Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Sola grill is different , it grills so evenly , there 's been nothing to beat it in 25 years . |
| 3 | Some may not like this idea , because it veers away from established convention , but it 's quicker , plus it saves the hassle of breaking a string peg at an important moment and being left dangling , so to speak . |
| 4 | It testifies both to a new realism in Moscow 's approach to the country 's profound economic crisis , and acknowledgement by the Western financial community that red-blooded free market therapy can not alone provide the answer . |
| 5 | It is a body that simultaneously defines the continents and divides them from each other ; at the same time it knits together some of their distant and improbably linked civilizations , as well as their anthropologies and histories . |
| 6 | High-level ozone is a life saver because it screens out the UVB ; but low-level ozone is a serious pollutant , causing respiratory and other health problems for many people . |
| 7 | It plays heavily on indirectness– intimacy and common understanding . |
| 8 | It sounds like a cat when it plays up ! |
| 9 | You can also zero the counter at your end point on the tape , then rewind to the start point : when it plays up to 000 the machine stops the tape and rewinds to the beginning . |
| 10 | One of the region 's top ice hockey teams has been saved , along with the ice rink it plays on . |
| 11 | For among the effects is one that is new , and that nothing that I 've said so far could have suggested this very exuberance , as well as the things it plays on , can make us smile or laugh . |
| 12 | It 's a very basic vertical scroller that would fail to enthral most people , simply because ( a ) it looks bad , ( b ) it sounds worse , and ( c ) it plays terribly . |
| 13 | It plays hard on the so-called ‘ 90-10 ’ rule , claiming that 90% of the code is already out there and that only 10% needs to be written . |
| 14 | It plays hard on the so-called ‘ 90–10 ’ rule , claiming that 90% of the code is already out there and that only 10% needs to be written . |
| 15 | The general manager of its NT business unit Paul Gifford was named to the post of vice president , systems architecture responsible for bringing NT , the hitherto poor relation , into the mainstream and figuring out how it plays together with Unix . |
| 16 | Their open-endedness is and can only be captured by a conception whose imprecision makes it uncongenial to real property lawyers , though it plays as important a part in legal doctrine as does the traditional tally of technical terms . |
| 17 | If you say , how do you know they 're better , then how do you know one football team is better than another , it plays better , gets more results , you know , and people respond to that . |
| 18 | The game looks as good as it plays too . |
| 19 | At the same time it plays down the dangers of pollution . |
| 20 | It plays back four frames on each revolution of the disc so you can not freeze the frame at any point you choose . |
| 21 | IBM is expected to make its long anticipated move into massively parallel computing this Tuesday when it launches parallel processing machines running from eight up to 64 PowerParallel RISC/6000 processors . |
| 22 | It pretends that there 's single no-fault ground for divorce — that the marriage has irretrievably broken down — but in practice it encourages nearly three-quarters of divorcing couples to rely on fault based grounds — adultery , or unreasonable behaviour as it 's usually called — and then makes it difficult for anybody to defend allegations , irrespective of whether that was the real reason why the marriage broke down . |
| 23 | ( i ) it encourages both analysis and conciseness by forcing you to understand the similarities and differences between certain points . |
| 24 | The danger of this pragmatic approach is that it encourages too ready an acceptance of historical costs , and thus change becomes difficult . |
| 25 | Incorporating such facilities when possible does not constitute over-protection if it encourages visually handicapped children to move about freely and with reasonable safety and to make use of standard facilities with increased confidence and independence . |
| 26 | It supplies both light and power to the works . |
| 27 | Algeria is the only African country using natural gas significantly at home where it supplies over half the country 's energy needs . |
| 28 | Nonetheless our own business remained profitable and has succeeded in growing its market share to the point where it supplies over one third of the gold jewellery materials used in the UK . |
| 29 | It supplies about a hundred pubs , and three large hotels in Skegness . |
| 30 | A company can be referred if it supplies more than 25 per cent of the total market . |