Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On the revenue side it meant such devices as changing the weighting of the staff mix so that a greater proportion of unqualified staff were employed than might ideally have been desired .
2 With a boat neck it had short sleeves , and Kate bit her lip as she realised it was going to have a pretty powerful impact .
3 And the G M B demands that when the good committee report it makes such behaviour illegal .
4 Logix UK Ltd , Redhill , Surrey , the computer division of Korean giant Lucky Goldstar 's London-based international operation , is threatening to sue Logitek over the the Logix name — used for the conference event it hosted last week , as well as figuring in its on-going marketing plans for the coming year .
5 According to the Health and Safety Executive it costs British Industry more than £2 billion a year in absenteeism .
6 With the conventional weighing system it took some time for the information about packet weights to get to the point where decisions could be made to adjust either the oven or the wrapping machine .
7 As a foundation material it has numerous advantages : it is strong , does not lose its shape and can be spun into strands sufficiently thin to allow fine weaving .
8 Texas Instruments Inc has developed a new low-cost multi-chip packaging technology it calls Multichip Module Laminate/Overlay in which the key element is Polyimide plastic .
9 Once a Bill or a proposed measure requiring parliamentary approval enters the lists and it is realised that an environmental impact assessment must be produced , and once it is decided to commission an environmental impact assessment it becomes public property .
10 For turbulence the problem manifests itself as follows : when one formulates an equation for the double correlation function it involves triple correlations , an equation for these involves fourth-order ones ; and so on .
11 David Reynolds had arranged to meet Diane Rohmer in the Science block , because unlike the Union building it had open access and he would n't have to be signed in .
12 On the plus side it tolerates high temperatures .
13 In these days of restrictions on capital investment it makes good sense to adapt to current and probable future needs when incurring capital expenditure .
14 They point to the poster campaign it launched last September , through Ogilvy & Mather , which effectively relaunched Wisk as a mainstream colour care detergent , and the new label design as evidence of Lever 's determination to boost its sales .
15 A medical supplies shop in the back streets of Shanghai is not the average travellers idea of an attraction , but for the tack traveller it contains hidden treasures .
16 As well as a beautiful polished brass fire it has central heating , a shower and a flush toilet .
17 It also has some integration work underway designed to tie-in its servers more closely with workstations from NeXT Computer , following the reseller agreement it announced last year .
18 Football had been a traditionally rowdy and sometimes violent game , but as a regulated spectator sport it provided novel opportunities for conflicts between the players , referees and fans , and there is a well documented history of pitch invasions , attacks on referees and players , and fighting between rival fans throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century and into the new century .
19 In the Tokugawa period it enjoyed some autonomy , and was permitted a certain degree of self-reliance and self-government .
20 For the language teacher it provides powerful clues concerning the causes of the sensation of floundering in conversation to which we referred earlier .
21 I think it 's a perfect example of rumour feeding on rumour , that once something gets into the market place it causes all sorts of entrepreneurial people out there to think there 's an opportunity they ought not to miss .
22 But for the time being it gives Japanese firms a small advantage .
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