Example sentences of "it [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How does it affect Operation Cuckoo ? ’ |
| 2 | It is essential that healthcare staff know how to prevent cross-infection of HIV without letting it affect patient care . |
| 3 | Yesterday 's meeting , which saw the group change its name from Ferranti International Signal to Ferranti International , also approved changes in its articles designed to prevent it breaching borrowing powers as a result of the decimation of its equity base by the £215million write-off . |
| 4 | The 3-Colour pattern option operates in much the same way except that it knits colour one , colour two , colour three and colour four before moving on to the next pattern line . |
| 5 | It saddled liberalism with the problem of generals in politics and the mystique of the guerrilla . |
| 6 | Greenpeace has been invited to appraise the environmental costs of such an operation , after it voiced concern that dredging and flooding would have a dangerously destructive impact on the fragile ecosystem . |
| 7 | It plays DEFECT , simply following its rule of imitating the opponent 's previous move . |
| 8 | The noxious substance contained in the two anal glands , one on either side of the animal 's rectum , is called butyl mercaptan and it plays havoc with a predator 's face . |
| 9 | It plays world and indie music , it has face-painters and babies , and , if you 're interested , it 's held in the Town Hall in Shoreditch on Saturday nights . |
| 10 | In May you can visit its arts festival , and in September , it plays host to a famous antiques fair . |
| 11 | It plays host to an array of events ; from weekly activities such as quiz nights and live music on Friday , to special parties and celebrations . |
| 12 | The North Yorkshire resort of Whitby promises to be a particularly noisy place later this month when it plays host to the region 's first-ever town criers ' competition . |
| 13 | ‘ It plays hell with the tyres , senator ! ’ |
| 14 | It was used by American therapists , before being banned in 1985 , for marital problems as it encourages empathy and dispels hostility ; it is often called the ‘ hug ’ or ‘ love ’ drug . |
| 15 | It encourages smuggling and theft and there is a risk of items going underground and therefore becoming lost to science . |
| 16 | It encourages creativity and allows pupils to use the language they have learnt in the context of stimulating and relevant projects . |
| 17 | It has strengthened links between school and college , it encourages dialogue , it gives opportunity to classroom teachers to develop new skills and to take on new responsibilities . |
| 18 | it encourages motivation and is good for morale ; |
| 19 | Because the presentation is diagrammatic , needing no specialist knowledge to construct or discuss , it encourages discussion between workers of different disciplines and backgrounds who are collaborating on a project . |
| 20 | The thinking of politicians for whom education is only important if it helps boost the national economy , and this is important because it helps people enjoy what they want , and this is important because it encourages consumption and thus industry , either goes round in a vicious circle or takes off on an interminable regress . |
| 21 | The bubble policy is efficient because it encourages equalization of the marginal cost of cutting back pollution at different plants within the firm . |
| 22 | Such a system is inherently inflationary as it encourages escalation of costs and there is no evidence that it gives any encouragement to the cost effective use of different procedures since the health care suppliers know that , whatever the cost , they will be reimbursed . |
| 23 | Such a system is inherently inflationary as it encourages escalation of costs . |
| 24 | So it dominates our screens , it dominates our man , it 's a religion , it encourages bigotry it encourages to neglect their se , their er domestic duties plenty of reasons for not liking football ! |
| 25 | Familiarity can also encourage a mutual sense of trust which enhances the officer 's capacity to detect and control because it encourages self-reporting of deviance . |
| 26 | The nuclear family is not only smaller , as it is based essentially on the marriage bond and children , but it encourages privatisation . |
| 27 | Either it permits an obdurate East Berlin leadership to continue , at the risk of deeper disaffection among the population and growing isolation among its allies , or it encourages reform , and risks destroying the fragile foundations of East German statehood entirely . |
| 28 | A diet high in fresh fruit and vegetables is obviously to be recommended as it encourages digestion and elimination . |
| 29 | Second , items with initial labials are more resistant to transfer than the other items ; we can suggest , therefore , that the initial labial is a constraint on change — it encourages maintenance . |
| 30 | Locke is anxious to defend his political philosophy against the accusation that it encourages rebellion . |