Example sentences of "it [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It agrees that compulsory treatment in the community is unacceptable , but accepts that the ‘ revolving door ’ patient who regularly defaults from treatment presents a genuine problem of management . |
| 2 | It irritates and painful . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , he not only refuses his tithes but seems to have a source of wealth which enables him to distribute alms , to mend the church as well as have it painted and refurbished . ’ |
| 4 | Though the Bank has accepted the report 's findings , it insists that continued support for the project is justified . |
| 5 | Nevertheless it insists that legal practice as a whole can be seen as organized around important legal conventions and this claim requires showing that the behaviour of judges generally , even those who are not conventionalists , converges sufficiently to allow us to find convention in that convergence . |
| 6 | His tax , known as a property tax , worked better because it realised that efficient assessment and collection were more important than raised levels . |
| 7 | At the level of morality , is it regarded as proper to take self-interest into account when deciding whether to offer support to a relative , or to ask for it ? |
| 8 | The US Treasury began to experience a depletion of its gold stock , so in August 1971 it announced that official convertibility of dollars into gold was temporarily suspended . |
| 9 | It announced that Mexican drug enforcement agents in the USA were being ordered home immediately , and that US DEA personnel based in Mexico would have to cease their activities . |
| 10 | It decrees that intelligent life in some way selects out its own actual universe from a variety of possible alternatives . |
| 11 | It ruled that packed lunches are supplied ‘ in the course of catering ’ and are liable for the 17.5% standard rating of VAT . |
| 12 | In cases considered since Roe , the Supreme Court has generally shown more deference to congressional restrictions than to the states ' attempts to overturn Roe , for example it ruled that public funds may not be used for abortions whether therapeutic or non-therapeutic ( Harris v. McRae 1980 ) . |
| 13 | In only one instance , the tobacco industry , has the MMC recommended companies actually be split up ; it recommended that Imperial Tobacco should sell its 42.5 per cent share in Gallaghers , but the Secretary of State did not accept this recommendation . |
| 14 | It recommended that criminal charges be brought , stating that " indiscriminate and prolonged shooting at innocent demonstrators is morally and legally indefensible and is deserving of the strongest censure " . |
| 15 | Also , it recommended that psychiatric emergency cover should be available every day of the week , and that a psychiatric history and examination be completed for each patient as soon as possible . |
| 16 | First , it recommended that local authorities should be made responsible for all long-term care of mentally handicapped and physically handicapped people , except for the rare few in need of permanent 24-hour medical supervision , who would remain the responsibility of the NHS . |
| 17 | To start with , though his new car was an excellent and reliable machine , it lacked that complete superiority over its competitors which would have made it — as the Lotus , say , did for Mario Andretti — a necessary world-beater . |
| 18 | It argued that public-sector resources were substantial , ‘ but efforts need to be pulled together more effectively , and brought to bear in the same place at the same time ’ ( ibid . |
| 19 | The Beveridge Report referred to both of these consequences when it argued that social security benefits should be of subsistence level only , allowing the individual , if he so wished , to make his own provision for higher benefits through voluntary insurance — which should also be positively encouraged by the government through tax allowances . |
| 20 | A suggested first step in the use of any preparation , be it peel or thin section , is to make one or more photographs of the entire preparation ( Fig. 4.10 ) . |
| 21 | What is it to know that human beings vary ? |
| 22 | It reported that Romanian state institutions and factories were under intensified guard , and that the frontiers were closed to tourists . |
| 23 | I have little doubt , however , that we would live a great deal longer than we do , were it not the case that the same evolutionary changes that make an animal fit when it is young may condemn it to deteriorate when old . |
| 24 | If , as a result of its inquiries under s47 , it concludes that certain action should be taken to safeguard or promote a child 's welfare it must take that action so far as it is both within its power and reasonably practicable for it to do so ( s47(8) ) . |
| 25 | It concludes that British Coal should be able to compete with the price of imported coal while continuing to improve safety standards . |
| 26 | It concludes that intensive analysis of individual schools and classrooms is required . |
| 27 | The London Industrial Strategy ( Greater London Council , 1985 ) highlights some of these problems , and although it argues for a positive role for local authorities , in the end it concludes that national help and assistance will be necessary in order to have any major impact . |
| 28 | It concludes that damaging levels of sulphur are deposited on 75 per cent of all European forestry , with the most severe impact occurring in those eastern countries which were once communist . |
| 29 | If it looks that dangerous it may be safe . |
| 30 | ‘ It looks like different rules apply . |