Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is getting into the position of an excellent prize of war ; strategically it points right into the heart of Japan and into the hands of an enemy it weakens the Japanese bastion of Western defence . |
| 2 | The incidence of this higher rate of tax — totalling , inclusive of the loan , 25 per cent — is therefore misleading ; in effect it acknowledged the superior position of £40 men while seeking to evade the full implications . |
| 3 | For if it relates to the BBC per se then it conveniently overlooks its seedier and more questionable aspects , whilst if it relates to some imaginary institution it ignores the real pressures on institutions which make them somehow less ideal than one would desire . |
| 4 | In the split second it took the cursing Jube to work the action and fire , his target was no longer there . |
| 5 | Lord of the Flies is a novel about English schoolboys marooned on a desert island — a Defoe-like subject , though unlike Crusoe it uses the third person — but reversing Defoe , it tells of their rapid descent into savagery , totem-worship and the childish joys of torture and terror . |
| 6 | In the Zurvanite heresy it became the supreme deity . |
| 7 | When a neurotransmitter fits into its receptor it triggers the chemical response that changes the membrane potential and passes the signal from one neurone to another . |
| 8 | The canal was never a commercial success , though it was made deeper after Telford 's death , but it is still open , and in the First World War it served the strategic purpose for which it had not been needed during the Napoleonic Wars : 70,000 mines were shipped through it , mainly by the U.S. Navy , to protect Allied merchant shipping against German U-boats . |
| 9 | For Delaunay it was the interaction of colours which produced a sense of form and space in a picture , whereas for Léger it meant the simultaneous presence in a painting of the three pictorial elements of line , form and colour , all used in a system of deliberate contrasts . |
| 10 | Miliary er i it it refers , well you 've heard of millet seed and it 's it refers to a seeding of many different lesions er , around the body it means the disseminated form of of tuberculosis where the lesions occur all over the place . |
| 11 | At the top it included the wealthiest landowners and industrialists in the land , such as Edward A. Guinness , brewer , who died in 1927 and left £13.5 million and Sir John R. Ellerman , shipowner and financier , who died in 1933 leaving £36.7 million . |
| 12 | Mr Johnson told the court it landed the Financial Times with a phone bill of £705 . |
| 13 | Yes , it starts at , it says on the front it starts at seven , and then at the back it says the actual quiz starts at seven thirty . |
| 14 | By curving up its abdomen it gives the false impression that it is about to strike with its tail . |
| 15 | When a fish sucks in the bait it lifts the bottom shot off the bottom and so allows the buoyancy of the float to take over , resulting in the antenna rising out of the water like the sword Excalibur . |
| 16 | As a general argument it straddles the two others , being more limited than either but broader than each . |
| 17 | The second station , the Home Service , was more ‘ serious ’ : for example it carried the main news bulletins that naturally attracted huge wartime audiences . |
| 18 | A strong challenge anticipated from the fiercely nationalist and right-wing Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SP0 ) failed to materialize : SPO leader Vuk Draskovic took only 20 per cent of the vote to come second in the presidential election , while his party took only 19 seats in the Assembly ( after winning 13 seats in the first round it fought the second round in coalition with other opposition parties ) . |
| 19 | In every area it remained the largest category , although distribution was heavily skewed toward Canning Town . |
| 20 | On paper it appears the light blues are inches shorter … and a few months older … but what about on the water ? |
| 21 | By the third decade of that century , the idea of a prime minister had emerged and in its first physical manifestation it took the imposing form of Sir Robert Walpole . |
| 22 | No , you 've when you do a delete erm if you do con ex signal , if you have that on signal it deletes the whole signal , airlines and all . |
| 23 | Only when the water is very high will it run the other way . |
| 24 | In particular , in a commodity ( both a capitalist commodity and any commodity ) society it wears the fetishistic costume of the law of value . |
| 25 | So the report before you is the first real annual report on Equal Opportunities Inter County Council , so you 've got all the relevant statistics and in that sense it compliments the previous report that you 've just examined . |
| 26 | It can include the immediate team of tutors and clinical teachers within the school of nursing , but in the wider sense it includes the medical staff and all trained staff of wards and departments , each with their special skills , personalities and valuable experience . |
| 27 | Note that as ‘ rainbow ’ is regarded as being the most important word it has the highest pitch . |
| 28 | Clearly where a committee can issue a quick and reasoned comment on a topical subject it has the greatest impact . |
| 29 | As a consequence of this approach it makes the whole process accessible , meaningful and feasible . |
| 30 | As the trail approaches the shore of Lough Erne on the main road it crosses the narrow channel of water between Trasna Island and the mainland and travels along the north shore of the island . |