Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is why they do not , if they can possibly avoid it , pay the taxes the state can legitimately call for , obey the signs it reasonably puts up in the streets , and so on . |
| 2 | In Dundee 's Northern College , the Values Education Project developed a methodology through which a school could identify the values it already holds and set targets to grow from there . |
| 3 | Watch the buoy drifting westwards just north of the equator , as it approaches one of the moorings it suddenly changes direction with the current . |
| 4 | The latter is fascinating , especially in the glimpses it occasionally gives of the general principles and priorities which informed MI5 's work , and the unease these aroused in some quarters . |
| 5 | By ‘ blimpish ’ The Times presumably means that the directors it so describes show an obstinate and blinkered lack of concern for the national economic interest , and persist in pursuing what they judge to be the more immediate interests of the companies they direct . |
| 6 | This they call the " balanced slate " , and their insistent message is that whereas under our present system a vote for a party is a vote for just one candidate regardless of his precise political stance , the operation of the STV would allow a party , or rather oblige it , to put up a spread of candidates embracing and representing all the factions it supposedly includes . |
| 7 | Incidentally , one of the curious phenomena of my library is that when you take out Bleddyn 's autobiography from the shelves it automatically opens at the very page mentioned above . |
| 8 | Both of these bodies agree that reliable information must represent faithfully the effect of the transactions it either purports to represent or could reasonably be expected to represent . |
| 9 | The real sticking-point was UNITA 's refusal to remove its soldiers from any of the areas it now controls . |
| 10 | Heterosexism was a theory that was increasingly attractive to lesbian and gay socialists , but in the mid-1980s it still carried little clout in the lesbian and gay communities as a whole . |
| 11 | you see you get , over the years it probably expands and it |
| 12 | Or else it 's the Croup , the Colic , the Beads it just swallowed or double |
| 13 | Rather than entering into these services too late , we want to anticipate the shift and the implications it thereby brings to our business by offering services tailored to specific client needs ’ . |
| 14 | What it has not been able to do is provide a coherent explanation of the variations it often describes , nor account for changes in mores and consciousness . |
| 15 | Despite all the changes it still bears many of the hallmarks of a family-owned company . |
| 16 | The question to be asked , therefore , is : can the nation afford to increase the resources it already feels obliged to expend on the very old ? |
| 17 | This , and the fact that the Hayes Society tended to be a rather secretive body , lent it much mystique for a time , ensuring that the pronouncements it occasionally issued on professional matters were received as though hewn on tablets of stone . |
| 18 | Because Ballantyne is one of the characters it somewhat restricts his actions and makes the character more adult whereas in ‘ Lord of the Flies ’ the characters are their own people with their own personalities . |
| 19 | When they staled in the yards it quickly froze . |
| 20 | Until these underlying images of individual and society are recognized , and their study given the explicit attention it deserves , the significance of geographical knowledge for social practice will not be realized , nor the constraints it currently imposes overcome . |
| 21 | Neither was Noel Coward , and , despite the multitude of other differences between us , that shared fact persists and continues to inform , shape and intensify my love of Brief Encounter and the tears it always makes me shed . |
| 22 | Investment in education promotes economic growth but Britain has failed to use the opportunities offered by oil to prepare its economy for the challenges it now has to meet . |
| 23 | For example , where pragmatics is construed as the study of grammatically encoded aspects of context , we might want to say : ( 18 ) f(s)=c where c is the set of contexts potentially encoded by elements of S i.e. f is a theory that " computes out " of sentences the contexts which they encode Or , alternatively , where pragmatics is defined as the study of constraints on the appropriateness of utterances , we could say : ( 19 ) f(u)=a where A has just two elements , denoting the appropriate vs. the inappropriate utterances i.e. f is a theory that selects just those felicitous or appropriate pairings of sentences and contexts — or identifies the set of appropriate utterances Or , where pragmatics is defined ostensively as a list of topics , we could say : ( 20 ) f(u)=b where each element of B is a combination of a speech act , a set of presuppositions , a set of conversational implicatures , etc. i.e. f is a theory that assigns to each utterance the speech act it performs , the propositions it presupposes , the propositions it conversationally implicates , etc . |
| 24 | Italy accepted that there would be economic disadvantages , though in the negotiations it successfully managed to gain some important concessions for its own steel industry : but the economic worries took a clear secondary position to the political factors which were the major motives for Italy 's participation . |
| 25 | The UK has flouted the EC 's Directive and disagreed with the standards it originally agreed to . |
| 26 | told the police it never took place . |
| 27 | told the police it never took place . |
| 28 | In the old villa the labour force had consisted mainly of serfs , or villeins , who were personally free but were tied to the plot of land on which they lived , and to the services it traditionally rendered to the lord , and of slaves , who had no freedom and no land . |
| 29 | We are to imagine a situation in which the State provides all the services it currently provides , let us say roads and a sewerage system , free education and a free health service , social security and unemployment benefits and the like . |
| 30 | So you know what this is a measure of it 's not a measure of anything it does n't mean that one group 's done better than the others it just means that 's the way it 's been measured the work that they 've done has been measured by another group which is n't good or bad it 's just hopefully picking out the important criteria and applying them to the work that we 've done and the notes we 've produced and the way we 've marked other people 's . |