Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] it [verb] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Language in its significant sense is that vocal gesture which tends to arouse in the individual the attitude which it arouses in others , and it is this perfecting of the self by the gesture which mediates the social activities that gives rise to the process of taking the role of the other . |
| 2 | Almost perfect , but not quite : the emotional freighting which it acquired in transmission deprived the Arnoldian message of any remaining austerity . |
| 3 | Where the SPRU team takes us at a brisk trot through the literature , Jan Zimmerman adopts more of a wild canter in her survey of the likely effects on women of a range of new technologies , in a piece that makes up in polemic what it lacks in argument . |
| 4 | Concerto Köln may not be the most polished of today 's period instrument groups , but their playing of Handel 's miraculously varied score makes up in commitment what it lacks in finesse . |
| 5 | Yet he proceeded to declare that by refraining from exercising in America the power of the executive which it controlled in Great Britain , Parliament would preserve the unity of the Empire : |
| 6 | But CIMA warned that the additional reporting burden which it represents in terms of cost and management time ‘ could lead to its acceptance being reduced ’ . |
| 7 | Perhaps this is why it sleeps twice as long as we do , making up in length of slumber what it lacks in depth . |
| 8 | It was presumably real gold , yet it somehow contrived to look brash and cheap , like junk jewellery trying to make up in flash what it lacked in value . |
| 9 | ‘ Mortmain' , or dead hand , refers to the fact that the church was an undying institution so that any land which it held in fee ( or freehold ) was never vacated by the death of its owner or came into the possession of a minor or an heiress ; thus it would never revert ( or escheat ) to the chief lord for the duration of the vacancy or minority , so depriving him of the valuable rights of wardship and marriage appertaining to feudal tenure . |
| 10 | With us ; I 've no idea what it did in India . |
| 11 | PLAYER : Well , it 's a device , really — it makes the action that follows more or less comprehensible ; you understand , we are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style . |