Example sentences of "it [verb] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider the dispute over fox hunting and suppose it agreed that the pleasure of men , hounds and perhaps horses , outweigh the pain of the fox . |
| 2 | Sun says Addamax — a vendor to Sun — asked for a loan guarantee , and it agreed because the suit raised serious issues . |
| 3 | It failed because the frequency and intensity of the odour , which constituted the nuisance , was over and above the ‘ general background of oily smells ’ , and had not unlike these general smells , continued for anything approaching 20 years . |
| 4 | It failed because the French and the British were unhappy about supporting such a move and indeed the United Nations looked very likely er er to be more erm willing to condemn the United States than it was to condemn North Vietnam but the view of most countries in the world at that time was that North Viet that North and South Vietnam were part of the same country , that the Geneva accords in nineteen fifty four which called for unification should be upheld , and that the United States was interfering in , in a south east Asian country for no good reason . |
| 5 | It failed because the French and the British were unhappy about supporting such a move and indeed the United Nations looked very likely er er to be more erm willing to condemn the United States than it was to condemn North Vietnam but the view of most countries in the world at that time was that North Viet that North and South Vietnam were part of the same country , that the Geneva accords in nineteen fifty four which called for unification should be upheld , and that the United States was interfering in , in a south east Asian country for no good reason . |
| 6 | I said I was flashing it to see if the window was all right . |
| 7 | Do n't stick to a single time each day but try to vary it to see if the time of day makes a difference for you . |
| 8 | It revealed that the Bundesbank spent £17 billion trying to prop up the Italian lira and the pound — most of the cash spent in a bid to save sterling . |
| 9 | It revealed that the wreckage of a flying saucer was allegedly recovered seventy-five miles north-west of Roswell , New Mexico , in July 1947 . |
| 10 | It revealed that the main examiners of food labels were women , particularly and those in the higher socio-economic brackets . |
| 11 | CAB 's confidentiality had not been fully appreciated nor was it realised that the worker was there to supply information required , not to pass judgement on the client or to offer gratuitous advice based on their personal experiences or prejudices . |
| 12 | In 1972 it expected that the new system of fewer and larger local authorities would prove more efficient . |
| 13 | For this reason the theory has been called a subjective theory of atonement because it insists that the cross changes us , not God ; that he is always forgiving . |
| 14 | While the consultation paper claims that ‘ the legislation should leave full scope for professional judgement ’ and while it insists that the law will provide a framework , ‘ not a straitjacket ’ , there are many who will see the legislation as the culmination of a strategy to whip teachers into line . |
| 15 | Even more obvious is the influence of law and order ideology on the 1991 Criminal Justice Act 's strategy of ‘ punishment in the community ’ , which we have termed ‘ punitive bifurcation ’ since it insists that the non-custodial measures whose use is to be encouraged for less serious offenders are to be punitive rather than rehabilitative in intent and nature . |
| 16 | It may make us unhappy , but it insists that the mechanical and the material need n't be in charge . |
| 17 | It insists that the past yields no rights tenable in court , except as these are made uncontroversial by what everyone knows and expects . |
| 18 | It insists that the status quo be preserved in court unless some rule within the explicit extension of a legal convention requires otherwise . |
| 19 | It appears to us that the point is a thoroughly esoteric one because it postulates that the judges had consented to arrangements for the Inns to exercise disciplinary powers over barristers , subject to their supervision , which infringed some fairly elementary rules of natural justice . |
| 20 | It postulates that the actual rate of inflation which prevails at any moment in time may be decomposed into two constituent parts : ( a ) an expectational component , measured by the variable , ( b ) an excess demand component , measured , as in the Phillips-Lipsey model , by the magnitude of f(U) . |
| 21 | For long moments it gazed and the rabbits remained motionless , staring back without a sound . |
| 22 | He said there was no reason for it to continue because the convoy had got through to Zepa . |
| 23 | Not least , the CIA was induced to help before it realized that the man with whom it would be dealing was one it had already discarded . |
| 24 | While the DUC itself had amassed information and expertise by now to undertake this study itself , it realized that the report would have to be produced from outside the community if it was to have legitimacy or to be seen in any way as neutral : ‘ We in the Committee felt that we knew enough to write the report ourselves but we also felt that it would n't be acceptable to the County Council so we had to get somebody else to do it ’ . |
| 25 | How and why is it intended that the Vendor 's liability should be increased by delivering an inaccurate Disclosure Letter ? |
| 26 | Dependence often develops , but need not necessarily be discouraged unless it persists when the patient has managed to overcome most or all of his problems . |
| 27 | It announced that the survey had been stimulated by ‘ fears ’ that forest decline of the European type ‘ may be occurring in Britain ’ . |
| 28 | It announced that the BCP was being " de-Stalinized " and transformed into " a new type of modern Marxist party " committed to " human and democratic socialism " . |
| 29 | To this end it announced that the electoral commission was to be reconstituted in order to free it from political influence and manipulation . |
| 30 | The court decided that victims of art thefts should be protected against the usual requirement in civil cases that the owner must make some effort to recover stolen goods within three years ; it ruled that the clock does not start ticking for the statute of limitations until the victim locates the stolen artworks and asks for their return . |