Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meaning may be wrapped in so many layers of words or unnecessary phrases that it almost disappears . |
| 2 | Many teenage children feel unable to talk to parents about intimate or emotional issues but it is important to be ready to talk , if they show that they want to . |
| 3 | However , particularly in long-settled countries , it is difficult to differentiate such biogeographical studies from those by historical geographers or economic historians and it was a historical geographer ( Darby , 1956 ) who mapped and compared the distribution of forest in AD 900 with that in AD 1900 . |
| 4 | In addition , the court has a general power to include incidental , supplemental or consequential provisions as it thinks fit ( s11(7) ( d ) ) . |
| 5 | In an extreme case an authority might decide for economic , political or cultural reasons that it did not wish to make coinage , which may explain the periods mentioned above when various states abandoned coinage . |
| 6 | There are no English churches named after the old boy , or old boys as it happens . |
| 7 | In those days a man was allocated duties , it is true they tried to arrange that he was on early spread , medium or late duties but it did n't always work out because of holidays , sickness or that but erm there were no restriction on hours . |
| 8 | Nor can I look at the way in which this view of faith and reason has influenced contemporary Christian thinking , both mainstream and among the evangelical or fundamentalist groups where it is most in evidence . |
| 9 | Geac maintains very conservative accounting standards and often writes off soft or non-cash assets when it buys a company to bring the acquisition 's books in line , he added . |
| 10 | And there are some wonderfully positive people among those who have permanent disabilities or terminal illnesses so it is not just a case of being one of the ‘ lucky ’ ones . |
| 11 | They can be ‘ Labour ’ or ‘ Cooperative ’ or conscientious objectors when it suits , but whatever they disguise themselves as , their object is the same — to bring about a ‘ class war ’ … |
| 12 | In the serrania ( the mountain districts ) there were large areas of poor pasture or small holdings and it was in these regions rather than on the great estates that Anarchism was later to find its most fanatical adherents . |
| 13 | So if a foal exhibits characteristics or mannerisms that are not displayed by its mother , or other horses that it is with , but only by its father , such a characteristic would appear to be inherited . |
| 14 | Willis 's work also shares Robson 's view of courts as framers of judicial policy on social and political questions and it contains a number of pointed criticisms of the normativist style . |
| 15 | I know that the Combined Heat and Power Association recently submitted a report to OFFER pointing out some institutional and administrative barriers that it should like to be tackled . |
| 16 | The town was not liable to attack owing to its geographical position and extensive fortifications and it was situated near the Fens from which the word ‘ Mercia ’ originated . |
| 17 | Schools run themselves some have left the authority , we still have three education sub committees a major education committee , numerous sub groups and working parties and it 's gone time we recognised the changing world and streamlined the members side of the education department in the same way that the officer side 's been streamlined and slimmed down . |
| 18 | We care about low pay and low incomes and it 's estimated that in this country this so-called wealthy country that we have about eleven million people now on or just below E C poverty standards . |
| 19 | The seat can be used in both forward and rear-facing positions and it only needs one hand to fold it down . |
| 20 | The town has many picturesque corners and interesting buildings although it sustained much damage by fire in 1799 when the town was fought over by French , Austrian and Russian armies . |
| 21 | The errors possibly arising from voltage variations are however clearly much less than variations arising for other , explained and unexplained reasons and it was decided to abandon this idea . |
| 22 | Examining Spenser and Ireland , therefore , raises more questions about relations between literary texts and historical contexts than it resolves . |
| 23 | Another marked feature of the service industries is the large amount of female labour they employ : among the highest levels were professional and scientific services where it was 70 per cent by 1970 and in both catering and retailing just over 60 per cent . |
| 24 | This facility applies as much , if not more to industrial and commercial buyers as it does to individual consumers . |
| 25 | It showed no appreciable difference between young and old women but it declined with age in men . |
| 26 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 27 | He must insist that work always goes to British firms and British workers unless it can only be done abroad . |
| 28 | In this way , alliance relations between descent groups would simultaneously have involved political , economic and social affairs and it would be entirely artificial to try and divorce them . |
| 29 | This reflects the influence of cultural and social factors as it was totally unacceptable for women to smoke when these women were in their formative years in the interwar period . |
| 30 | Developing countries have their own specific economic , political and social requirements and it is often felt that the media should ‘ carry out positive development tasks ’ ; that they should accept restrictions if the state so desires and that they should be subordinate to the needs ( economic , cultural , political ) of a developing state . |