Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb -s] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In sign , it can be seen in the learner 's apparent acknowledgement of comprehension of a statement by the deaf person which the hearing learner in fact has not understood , or it involves an immediate switch of topic by the hearing learner to something in which he feels more competent , without answering the deaf person 's query . |
| 2 | The new model joins the previously-announced 16-port model , although it has an earlier availability date : the company is aiming for late this quarter for the eight-port model , while the 16-port version is not expected until the third quarter . |
| 3 | Is my hon. Friend aware that the rural sub-post office is at the heart of the rural community and that it plays an essential role in west Norfolk ? |
| 4 | I do not deny that it plays an important part , but the key to our strength is our industrial might . |
| 5 | I am sure , however , that it plays an important role . ’ |
| 6 | A rejection of an ideal or principle is involved only if , when considering the relation of a man to his acts , his principle or ideal is regarded as absolute in the sense that it constitutes an infallible guide to human conduct , or if it is conceived of as a maxim in the Kantian sense and provides the reason a man might have for thinking it worthwhile for him to act morally . |
| 7 | You may have put off beginning lace knitting because you know that it requires an extra carriage and one carriage is enough for you to master as a beginner . |
| 8 | ‘ One of the things that is often said about the success of British athletics at the moment is that it hides an awful lot that 's wrong . |
| 9 | The Spirit who inspired their writing is perfectly well capable of taking some part of them and writing it on our hearts so that it becomes an inescapable pointer to a particular course of action . |
| 10 | We are forced to conclude that each microsociety has its own elaborated code , capable of indefinite extension , but that it presents an opaque front to the confrontation surfaces of other microsocieties . |
| 11 | If it could still be shown that it remains an effective expression of democracy , that would indeed be a reason ; for any diminution of democracy is deplorable . |
| 12 | The university enjoys a location which historically has ensured that it is an important part of the fabric of the city of Edinburgh and thus placed in Scotland 's capital that it remains an important symbol for the nation 's egalitarian spirit , its diverse cultural identity and true internationalism . |
| 13 | The hallmark of the Christian faith is that it turns an apparent defeat into a victory . |
| 14 | On balance , studies have found no indication of harmful physical effects ; no evidence that television introduces a harmful amount of aggression , violence or fear into an already normal child or that it turns an undisturbed child into a disturbed one or a non-delinquent child into a delinquent . |
| 15 | The result from the program 's point of view is that it receives an odd collection of keypresses , probably a set that it never received during testing . |
| 16 | Similarly , one can say that a bodily sensation has the intrinsic quality of being a tingle , or is hall-marked ‘ tingling ’ , but not that it has an in-the-foot quality . ) |
| 17 | It is very unlikely that any opposition party will win an election until it convinces the electorate that it has an economic policy which is internally coherent and a defence policy which measures up to its name . |
| 18 | It is characteristic of fixed capital that it has an assumed lifespan — without taking into account the problem of technological obsolescence — and therefore its replacement may be said to be time-proportional . |
| 19 | Our role , I think , has to be , among a great many other things , to look at the over-all effect of the school curriculum , to ensure that it 's balanced , that it 's cohesive , and that it has an appropriate spread for all children . |
| 20 | Well I think all we can say with any confidence is that the patterns of evolution and behaviour going on within it today indicate that it has an apparent beginning between about fifteen and eighteen billion years ago . |
| 21 | Another criticism he makes is that it has an uneasy relationship with such values as justice which some people should consider to be important in human life . |
| 22 | To ensure that this is being achieved , watch out for two essential ingredients : One is that the combi-steamer produces fresh clean steam from its own generator , and the other is that it has an efficient waste air quenching system . |
| 23 | An African Curriculum Organisation was set up in 1976 and has already proved that it has an important part to play in this process . |
| 24 | New evidence suggests , however , that it has an important part to play in the lowering of harmful cholesterol . |
| 25 | Not wanting to say that it has an immaterial soul , they allow that a horse has a continued identity despite changes of matter . |
| 26 | ‘ Others have told me that it shows an old woman sitting looking out on a stormy sea from a tranquil cottage garden . |
| 27 | Interpretations of the source of this imbalance have varied , but most persuasive is the theory that it reflects an unusual form of communication between the two halves of the brain , involving the anatomical structure ( the corpus callosum ) that joins them together . |
| 28 | For the constable , the advantage of this section is that it confers an immediate power of arrest . |
| 29 | In 1600 , the renegade monk Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for numerous heresies , including the proposition that the universe is infinite and that it contains an infinite number of worlds . |
| 30 | Others have criticised such a view on the grounds that it introduces an undesirable ambiguity into the concept of existence , and have argued that propositions of this kind should not be taken at their face value but should be paraphrased in such a way as to prevent spurious names from usurping the role of subjects . |