Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] it [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that ethanol has a duel action on the secretory function of the gastric parietal cell ; at low concentrations it stimulates gastric secretion and at high concentrations it has no effect or an inhibitory one . |
| 2 | With higher after-tax wages it takes fewer hours to earn any given target income . |
| 3 | Much of America 's apparent lead in intelligence technology and the vast sums it spends each year on these organisations has been negated by the large number of spies and traitors continually found within them . |
| 4 | For obvious reasons it has special appeal for those who , on either political or temperamental grounds , feel a need to justify such institutions as chattel slavery , colonial domination , or any other of the cruder forms of economic exploitation . |
| 5 | To help it in these roles it has two seats on Council which is the top executive body of the University . |
| 6 | By the time it is four days old , it is as heavy as one of its parents ; after three weeks it weighs four times as much as they do , and dwarfs them both . |
| 7 | ‘ These days it takes two people 's wages to keep one household going , ’ observed Bernard . |
| 8 | If they are , in many cases it means certain death for them . |
| 9 | Another accolade has fallen at the feet of Patricia Grant , already honoured with an OBE by the Queen for her efforts in building up Norfrost , the domestic freezer supplier which exports 75 per cent of the 5,000 units it produces each week . |
| 10 | ‘ For many farmers it spells financial disaster and few of the smaller ones have recovered . |
| 11 | Whatever it is called , in many ways it has more going for it than Greenness and can even incorporate it . |
| 12 | In many ways it has considerable weaknesses . |
| 13 | So the idea is you have some kind of token so that er , classic example in sort of junior schools , primary schools , that y'know if a child actually does what you want it to do , it gets a kind of star in a star chart and added up so many stars it gets some kind of present and basically the same kind of thing can be applied in clinical and in occupational settings as well . |
| 14 | AS Lyles customer base grows to include an ever increasing number of independent retailers it places increasing marketing emphasis on their point of sale material . |
| 15 | Right , so you fix them just as quickly as you can fix them , but if that takes nine months it takes nine months , that 's one of the views you can take on it . |
| 16 | For higher speeds the load angle d increases until at the highest speeds it approaches 90 degrees . |
| 17 | In civil operations this affects revenue earning potential and therefore profitability and in military environments it affects operational readiness . |
| 18 | Suffice it to say that in any extended study of the martial arts it warrants closer examination . |
| 19 | After two years it has strategic alliances with DEC , HP , IBM , NCR , SGI and Sun , 100 customers , 500 development seats , 10,000 run-times out and 10,000 deployed applications . |
| 20 | When employed in the financial reports it provides external users with some measure of performance . |
| 21 | Although symptoms can be controlled in most patients it takes several weeks for maximal effect and prolonged relief requires higher radiation dose regimes . |
| 22 | Most colleges it seems contained people made unhappy by sexual harassment , who find little or no support from the people charged to provide that support . |
| 23 | Like most creative processes it requires certain skills and an overall understanding of simple design principles before even partially decent results are achieved . |