Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of all the hundreds of trade pattern books issued by manufacturers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it appears that not more than ten survive in public collections , and only one pre-Victorian priced catalogue relating to coffins and lining materials . |
| 2 | I think basically having having heard the argument put forward from from both sides what what we 're really talking about is a is a policy that in in terms of its support from the districts it depends whether or not any particular district council might have such a use for the policy . |
| 3 | To American eyes it seemed that the whole of South-East Asia was now threatened . |
| 4 | Thus , the FIATA freight forwarder is not generally the actual carrier of the goods , although it can carry the cargo in vehicles or vessels it owns or has leased or of which it is the designated operator . |
| 5 | In Dicey 's words it meant that ‘ whenever men act in concert for a common purpose they tend to create a body , which from no fiction of law but from the very nature of things , differs from the individuals of whom it is constituted . ’ |
| 6 | But if I use my words it follows that I have changed your meaning , however slightly … |
| 7 | — The question of job swaps was not clear in Tim 's paper — for example for Area Secretaries it meant that they wanted to job swap they could do so by moving region |
| 8 | Although there are conflicting dicta it seems that an owner who is not in occupation of the land at the time when the thing escapes is liable if he has authorised the accumulation , and that anyone who collects the dangerous thing and has control of it at the time of the escape would be liable , perhaps even when he is carrying it along the highway and it escapes therefrom . |
| 9 | No one yet knows whether consumers will pay extra for the cinema-like images it offers or whether the huge , high-tech screens needed to make HDTV attractive will soon be ready . |
| 10 | The RYA has a list of schools it recognises as fulfilling its requirements and it may be worth contacting them . |
| 11 | The resentment and resistance generated in the schools by the way PNP was developed and implemented was a prominent theme in our early data , and in some schools it persisted until our last major data-gathering exercises : the 1989 questionnaires sent to primary heads , coordinators and advisory staff , and the 1990 home-school links follow-up study . |
| 12 | In many respects it seemed that feminist aims regarding women 's rights in the public sphere had been achieved . |
| 13 | In all other respects it seemed that I was winning . |
| 14 | Louis VI intervened on behalf of one of them , William Clito , son of Robert Curthose , and therefore a claimant also to the duchy of Normandy ; for some months it looked as though Clito would establish his right . |
| 15 | Throughout these first months it appears that Jaruzelski supported First Secretary Kania 's efforts to achieve a political solution . |
| 16 | After eighteen months it happened as I had foretold . |
| 17 | The Community 's role in this area should be stepped up and its action made more effective , with due regard for the principle of subsidiarity and the respective roles of the member states and the social partners , in accordance with national practices and traditions [ the last phrase being inserted at the insistence of the UK which consistently opposed any extension of EC powers into areas it regarded as relating to employment law rather than to social policy ] … |
| 18 | According to my account of differentiation theory , however , the effect of discrimination training depends not on the associations it creates but on the fact that it concentrates the subject , s attention on distinctive features of the stimuli . |
| 19 | In all directions it seemed that scientific investigation was triumphing over ignorance , and scientific analysis replacing rule of thumb . |
| 20 | How this community developed along the intensely nationalistic lines it did and the subsequent crisis resulting from the clash of ‘ German ’ chemistry with the revolutionary ‘ French ’ chemistry , forms the main thrust of this excellent book . |
| 21 | In some cases a party may effectively exclude liability by including a comprehensive list of the duties it undertakes and making it clear that the list is exclusive . |
| 22 | It was not Ramsay 's place to rebuke them , and Sir Archibald did not do so — for in the circumstances it looked as though no harm was done . |
| 23 | Although it is the coroner 's court 's function simply to find the cause of death , under what circumstances it happened and who , if anybody , is to be charged and with what , many members of the public plus the national papers were speaking as if Drew had already been indicted . |
| 24 | In the early postwar decades it seemed that governments had some clear options . |
| 25 | For those with special needs it meant that drafts were not something to be ashamed of . |
| 26 | The then editor of The Architectural Review , J.M. Richards , offered an affectionate description of the English suburb in The castles on the ground ( 1946 ) , which instead of pouring scorn on suburban taste , took more seriously the needs it fulfilled and the impulses that created it . |
| 27 | On bad days it rains and the mist covers everything in silence — you can see only a few yards in front of you and , if you wander from the road , can easily get lost . |
| 28 | The annexe has few refectory facilities , and on some days it seems that the queue for the coffee machine snakes endlessly around the corridors . |
| 29 | For the next few weeks it seemed as though a genuine " United Front " would be established . |
| 30 | ‘ For the next couple of weeks it looks as though we 'll be living together . |