Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Afghanistan it welcomed the latest initiative by the UN Secretary General to find a political solution , and supported " the Afghan mujaheddin 's efforts to form a broad-based government " . |
| 2 | When the pressure is expressed in atmospheres , the value of R is given by In SI units it becomes The general gas law for one mole of gas can now be expressed as where is the volume of one mole of the gas . |
| 3 | In other words it handles the conceptual processes . |
| 4 | In other words it represents the square root of 2 — the problem that so worried the Greeks because its answer was an irrational number ! |
| 5 | It is getting into the position of an excellent prize of war ; strategically it points right into the heart of Japan and into the hands of an enemy it weakens the Japanese bastion of Western defence . |
| 6 | The incidence of this higher rate of tax — totalling , inclusive of the loan , 25 per cent — is therefore misleading ; in effect it acknowledged the superior position of £40 men while seeking to evade the full implications . |
| 7 | She said if I used Head and Shoulders now on this it would revert back because it has such a sa a strong P H balance in Head and Shoulders it has the same effect as reversing it . |
| 8 | At Haringey it needed the direct intervention of council leader Bernie Grant , later to become the first black MP for Tottenham , to change the policy of leaving all investment decisions to the advisers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Emergency admissions develop a momentum of their own , not least because in some areas it seems the only way to get a place in a local authority residential home ( Sinclair , 1988b ) . |
| 11 | Commentators in the Western press observed that the elections were characterized by " widespread apathy " , and one ZANU-PF official reportedly conceded that " especially in the urban areas it seems the working class has lost faith in ZANU-PF to look after their interests " . |
| 12 | In the split second it took the cursing Jube to work the action and fire , his target was no longer there . |
| 13 | For many women in coal communities it provided the only wage labour available to them , and for the first time it provided wages for the work they 'd always done . |
| 14 | Lord of the Flies is a novel about English schoolboys marooned on a desert island — a Defoe-like subject , though unlike Crusoe it uses the third person — but reversing Defoe , it tells of their rapid descent into savagery , totem-worship and the childish joys of torture and terror . |
| 15 | In the Zurvanite heresy it became the supreme deity . |
| 16 | When a neurotransmitter fits into its receptor it triggers the chemical response that changes the membrane potential and passes the signal from one neurone to another . |
| 17 | The canal was never a commercial success , though it was made deeper after Telford 's death , but it is still open , and in the First World War it served the strategic purpose for which it had not been needed during the Napoleonic Wars : 70,000 mines were shipped through it , mainly by the U.S. Navy , to protect Allied merchant shipping against German U-boats . |
| 18 | For Delaunay it was the interaction of colours which produced a sense of form and space in a picture , whereas for Léger it meant the simultaneous presence in a painting of the three pictorial elements of line , form and colour , all used in a system of deliberate contrasts . |
| 19 | No longer a mixture of local dialects , Standard English " had emerged " , and the east Midland dialect " had now become " the King " s English ; finally , " through the works of Chaucer it became the literary language of the country " . |
| 20 | Miliary er i it it refers , well you 've heard of millet seed and it 's it refers to a seeding of many different lesions er , around the body it means the disseminated form of of tuberculosis where the lesions occur all over the place . |
| 21 | Replying formally on April 5 , the Supreme Council repeated the call for immediate negotiations , but in conciliatory statements it acknowledged the Soviet leadership 's concern at events in Lithuania , and stressed that it did not seek to sever economic relations and " cultural and human ties " with the Soviet Union . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Mr Johnson told the court it landed the Financial Times with a phone bill of £705 . |
| 24 | Yes , it starts at , it says on the front it starts at seven , and then at the back it says the actual quiz starts at seven thirty . |
| 25 | By curving up its abdomen it gives the false impression that it is about to strike with its tail . |
| 26 | When a fish sucks in the bait it lifts the bottom shot off the bottom and so allows the buoyancy of the float to take over , resulting in the antenna rising out of the water like the sword Excalibur . |
| 27 | As a general argument it straddles the two others , being more limited than either but broader than each . |
| 28 | Like PageMaker it lacks the sophisticated text entry and manipulation tools necessary to generate the material it will process but , unlike PageMaker , once it has that material it can produce documents virtually automatically . |
| 29 | The emphatic denigration contained in this locational insult had to be heard to be understood , and in many ways it paralleled the dismissive tone used to deride the ‘ civvy ’ , for nuances of speech and tone have immense meaning to insiders . |
| 30 | In some ways it serves the same purpose as having a service to recognize the end of mourning . |