Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I struggled on for a while , but I know my limitations when it comes to design , especially as we have grown to expect a high standard in QP . |
| 2 | To hell with it , I 'll go down fighting , it will break me on my terms if it breaks me at all . |
| 3 | Its beauty lies not in its architecture , but in the magnificence of its views as it sits in splendid isolation on top of a steep hill looking down the unencumbered views across fields , moors and woodland to the river valleys of the Wye and Elan . |
| 4 | Central government provides information on its activities when it publishes its various expenditure statements . |
| 5 | Are individual Japanese so decidedly group orientated by cultural tradition or is it that ‘ in many cases they are loyal to their groups because it pays to be loyal ’ ( Befu 1977 p. 87 ) ? |
| 6 | The manufacturer could impose full-line forcing , obliging the retailer to take a whole range of its products if it takes one , or tie-in sales , no X sold without Y. It could impose exclusive purchasing ( no products of a certain description to be bought from anywhere but itself ) , and may offer selective and exclusive distribution agreements ( suppliers have to meet certain criteria in order to be selected to distribute a product , and may be offered an exclusive territory or even absolute territorial protection ) . |
| 7 | Another is that the UK is abandoning its plans as it slides further into economic and technological turmoil . |
| 8 | that have had the support but they wo n't get off their backsides and it tends to be this ge generation . |
| 9 | We created something here , something live and good and untrammelled by the rigor mortis of this dying , stinking society clinging with its preying claws so hard to its privileges because it knows it 's dying , only it wants to kill everything else too , only able to say thou Shalt Not because it 's envious , because it 's cold and impotent — they only have to sniff a little bit of genius , of freedom , of life , and they 're on to it with the , lackey hounds tearing it up , and for why ? |
| 10 | The idea of the bond is both to demonstrate the financial security of the firm and to provide funds to rescue its clients if it goes out of business . |
| 11 | Mike is one of those shiny people who carry a square of bright blue sky above their heads while it rains on the rest of us . |
| 12 | Quite often all the things that parents want to say go out of their heads and it takes time and confidence in their listener to start to explore the greater areas of concern . |
| 13 | The authority of civil association is an endowment which is not traceable to any particular source and which lies only in ‘ continuous acknowledgement ’ based not on acts of obedience ‘ but in the continuous recognition of the obligation to subscribe to its prescriptions because it has a certain shape ’ . |
| 14 | Drink up : Euro Disney has begun to serve alcohol for the first time at four of its restaurants as it seeks to stem heavy losses from weak attendance . |
| 15 | The family , he maintains , has not so much lost its functions as it has become more specialized in its functions . |
| 16 | It is therefore idle for a British government to start telling managers how to run their companies until it has itself learned how to carry out its own duty to maintain a sound and stable currency . |
| 17 | ‘ Women in the industry are not dissatisfied with such work ’ asserts Blauner , without giving his evidence for this statement : ‘ Work does not have the central importance and meaning in their lives that it does for men , since their most important roles are those of wives and mothers ’ . |
| 18 | But frequently they appear to have taken leave of their senses when it comes to choosing the right sort of women . |
| 19 | The BM can flog off the contents of its cellars if it needs money . |
| 20 | There are plenty of birds to be seen : near the salmon cages a red-throated diver patters along the surface with its feet as it gets airborne . |
| 21 | The ocean changes its colours as it sweeps towards where I lie . |
| 22 | It sculptures caves in its banks as it falls into a deep ravine , and becomes sedate only in its later stages as it leaves its dale to lose its identity in the River Lune . |
| 23 | This closed architecture does have its drawbacks as it becomes hard , if not impossible , to expand the system outside the manufacturer 's original specification . |
| 24 | This provides the best possible security for their workforces but it means something more in terms of the ‘ family silver ’ . |
| 25 | If a large customer is late in making payment , a firm may be unable to pay its suppliers unless it has spare liquidity . |
| 26 | One industry spokesman comments : ‘ The overall performance of computerised management systems within the hotel industry relates more to the attitudes of managers towards training and the commitment of their suppliers than it does to the ‘ superiority ’ of the individual systems . ’ |
| 27 | BREWER and retailer Whitbread has begun advising more than 1,000 of its tenants that it has arranged deals to lease their pubs to a string of brewers and pub groups as part of a move to comply with the Government 's beer orders . |
| 28 | One of the speakers was suggesting that a proposal should be judged on its merits when it comes forward for approval to the registering authority and that if it does n't fit into the set pattern , that should n't necessarily debar it . |
| 29 | Polo parks ( one was constructed recently at Châteaux Giscours ) , marble bottling halls ( Michel Delon 's at Léoville-Lascases is so highly polished that workers have been issued with special boots ) , Versailles-style formal gardens with sunken cellars provide the spectacular icing on the cake of wealth accumulated by the leading châteaux over the last decade by the simple expedient of charging much more for their wines than it costs to make them . |
| 30 | Angola has its problems but it has no ex-colonial links with this country . |