Example sentences of "it [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that their relatedness to their organization can be construed as being infantile-like in that it evokes relationships reminiscent of childhood . |
| 2 | How can employees help ? * Examples of good housekeeping : Low energy bulbs ; cistern misers etc. * BS7750 Environmental Quality Standard : What is it and how does it affect employees and the Company ? |
| 3 | I reckon she 's overly keen on coke and spends too much time in clubs , but maybe I 'm just jealous ; my cub-reporter status on the Caley and the triumph-of-miniaturisation salary that goes with it make habits that expensive out of the question . |
| 4 | You can also use it to report incidents of sexual or racial harassment . |
| 5 | Analysts predict it to report profits of £41 million in 1991 , compared with £63 million in 1990 . |
| 6 | After redesigning from scratch the way it processed orders from customers , it has cut delivery times from 8-12 weeks to ‘ days ’ even while using 35% fewer people to do the job . |
| 7 | This , in the amounts we expect , is harmless to the fish , but it encourages algae , in particular the unicellular organism which causes green water , although it can also be caused by overfeeding . |
| 8 | Instead , it encourages students to act out confrontations , such as a US Soviet conflict over oil in disputed territory , without resorting to nuclear attack . |
| 9 | It encourages judges to decide and act on their own views . |
| 10 | It encourages learners to explore and experiment with language , but at the same time provides security and support through a clearly structured syllabus . |
| 11 | And here , ICMS goes even further than prevention ; it encourages growers to take positive action to enhance the environment by , for example , establishing wildlife strips to harbour natural predators or creating wildlife ponds to encourage wildlife diversity . |
| 12 | It encourages individuals to make a personal pledge to change their lives in a way that minimises their impact on the environment — each of the eight pledges shown here will make a real difference . |
| 13 | It encourages pupils to approach them from angles not considered by other subjects or forms of study in the curriculum . |
| 14 | Lastly , in the project for a prison institution that was then developing , punishment was seen as a technique for the coercion of individuals ; it operated methods of training the body — not signs — by the traces it leaves , in the form of habits , in behaviour ; and it presupposed the setting up of a specific power for the administration of the penalty ( ibid. , p. 130–1 ) . |
| 15 | All is not lost for the Albion works , as it supplies axles to DAF 's Belgian factory at Westerlo , which will continue in operation . |
| 16 | By declaring a set of absolutes , it supplies standards as well as goals for both individuals and institutions . |
| 17 | It supplies stores like Harrods and Selfridges as well as having a big export market . |
| 18 | It mistook excuses for reasons . |
| 19 | It associates concepts and communicative acts with their most common or ‘ standard ’ expressions in the foreign language . |
| 20 | The first category has the greatest potential for ambiguity , for it requires more interpretative work , in that it associates places with types of people . |
| 21 | If so , beekeepers will have to learn how to control it using technics followed by Continental beekeepers . ’ |
| 22 | do the Biro not do it using actors now then as well ? |
| 23 | Ian then set Jo 's hair using the Pin-curl technique and styled it using products from the Schwarzkopf Silhouette professional range . |
| 24 | They obtained it using observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Ultraviolet Explorer ( IUE ) satellite . |
| 25 | Most of these problems are to do with the nature of conversational English , which still suffers badly from our attempts to describe it using models which originate in earlier studies of the written language , and which have been influenced by what I can only call our innate desire for things to be neat and regular . |
| 26 | During the second half of the decade , however , this perception began to be challenged by commentary that pointed out controlled , intellectual qualities in her work and , thus , described it using terms traditionally applied to the art of men . |
| 27 | However , the literature so far described is concerned almost entirely with social work at the micro level : individuals , families and small groups , much of it using techniques that are of little relevance to community work , for example behaviour modification . |
| 28 | It destroys jobs . |
| 29 | It destroys jobs ; discourages investment ; erodes the country 's competitiveness ; and plays havoc with the Government 's accounts . |
| 30 | It inhabited plateaux and lowlands of the Cretaceous and preyed on duckbilled dinosaurs such as the giant sauropodomorphs . |