Example sentences of "[subord] it [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will maintain a sales and support network in the 150 countries where it now has a presence , but there may be cuts in both Wang employee numbers and the type of facilities it will operate . |
| 2 | With an oath the Weasel hurled the time-teller far out into the heather , where it possibly hit a stone . |
| 3 | Although it already had a number of blue chip clients , such as Wm Low and the Scottish Development Agency ( and now Scottish Enterprise ) , perhaps what made the firm 's reputation was the way it handled Scottish electricity privatisation for the Government , an appointment made before the Shandwick deal . |
| 4 | ‘ It may be significant , although it hardly suggests a motive for murder . |
| 5 | However , the XE is not well supported by software houses , and although it still has a lot of games , most of these are very old . |
| 6 | If it already runs a back to nursing course then it will also have established a policy geared towards attracting you back to work . |
| 7 | By 1966 , the Church was better able to take advantage of the new interest in its separatist stance because it now had a core of Ulstermen who had been converted under Ian Paisley s preaching and who had grown up with his politicized evangelicalism . |
| 8 | Thus the religion is adhered to , not because it fully meets a need , and can provide a source of actual enjoyment in worship and other activities , but because it provides a lifeline to be used in emergencies , when all other hopes of help have failed . |
| 9 | The one Non-Conformist chapel referred to in the article has been saved because it subsequently became a parish church and thus qualified for the fund . |
| 10 | This very specialized approach is explained on pp. 94–7 , but it is mentioned here because it sometimes uses a kind of experiment . |
| 11 | After 1337 no decade passed without laymen leasing , or acquiring full ownership of alien priory lands , an experience which undoubtedly whetted the public appetite for appropriating church lands , while it simultaneously provided a precedent for such forcible recovery . |
| 12 | This period of Eliot 's development is often seen as one of increasing narrowing , so that it is useful to emphasize that while it certainly represents a concentration of energy on Christian themes , it also represents a continuing openness to other elements and a drawing on resources whose foundations were laid in Eliot 's studies at Harvard . |
| 13 | Clearly , the class reader so defined , claims a central role in much English teaching since it frequently provides a nucleus of activity through which the needs of pupils — both girls and boys — are addressed . |
| 14 | The very process of issuing a contract implies that standardization , since it also implies a checklist of activities whose performance can be specified and assessed . |
| 15 | The term used to describe this is ‘ salary sacrifice ’ , which is unfortunate since it wrongly implies a loss rather than a gain to the individual . |
| 16 | Whereas it once had a reputation as being one of the toughest and most feared women 's prisons in Britain , it is now regarded as having gone soft by some of the prison officers . |
| 17 | He criticized in particular what he saw as the fundamental flaw in a system based on the pursuit of points : that a team was given a point before it even kicked a ball . |
| 18 | Fern Lodge , Highgate , was one of their shorter stops , when it briefly became a centre of the literary universe . |
| 19 | This was an activity not much favoured at Verdun , as it invariably attracted a tornado of enemy fire . |
| 20 | The findings included caesium 134 which , as it only has a half life of two years , indicates that it must have originated in recent tests . |
| 21 | Keep the icing covered with a damp cloth at all times , as it quickly develops a crust . |
| 22 | Innsite , however , is realistic in its view of the market , for it also offers a budget start-up package that teaches the fundamental of Innfront in five consecutive days , which can be topped up later with further training . |
| 23 | Straw plaiting was a widespread cottage industry in and around the Chiltern Hills , but it has left scarcely a sign on the landscape , for it never became a factory industry . |