Example sentences of "it [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Freud refers to this process of strengthening of the superego as the ‘ most precious cultural asset ’ , and observes that it turns enemies of civilization into its vehicles , and greatly enhances the security of culture . |
| 32 | It will affect his livelihood if it turns sponsors away . |
| 33 | Two pages later the Report proceeded to do exactly what it said it would not do : it coupled levels of attainment to ages , by defining the expected range of levels at which pupils aged 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 would perform.4 This represented ‘ a rough speculation about the limits within which about 80% of pupils may be found to lie ’ ( DES 1988a : para.104 ) . |
| 34 | In turn , this strong bias affects the climate of opinion in society as a whole , but especially in the labour market , where it influences employers ' personnel officers , job centre staff , and other officials and , of course , older workers themselves . |
| 35 | By moulding the prevailing climate of opinion it influences values which in turn both influence events and fashion institutions . |
| 36 | Sergeant Allen always liked to be ready early , to have everything buttoned up before the Troop Commander arrived : it got things off to a good start . |
| 37 | ‘ It was just about the only song I knew the words to and was an impromptu thing , but it got things started . |
| 38 | In 1987 it registered profits of an impressive £6.2 million . |
| 39 | In the light of our results , we believe that the best clinical approach for an acute diagnosis of a Barrett 's oesophagus is the combination of endoscopic and manometric studies ; but how accurate is it to compare distances measured by manometry from distances measured by endoscopy ? |
| 40 | Another farmer , Crematogaster borneensis , is no less solicitous ; it excavates chambers in the stems of the Macaranga tree ( a member of the spurge family ) in which to shelter its brood and its livestock . |
| 41 | Page 26 Next tumbles : Next 's pre-tax profits nearly halved to £16.2m at the halfway stage as it revealed problems rooted in overexpansion and poor merchandising . |
| 42 | It revealed frequencies of abnormal fetal presentation by older women ( 40–44 ) and younger ones ( 25–29 ) to be 31 and 18 per cent , respectively , and postpartum haemorrhage due to uterine inertia of 6.2 and 2.7 for the same two age groups . |
| 43 | It revealed transcripts from ND1 ( 1000n. ) and Cyto b ( 1200n . ) |
| 44 | SHARES in HSBC Holdings , parent of the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation , firmed 7p to 602p yesterday after it revealed profits had nearly doubled last year . |
| 45 | The sound it emits scans the scene in front of it , rather like a beam of light , and its brain uses the echoes received to form a " sound picture " of the scene . |
| 46 | It sedates areas in the limbic brain from which the instincts of aggression rise . |
| 47 | Colin bought the cordite and used it to light fires with . |
| 48 | It rides bumps smoothly and hugs the road , cornering neatly . |
| 49 | The physician Paracelsus ( 1490 — 1541 ) saw it as a ‘ magnetic ’ influence enabling people who possessed it to heal others , ‘ as perfume emanates from a lily ’ . |
| 50 | For example , Kaelin 's ( 1968 ) notion of ‘ surface ’ and ‘ depth ’ counters is particularly relevant for the way in which it separates aspects of a direct sensory , perceptual nature from those referring to imaginative content , based upon observations of a cognitive or conceptual kind . |
| 51 | We think that it conserves services , that it has searched out the vast majority of efficiencies that we can find within this council and that it does n't pass on to the poll tax , council tax payers the fruits , I mean it does pass on the poll tax or council tax payers the fruits of how we have achieved savings and efficiencies over the last couple of years . |
| 52 | All you do is string a conker and , by using it to hit opponents ’ conkers , see how many other conkers you can break . |
| 53 | The Shippers Club is a vital communications link for the airline , helping it to monitor requirements such as the spread of capacity geographically . |
| 54 | It channels energies , it is expensive to set up , the outcomes are predictable only in the most general terms , and the value of those outcomes may range , in the long term , from outstanding to negligible . |
| 55 | It requested donations be sent to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund . |
| 56 | It discourages investigations of specific aspects of lesbian subjectivity . |
| 57 | ‘ I feel it discourages burglars and it seems more welcoming when one comes back to an empty house . ’ |
| 58 | The first person to solve it wins Pounds 5,000 . |
| 59 | Everyone says its totally hip and it wins awards again . |
| 60 | Again , this was not a PNP initiative but is reported here because it concerned parents , children and schools and gives an example of the practice from which the LEA 's unwritten policy on home-school links has to be inferred . |