Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The board bent over backwards to help me raise funds for players and it 's been the same for Nigel Best . |
| 2 | The new fifth television channel , wherever it is situated , will open up further opportunities for programme-makers when it starts up at the end of 1993 . |
| 3 | The Thatcher administration , on the other hand , ‘ do not believe that the community as a whole should continue to pay for all sorts of things that it has paid for in the past … |
| 4 | There was all sorts of processes before it got to that and after it got to that stage . |
| 5 | It is dependent on the stability of existing states of affairs since it assumes that future situations will be predictable replicas of those in the past . |
| 6 | The notion of ‘ adaptability ’ was always attractive to various groups of reformers because it appeared to promise so much . |
| 7 | There 's a technique in nuclear physics , called neutron activation , which allows you to measure quantities of trace very small quantities of particular elements in materials and it 's been applied to looking at the concentration of arsenic in Napoleon 's hair , and you find that there are particular periods in his life when he got dosed with arsenic_ one 's not quite sure how — and at those particular times he was erm very ill ; it correlates very well with the historical evidence . |
| 8 | The firm has been deluged by applications for tickets after it offered two flights to Europe with every Hoover product bought worth more than £100 . |
| 9 | The Bank told us that it does not reject applicants for loans unless it has some firm reason ( such as serious doubt about ability to repay ) . |
| 10 | Two formations of bubbles and it 's bitten deep enough . |
| 11 | Cos if we have n't then all of our assumptions into why we 're doing things like auto-offs and it improves the outgoing costs and then we 've got better reta better information and better screens and all that sort of stuff , I mean it blows every single assumption we 've made in a way . |
| 12 | The County Council reallocates resources from things that it sells into things like new build , new schools ; if we sell a piece of a playing field or whatever , then we will put , plough the money back into capital resources within the education service somewhere else . |
| 13 | The name Venturous was a break from the long line of traditional names for Cutters as it had never previously been used . |
| 14 | Other countries have no scruples about subsidies when it comes to keeping workers employed and preserving their skills . |
| 15 | Rights issue worries were affecting British Airways after reports that it needs to fund expansion plans . |
| 16 | Size provides a cushion to the vicissitudes of markets but it creates other problems . |
| 17 | Further confirmation of the bare infinitive 's ability to express a coincident potentiality is provided by uses in exclamations where it does not occur in relation with a modal : ( 7 ) What ! |
| 18 | ‘ It makes me believe that the NFU leadership is unwilling to do anything to really fight for the interests of farmers if it embarrasses the Tory Government . |
| 19 | Due to a change in federal accounting standards , Unisys says , it would have been forced to take $700m in one-time charges against earnings if it did not cut the benefits , and that would wipe out one-third of the still debt-burdened company 's net worth . |
| 20 | The Government wants to reduce productivity payments to dentists because it says they 're treating too many patients.The move has been described by one dentist as appalling.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 21 | The Government wants to reduce productivity payments to dentists because it says they 're treating too many patients.The move has been described by one dentist as appalling.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 22 | But the bat surely no more 0thinks in terms of delays of echoes when it perceives an insect , than we think in terms of wavelengths when we perceive blue or red . |
| 23 | So far as the former are concerned , the Act ( as does the Financial Services Act ) assumes that public issues of debentures will be undertaken by the same methods as issues of shares and it provides that a contract to take up debentures , like one to take up shares , may be enforced by an order for specific performance . |
| 24 | Actors learn them off by heart and then they rehearse them masses and masses of times until it sounds as if they 've just thought of them . ’ |
| 25 | Conservatives on Oxfordshire County Council have dismissed claims that there 'll have to be major cuts in services if it has to stick to Government budget estimates . |
| 26 | Group leaders are not ‘ mission-committed ’ to the group 's success , but rather want to maximize membership and the achievement of collective benefits for members because it expands their own patronage , power and prestige . |
| 27 | This time it was an ordinary letter by the looks of things and it took , again , just over three minutes . |
| 28 | Cobalt is important in the jet engines of aeroplanes because it makes turbine blades resist high temperatures . |
| 29 | Recognising that the integrity of the learning process applies as much to adults in schools as it does to children . |
| 30 | It is not the custom in English cities to name streets by numbers but it has happened . |