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

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1 Drug profits have also been affected by provisions in the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 ( Section 24 ) , which makes assisting drug trafficking an offence , and also provides immunity from breach of contract where it is disclosed to the police that funds or investments are derived from drug trafficking .
2 During this period , one Spitfire was manhandled through the mud to the far end of the Abbotsinch field where it was loaded onto road transport for conveyance to Glasgow .
3 Figure 1 attempts to summarize the above arguments and I hope that this will serve to facilitate comprehension where it is needed .
4 The seats are excellent too , with support where it 's needed and basically good driving position , adjustable for height .
5 Christine produced a new order form for the Lent Studies booklet and fliers for the Preparation Day on 30th January to be held in Dunblane Cathedral Hall , for which she would arrange tea , coffee , and a bookstall where it was hoped to have copies of the books mentioned as background reading for the Lent study .
6 I think that basically the 1980s were very rough and there were some very difficult times and in order to persuade the country to change , and impose change where it was resisted , and to carry it through , required both will and language characteristic of that challenge and Mrs Thatcher has been associated with that . ’
7 Normally , one only meets a non-cumulative several liability where it is annexed to joint liability .
8 A safer course ( assuming that the business wishes to exclude liability where it is permitted to do so — ie in non-consumer cases ) is to have one set of terms , including the appropriate exclusion clauses , but to include a provision that the forbidden exclusions do not apply in a case where the buyer deals as a consumer .
9 That , says McKinsey , is because they spend money where it is needed rather than on grand castles in the air .
10 He was pleased the Government was putting money where it was needed : ‘ The average farmer gets a poor return on capital invested .
11 To harden a royal icing , for instance where it is used as part of a structure or decoration , a tiny amount only of acetic acid or cream of tartar could be added .
12 R.10 enables the Council to revoke recognition where it was granted as a result of error or fraud .
13 At the end of week six , I had a medical interview where it was decided that due to hurricane Gilbert there was no medical facility adequate for my medical needs ; I 'm asthmatic .
14 Fennel can be grown from seed sown in spring where it is to remain .
15 Over at Pratt 's , the St James ' club where it is said that Tory leaders were made and unmade in the old days , you would never have guessed there was an election on .
16 On the wider issue , it has been made clear , not simply from what I have said but through what I have done over many years — in an earlier ministerial capacity and in my present one — that we are more than willing to take action where it is shown to be necessary , once we are sure that such action would be well-judged .
17 Only Liberalism is free to use State action where it is needed , to refrain where that is better .
18 Detention of a whole class may technically still be lawful , although it is becoming increasingly likely that a judge would have doubts about the reasonableness of this course of action where it is known that there may only be one or two culprits .
19 SunSoft is planning on releasing details of the programme that it 's putting together at its developers ' conference later this month .
20 Racal proved this conclusively when it announced last spring that it was planning to sell off part of the Vodafone mobile telecoms operation .
21 They call it an attempt to emphasise that Macedonia is an historically and culturally Greek region just when the ex-Yugoslav Macedonia , invented and so-named after World War II by Tito , is seeking international support for its own claim to independence , so far without much success : in part because of the problem of its name , in part because of fear that it is looking with greedy eyes at Greek Macedonia .
22 One of the features that worry people about modern society is the fear that it is becoming more violent .
23 A foreigner , and housed on the second floor of the hospital block in the cell that it was said had held the pilot Gary Powers and the businessman Greville Wynne .
24 When I did manage to follow it , I was stunned by the fact that it could gain such a good speed although it was flying without putting any apparent effort into beating its wings .
25 In spite of high interest rates , price inflation at the factory gate has varied from 4.8-5.2 per cent during the past seven months with little indication that it is set to slip below the range .
26 The platform may have been left , although there is no indication that it was used until Stretford Bridge began to appear in the timetable as a request stop in 1890 .
27 It was ordered that this memorandum should be entered in the minutes , but there is no indication that it was considered or discussed .
28 Nannies were inevitable and , within their social set , also very much the norm ; but the choice of Barbara Barnes to look after William was an indication that it was going to be a relaxed regime : she had no formal training , never wore a uniform and liked children to call her by her Christian name .
29 To represent a happening as unforeseeable , however — and herein lies the explanation for the use of the infinitive with to — one must necessarily evoke a position before its occurrence : the stretch of time leading up to it must be evoked as containing no prior indication that it was going to occur .
30 In elections held in May 1990 the NLD had won an overwhelming victory , but during the following months the ruling military junta ( the State Law and Order Restoration Council — SLORC ) had shown little indication that it was planning a transfer of power to civilian rule .
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