Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] it [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only terminal casualty of this extraordinary occurrence , apart from the aeroplane , was a hare which it struck on landing . |
| 2 | Undoubtedly the risings were connected with each other in so far as the news of the initial outbreak in Essex seems to have sparked off further unrest in adjacent counties , and later in more remote parts , and it is certain that the general circumstances of the time created an atmosphere which was ripe for revolt , but the differences of aim among the different groups of rebels suggest that each had its own grievances which it hoped to right by force . |
| 3 | Thus the Church , for all the opportunities which it gave to men to find new lives and lofty ideals , to transcend the limitations of the age , still , in its main structure , reflected the social organization of the world . |
| 4 | However , despite the demands which it placed on subjects and researchers , it resulted in surprisingly complete and detailed records of work done . |
| 5 | But the mining of coastal coral for building must stop or the protection which it gives against waves and flooding will be lost . |
| 6 | A fundamental reason for the formation of a company as a form of business enterprise is the protection of limited liability which it affords to members . |
| 7 | Caird is sending shareholders an external environmental audit which it commissioned from consultants Mott MacDonald . |
| 8 | In the process , Radcliffe-Brown , who was a more skilful theorist than field-worker , supplied British social anthropology with a theoretical framework to temper and guide the empiricism which it derived from Malinowski . |
| 9 | Through the effects which it exerts on men , spirit-possession is in fact one of the most prized and successful weapons at the disposal of Somali women . |
| 10 | Saudi Arabia , however , believing that the IEA was being too pessimistic about future demand , was unofficially estimated to have increased its production by some 150,000 bpd to 8,500,000 bpd ( excluding 150,000 bpd Saudi production from the neutral zone which it shared with Kuwait ) . |
| 11 | Language in its significant sense is that vocal gesture which tends to arouse in the individual the attitude which it arouses in others , and it is this perfecting of the self by the gesture which mediates the social activities that gives rise to the process of taking the role of the other . |
| 12 | Stimulation of adenylate cyclase follows binding of prostacyclin to a platelet membrane receptor which it shares with prostaglandin E 1 , but is distinct from the prostaglandin D 2 receptor ( Miller & Gorman , 1979 ) . |
| 13 | Kontrax also aims to sell and lease back its main office building in Budapest which it values at $13m . |
| 14 | The contemporary primary school , because of its small size and the daily contact which it has with parents , is in a unique position to offer a comprehensive educational/social service . |
| 15 | Almost perfect , but not quite : the emotional freighting which it acquired in transmission deprived the Arnoldian message of any remaining austerity . |
| 16 | Despite the commercial success of this unit and the facility which it offered of training in a range of skills , places were limited and the site was inaccessible from the south of the district . |
| 17 | A working party under has produced a report reviewing the ACE fee collection system , as a result of which ACE is being encouraged to extend and deepen the support service which it offers to chambers . |
| 18 | Where the SPRU team takes us at a brisk trot through the literature , Jan Zimmerman adopts more of a wild canter in her survey of the likely effects on women of a range of new technologies , in a piece that makes up in polemic what it lacks in argument . |
| 19 | The praying mantis has a single ear in the middle of its thorax which it uses for bat detection . |
| 20 | Concerto Köln may not be the most polished of today 's period instrument groups , but their playing of Handel 's miraculously varied score makes up in commitment what it lacks in finesse . |
| 21 | For psychology , the irrationality , affectivity and sociability which it attributes to women link them to the unscientific uncertainties of subjectivity , and put them slightly outside the discipline 's proper field . |
| 22 | Yet he proceeded to declare that by refraining from exercising in America the power of the executive which it controlled in Great Britain , Parliament would preserve the unity of the Empire : |
| 23 | A rattlesnake possesses a powerful poison which it uses against prey and dangerous enemies . |
| 24 | But CIMA warned that the additional reporting burden which it represents in terms of cost and management time ‘ could lead to its acceptance being reduced ’ . |
| 25 | Possibly the role is to induce the epidermis which it comes into contact with to fold up to form a nerve cord . |
| 26 | The validation arrangements used in the Development Programme are based on those devised by the Council for the small number of college-developed courses which it inherited from predecessor bodies . |
| 27 | Perhaps this is why it sleeps twice as long as we do , making up in length of slumber what it lacks in depth . |
| 28 | It was presumably real gold , yet it somehow contrived to look brash and cheap , like junk jewellery trying to make up in flash what it lacked in value . |
| 29 | ‘ Mortmain' , or dead hand , refers to the fact that the church was an undying institution so that any land which it held in fee ( or freehold ) was never vacated by the death of its owner or came into the possession of a minor or an heiress ; thus it would never revert ( or escheat ) to the chief lord for the duration of the vacancy or minority , so depriving him of the valuable rights of wardship and marriage appertaining to feudal tenure . |
| 30 | With us ; I 've no idea what it did in India . |