Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Bureaucracy distorts the tasks of social organizations more than it does in management , where ‘ the accumulation of bureaucratic relations does not necessarily decrease efficiency ’ .
2 And since the discipline can not exclude psychological subjects from its accounts as it can psychologists , it has to consider the effects of gender variations among subjects more than it does among psychologists .
3 Eastman Kodak put Interactive on the block at least six months ago because it did not fit its core business interests .
4 RISC watcher Andrew Allison remembered FRISC as a merchant chip attempt and says he laughed at Micron months ago when it announced the subsidiary because it did n't have the resources or market presence to pull off a new proprietary architecture .
5 Partners in the south coast firm of Hook Harris & Co , which hit the headlines two months ago when it entered into an individual voluntary arrangement with its creditors , have bought the two main practices from the joint supervisors of the IVA .
6 There is no record of who owns what in the area of mining rights ; thus a mining company may have to spend years discovering to whom it has to pay royalties even after it has ascertained that a piece of Britain contains valuable metals .
7 The aircraft , worth millions of pounds , was on a routine training mission when it came down six miles from its base at RAF Upper Heyford.Eyewitnesses have described seeing the plane trailing smoke and flames just before it crashed .
8 For him , the trend represents a contradiction of the growing pressure to make greater use of non-executive directors especially as it requires a far heavier burden of detailed knowledge of company 's activities from what are still essentially part-timers .
9 The Motorola 88110 RISC is not actually out yet , but the company 's Computer Group has had enough of third parties announcing new machines using its parent 's chips long before it gets a crack at them , and the company is first out of the gate with a single-board computer using the forthcoming 50MHz 88110 .
10 And I cleared the lot except six baskets and they were all in good condition , so I was glad of these six baskets really because it helped you to give them one or two more .
11 COSE continues to resist any designation as a group or collective appellation as the COSE companies reportedly because it expects to expand .
12 The company argued that it was given a stay of execution by other bankers even though it had defaulted on loans connected with its American Heileman brewing operations .
13 Well , no one was going to call them cheapskates even if it meant staying at home for the rest of the decade .
14 It first appeared three lines ago where it referred to the suns ability to give life to the earth of a cold star .
15 When Madame shook the bucket you turned out your pockets even if it meant walking home .
16 Since 1973 , Ireland has received around £9 billion in EC funds — five times more than it has contributed to the community .
17 BUT SHE 'S STARTED TAKING THESE NEW TABLETS STILL IF IT MAKES HER FEEL BETTER I DO N'T MIND .
18 The emancipators thought a commune could serve administrative and judicial purposes only if it embraced a coherent area of peasant settlement .
19 It was a pity that it would be blown to atoms long before it got there .
20 It is dangerous , however , to argue that there is no reason for the large antlers just because it seems unnecessary to give a reason .
21 For example , if a decision is made to build a factory , it might be years before the building is erected , equipped and in operation , and years more before it earns sufficient profits to pay back the investment .
22 A few weeks later when it came to the 1985 Budget , Nigel set himself the same goal .
23 He was joined by Peter Sheppard a few years later when it became apparent that so much information was potentially available from flight recorders that it needed another man to help interpret all the data .
24 A look is created , forgotten and then reinvented years later as it hits a dead end and digs up the tried-and-tested looks of yesteryear .
25 There 's a number in the er when I was Church Street so that 's a few years now so it needs to be checked .
26 The implementation of liberty can stretch to keeping places of recreation closed on Sundays , upholding the rights of preachers to speak in public places even if it causes an affray , and opposing the development of catholic schools because their teachers do not communicate the Bible without priestly mediation .
27 The Bank of Scotland had frozen the overdraft of Monktonhall Mineworkers Ltd some weeks ago when it emerged that debts of about £1.7 million had accrued .
28 Then he said : ‘ If the letters ca n't be recovered , your brother 's defence collapses even before it 's been assembled , does n't it ? ’
29 A lost love or family tragedy had the same impact on a Ukrainian living 300 years ago as it does today on a 30-year-old singer living in Leeds .
30 It could have provided new nursery schools years ago as it has done elsewhere in the county .
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