Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] it [verb] [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 | So many cities enrolled him as a freeman , usually by giving him a scroll of membership in a gold box , that Horace Walpole summed up his popularity in the phrase ‘ For some weeks it rained gold boxes ’ , and the more prosaic Duke of Newcastle recognized that no government could survive if Pitt opposed it . |
| 3 | DEC said that for the first time in six quarters it generated positive cash flow from operations and investments , even with restructuring activities . |
| 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 | From these figures it monitored key ratios which indicated the capital adequacy , liquidity and degree of risk for each firm . |
| 6 | If they are , in many cases it means certain death for them . |
| 7 | ‘ For many farmers it spells financial disaster and few of the smaller ones have recovered . |
| 8 | In many ways it has considerable weaknesses . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In civil operations this affects revenue earning potential and therefore profitability and in military environments it affects operational readiness . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When employed in the financial reports it provides external users with some measure of performance . |
| 13 | Unlike most dinosaurs it had sharp teeth with which it ate smaller creatures . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Like most creative processes it requires certain skills and an overall understanding of simple design principles before even partially decent results are achieved . |