Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first tends to refer mainly to the military context which , while obviously important , is not what this book is about ; and the second is clearly state-centrist , and does not fully convey the scnse of hegemony where it does not directly involve the state , which I take to be crucial . |
| 2 | The application of microelectronics to regulate the use of energy is , likewise , being depicted by this country 's government as a manifestation of progress since it involves harnessing advanced technology to promote efficient consumption . |
| 3 | Who watch the ball of progress as it rolls , |
| 4 | It is possibly the least effective method of change because it depends on two steps both of which are unnatural . |
| 5 | It runs well on all types of PC as it has no special hardware requirements . |
| 6 | I 've always liked the rain , the city at night , wet streets stretching into winter darkness , a peculiar feeling of freedom that it contains . |
| 7 | This has been a relatively lengthy chapter of necessity and it has placed sales settings in their respective contexts . |
| 8 | An incomplete or sloppy check carried out on the canopy can be lethal , because if it comes off it is a matter of luck whether it hits or misses the tail . |
| 9 | Imagine , first , a horseshoe bat giving out a continuous hum of ultrasound as it flies fast towards a still object , like a tree . |
| 10 | The neighbouring RAF bases at Bentwaters and Woodbridge in Suffolk , to be vacated by the U.S. Air Force next year , will not be required by the Ministry of Defence when it takes over full control of the sites . |
| 11 | On other occasions committees have been generally in support of government action but have urged that it be undertaken more vigorously : the Defence Committee has been critical of the Ministry of Defence when it has spent less than the sums provided in the annual estimates . |
| 12 | And as there are four times as many outbreaks in the home than in hotels , takeaways and restaurants etc , it is clear that the domestic kitchen is the last line of defence when it comes to food hygiene . |
| 13 | Non-cooperation , as Gandhi understands it , does not always have to be an act of love in the same way as satyāgraha has to be , but it is in act of love and consequently a branch of satyāgraha when it seeks to promote the good of a wrongdoer . |
| 14 | As with good subwoofers the effect of this extra octave is felt primarily in the enhanced sense of acoustic that it conveys — one simply becomes still more involved in the proceedings , more a part of the audience than an observer . |
| 15 | Like a chariot , the Pump Wagon causes a great deal of damage as it charges but the effect is even more extreme due to the destructive power of the crunching roller at the front . |
| 16 | The Privy Council in The Wagon Mound ( No. 1 ) stated that their Lordships had not found it necessary to consider the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher in relation to remoteness of damage and it has been suggested that the inference is that causation , not foreseeability , is the test under the rule . |
| 17 | Assuming that these risks are real ones in the large public company , the chapter will survey the law of negligence as it applies to directors , and will consider whether the role of the courts as external monitors of management efficiency could usefully be increased . |
| 18 | Rumours abound ; it is said that Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed here after his defeat in 1745 , and it is also suggested that the house was a centre of smuggling as it stands a mere hundred yards from the head of the Solway Firth . |
| 19 | In this latter respect , government policy ( or the threat of intervention ) would seem to be the most significant factor tending to remove authority over collective bargaining to the national confederations.9 Attempts to align the outcome of wage negotiations with macroeconomic policy objectives have been one factor which has tended to raise the level of bargaining and it has played a significant role at certain periods in countries such as Holland , Norway and Austria . |
| 20 | Continue to fry with the onion for a couple of minutes until it begins to absorb the oil . |
| 21 | And erm the effect though of holding beach material on one part of the beach is of course that it starves the area which is along the Sussex Channel coast to the east of beach material that it would formerly have received . |
| 22 | You get a pension of course but it depends how many years |
| 23 | He ca n't see me of course but it makes me feel funny . |
| 24 | Bit early to say of course but it looks very promising . |
| 25 | And of course when it goes through they already have our our as it were |
| 26 | the trees were racing down the river , the river was running oh they were huge , then of course when it subsides you 've got a build up of trees , that 's left , you know left on the , where they 've blocked |
| 27 | This has far-reaching implications also for social work across the entire range of activities as it has to be based very firmly on an elaborate statutory framework which spells out possibilities and responsibilities for intervention in considerable detail . |
| 28 | ‘ I am not prepared for us to be a satellite of Middlesbrough and it appears the majority of Radio One programmes will be coming from Middlesbrough , ’ he said . |
| 29 | It is the ultimate paradox of this highly academic school of fiction that it defies all the usual rules of academic scrupulosity , as if fiction were a breaking-out , a holiday from cares . |
| 30 | The reason Jesus used parables can not be to hide the truth from people because this is not the intention of teaching and it seems out of character with what we learn about Jesus elsewhere in the Gospel . |