Example sentences of "it [verb] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can employees help ? * Examples of good housekeeping : Low energy bulbs ; cistern misers etc. * BS7750 Environmental Quality Standard : What is it and how does it affect employees and the Company ? |
| 2 | By declaring a set of absolutes , it supplies standards as well as goals for both individuals and institutions . |
| 3 | It associates concepts and communicative acts with their most common or ‘ standard ’ expressions in the foreign language . |
| 4 | However , the literature so far described is concerned almost entirely with social work at the micro level : individuals , families and small groups , much of it using techniques that are of little relevance to community work , for example behaviour modification . |
| 5 | It inhabited plateaux and lowlands of the Cretaceous and preyed on duckbilled dinosaurs such as the giant sauropodomorphs . |
| 6 | ‘ I feel it discourages burglars and it seems more welcoming when one comes back to an empty house . ’ |
| 7 | It erodes savings and social benefits and threatens our currency . |
| 8 | One problem with the potential new treatment , however , is that it could not be administered in a pill form because it involves molecules that are too big to be delivered to the brain through the blood . |
| 9 | It sold dollars and European currency units for pounds in a determined fashion to counter heavy selling , which briefly pushed the pound down below DM2.95 for the first time since August 1987 . |
| 10 | And although this research is industry-specific , the hope is that it offers insights and design lessons applicable in many areas . |
| 11 | The programme will have succeeded if , in 15 years ' time , primary health care in the capital has lost its status as the national laggard ; the quality of the services it offers matches or exceeds that enjoyed in the rest of England ; and London has become a place where aspiring primary health care practitioners in all disciplines aim to work . |
| 12 | It offers courses and programmes in virtually all areas of advanced study , organised through eight Faculties and over 120 departments , with a teaching and research staff of some 2,400 . |
| 13 | Is it possible for the Church of England to proclaim this redemption with integrity and conviction in our day unless it ordains women as well as men as priests ? |
| 14 | Holmewood 's ‘ whistling ’ bridge ( it made noises if the wind was blowing through the rafters from the right direction ) has just been passed by K3 No. 60896 as it heads a southbound coal train up the 1 in 100 in about 1961 . |
| 15 | Instead , it made men and women sick for weeks . ’ |
| 16 | We believe it endangered lives and should be condemned . |
| 17 | The state determines the amount of money individuals have available via direct and indirect taxation as well as social benefits ; it regulates vast areas of our lives , e.g. via health and safety regulations ; it subsidizes foods and housing , for example , and it provides a range of services such as health and education . |
| 18 | With his law of primitive socialist accumulation Preobrazhensky saw it essentially as being conditions which were imposed upon the Soviet economy ; either the state sector will grow or it will succumb to the private sector , but the ‘ law ’ itself is only manifested by a series of conditions which were conscious acts upon the part of the Soviet state , since it involved plans and planning . |
| 19 | The mill then passed through the Webb family until around 1700 , when it changed hands and was mortgaged to John Fowler , a Stroud textile dealer . |
| 20 | Media activity gives shape to the ill-defined contours of the political system : it brings new players and issues into the political arena , it leaves others out and it rearranges positions and placings . |
| 21 | It refines policies and initiatives , acts as a sort of ‘ vetting ’ process where unrealistic and/or misguided ideas are amended or ‘ sidelined ’ with the agreement of the staff . |
| 22 | In England it provided sails and cables for the fleet ; and for this reason , legislation going back to the reign of Henry VIII required that a small proportion of land be set aside for its production . |
| 23 | Ordinary people regularly broke the rules and resorted to bribery if they could get away with it to obtain essentials or medical care , but then their corruption was a sign of independence asserted against the system , whereas Manescu 's was typical of a deep inner decay of the system . |
| 24 | In effect what applied linguistics does is to enquire into cross-cultural accommodation : it transfers ideas and methods from different disciplinary cultures and seeks to demonstrate how they can be made coherent and effective in the different conditions of pedagogic practice . |
| 25 | Britain needs chemists as much as it needs doctors and as a result there will be high employment prospects for chemistry graduates in the future . |
| 26 | Taken in conjunction with the deal with Novell Inc to put Macintosh up on Intel Corp platforms ( UX No 433 ) and its plans for Mac on RISC architectures — see front page — Apple has clearly recognised that it needs hearts and minds in the ISV community , says Echo president Brad Burnham . |
| 27 | Taken in conjunction with the deal with Novell Inc to put the Macintosh System up on Intel Corp systems and its plans for Mac on RISC architectures , Apple has clearly recognised that it needs hearts and minds in the independent software vendor community , says Echo president Brad Burnham . |
| 28 | They actually had a vested interest in having inequality within the coun er er because it , it retained classes and therefore potential class conflict within the countryside and therefore it offered a way forward to socialism . |
| 29 | This is very often a kind of prose poem where narrative is not the issue ; it develops images and phrases , for an example read Beckett 's short stories . |
| 30 | The book is quite explicit , and at no point does it describe practices as ‘ right ’ or ‘ wrong ’ . |