Example sentences of "it [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find newspaper bingo even more repulsive than the cinema-hall type , because it encourages people to read newspapers for the wrong reason . |
| 2 | I think it encourages people . |
| 3 | Do n't place a mirror over an open fire , it encourages people of all ages to stand too close . |
| 4 | Using a democratic structure of rotating the roles of therapist and patient , it encourages people to express previous hurts in ways they might have done as children if that had been allowed . |
| 5 | So it encourages people even more does n't it ? |
| 6 | He tests it using data from a number of different countries over the same time period , reasoning that if equation ( 6.1 ) were true , then those countries in which aggregate demand has been highly unpredictable should be those countries in which unpredictable aggregate demand has little effect on real output . |
| 7 | It isolates the experience of misery and it domesticates people 's anger . |
| 8 | It slinks greyly among the marram grass ; it slides over and under barbed wire ; it makes an eagle lose direction and settles a dank wetness on his feathers ; it softens the landscape into obscurity , it hides the familiar cliffs , it turns sheep into monsters and highland cattle into roaring mountains which lurch up towards an eagle out of the clinging mist . |
| 9 | It guarantees sales of 160 million tonnes of coal over five years to the electricity generators , but will phase out subsidies prior to privatization , which is to be speeded up . |
| 10 | The auction house had expected £3 million from the sale — it got £10 million . |
| 11 | ‘ I can see how it got people 's backs up , ’ says Lesley . |
| 12 | ‘ It got people to sit down and think about these things . |
| 13 | Then through the decade of price hikes , it registered $17.5 billion in 1974 , $21.6 billion in 1977 , but relaxed to $20.9 billion in 1978 and $20.8 billion in 1979 , crumbling to $11.6 billion in 1980 . |
| 14 | ‘ So many people agree with others for the sake of it but Eric ca n't do that and he has to tell the truth and say what he 's feeling even if that is ‘ no ’ and it upsets people . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've always said so because of the problems it causes and the way it upsets people . |
| 16 | The company 's lawyers contended during a trial in state court that Basinger , 39 , whose credits include Batman and My Stepmother Is an Alien , had caused it to lose $5-10 million . |
| 17 | It points people to Jesus |
| 18 | It contributes £11,000 million net to our balance of payments . |
| 19 | It goes brmm , brmm all over the room . |
| 20 | The welfare system , runs this view , makes things worse because it discourages people from working and rewards undesirable behaviour . |
| 21 | ‘ I mean it impresses people . ’ |
| 22 | It asked people to join ‘ a growing movement for action on the greatest issue of our times ’ . |
| 23 | But it is receiving a large amount of money — in addition , it receives £61 million specifically for the new St. Pancras project . |
| 24 | From theory , it draws the equations which define the fundamental laws of nature ; from experimentation , it receives data , and a means to verify its results . |
| 25 | Of this , $200million will come from the US , as previously announced by President Bush , to tide Poland over until it receives $710million from the IMF as part of a long-term programme to restructure its economy . |
| 26 | But according to one retailer who thinks that the mail-order operation needs a lot of work to modernise and improve it : ‘ It represents cannon rather than rifle shot — it is old fashioned and they do not target customers properly . ’ |
| 27 | Who should it make fish of one and fowl of another ? |
| 28 | In how many shapes does it make people shew themselves ! |
| 29 | The main advantage of forfaiting is that it offers 100% finance . |
| 30 | It offers 8,192Mb RAM per unit , with a system maximum of 65,536Mb . |