Example sentences of "it [vb -s] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It petrifies the governess and she gets into an acute state of anxiety . |
| 2 | The substitution is thus not only inherently costly , but it evokes increased demand or , if you like , creates increased need . |
| 3 | It is a marvellous yarn , and it evokes quite brilliantly both the atmosphere of the House of Commons and the motives of men seeking political power . |
| 4 | This response is not directly equated with the OR or any component of it ; rather it is an hypothetical construct evidenced in behaviour by its effect on the rate of conditioning — the associability of a stimulus is determined by the magnitude of the attentional response it evokes . |
| 5 | Although he has travelled the world , Edinburgh and the family memories it evokes , are still profoundly important to Graeme Souness . |
| 6 | This means that their relatedness to their organization can be construed as being infantile-like in that it evokes relationships reminiscent of childhood . |
| 7 | The boundary-maintaining function , as stated by Erikson , says that crime and the response it evokes provide the essential function of defining and maintaining the moral boundaries of society . |
| 8 | Crime is seen as only identifiable by the discouraging response it evokes . |
| 9 | Chapter 6 explores the construction of the category of the homosexual , important both as an illustration of the wider tendencies of sexual categorisation at work , and as an illustration of a specific sexual experience , and the efforts at social organisation and regulation it evokes . |
| 10 | It evokes the wonder and richness of creation from formlessness to teeming life . |
| 11 | Lastly , our perception of the truth of discourse is also a comparison of the schemata it evokes — its assumptions — and our own . |
| 12 | The backing of the union is not only important because of the information and clerical services it provides to strikers applying for supplementary benefit , but also , perhaps , because it evokes a more sympathetic treatment from the supplementary benefit officers . |
| 13 | It is wrong ; it evokes a false conceptual model . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In other words Braque is in effect saying ‘ My picture is an object , a flat surface , and the spatial sensations it evokes are a painter 's space which is intended to inform and not to deceive . ’ |
| 16 | The denotation may be the same ( both Orcadian and Ethiopian would recognise the water falling from the sky ) but the connotation — the feelings and values it evokes — would be very different . |
| 17 | In others however it evokes the opposite impression of the event actually being realized , as in : ( 4 ) He managed to get free . |
| 18 | A better characterization of the meaning of the bare infinitive structure in these uses is that it evokes " helping " as direct or active involvement in the bringing into being of the action denoted by the infinitive . |
| 19 | It evokes a fact , i.e. an object of conception , rather than an object of perception . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In ( 1 ) above this gives rise to an impression of a prospective event , of a desire or longing on the part of the speaker to realize the action denoted by the infinitive , so that the to infinitive produces basically the same sort of impression in this first type of exclamation as in He struggled to get free : it evokes a prospective non-realized event . |
| 22 | Of particular interest is the recurrence , amid abstract patterns , of an affective ornament known as the chute , which Campra had earlier associated with flute timbre and ornamented , French-style melody in Alcine to depict enchantment : it evokes the sighing of lovers whom the sorceress has turned into trees ( Act 2 , scene 1 ) and the music heard in Alcine 's Labyrinth of Love ( Act 3 , scene 1 ) . |
| 23 | And you can just pull it so that it flattens . |
| 24 | The Sola grill is different , it grills so evenly , there 's been nothing to beat it in 25 years . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Once it agrees to the other two bits of the resolution , the sanctions committee ( which has overseen the embargo since August ) would lift the export ban . |
| 27 | It agrees that companies should be publicly accountable in return for the privilege of limited liability , it says , but that accountability lies in filing the accounts , rather than their audit . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | This approximation is shown by the dashed horizontal line in Fig. 2 b , and it agrees with the numerical results significantly better than we would have expected . |