Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Instead , it encourages students to act out confrontations , such as a US Soviet conflict over oil in disputed territory , without resorting to nuclear attack . |
| 4 | It encourages judges to decide and act on their own views . |
| 5 | It encourages learners to explore and experiment with language , but at the same time provides security and support through a clearly structured syllabus . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It encourages pupils to approach them from angles not considered by other subjects or forms of study in the curriculum . |
| 9 | All is not lost for the Albion works , as it supplies axles to DAF 's Belgian factory at Westerlo , which will continue in operation . |
| 10 | By declaring a set of absolutes , it supplies standards as well as goals for both individuals and institutions . |
| 11 | It supplies stores like Harrods and Selfridges as well as having a big export market . |
| 12 | It associates concepts and communicative acts with their most common or ‘ standard ’ expressions in the foreign language . |
| 13 | The first category has the greatest potential for ambiguity , for it requires more interpretative work , in that it associates places with types of people . |
| 14 | It destroys jobs . |
| 15 | It destroys jobs ; discourages investment ; erodes the country 's competitiveness ; and plays havoc with the Government 's accounts . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It will affect his livelihood if it turns sponsors away . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | By moulding the prevailing climate of opinion it influences values which in turn both influence events and fashion institutions . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It sedates areas in the limbic brain from which the instincts of aggression rise . |
| 23 | It rides bumps smoothly and hugs the road , cornering neatly . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It discourages investigations of specific aspects of lesbian subjectivity . |
| 28 | ‘ I feel it discourages burglars and it seems more welcoming when one comes back to an empty house . ’ |
| 29 | The first person to solve it wins Pounds 5,000 . |
| 30 | Everyone says its totally hip and it wins awards again . |