Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb -s] the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By comparing similar projects and their slopes along the graph , one learns how long it takes the organization to transform an idea into a business reality . |
| 2 | Perhaps it oversimplifies the situation to treat these as two quite different uses of such expressions as ‘ I believe that seems , rather , that it is built into the meaning of ‘ I believe that … ’ that it hovers between expressing tentative belief that what is specified by the following wording is so , and expressing belief or awareness that the speaker believes that it is so . |
| 3 | Only it has the power to change the constitution . |
| 4 | So it means the Truth incarnate as well as the Word incarnate . |
| 5 | So it pays the nest-owners to sit tight and hope that the killers will pass them by . |
| 6 | The less the intelligence of a creature , the more instinctive are the behavioural patterns programmed into it and the less it possesses the capacity to learn from experience . |
| 7 | But still it serves the purpose do n't it . |
| 8 | In the f and ff it helps the tuba to combine with the trombones by imparting to it the ‘ edge ’ which it otherwise lacks . |
| 9 | Textermination is not directly concerned with technology ; rather it elaborates the issues raised by the current place of the novel in our technological society . |
| 10 | This is explained by A being ‘ dominant ’ to a : if an organism contains two genes , one dominant to the other , then it develops the character controlled by the dominant gene . |
| 11 | If the tribunal decides that the dismissal was unfair then it has the power to order the employer to give the employee his old job back or to give him another job . |
| 12 | As strategies go this is not a bad one at all , for at least it leaves the people involved feeling that they have some power , purpose and ( usually ) some solidarity with others . |
| 13 | This is an alternative to 4.1 and again it requires the Vendor to anticipate what additional rights the Business should be authorised to use . |
| 14 | According to legend , the ancient Britons painted themselves with woad to frighten their enemies but , almost certainly , this was not the only reason for so doing , since it is a styptic , i.e. it has the power to stop bleeding . |
| 15 | The second assumption inherent in climatic geomorphology is that as an attitude it is actualist , i.e. it attributes the landscape to present processes . |