Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [coord] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sonnet which apparently seeks to contain the truth of the youth 's beauty so as to gain power and control over it , exposes that it destroys and banishes the youth 's beauty . |
| 2 | The destruction of the Ealdorman Brihtnoth and his followers by the Danish invaders of England in 991 was the occasion for the poem on the Battle of Maldon , which is firmly in the tradition of the German heroic lay : it records and assumes the overriding virtue of loyalty between a lord and his followers . |
| 3 | One of the major concerns about the tax system is whether it discourages or encourages the growth of the economy . |
| 4 | stuff 's no problem but er once it starts and get the medium stuff done as well |
| 5 | Again this is helpful because it contains and defines the conclusion . |
| 6 | Analogue design remains important because it accommodates and defines the basic building blocks of electronics . |
| 7 | It chews and bites the venom into its victims , generally small mammals and birds . |
| 8 | " When you inhale the poison of cholera it kills or impairs the functions of the ganglionic nerves which line the air-cells of the lungs … hence , the vital chemistry of the lungs is suspended ; neither caloric nor vital electricity is evolved hence , the coldness which is so typical of cholera . |
| 9 | It clarifies and contains the powers of the Commission . |
| 10 | Narrative obtains and holds the interest of its audience by raising questions in their minds about the process it describes and delaying the answers to these questions . |
| 11 | In its legal forms it legitimates or ignores the voices under its control . |
| 12 | This is a particular risk also with stakes — when wind blow rocks the plant or stake , there is a likelihood of the stem or stake opening a funnel-shaped hole around itself as it rocks and compresses the soil . |
| 13 | This involves noting when the specified behaviour starts , noting again when it ends and recording the time lapse . |
| 14 | because as a nitrogen fixing species it protects and improves the soil |
| 15 | But you 've got to be very very careful because if you use too much methylated spirits , it cuts and takes the polish off . |
| 16 | It marks and establishes the arcane authority of the ( usually male ) development expert much more profoundly and severely than his outer lineaments of specialness such as the belted safari suit he wears ‘ in the field ’ and the flap and epaulet-laden trench coat he sports at the conferences he attends with sickening frequency in the West . |
| 17 | First we should discuss the atmosphere , and how it intercepts and modifies the various radiations . |
| 18 | However in principle it exists and describes the evolution in time of the joint system of electron plus measuring apparatus . |
| 19 | It crawls down the vine and enters the soil , whereupon it reaches and punctures the roots for nourishment . |
| 20 | For example , in flowering plants the haploid stage is reduced to the pollen tube , derived from a haploid pollen grain that falls on the stigma of a flower and grows until it reaches and fertilizes the egg cell that lies in the flower 's ovary . |
| 21 | Notwithstanding the above , the context for the determination of this appeal is and remains Structure Plan 1985 , as it modifies or supersedes the previously adopted West Sector Local Plan . |
| 22 | The measurements are taken by accelerating the car in low gears at full throttle as it approaches and passes the noise meter . |
| 23 | The pluralist perspective makes no attempt to criticise British politics , and it chooses to bend democratic theory in a conservative direction so that it justifies and defends the established order . |
| 24 | A court has power to make a s8 order whether or not it varies or discharges the supervision order . |
| 25 | It underlies and initiates the changes seen in development . |
| 26 | As the government 's own Green Paper , Paying for Local Government , acknowledges ( p. 33 ) , the block-grant system remains ‘ highly complex and difficult to understand … it distorts and obscures the relationship between changes in expenditure and changes in local taxes ’ . |
| 27 | First , it reiterates and extends the list of central purposes of the curriculum as outlined in the 1944 Education Act ; secondly , it establishes the priority of individual and social needs over the economic , the needs of pupils as pupils rather than as future wage-earners . |
| 28 | It senses and delivers the correct amount of power to the driving wheels , eliminating wheel spin and ensuring stable handling . |
| 29 | This rather simple notion , that there is one single Mexican culture , problematic principally because it tends to valorize the European over the indigenous and to ignore the diversity , and richness of the latter , but also , conversely , because it excludes or denigrates the more purely European aspects of the culture . |
| 30 | What is believed to happen ( and plate tectonics is still only a matter of intelligent conjecture , not amenable to the kind of proof most sciences demand ) is that the Pacific Plate , being composed of heavier , oceanic rocks hits the Continental Plate and is forced down beneath it — ‘ subducted ’ , and propelled hundreds of kilometres downwards , towards the region of the mantle where it melts and becomes the stuff of volcanoes once again . |