Example sentences of "it [vb -s] the [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Food is essential to human life because it supplies the energy required by living cells for maintenance , repair and activity . |
| 2 | It exhibits the dimensions shown : the axes have the ratio 5:4 ; the eccentricity is 3:5 ; OD + PD = m + n = 5 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It illustrates the criteria adopted in preparing the catalogue and the difficulties encountered , explaining how fakes were identified , what discoveries were made and how the drawings were dated . |
| 5 | It illustrates the point made by Drebin et al. |
| 6 | Although the spill arose from the transport of crude oil rather than the operation of the island 's indigenous oil industry , it highlights the risks faced by communities in close contact with the oil business . |
| 7 | An existing one may be used provided it has the accounts detailed below available within it . |
| 8 | The rear foot is used because it has the forward thrust of the body behind it . |
| 9 | The egg needs to be extremely large because it contains the nourishment required to produce a most precocious chick . |
| 10 | To brings in a distinctive nuance however : it reinforces the idea expressed by suddenly . |
| 11 | As such it fills the hole labelled Common Transport Semantics . |
| 12 | The musts An idea does not get past first base unless it meets the musts contained within the problem specification . |
| 13 | Emerging at the Antarctic Divergence , it replaces the water lost to the two northward flowing currents . |
| 14 | They are to the effect that a refusal is reasonable if : ( i ) it is based upon the personality of the proposed assignee or upon the proposed use or occupation of the premises ; or ( ii ) it is based on the contract between lessor and lessee and it safeguards the interests granted or reserved to the lessor by the lease ; or ( iii ) it is reasonable in a general sense , taking into account the surrounding circumstances , the commercial realities of the market-place and the economic impact of an assignment on the landlord . |
| 15 | Textermination is not directly concerned with technology ; rather it elaborates the issues raised by the current place of the novel in our technological society . |
| 16 | It pursues the hostilities begun in the series 25 years ago and much of the old formula : attempted allegory to political developments on this planet ; loud space effects . |
| 17 | It confirms the view taken by Professor Hoggett ( Mental Health Law ( 3rd ed. ) at p.118 ) . |
| 18 | Whatever their private opinions , the liberals were willing to establish catholicism as the sole religion of Spain , to make heresy a crime , to allow episcopal censorship of religious works ; as Larra was to observe , it was a one-legged freedom that permitted only ‘ political ’ discussion and it shows the limitations imposed on liberalism by fear of the Church . |
| 19 | The confusing thing about X is that it reverses the nomenclature used in microcomputer networks . |
| 20 | Moreover , as Herman explains , the boundaries between control and constraint are overlapping , since ‘ [ a ] constraint is a form of control even if only negative in exercise , as it shapes the decisions made by limiting the scope of choice . |
| 21 | do n't mind being unpopular if it gets the job done |
| 22 | It states the peerage conferred ( whether it be a barony , a viscountcy , etc. ) and prescribes the mode in which it is to descend to heirs . |
| 23 | Whichever way the argument is presented , however , it violates the priority accorded to private autonomy by liberalism . |
| 24 | My main difficulty is that it reduces the principle enunciated by this House in the Hoffmann-La Roche case to the status of an arbitrary rule — what Dillon L.J . |
| 25 | Although written from a French perspective , the essence of the Charter is relevant for all cultures and it reflects the values promoted by WACC through its worldwide programme of media awareness seminars and workshops . |
| 26 | A spokesman for Elton said : ‘ It seems the car collided with a bollard that was out of position on the road . ’ |
| 27 | It excludes the contributions made by individuals who finance the sending of telexes and telegrams as well as the funds required to support national sections . |
| 28 | In this way it combines the legitimacy conferred by long inheritance with the lustre and potency of some of the most prestigious diamonds recovered by man . |
| 29 | From Kuhn 's particular point of view , this is mistaken because it ignores the role played by paradigms in guiding observation and experiment . |
| 30 | THE Court of Appeal has the power to increase Dr Courtney 's seven-year sentence if it feels the term imposed at the Old Bailey is ‘ unduly lenient ’ . |