Example sentences of "it [verb] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having pledged its support for the environment and the poor , there is mounting pressure for it to institutionalize some safeguards . |
| 2 | Freezing food is kinder to the environment and to our health , for it destroys fewer vitamins and does not require chemical additives . |
| 3 | well you drive through it on the main road and it goes both sides of the road |
| 4 | While an industrial tribunal may err if it misinterprets these guidelines , the Employment Appeal Tribunal has emphasised that , for all the potential complexity , the assessment of compensation is inevitably a rough-and-ready exercise . |
| 5 | It represents all households which contain an elderly person . |
| 6 | In recent years , however , the canine colon has become a standard model for colonic motility studies and , although it displays some kinds of contractile activity not seen in man , it has been useful for investigating neuropharmacological interactions . |
| 7 | Instead it involves such things as finding new uses for old products or showing how solutions considered impracticable can be made to work . |
| 8 | It involves all aspects of erm the law in relation to firearms , their issue , their use er great emphasis placed on er section three of the criminal law act in respect of the use of reasonable force . |
| 9 | The debate over the salmon is likely to prove an even bigger political issue than that of the future of the northern spotted owl ( see ED No. 40 ) because it involves several industries , whereas the owl involved only logging . |
| 10 | Because it involves more things . |
| 11 | Sainsbury won much publicity when it appointed former Friends of the Earth director Jonathan Porritt to be its environmental policy adviser . |
| 12 | Genius , as it disdains all assistance , so it defies all obstacles . |
| 13 | Yeah it do n't it make much odds though |
| 14 | Nor does it make any statements about the costs of administrative and managerial change , or of the considerable developments in information technology which will be required to carry out some of its proposals . |
| 15 | Not only can it homogenize these communities as insensitively as assimilationism or multiculturalism . |
| 16 | Although it boasts little in the way of modern conveniences , it offers many services : mountain hut , camping area and thunderbox , basic shop — in truth very basic and equally expensive — bakery , fish , fish and more fish , church and pure honesty . |
| 17 | Newcastle 's Tote Eider Chase is always a recognised Grand National trial , but with Bonanza Boy , Mr Boston and Mr Ed the most notable of several Liverpool aspirants who pulled out at yesterday 's declaration stage , it offers fewer clues than usual . |
| 18 | The guide-books say little : Samuel Wallis visited it and named it Boscawen Island , perhaps after the great admiral of Finisterre ; the best vanilla in the Pacific is grown there ; and it is rumoured that the finest kavo — that faintly narcotic drink prepared from the powdered root of a local pepper plant , and an important part of rituals and celebrations in the South Pacific — is Tafahi kava , and that it renders all Tafahians perpetually slightly dopey . |
| 19 | That and the enormous city walls — to judge by the surviving gates — made the town well-nigh impregnable and , indeed , it withstood several sieges . |
| 20 | It reopened several days later , however , and no further desalination plants came under direct threat during February . |
| 21 | Last year , for the first time , it produced more computers than Hitachi , and took second place in the field to Fujitsu . |
| 22 | It might have been a suitable sales pitch for conglomerates shifting Blood Sweat & tears albums ; it produced some qualms amongst It staffers and others . |
| 23 | 1.2 It is tempting at this point to plunge straight into an account of the adjectival system and how it produces such results as those above ; and in fact we should state clearly at this point that readers who prefer to build up the picture piece by piece , assessing the validity of the connexion between data and theory by starting from the evidential end , may pass immediately to Chapter 2 without any disadvantage . |
| 24 | Secondly , there are a number of different types of situation where there is missing information : either the recogniser produces no candidates for a letter string , or it produces some candidates . |
| 25 | Living as it does at high level , it produces fewer lambs than other breeds . |
| 26 | Some managers are convinced that PRP will improve performance and raise income , but there 's hardly any evidence that it produces any improvements . |
| 27 | So when Fleischmann and Pons announced test-tube fusion as a source of energy — which was the ‘ angle ’ that the media took up and portrayed it as a clean source — the news that they apparently saw tritium as a fusion product was lost on most media , but it made many scientists concerned and others excited . |
| 28 | In Easton , the dislike of it made some policemen reluctant to attend certain sorts of incident where a great deal of paperwork could be expected ( such as road traffic accidents ) , although means of formal control usually ensured they responded in the end . |
| 29 | In the upshot the SEA , whilst it made some concessions to the political aspirations of the EP , was notable chiefly for its powerful commitment to the economic concept of completing the internal market . |
| 30 | In addition it made some recommendations to BRAC , one of which was to encourage BRAC to make a greater effort to cooperate with the local village practitioners . |