Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 2 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 3 | But a Washington court could stop the launch today , if it agrees with anti-nuclear activists that the space probe 's plutonium generators are unsafe , writes Mark Champion . |
| 4 | It plays with such ideas , to a Shavian pitch of exaggeration : but it is not a novel of ideas , any more than it is a heartless game . |
| 5 | Seymour features brilliant humour and some of the best puzzles and animation even seen in the arcade adventure , but it plays with all the style and grace of a drunken elephant ! |
| 6 | The role it plays in normal memory may therefore have been underestimated . |
| 7 | He is clearly rather tired of preaching the design gospel when it has been evident to him for many years the fundamental role it plays in good business practice . |
| 8 | Analysis of the atk protein product will shed light on the role it plays in B-cell pathways , particularly in view of the fact that src -related protein-tyrosine kinases such as blk , fyn , lyn and lck , and others have already been implicated in B-cell activation . |
| 9 | Although its development from infancy to early adulthood has been much examined , the part it plays in later life has been largely neglected . |
| 10 | A sign has meaning , not in virtue of something accompanying it , ‘ thinking ’ , but in virtue of the part it plays in some ‘ form of life ’ . |
| 11 | As we shall see , a gene may increase in frequency not because it increases the fitness of its carrier but because it associates with other genes that do , or even because it is in a sense parasitic on other genes . |
| 12 | This can explain why some dogs dislike an owner of one sex , or children , whom it associates with previous maltreatment . |
| 13 | where it splits into all the |
| 14 | You start with one and it splits into two . |
| 15 | The question then arises as to how this pragmatic enterprise differs , if it differs at all , from the kinds of activity which are customarily carried out under the name of research . |
| 16 | We shall discuss it in a variety of ways throughout the chapter and consider how it differs between theoretical frameworks . |
| 17 | In many ways it is a BoP lookalike — the technology must be very similar for the two programs — but it differs in many respects . |
| 18 | However , it differs in two ways from the approach long-wave theory takes to industrial change . |
| 19 | ‘ It differs in that it lacks the double characteristic of agape — the acceptance of the unacceptable , or the movement form the highest to the lowest , and , at the same time , the will to transform individual as well as social structures . ’ |
| 20 | This operation is evidently an extension of the I operation ; instead of adding multiples of a different row ( or column ) to a given row , it adds multiples of the same row ; however , it differs in that now the determinant is l . |
| 21 | Where it differs from such discourses ( those associated with Bateson ( pp. 81–2 ) and Wright ( p. 88 ) , for example ) is in Leavis 's insistence upon the " exercise of the sense of value … controlled by an implicit concern for a total value-judgement " , and based upon " familiar " literary works , " the nature and quality of which are immediately obvious " . |
| 22 | We need now to consider the question of the nature of pedagogic research , how it differs from other kinds of research activity , and what implications arise from such considerations for the education of teachers . |
| 23 | The above description of a session as an example of consultative joint problem-solving will have shown how it differs from other forms of support such as counselling , giving advice , or supervision . |
| 24 | It differs from other kung fu styles in two ways . |
| 25 | It 's all down to confusion rather than deliberate ignorance , so it 's worth covering the whole idea of shareware , how it differs from other types of software such as public domain , and what the user 's obligations are both legally and morally . |
| 26 | All of the family members should be encouraged to put forward their viewpoint even if it differs from that expressed by others . |
| 27 | Ophiomedea duplicata may be mistaken for a juvenile Ophiotrema alberti , it differs from that species by the following characters ; the jaw shape is as wide as long not longer than wide as in O. alberti ; there are fewer oral papillae and oral tentacle scales than in O. alberti , the ventral arm plates are bell shaped with a distinctly widened distal edge , the ventral arm plates of O. alberti being more pentagonal or rectangular with rounded edges and the distal edge indented but not widened . |
| 28 | If dyspepsia is to be used to identify a particularly high risk group ( such as coal miners ) , then we must know the rate of dyspepsia in the group we are studying and the extent to which it differs from that in the general population . |
| 29 | We will look at these two aspects of the regulationist framework in the context of the UK economy , before considering how it differs from world-system theories . |
| 30 | It differs from traditional grammar in its concentration on structural meanings which " are specifically signaled by a complex system of contrastive patterns ’ ( Fries ) . |