Example sentences of "[noun] it [vb -s] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In other words it represents the square root of 2 — the problem that so worried the Greeks because its answer was an irrational number ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | By curving up its abdomen it gives the false impression that it is about to strike with its tail . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In some ways it serves the same purpose as having a service to recognize the end of mourning . |
| 15 | While the PC 's strategy means that the user can mix and match additional items like displays , mice and printers it has the immediate disadvantage of requiring many separate manufacturers to maintain the compatibility . |
| 16 | No , you 've when you do a delete erm if you do con ex signal , if you have that on signal it deletes the whole signal , airlines and all . |
| 17 | This religion concentrates upon a particular person , Jesus of Nazareth , but in its definition of God it describes the divine being as a Trinity — that is to say three persons . |
| 18 | I do n't think we ought to provide it because that just means it gives the wrong impression to the officers I have to say . |
| 19 | In particular , in a commodity ( both a capitalist commodity and any commodity ) society it wears the fetishistic costume of the law of value . |
| 20 | So the report before you is the first real annual report on Equal Opportunities Inter County Council , so you 've got all the relevant statistics and in that sense it compliments the previous report that you 've just examined . |
| 21 | Note that as ‘ rainbow ’ is regarded as being the most important word it has the highest pitch . |
| 22 | So if you feel six pulses or vibrations it indicates the chosen number is six . |
| 23 | Clearly where a committee can issue a quick and reasoned comment on a topical subject it has the greatest impact . |
| 24 | As a consequence of this approach it makes the whole process accessible , meaningful and feasible . |
| 25 | As the trail approaches the shore of Lough Erne on the main road it crosses the narrow channel of water between Trasna Island and the mainland and travels along the north shore of the island . |
| 26 | Like pop socio-biology it bears the unmistakable imprint of a particular cultural view of the world , resulting in a projection of ethnographic ‘ material ’ onto inert ‘ other cultures ’ . |
| 27 | Once the pad 's level with the board it activates the electrical circuit and the game begins . ’ |
| 28 | Chairman it makes the whole thing far simpler I think because there is n't really no disagreement about this whatsoever . |
| 29 | In addition it offers the latest avalanche conditions in Scotland as supplied by the Scottish Mountain Safety Group , and winter climbing conditions in the major Scottish centres . |
| 30 | After all , the postclassical position recognises that variability in human criminal motivations plays a part in accounting for the prevalence of crimes : it would not be too damaging to the overall position to allow that in some cases it plays the major part ( provided that the exceptions only constitute a tiny proportion of total crime — which would certainly be the case with sexual abuse of children ) . |