Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [noun] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a bit longwinded , but no more so than Complete Works and it works well . |
| 2 | Last year Ramar Textiles at Crooks axed more than 500 jobs when it went into administrative receivership and similar jobs losses were announced in Darlington and Aycliffe . |
| 3 | I have experience of this class of case over a period of more than fifty years and it has n't been uncommon in the past even in the days when judges took a more rigorous view than they cline er inclined to do nowadays not to punish er in any with a custodial |
| 4 | Don claims that his material runs with less friction than normal matting because it contains a silicone additive . |
| 5 | Educational integration therefore becomes a wider concept than social integration since it involves , among other things , how we use the knowledge given to us by the act of socialisation . |
| 6 | Carno Station , a Victorian granite relic of an earlier railway age , had been closed to passengers on 4 June 1965 , a little more than 100 years after it opened , and was now for sale . |
| 7 | More than three hours after it began , the German barrage was still going full blast . |
| 8 | THE investor protection system set up under the Financial Services Act is creaking under the strain , less than three years after it swung into operation . |
| 9 | Kingfisher 's bid comes little more than three years after it fought off a £1.8billion takeover attempt by Dixons . |
| 10 | More than three months after it had won a parliamentary majority in a multiparty general election , the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP — the renamed Bulgarian Communist Party ) finally abandoned in September its efforts to build a grand coalition government including the main opposition Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) . |
| 11 | It enrolled less than 50 members but it attracted active support from up to 2,000 sympathizers . |
| 12 | The actual exercise of this option may not be made earlier than three years nor later than ten years after it has been obtained . |
| 13 | First , Europe 's defence needs are already satisfactorily met by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation , which is inherently more effective than any alternative because it includes the transatlantic nations . |
| 14 | So ours must have cost , I 'm sure that would cost them a lot more than thirty pounds cos it did n't it did n't say a wrought iron wheelbarrow or anything , it just said a wheelbarrow |
| 15 | The application of dynamic input is more restricted than static recognition since it demands that the user have available a suitable input device at the time of writing and is obviously only applicable to handwritten text . |
| 16 | In summary , we have seen that cash accounting provides essential information , it is more objective than other alternatives and it costs less , in terms of administrative and accounting expertise , to implement . |
| 17 | The threat to Portland comes less than two years after it gained a reprieve . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) In determining whether a lease is one to which section 11 applies — ( b ) a lease which is determinable at the option of the lessor before the expiration of seven years from the commencement of the term shall be treated as a lease for a term of less than seven years , and ( c ) a lease ( other than a lease to which paragraph ( b ) applies ) shall not be treated as a lease for a term of less than seven years if it confers on the lessee an option for renewal for a term which , together with the original term , amounts to seven years or more . |
| 19 | In the past Gates had claimed to have heard rumours of the operation only on Oct. 1 , 1986 , less than seven weeks before it became public . |
| 20 | ‘ No doubt business is better than last year but it has not been as good as many people suggested it might be , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Well I think you did very well much better than last time as it goes |
| 22 | This suggests that the solution of limestone in such areas must be controlled by components other than carbonic acid and it seems likely that organic acids play a major role . |
| 23 | A strike by Russian air traffic controllers on Aug. 15 lasted less than 24 hours before it collapsed . |
| 24 | Earlier in this chapter it was argued that the use of DCF was justified on pragmatic as well as theoretical grounds because it provides a single index of value and avoids the necessity for comparing streams of cash flows . |
| 25 | Hence we might find instances of accuracy in the production of such formulas as fixed phrases but it does not follow that the learner can transfer the accurate production of forms to a wider range of constructions and contexts . |
| 26 | Our concern is rather to break away from the stale confrontation of reason and spontaneity which has persisted since the Romantic Movement , to invite the man of reason to admit that he never has had any ends which did not spring from his own spontaneity , and the intuitive and impulsive that no insight that flashes from theirs can be acknowledged as objective truth until it survives the ruthless justice of reason . |
| 27 | An unexpressed term can be implied if and only if the court finds that the parties must have intended that term to form part of their contract : it is not enough for the court to find that such a term would have been adopted by the parties as reasonable men if it had been suggested to them . |
| 28 | The only real characteristic of each day was that it was the same as the day before and to give any account of such days in strict sequence would make as tedious reading as it made tedious living . |
| 29 | Determination surged afresh through Emily 's consciousness , she would rebuild her father 's reputation and his business , she would show the world that Emily Grenfell was no weak-kneed lady of leisure , but as strong as any man when it came to business . |
| 30 | MR JUSTICE MILLETT said that the particular question was whether a decision of a commons commissioner that certain land was not registrable as common land because it formed part of a highway was capable of giving rise to an estoppel per rem judicatam so as to preclude the landowner from afterwards asserting , in proceedings unconnected with the register , that the land in question did not form part of a highway . |