screen , so they can enjoy a temporary reputation while this is going on . |
| 6 | Mary Whitehouse denounced it for encouraging in-corridor insurrection , while Russell Knott from the National Association Of Schoolmasters complained that it made the teachers look like twats . |
| 7 | The Rotuma Council of Chiefs said that it wanted to monitor the islanders ' movements " for social and cultural purposes " . |
| 8 | Reference to the actual grant of arms showed that it had a very strange limitations clause , for the arms were assigned to Thomas Magnall and his offspring and ‘ any such of the Descendants of his Father who shall write their Names Magnall and by no Others ’ ! |
| 9 | However , the 1989 AMERG survey asked specifically whether the ending of the mandatory scale had led to reductions of fees charged for individual projects and over 68 per cent of respondents stated that it had . |
| 10 | While Labour increased both its percentage of the vote and its Members of Parliament , the Liberal share of votes declined and it broke even on the ratio of seats lost and gained and because of its dubious victory in Cheltenham . |
| 11 | The Civil Aviation Authority , which is drawing up safety and environmental guide lines for STOLports say that it sees ‘ no problem in accommodating ’ the docklands plan . |
| 12 | The more distant in time an issue is to current industry concerns , the more difficult it is for managers to establish that it applies to their business in some significant way ( relevancy ) and that it should be addressed now ( urgency ) . |
| 13 | Some of the manifestations of septic shock , such as hypotension , haemoconcentration , and gastrointestinal ulceration were reported to be mimicked after intravenous administration of platelet activating factor in rats suggesting that it plays a role in this syndrome . |
| 14 | I already have an estimate from Woodlands Incorporated and it seemed satisfactory to me . " |
| 15 | According to the conventional wisdom , fusion required great heat and hence could only have happened when the Earth was being formed ; however , if the Earth is five billion years old , all the helium would by now have risen away , yet it was there in amounts suggesting that it had appeared in the atmosphere only recently . |
| 16 | PC-Xware replaces NCD 's existing PC-Xview for Windows package that it acquired for $5m from the GSS division of Spectragraphics a year or more ago . |