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

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1 In other words it handles the conceptual processes .
2 After food is put into the mouth it takes a few minutes ( usually around five ) even to start having any physical effect in satisfying the hungry body .
3 For if it relates to the BBC per se then it conveniently overlooks its seedier and more questionable aspects , whilst if it relates to some imaginary institution it ignores the real pressures on institutions which make them somehow less ideal than one would desire .
4 Remember that the spine is flexible , and that in a normal upright posture it describes a shallow double-S curve .
5 Remember that the spine is flexible , and that in a normal upright posture it describes a shallow double-S curve .
6 The study of bacteria was to provide biology with an enormously useful approach to the nature of life , but at this period it raised no theoretical questions which the most conventional scientist would not immediately recognise .
7 At the top it included the wealthiest landowners and industrialists in the land , such as Edward A. Guinness , brewer , who died in 1927 and left £13.5 million and Sir John R. Ellerman , shipowner and financier , who died in 1933 leaving £36.7 million .
8 Mr Johnson told the court it landed the Financial Times with a phone bill of £705 .
9 In one revolution , whatever number of cones are on there there 's a feeder for , so if there 's a hundred feeders in one revolution it knits a hundred courses .
10 As a general argument it straddles the two others , being more limited than either but broader than each .
11 On paper it appears the light blues are inches shorter … and a few months older … but what about on the water ?
12 Set in a WWI officer 's prisoner of war camp it shows the last veneers of a chivalrous , civilised Europe being ripped away by the black talons of mechanised war .
13 The paper also discussed erm the proposed topics for discussion at the enquiry in public it explained where the county council 's er relevant policies would be found in the extra electory memorandum it outlined the key objections and the proposed participants for each topic .
14 The widget-making company may increase the amount it pays the remaining workers ; it may reduce the price of widgets ( or not increase it as fast as prices in general rise ) ; and it may be able to retain some of the saving as increased profits .
15 It is interesting for the way it captures the conflicting impulses for restraining public expenditure and avoiding disruption .
16 His face was flaky in some places , the texture of dried glue , while in others it bore the pin-prick traces of acne .
17 ‘ Heat was also a problem it melted the false faces like candle wax . ’
18 In dealing with the question of possession it adopted the same time-limits as did the Sentences of Paul , as well as the thirty-year rule of late Roman Law .
19 In a clear script on vellum it bears the various stamps and duty impressions required by the law of the day as well as the seal and signature of the above-named person .
20 In fact it figures the three companies will be the only survivors of the coming silicon shoot-out .
21 The same is true of Univel — already so tightly bound to Novell it uses the same premises and the self-same order-entry system .
22 When it absorbs energy it changes the magnetic characteristics of the molecules .
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