Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the investment management section of a financial organisation is advising customers to buy shares in a company which is thought generally to have good prospects ; unknown to that section , the company has consulted the corporate finance department of the same organisation about how to deal with serious losses it has suffered but which are not yet publicly known . |
| 2 | With this objective in mind it has proposed that the system of interest subsidies , which the government introduced in 1984 , be either abolished or privatised . |
| 3 | Despite the hiccup of the Gulf war , Cathay has not cancelled any of the 17 aircraft it has ordered or any of its options on another 29 . |
| 4 | It was , in fact , a different salt of the same base as the original Bayer Resochin , and after much comparison with other related compounds it became established and was recognized formally in February 1946 under the name chloroquine . |
| 5 | It was in this atmosphere of unease that the Younger Committee reported ; about computers it had to say that , restricted as it was to investigating private sector applications , it had no evidence of abuse , but that there was a possibility and apprehension of abuse in the future . |
| 6 | In this context , we shall assess how the Act has added to police power and what effect it has had when it has been used in tandem with the pre-existing law . |
| 7 | And the , I went to the my little now in Italy , making this conditional he says it 's no bloody good on me , poor old curly what , I think he 's about ninety , he looked it , he said what they keep making you conditional for he said you 've got no ruddy condition it 's gone and the , the recommended me for a complete discharge and , and eh , I started off with fifty per cent pension . |
| 8 | He was forty-one years of age and still a bachelor , but within a few months it became known that he wished to marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson , an American divorcee . |
| 9 | In second it 's cut and dry |
| 10 | In return it tries to ensure that the quality of life at each of the four campuses offers a rewarding , pleasurable and fulfilling experience to each member of the student community . |
| 11 | I imagined its tragic , night-long struggle to survive , the suffering it had endured and its final painful death as the sun rose . |
| 12 | For the moment it suffices to say that the BCG-matrix approach was a critical step in emphasizing ( 1 ) the need for a balanced portfolio of products within a corporate group in order to sustain longer-run success , and ( 2 ) the dynamic nature of managing large corporations . |
| 13 | He managed to reduce the variegated and picturesque spectacle of the Middle Ages to the unity of a humoristic concept at the very moment it began to dissolve and crumble . ’ |
| 14 | The thin light was casting curious shadows everywhere now , and Lugh blinked and rubbed his eyes , because just for a moment it had seemed that figures were appearing through the mists ahead of him . |
| 15 | For the starvelings it had to suffice that His Munificent Highness personally attached the greatest importance to their fate , which was a very special kind of attachment , of an order higher than the highest . |
| 16 | The very successful Dexion slotted angle iron appealed to a very broad market ( anyone whose used storage ) yet it was specialised for the job it had to do and sold at a good price . |
| 17 | After two weeks it started snowing and the ground froze . |
| 18 | Qualitatively it lacked the professional touch , and within individual libraries it lacked planning and co-ordination . |
| 19 | Some think the NME is the best because it has survived ; in truth it has survived because it is the best . |
| 20 | The voice surveyed the wasteland it had made and stormed away . |
| 21 | And in the Bible it 's recorded that for example there are some cases where there was a big storm and they lost sight of land and all the sailors er promptly panicked because once they 'd lost sight of land they had n't got a clue where they were . |
| 22 | While this study is limited to one university and deals with a relatively small intake of mature students over a period of six years it does demonstrate that non-standard entry mature students can do particularly well when compared with other students . |
| 23 | For present purposes it suffices to say that futures contracts undertaken for investment purposes ( as opposed to commercial purposes ) are investments subject to the FSA . |
| 24 | Once he thought he had found the perfect room but leaning against the wall it started to collapse and he narrowly escaped just seconds before the ceiling fell on top of him . |
| 25 | I would n't say it affects the way I work , but certainly at the end of the day it does hurt when my work is dismissed . |
| 26 | He dropped the wig into the papyrus-chest , wondering what he would do with it , and whose head it had adorned before Nubenehem had come by it . |
| 27 | The government service organisation questioned would not comment on the quality of the headhunting service it had received but , of eleven firms it cited , mentioned only one top international consultancy , Spencer Stuart . |
| 28 | If the public acceptance of psychoanalysis meant anything for secondary selection it did mean that the scientificity of any description of the mind became more suspect — its subjectivity more evident . |
| 29 | Since its foundation it has emphasised that the profit potential in exporting will be enhanced if export management is in trained hands . |
| 30 | Though it now has few East European customers it has proved that with cheap , intermediate technology and a limitlessly flexible approach to business , it is possible to sell exchanges to Russian cities . |