Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It effectively charges it because if you 've got six thousand allowances and you withdraw that amount putting it against the total income it means that you 're actually paying tax on those by deduction .
2 After eleven minutes it looked as though the changes would work , when John headed into the net from a centre by Hulme .
3 Thus if a policeman gives directions to a traveller , a doctor tells a nurse how to administer medicine to a patient , a householder puts in an insurance claim , a shop assistant explains the relative merits of two types of knitting wool , or a scientist describes an experiment , in each case it matters that the speaker should make what he says ( or writes ) clear .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 On a practical and tactical level it suggests that groups with common aspirations should seek to engage in broadly-based political alliances to further their shared interests , through a combination of lobbying , pressure-group activity and litigation .
7 In this case it appears that the bolts have been placed , not for the purpose of protection , but to create an artificial gangway .
8 In this case it looks as though in fact there were " captains of thousands " and " captains of hundreds " , and that my metonymy or by abbreviation " thousand " has been used for " captains of thousands " ad " hundreds " .
9 In this case it seems that the structure of the drama has made it too easy for the children — perhaps because of the non-confrontational role adopted by the teacher as messenger early on , when he was excited and enthusiastic about the railway and its effect on another town .
10 If so then on the assumption , surely acceptable to Nozick as to most people , that the prospect of a profit is a valid reason for most commercial activities it follows that selling arms to one of the combatants for profit does not jeopardize one 's neutrality .
11 In this instance it seems that the client needed not so much advice on a course of action as legitimation from its lawyer .
12 It is true that in some cases it happens that the recipient does not find the punishment painful , or even welcomes it — for example , some offenders might find prison a refuge against the intolerable pressures of the outside world .
13 For this writer it began when , shortly after stepping off the plane in Johannesburg , it became apparent that a few stitches sustained by the All Black winger Terry Wright in a training accident was deemed as worthy a front page news story as the continuous blood-letting in the Natal townships between rival ANC and Inkatha factions .
14 In this study it seems that the higher fibre diet expanded the proliferative compartment in both the proximal and distal colon and would thus appear to increase the risk of colonic mucosal cell instability .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 After a period of some confusion it seems that Carvin gear is going to get proper distribution in the UK .
18 We were in line with the Craven fault it seemed and in an electric storm the tower and all its domestic equipment spat and sizzled like a jumping cracker .
19 Throughout the 1920s filmed melodrama continued to use whatever social setting it required and poverty and urban misery were faithfully reproduced whenever necessary as on occasions were the realities of work in coal-mines , steelworks , and more frequently dockyards .
20 But from the two paper on pages 539 and 541 of this issue it seems that , in at least one important respect , the mammalian visual cortex and the insect optic lobe operate upon visual patterns in a similar way .
21 Jesus had come to Jerusalem , the capital of Judaism to take on the religious authorities and at this point in time in this Gospel it looks like he 's lost , gon na be dead in a couple of days .
22 The Howie Report receives details scrutiny from , who explores the different messages it contains and relates them to Scotland 's past and future .
23 The annexe has few refectory facilities , and on some days it seems that the queue for the coffee machine snakes endlessly around the corridors .
24 Wrangham 's theory remains tentative but if it stands up to further investigation it suggests that humans were primordially partrilineal .
25 For some purposes it matters that mice are not cats , while for others what counts is that both are animals .
26 At some point it seems that Theo made a most fatuous comment .
27 His subsequent letters to her reveal a side of his personality that Victorian biographers preferred to suppress At this point it seems that Wolfgang was interested in matters more scatological than sexual ; his humour is of the smutty adolescent variety that was evidently taken for granted in Salzburg middle class society .
28 On this point it seems that the Literary Digest Poll and others committed two errors .
29 For the next few weeks it seemed as though a genuine " United Front " would be established .
30 Santa Cruz Operation Inc is circulating a 135-page spiral-bound octavo-sized ‘ SCO Hardware Compatibility Handbook , ’ listing the 200 systems and 800 peripherals it supports and tweaking SunSoft Inc for being able to do the same for Solaris 2.0 on a single sheet of paper .
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