Example sentences of "it [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the least , the city is regarded as unappealing ; at the worst , it evokes a loathing which can be as unkind as it is jaundices . |
| 2 | It evokes a fact , i.e. an object of conception , rather than an object of perception . |
| 3 | This suggests that make expresses antecedent causation , since it evokes a process of causation giving rise to a state of affairs that comes into being only at the end of the process . |
| 4 | She collected some of his saliva from the ground and used it make a serpent . |
| 5 | Some surfaces can make it bobble a bit , though not enough to put you off . |
| 6 | More likely used it to saw a hole through a pound coin . |
| 7 | Is it producing a client mentality ? |
| 8 | The silver birch is so elegantly beautiful , from spring 's pale green bud-burst until the final golden accolade of autumn , that it plays a part in all the seasons , not least because it is especially favoured by long-tailed tits as a food source in winter . |
| 9 | The significance of an offer of compensation is that it may be taken as a token of the defendant 's remorse , and that it redresses the private loss of the victim , and to that extent and no other it plays a part in the sentencing exercise . |
| 10 | So it plays a part in that sense . ’ |
| 11 | I suggest that the typical history of a concept , whether it be ‘ chemical element ’ , ‘ atom ’ , ‘ the unconscious ’ , or whatever , involves the initial emergence of the concept as a vague idea , followed by its gradual clarification as the theory in which it plays a part takes a more precise and coherent form . |
| 12 | They 're about this big and you squeeze its little paw and it plays a Christmas tune |
| 13 | It plays a role in processes , hydrolysis and condensation of carbohydrates and proteins . |
| 14 | Some of the manifestations of septic shock , such as hypotension , haemoconcentration , and gastrointestinal ulceration were reported to be mimicked after intravenous administration of platelet activating factor in rats suggesting that it plays a role in this syndrome . |
| 15 | Its shares shot up 10 p.c last week and the company , Portugal 's largest quoted stock , is hoping to ride the tide of interest in the escudo when it launches a sale of shares and convertible bonds later this month to raise $300m of new capital . |
| 16 | When the Heath administration first began to expand its intelligence activities in Ulster , it operated a number of agents , complete with English accents , before it built up an indigenous network . |
| 17 | Commodore International Ltd says it repaid a loan of $13m to the Prudential Insurance Co of America rather than accept the terms that were proposed . |
| 18 | It supplies a lot more information about the business , in Mr Hall 's estimation , and the Post Office is in favour of being as open as possible . |
| 19 | This is a phospholipase C and what the phospholipase C does , when it 's activated by the agonist , is it splits a membrane phospholipid phosphotadylinositol four five bisphosphate into two components , a water soluble component inositol and a lipidic component the lipidic residue diacylglycerol . |
| 20 | As well using the message on literature sent to people outside the region , it will also be used within it to spearhead a drive for increased quality of service . |
| 21 | I 'm hardly the type to rob a bank with a sawn-off shotgun and a stocking over my head — I 'd more likely do it using a computer or something . |
| 22 | Try it using a ruler and pencil . |
| 23 | So important that it merited the expenditure of much care and effort — if you are propounding the importance of quality , then you have to do it using a quality method ! |
| 24 | My emphasis is on ‘ given ’ : it denotes a degree of willingness on the part of the giver . |
| 25 | The road beyond Glenelg turns a corner into Gleann Beag , reaching a junction where it crosses a river bridge and a minor road continues up this lovely valley . |
| 26 | After a few hundred yards it crosses a road and indeed has become a road , which we followed for two miles . |
| 27 | A semantic relation may be set up either within a sentence or between sentences with the consequence that , when it crosses a sentence boundary , it has the effect of making the two sentences cohere with one another ( Halliday and Hasan 1976 ) . |
| 28 | The seventy-one-year-old steel cantilever span narrows down to two lanes as it crosses a channel that connects the Gulf to the Mississippi . |
| 29 | Even the power of the storm , with which it shared a kinship also , could not assuage the hunger . |
| 30 | " Ownership " is a word of many meanings , but in the present context we can take it to signify a title to a subject matter … |