Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In capture theories more possibilities open up : the Moon could have suffered its late heavy bombardment as it tumbled through space before capture ; it could have suffered it from debris already in orbit around the Earth or the large basins alone could have arisen from such debris ; or it could have been bombarded by material which entered the Earth-Moon system after the Earth had captured the Moon . |
| 2 | Mahwah , New Jersey-based Israeli company Defense Software & Systems Inc says it agreed with Israel Corp Ltd for a joint venture to be incorporated in the US to hold an 80.1% interest in Tower Semiconductor Ltd , the name chosen for the company being formed to own and operate National Semiconductor Corp 's existing facility in Migdal Haemek , Israel , running it as an independent semiconductor business . |
| 3 | Last week it agreed in principle that Switzerland could take part in projects where its participation would strengthen the research effort . |
| 4 | At the beginning of last year it agreed in principle a 15-year deal covering fuel supplies and reprocessing at a cost of £2.7 billion , but the contracts have not yet been signed . |
| 5 | Despite the many problems which still faced the proposal to introduce an EC-wide company charter , the Commission defused some of the more acrimonious disputes surrounding company taxation , when it agreed in April 1990 to drop plans for an EC-wide system of personal and corporation tax , in favour of a policy of co-ordinating the various existing systems . |
| 6 | Hong Kong seems reluctant to take the pressure off China by letting the deadline slip unless it agrees to talks . |
| 7 | It veers from pieces that sound stilted and scripted to free-form passages when the Jamesons hold what they consider to be a conversation . |
| 8 | The success experienced among the eastern Angles with the conversion of Eorpwald may have been due in part at least to the influence of older patterns established by missionaries in the time of Raedwald , but nevertheless it testifies to Eadwine 's real influence in the East Anglian area at this time . |
| 9 | The very brief account she gave now was selective — it referred to Anna but not to Anna 's story ; Rome was a place of origin ; there was no mention of a Mena or a Mr James ( Simon she could not entirely subdue ) , the prince was a bare name . |
| 10 | Although the SNP recorded swings in several seats it failed to breakthrough in the Labour seats it would need to win in any significant nationalist revival . |
| 11 | ( At the same time , the government reformed the rating system as it applied to companies by introducing a uniform business rate — set at the same rate throughout the country . ) |
| 12 | In Plowman 's case it was argued that on its true construction the restrictive covenant was too wide as it applied to goods of all kinds and would prevent canvassing by the employee in articles of trade of any kind . |
| 13 | Held , granting the application , that the Act of 1987 placed the Bank of England under a wide public duty to supervise deposit-taking businesses , the fulfilment of which often required it to take urgent action in the interests of those whom the Act was designed to protect ; that a notice from the Bank of England under section 39(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1987 requiring production of documents overrode an injunction restraining that bank from disclosure of the documents to a third party , and the existence of an injunction did not constitute a reasonable excuse under section 39(11) for failure to comply with the section 39 notice ; and that the injunction should not , in any event , be interpreted as prohibiting compliance with the notice ; that it was proper for such a notice to specify the documents to which it applied by class rather than individually ; and that , accordingly , the defendants should be directed to comply with the notice ( post , pp. 717G–H , 718C , 719B–C , 721C , 722C ) . |
| 14 | The book contains chapters such as ‘ Playing a round with nature ’ ( presumably it plays off scratch ) , as well as a roll call of courses which have worked with the environment in their design and management , namely Royal Troon , Royal St. David 's ( in Harlech ) , Tenby , Lindrick ( in South Yorkshire ) , Gleneagles ( which provides a habitat for , amongst others , kestrels , partridges , pheasants and roe deer ) , Luffenham Heath , Sundridge Park , Royal Birkdale , Woodhall Spa and Western Gailes . |
| 15 | It plays with Godard 's Une Femme est une Femme , made the following year , both graceful and romantic tributes to the MGM musical comedy , and to their vibrant stars , Anouk Amiee and Anna Karina . |
| 16 | It plays with Godard 's Une Femme est une Femme , made the following year , both graceful and romantic tributes to the MGM musical comedy , and to their vibrant stars , Anouk Amiee and Anna Karina . |
| 17 | It plays with dolls but can not get interested . |
| 18 | Both as social models and as models of narrative functioning , structuralist theories have gained wide currency within the institutional framework that determines how literature is read and the role it plays in society . |
| 19 | However , it remains to be seen how the class struggle , and the part it plays in history , are to be analysed . |
| 20 | In particular , they point out that the phenomenon of monitoring can not be confined within the restricted role it plays in Monitor theory : |
| 21 | One does n't have to be a reader of Shakespeare to know that there are many enduring human characteristics , but when it comes to work , and the part it plays in individuals ' lives , what they bring to it , and their expectations of it , one sees an enormous rate of change . |
| 22 | IT launches on Hallowe'en and encompasses Guy Fawkes night . |
| 23 | However , in 1965 it was given to the National Tramway Museum to care for , and it operated at Crich in the Derbyshire hills from 1965–1971 , when 59 was withdrawn as needing extensive overhaul . |
| 24 | In summary , his view that the State was the instrument through which the dialectic operated was evidently right ; and Marx 's view that it operated through class warfare as evidently wrong . |
| 25 | He concludes that ‘ it is not too strong to say that the marriage law as it operated in practice in England from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries was a mess ’ ( p. 135 ) . |
| 26 | The share of Africa and Asia then plummeted to less than 2 per cent by 1815 , although it doubled in value . |
| 27 | I mean s Kingsley Black has stood it in here to the second post now if he does n't feel he can get enough on it to go for goal he should keep it in the danger area just turn it back across the face of the goal and let one of the other lads have a go at it , Collimore or Rozario . |
| 28 | Why leave it to go to waste ? |
| 29 | Those of us who live in north-east Kent have always believed that there should be a fast link , and we have been perfectly happy for it to go through south London , to where our constituents who will benefit from the link wish to travel . |
| 30 | Granted that I have a map of my house in my head , how do I use it to go from A to E ? |