Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , it was the first successful attempt in this genre because it gave its performers an opportunity to reveal their talents as actor-dancers . |
| 2 | An algorithm which performs this trick before it starts searching is said to be goal directed , or a backwards searcher . |
| 3 | Use of trade exhibitions is on the increase and firms increasingly need to establish a more scientific method of managing this function as it requires an understanding of how an exhibition stand communicates itself to the public . |
| 4 | I 'm never sure if they eat this weed cos it does n't look as if it 's going anywhere . |
| 5 | It was a useful review of services but not a profound analysis of problems in this field and it makes for rather bland reading . |
| 6 | Nothing turns on the procedure adopted in this case and it suffices to say that when , on 8 April 1992 , the matter came before Mr. Simon Goldblatt Q.C. , sitting as a deputy High Court judge , the application for an order under the Act of 1975 was made by those who are the defendants in the United States action and it was opposed by the Treasury Solicitor , although purists might perhaps have expected that any opposition would have been made by or on behalf of the Attorney-General , the objection being one taken on behalf of the Crown . |
| 7 | The present tense is used in this case because it carries a sense of immediacy and impact . |
| 8 | There have been moments during the argument in this case when it appeared to be suggested that the court had to do with a grave case involving what is called the right of public meeting . |
| 9 | ‘ There have been moments during the argument in this case when it appeared to be suggested that the court was being confronted with a grave case involving what is called a right of public meeting . |
| 10 | I would have preferred this afternoon but it seems he is riding in three races at Wincanton . ’ |
| 11 | It may take some time to program this technique as it has to take into account all foreseeable circumstances . |
| 12 | ‘ Only one on this bike because it 's only got one seat ’ , ( Simon 4.3 ) . |
| 13 | I 'd like to skip over this decision because it wakes me up in a sweat fairly often . |
| 14 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Darlington Railway Preservation Society , explained : ‘ Quite a few historians have written about this building but it seems a bit odd that none of them knew the exact date it opened . |
| 15 | The Local Government and Housing Act 1989 enacts this Provision though it substitutes 208 hours for twenty-six days and exempts employees who are elected to the chair of councils ( Clause 10 ) . |
| 16 | The United States Senate rejected this provision because it thought it would bestow legal rights upon third parties . |
| 17 | The model of responsible party government was born of this experience and it tended to elevate the politics of the moment into a law of nature that has distracted attention from the more fluid aspects of Britain 's political experience . |
| 18 | Britain has been denied this freedom because it has never had a truly commercial broadcasting environment . |
| 19 | Brazil provides a particularly interesting terrain for this study because it has a very limited social security provision and few effective laws in the area of employment protection . |
| 20 | Data General Corp will be getting 88000-based desktop workstations OEM from Omron Corporation starting sometime this spring after it signs a contract . |
| 21 | The government 's announcement this spring that it planned to phase in the seventeen and a half per cent tax over twelve months brought pensioners out onto the streets . |
| 22 | Oh the story of this particular one is that it er er they tried to make out that the erm that the the the the shark has actually got something against the human beings on this boat and it keeps chasing them . |
| 23 | Divorce has this effect because it suggests that remarriage in the lifetime of one 's first partner is socially and even morally acceptable' ( Irish Times , 6 June 1986 ; also 31 May 1986 ; 14 June 1986 ) . |
| 24 | Richmond bureau was prompted into this action when it felt that it was losing advice workers because of the tensions involved in the work and because insufficient support was given to alleviate it . |
| 25 | So I mean it it was it was represented to me er and I felt that there was some logic in it that that this company would not be discussing this deal unless it felt it could make money out of it and that money in the end would have to come out of the local people here . |
| 26 | A term in a lease does not negative this rule unless it refers specifically to VAT or to s42 of the Act ( VAT Act 1983 , s42(1A) ) . |
| 27 | she , she knows this car when it goes by |
| 28 | This unruffled progression fits perfectly the sort of chain of correlations of consequences which we disentangled at the start of this chapter but it does not seem to offer the prospect of the decisive determination of a particular result . |
| 29 | However , it is a distinction we are going to maintain in this chapter because it has the effect of separately identifying the discount market . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) Any officer , servant or agent of the Bank may , on producing if required evidence of his authority , enter any premises occupied by any person on whom a notice could be served under section 39 above for the purpose of obtaining there such information or documents as are specified in the authority , being information or documents that could have been required by such a notice ; but the Bank shall not authorise any person to act under this subsection unless it has reasonable cause to believe that if such a notice were served it would not be complied with or that any documents to which it would relate would be removed , tampered with or destroyed . |