Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ozone layer is located at an average height of 12 kilometres above the earth 's surface an it screens us from 99% of the harmful ultra-violet radiation coming from the sun . |
| 2 | It is a general feature of the education system that both through its programmed and ‘ hidden ’ curricula it plays its part in the socialisation of the individual and in social reproduction . |
| 3 | And the place is not simply the background or backdrop against which the action occurs ; it plays its part in the drama . |
| 4 | Not only does the rhythm fit with what the poet is saying , it plays its own central part in creating the mood and meaning of the poem . |
| 5 | As long as it plays I suppose . |
| 6 | However , the company plans to buy shelf space in the New Year , when it launches its new title , House Beautiful , as a monthly magazine . |
| 7 | This is the question the St John Ambulance brigade is asking as it launches its Breath of Life campaign . |
| 8 | Sun is clearly demonstrating to Bill Gates some of the black arts on which the Unix industry has cut its teeth — more of which Microsoft can undoubtedly expect to face when it launches its Windows NT challenge . |
| 9 | It helps pupils express emotions and explore personal feelings : it encourages them to make sense of different situations and different points of view , to practise negotiating successfully with others , and to cope with — and resolve — new situations . |
| 10 | it encourages it encourages them to increase their business as well you see . |
| 11 | It encourages them . ’ |
| 12 | Tel ( 021 ) 711 1343 ) has a code of practice for funeral directors which it encourages its members to display . |
| 13 | It encourages its employees to do the same on an individual basis . |
| 14 | The court ruling comes at a sensitive time for the Japanese government , which is claiming a lead role in environmental affairs , and has strenuously denied that it encourages its hazardous industries to relocate to third world countries . |
| 15 | ‘ Alexander , Michael and now William ( 2¾ ) have all been to the art class , and I 've found it encourages their imagination and creativity . |
| 16 | it encourages it encourages them to increase their business as well you see . |
| 17 | I would n't say it encourages you but it sort of you know you 're going to get away with it . |
| 18 | It encourages our spiritual growth but the initial step , the initial step which people make is generally as a resump result of something much more simple , much more basic . |
| 19 | My main complaint about this book , however , is that it encourages us to become not so much rock climbers as consumers . |
| 20 | It encourages us to believe we can take a protective attitude , by acting in the clients ' 'best interests ' , in making decisions about what stock to provide . |
| 21 | That 's great , cos it encourages us to make assholes of ourselves . |
| 22 | That 's great , cos it encourages us to make assholes of ourselves . |
| 23 | This unmarked transition from " Chaucer " to another pilgram-narrator where a tale begins is unparalleled in the rest of the Canterbury Tales , and , be it by accident or design , it encourages us to reflect upon how far the Miller 's Tale is also Chaucer 's . |
| 24 | It allies itself with no political party , no outside cause . |
| 25 | I 'll leap into my life , he thought , if it splits my face to bits . |
| 26 | It humbles us , as God intended it to do , to find that there is no tidy doctrine of the Spirit to be found in Acts or , for that matter , in the whole of the New Testament . |
| 27 | But it drains him — mentally and physically . |
| 28 | No , it drains it , see . |
| 29 | It drains you completely and it 's not the cancer ; it is the drugs . |
| 30 | To kick them is not only pointless , it destroys what confidence they have . |