Example sentences of "[art] [noun] it [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , USL finds the royalties it pays third parties for using their technology , particularly those sent to Microsoft Corp for its Xenix functionality and Sun Microsystems Inc for its BSD functionality , on the increase and likely to rise further .
2 Over the piece it shows more beauty and riches than reality can master .
3 If it gets into the predator 's nose it can injure the tissues there and if it enters the mouth it causes violent vomiting .
4 At the moment it seems that Labour is poised to pick up a good swathe of its targets — but not , yet , quite enough of them to put Mr Kinnock safely into Downing Street .
5 Perhaps they will one day , but at the moment it seems some way off .
6 From the outside it looks uninhabited facing on to the icy , wind-ravaged sidewalks as anonymously as any of the disused warehouse and industrial buildings that litter the once-thriving district .
7 I welcome the Bill , even though on the surface it hands considerable powers from Parliament to Ministers .
8 From the top it provides magnificent views of the city 's famous skyline .
9 He said oh I do n't mind cleaning he said but , he 's like Derek , I mean I , ooh I can soon clean well he 's a good , you know , cleaner I mean the bath , whenever he , blimey if ever he cleans the bath it looks ten times better than when I I do it .
10 Like other unions we suffer from the severe loss of members due to unemployment and we are appalled at the devastation of family life when the breadwinner 's been sha cast on the scrap heap and the behaviour of the government it throws whole communities into depravity without a chance of any hope for the future and their children .
11 Well , you could do , if , particularly if you had one of our meters , but what , what happens , as sound goes through the air it causes small pressure fluctuations , and our meter measures the size of these , and it gives a reading on a scale in units which we call decibels .
12 Compared with Burton 's or that of Sir John Gell [ q.v. ] for 1659 his diary is somewhat slight , but as the only internal account and commentary on the debates it has unique value .
13 ‘ The catering industry is unique in the challenges it offers young people and every effort must be made to ensure that it plays a central role in careers advice , ’ he said .
14 For the importer it provides short-term finance , pending the re-sale of the goods in his domestic market .
15 In the main it causes few problems , but in recent years there has been a rise in cases that cause conflict for the advice worker .
16 If there is any money in the account it earns some interest , if it goes into the red you pay some interest .
17 In corridors and classrooms throughout the county it bears silent witness to the perception of the man who formed it , to his generous breadth of outlook and to his integrity .
18 For the distinctions a conception draws between legal rights and other forms of rights and between legal arguments and other forms of argument , signal the character and limits of the justification it believes political decisions provide for state coercion .
19 The thickness of this unit is normally about 50 m around the margin of the basin , decreasing to 5 m or less in more central parts ( Fig. 4a ) , but locally in Poland and the U.K. it reaches 100–120 m .
20 But in the end it shows total respect for the people who fought and died .
21 Published at the beginning of the century it comprises 10 volumes , although only the first eight have been translated into English .
22 She 's angry at the way it portrays handicapped people , and has helped organise a blockade of a television studio .
23 Or at least with the way it converts internal formats into PostScript .
24 The framework I want to propose rests upon a regard for the importance of the active , interpreting self in social interaction ; for the way it perceives , makes sense of and works upon the actions of others and the situation in which it finds itself ; the way it pursues goals and tries to maximize its own ( often competing ) interests ; the way it pursues these things by combining or competing with other selves ; the way it adjusts to circumstances while still trying to fulfil or retrieve its own purposes — and so forth .
25 The way it works these days is just so divorced from everything we 're familiar with back home .
26 But in the time it takes these children to ask for a drink of water an accomplice has slipped in the back and helped himself .
27 UPS is one of the biggest van operators in the U.S. It runs 60,000 vans which are built by the company .
28 An amino acid is a chemical sub-unit of a protein , and ultimately everything that happens in a cell it produces some kind of protein , so you can see that erm the triplet or produces erm which is one of the , one of the er amino acids and so on and there are also punctuation marks U A A or U A G means stop , as does U G A , so when , when a R N A template running through a gets to a sequence which reads , where was it now , U A A it stops reading because it knows it 's got to the end of the gene .
29 This gerbil is strictly nocturnal in contrast to some of the more common rodents , and as a result it suffers more predation by the owls than do the others .
30 As a rule it contains varying proportions of base or less precious metals .
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