Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It allies itself with no political party , no outside cause .
2 Total marketing and sales expenses increased as it turns itself into a market-driven company to $24.3m , up 45% .
3 At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment .
4 I found the way here when I was a boy , and it spoils you for the human world .
5 The British have fallen in love with this Mediterranean island because it has everything for a perfect holiday : sunny skies , glorious beaches , bustling resorts , friendly people , fascinating sights and beautiful countryside .
6 It has something of the African tomtom and voodoo dance . ’
7 New Zealand has the playing infrastructure but it has nothing like a big enough commercial base .
8 Within the Rolling Stone thing , I mean , part of it has you as the chief designer and you have to accept the notion that two heads are better than one , which means designers can not
9 While this contributes to crime prevention , especially with respect to joy-riders who steal and drive cars at speed at might ( which requires neighbourhood men in West Belfast to work might duty ) , it has none of the wider community service functions evident in Easton .
10 Caroline Durkan , the GDA senior projects executive handling the scheme , said yesterday : ‘ It places us in an awkward position if we try to get cash from the public sector if the private sector do not see the benefits of Citywatch . ’
11 Reg. v. Grant and Hewitt , 12 J.L.R. 585 , although it adds nothing to the established principles , is an example of inconsistent previous statements wrongly withheld by the Crown at the trial but properly , if belatedly , disclosed on appeal , so that a conviction depending on evidence of identification was quashed for want of a fair trial .
12 If reliability is defined in terms of the production of truth , it adds nothing to the first condition once we restrict our attention to the particular case .
13 If it is defined in terms of justification , it adds nothing to the third .
14 It establishes him in a special relationship with God .
15 The strength of a social institutional ideal , however , is not that it always attains its stated objectives , but that it establishes itself as the desirable norm .
16 It says something for the civilising effect of our upbringing that we can both sit here calmly sharing a meal together when we freely admit to the same deep-seated and violent antipathy . ’
17 The original entries for 995 and 996 may have been lost , and it says nothing of the hostile relations which probably existed with Normandy for a time , and only hints at the troubles in the Irish Sea mentioned above .
18 It says nothing about the actual conditions of re-identification of any such topic .
19 Finally , one major gap in Oakeshott 's theory is that it says nothing about the fundamental issue of how societas may be reconstituted in the modern age .
20 It fills us with a deep warmth that will last past midnight .
21 It frees him from the awkward contortions of hand and wrist that make violin lessons and practice all too necessary .
22 It is sometimes suggested that the absence of note-taking can be a help to the informant , in that it frees him from the inhibiting effects of a recorder and a notebook .
23 It is a piece that shows Strauss 's deep understanding of nature , and , again , it shows him as the great master of the musical epilogue .
24 A joint initiative between BMW and Bolney Motors , it recycles everything in the damaged cars that are sent there for ‘ treatment ’ .
25 Such rationalization is , however , of great interest to the historian because it reveals something of the social processes involved in gaining respect for scientific work both inside and outside a scientific community .
26 The past often appears ideal in retrospect , yet if one looks at it closely it reveals itself as a dangerous place where we laid mines to trap others , and others laid them to trap us .
27 If you follow it along from the historical site it leads you to a perfect waterfall , and then to a point where flat grass lies between the vertical gorge sides .
28 And what 's the point of a journey that seems very pleasant if it gets you to the wrong place !
29 The document says it is impossible not to notice how society , for the most part , makes human sexuality banal , since it interprets it in a reduced and impoverished way , ‘ connecting it only with the body and egoistic pleasure ’ .
30 In all this , remember that the phenotypic effects of a gene are the tools by which it levers itself into the next generation .
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