Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb -s] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isotelus is typical of the North American continent , where it occurs in many localities . |
| 2 | The defence applies in cases of intentional and negligent infliction of harm , although it operates in different ways . |
| 3 | Grass has been the main diet for horses since the horse evolved and although it varies in nutritional quality throughout the year it does provide a balanced diet for most animals who are not working or breeding . |
| 4 | There is a striking analogy here with crystal growth , except that it happens in two dimensions , not three . |
| 5 | The predictions are supported by evidence that male dwarfism is an evolutionary strategy in solitary , sedentary animals , that it evolves in low population densities ( high search costs ) , and that it correlates with a female-biased adult sex ratio ( reduced male competition ) . |
| 6 | The typical duration that it spends in either mode is very long compared with the source period . |
| 7 | This is not to say that it does not cause symptoms ; we think that it does in some people . |
| 8 | If operation of the model can , to some degree , accurately represent the workings of the market then an individual company may be able to gain a deeper understanding of the relative position that it has in that market . |
| 9 | Is there not a deep self that keeps active in the subconscious , expressing in dreams the thoughts that it evades in conscious life ? |
| 10 | Remember that it rhymes in two places : " " A tuba , " I said , " or some treacle , Or a toggle to sew on your mac , Or a tray or a ticket , a tree or a thicket , A thistle , a taper , a tack . " |
| 11 | The first is that it consists in visual imagery . |
| 12 | This is a life so transformed that it stands in utter contrast to the life which comes naturally to us as human beings . |
| 13 | Or it may need to employ staff , and a statement that it engages in discriminatory employment practices may potentially affect its ability to attract staff of the right calibre . |
| 14 | It should be apparent from this overview of some of the major elements of the planning system that it intrudes in many places and is a factor which has to be taken into account at every stage of considering what , if anything , should be done with land or buildings . |
| 15 | Whilst I would apply that proposition completely in most cases , and particularly in cases which affect life , liberty or property , I do not think that it applies in all cases . |
| 16 | This is the one that was used in this article to illustrate the knitting of a rectangle and it is shown here in the form that it appears in many publications . |
| 17 | Some historians remain sceptical about this , while others are convinced that it does , and that an early form of military organisation was based upon the herred system ; that it appears in southern Norway and Västergötland in Sweden too has led to the contention that it was introduced there in Viking times , perhaps by Swegen or Cnut . |
| 18 | To the extent , for example , that it exists in local government in the United Kingdom ( and to that extent , it is better described in terms of ‘ caucus ’ rather than ‘ cabinet ’ ) it is a very recent historical phenomenon indeed . |
| 19 | It is an imaginative use of the word , but what is significant about it is that it reappears in that sense in only one other place in the Old Testament , in the passage immediately preceding God 's appearance on Sinai . |
| 20 | Equally the nature of the various styles , high , middle and low , needs more elucidation than it gets in this book ( cf. pp. 70 – 71 ) if it is to form a central plank of the discussion of lexis . |
| 21 | Perversely it costs more per unit quantity to pack in drums than it does in 5 litre quantities . |
| 22 | Well it must get hotter than it does in this house for a start ! |
| 23 | The gravitational force between two bodies would decrease more rapidly with distance than it does in three dimensions . |
| 24 | I think not : in Case 145/88 the court had no need to rely on the criterion of proportionality — any more than it does in these cases — since it was immediately apparent , as it is now in these proceedings , that the obstacles created by the national legislation in question certainly were not , and are not , of such a kind as to compel the member state to dispense with a measure necessary for the attainment of a justified objective . |
| 25 | Thus " obscene " , in law , has a very different , and very much stronger , meaning than it possesses in colloquial usage . |
| 26 | But in particular terms ( and in terms of ‘ kto-kogo ’ ) , economic rationality means that Romania must exchange its hard-earned capacity to manufacture steel or munitions for a dependence on the GDR , Czechoslovakia and the USSR which costs more in freedom and leverage than it saves in economic resources . |
| 27 | Before the right hon. Gentleman goes into overdrive , perhaps he will confirm that , in the past three months , industrial production has fallen faster in Germany , faster in France , faster in the United States and faster in Japan than it has in this country ; and that , if we take the last year as a whole , industrial production fell more in Japan , and more in Germany , than in the United Kingdom . |
| 28 | The crucial factor is whether technology provides new jobs at a higher rate in new activities than it eliminates in older industry . |
| 29 | is yet another testament to the record industry 's fiercely-held conviction that there is an insatiable appetite among the general public for old rope provided it comes in new packages . |
| 30 | If offers a clear choice to the electorate and it results in one party with a mandate from the people getting on with the job of governing . |