Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find newspaper bingo even more repulsive than the cinema-hall type , because it encourages people to read newspapers for the wrong reason . |
| 2 | I think it encourages people . |
| 3 | Do n't place a mirror over an open fire , it encourages people of all ages to stand too close . |
| 4 | Using a democratic structure of rotating the roles of therapist and patient , it encourages people to express previous hurts in ways they might have done as children if that had been allowed . |
| 5 | So it encourages people even more does n't it ? |
| 6 | It isolates the experience of misery and it domesticates people 's anger . |
| 7 | It slinks greyly among the marram grass ; it slides over and under barbed wire ; it makes an eagle lose direction and settles a dank wetness on his feathers ; it softens the landscape into obscurity , it hides the familiar cliffs , it turns sheep into monsters and highland cattle into roaring mountains which lurch up towards an eagle out of the clinging mist . |
| 8 | It guarantees sales of 160 million tonnes of coal over five years to the electricity generators , but will phase out subsidies prior to privatization , which is to be speeded up . |
| 9 | ‘ So many people agree with others for the sake of it but Eric ca n't do that and he has to tell the truth and say what he 's feeling even if that is ‘ no ’ and it upsets people . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've always said so because of the problems it causes and the way it upsets people . |
| 11 | It points people to Jesus |
| 12 | It contributes £11,000 million net to our balance of payments . |
| 13 | It goes brmm , brmm all over the room . |
| 14 | The welfare system , runs this view , makes things worse because it discourages people from working and rewards undesirable behaviour . |
| 15 | ‘ I mean it impresses people . ’ |
| 16 | But it is receiving a large amount of money — in addition , it receives £61 million specifically for the new St. Pancras project . |
| 17 | From theory , it draws the equations which define the fundamental laws of nature ; from experimentation , it receives data , and a means to verify its results . |
| 18 | Of this , $200million will come from the US , as previously announced by President Bush , to tide Poland over until it receives $710million from the IMF as part of a long-term programme to restructure its economy . |
| 19 | But according to one retailer who thinks that the mail-order operation needs a lot of work to modernise and improve it : ‘ It represents cannon rather than rifle shot — it is old fashioned and they do not target customers properly . ’ |
| 20 | The main advantage of forfaiting is that it offers 100% finance . |
| 21 | It offers 8,192Mb RAM per unit , with a system maximum of 65,536Mb . |
| 22 | It offers 8,192Mb RAM per unit , with a system maximum of 65,536Mb . |
| 23 | It offers 2,048Mb maximum RAM and delivers 1,600 MFLOPS and 12,800 MIPS peak . |
| 24 | It offers 2,048Mb maximum RAM and has 1,600 MFLOPS and 12,800 MIPS . |
| 25 | It produces data that can easily be expressed in statistical form . |
| 26 | It incorporates data compression algorithms that are claimed to increase effective throughput of wide area networking links by as much as four times . |
| 27 | Although oxygen is a good oxidising agent ( atom or molecule that accepts electrons from the molecule it oxidises ) , restrictions on the direction of spin of the electrons it accepts means that it usually accepts these one at a time as shown in the following equations : |
| 28 | The problem with ballet is it alienates people because it is culture . |
| 29 | Changes in the way the money is distributed could mean Cheshire only getting £30m when Coun Harold Tomlins claims it needs £40m to cope with demand for services . |
| 30 | D you think it needs data files ? |