Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the term ‘ canon ’ was being used for the standard of authentic teaching given by the baptismal confession of faith well before it came to be used for the list of accepted books . |
| 2 | When it 's a mizza , of course especially if it creates 25 new jobs . |
| 3 | It aroused a lot of opposition initially because it upset the existing viewpoint : " How can a black hole emit anything ? " |
| 4 | However , as they had mostly lost significant amounts of weight already and it had n't occurred to me to ask them to measure their weekly progress in terms of inches , the results , whilst remarkable , were only visual . |
| 5 | It seems incredible to me that I had n't thought of separation before but it dawned on me suddenly one day that there was a way out and I could leave . |
| 6 | In talking to ordinary policewomen , we found many themselves adopt notions of gender differences in order to explain the marginalization of their duties , although others prefer this kind of work simply because it makes it easier to manage their difficult and conflicting roles as policewoman , wife , and mother . |
| 7 | The replacement ratio measures income in and out of work so that it measures net-of-tax earnings minus work-related expenses as compared with out-of-work transfer payments contingent upon the status of being unemployed . |
| 8 | Unfortunately for Labour the Korean War by 1951 was having an adverse effect on the British economy and precipitated another balance of payments of crisis just after it seemed that Britain could dispense with Marshall Aid . |
| 9 | Provide waste management programmes for the safe disposal of waste so that it does not adversely affect the health and safety of employees , the public , or the environment . |
| 10 | Certainly there appears to be some sense in restricting any changes in the law of incest so that it continues to be an offence for a parent or grandparent to have sexual relations with a child aged 16 or 17 , because children of that age are often dependent and living at home , and so the conditions for exploitation are still present at that age . |
| 11 | Alternative readings or critical analysis of this entrenched reverence for a rule of law ( which at times may well be out of step with a wider interpretation of ambiguous social behaviour ) smacks of subversion simply because it denies the primacy of the institutional framework . |
| 12 | The first : ‘ quality is conformance to requirements , ’ means that a product or service is of quality only if it meets the customer 's requirements . |
| 13 | There 's a lot of traffic here and it takes me quite a bit to cross all the roads to get to where I want . |
| 14 | Companies should publish their statements of compliance only after it has been reviewed by the auditors . |
| 15 | Racism of this kind is constantly experienced by black people at all levels of society even if it takes the more subtle form of simply being treated differently . |
| 16 | All experience showed that an attack had some prospect of success only if it had numerical superiority in a ratio of at least 3 : 1 . |
| 17 | Scientists have no need to explore the internal logic of the consciousness of matter simply because it does not exist . |
| 18 | Encore Computer Corp , Fort Lauderdale , Florida has persuaded the Gould Inc subsidiary of Nikko Kyodo Co Inc — which wanted to be shot of Encore altogether when it bought Gould , but has had to keep the company in the fold and bankroll it to have a chance of realising any value from it — to increase its revolving credit facility by $20m ; the pact also extends the maturity dates of Encore 's $50m term loan agreement to April 2 1995 , and the $35m increased revolving credit pact to July 3 1994 . |
| 19 | Even with this limitation , however , and even given the fact that the Court in this case says by way of principle little that it has not said in previous cases , one should not underestimate the impact of this new illustration of the Court 's conception of the reach of the Directive in terms of the nature of the activities it covers . |
| 20 | There was a need for a trusting relationship between client and consultant , he agreed , but he was not prepared to rely on any headhunter completely , maintaining that they pretended to act according to codes of conduct only when it suited them . |
| 21 | Eurocommunism is the generic name given to the political strategies and beliefs of those Western European communist parties which have broken from alliance with the Soviet Union and repudiated the Leninist model of socialism both as it has turned out in practice and as envisaged in ideal terms ( Boggs and Plotke , 1980 ; Carillo , 1977 ; Claudin , 1979 ) . |
| 22 | This ideology relating to gender roles underpins the structure of sociology much as it does the structure of social life . |
| 23 | So erm having an extra network and all of the administration that goes with it seems very much a waste of time especially when it creates another tier of of sort of quasar membership . |