Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but if the key 's not in there and you turn the wheel it locks in straight away anyway ! |
| 2 | It does not describe reality nor is it sufficient in itself , but applied to religion it means that nothing is true . |
| 3 | Criticism of the phenomenological approach to RE was given in Chapter 4 , particularly on the grounds that in practice it tends to lose touch with much of the religion it sets out to understand and include . |
| 4 | There is little chance of the " professional " participator emerging with real understanding , for to find out the truth of religion it has to be wrestled with and lived , not just safely and probably patronizingly studied from a safe distance . |
| 5 | But when the church breaks through this isolation it has created a potential for growth . |
| 6 | Not only does the promotion system mean that people who rise to the top are likely to have just those personal characteristics it takes to commit corporate crime , but these are also reinforced by the psychological consequences of success itself , for these too free a person from the moral bind of conventional values . |
| 7 | It was generally accepted that the role of wife and mother was incompatible with a career , not only because of the time and energy required , but also because of the very different qualities and characteristics it demanded . |
| 8 | We have considered the subject before , in the previous chapter , and we only need notice here the kinds of characteristics it leads to in males . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'ope ter Gawd it does , ’ Fred said with passion . |
| 10 | " The heart and soul of a resource collection is not material at all : it lies in the structure of thought it exhibits , in the creative association it provokes and in the opportunities it provides for training the young learner in how to learn and think . " |
| 11 | However , in abstract thinking it has always been our habit to assume the role of Ego perfectly isolated from spontaneity ; and even when in theory we have learned to distinguish the play-acting from real life , we are still liable to slip back into thinking as though the agent applying ‘ Be aware ’ were indeed an Ego unaffected by inclination veering with awareness . |
| 12 | To my ears it sounds like a composed solo as opposed to an improvisation , and as such is very typical of his rock/metal soloing approach at that time . |
| 13 | Even to his ears it sounded wild . |
| 14 | She 'd meant her tone to be clipped and dismissive , but even to her own ears it sounded slurred and indistinct as she made a mental attempt to regain conscious control over the increased rhythm of her heart . |
| 15 | To Curtis 's ears it sounded uncannily like the faint clapping of a ghostly audience . |
| 16 | When her voice came to his ears it denied the ordinariness of her clothes and the simplicity suggested by her powderless face and loose lying hair , for her tone was crisp , each word clear . |
| 17 | Since foxes are basically nocturnal animals it takes a great deal of time and patience to shoot a fox , and also a good shot at close range . |
| 18 | The slaughterhouse of the capital city tried to establish the origins of the animals it accepted , but with little success . |
| 19 | In animals it had marked effects on autonomic function , reduced motor activity and had marked anticholinergic properties . |
| 20 | Good , well-managed soil is reflected in the plants and animals it carries . |
| 21 | With animals it tends to be the other way round : more instinctive behaviour patterns and relatively less to learn . |
| 22 | Fortunately I have never had this problem either with ferrets or dogs but should it ever hit my animals it means more than just the loss of the ferrets . |
| 23 | A Dogs are naturally social animals and it is very important that from birth every puppy learns how to fit in with its own family and other animals it lives with . |
| 24 | Like higher animals it has a nerve cord , muscles , and a gut , with a brain at the mouth ( hardly a head ) end . |
| 25 | But experience tells us that adaptive behaviour most often reflects the intelligence of evolution rather than that of the animals it has so carefully programmed . |
| 26 | If this was the intention it came to nothing , for the title was abolished in 1554 . |
| 27 | For the reasons I have given , as a matter of pure law this House should look at Hansard and give effect to the Parliamentary intention it discloses in deciding the appeal . |
| 28 | But the little dog I went , I took a friend to collect her little dog from the vet it 's had a double hernia , has n't it , double hernia , it , it had a tremendous operation dear little thing , but she said he had a wart under he 's eye and on it 's own accord it dried up and dropped off . |
| 29 | When you said you came from good tough stock it made me shiver a bit . |
| 30 | The company had to give up the surplus stock it had accumulated at the expense of the public creditors and rescind its claims to be paid in full for the amount it had sold , but the real victims were the public creditors , who had to reconcile themselves to drastic losses in income and capital . |