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 | In the Zurvanite heresy it became the supreme deity . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mr Johnson told the court it landed the Financial Times with a phone bill of £705 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | By curving up its abdomen it gives the false impression that it is about to strike with its tail . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The second station , the Home Service , was more ‘ serious ’ : for example it carried the main news bulletins that naturally attracted huge wartime audiences . |
| 15 | On paper it appears the light blues are inches shorter … and a few months older … but what about on the water ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Only when the water is very high will it run the other way . |
| 19 | In particular , in a commodity ( both a capitalist commodity and any commodity ) society it wears the fetishistic costume of the law of value . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As a consequence of this approach it makes the whole process accessible , meaningful and feasible . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The coolly spoken words were like a bucket of ice-cold water thrown in her face , but instead of restoring her composure it had the opposite effect of stoking her anger all the more . |
| 25 | Like pop socio-biology it bears the unmistakable imprint of a particular cultural view of the world , resulting in a projection of ethnographic ‘ material ’ onto inert ‘ other cultures ’ . |
| 26 | Once the pad 's level with the board it activates the electrical circuit and the game begins . ’ |
| 27 | Chairman it makes the whole thing far simpler I think because there is n't really no disagreement about this whatsoever . |
| 28 | For an instant it filled the whole world with noise and fear . |
| 29 | A B&Q spokesman said last night : ‘ Because our store was the closest to the viaduct it took the full force of the blast and it could well be that we are talking of a complete demolition . |
| 30 | The promotion of ‘ service ’ , mediated via citizenship , was a constant theme throughout the debate on part-time day continuation schools because more than any other single aspect it emphasized the moral value of working conscientiously in a given occupation in order to contribute to the welfare of the community ; hence the importance of creating the ‘ adaptable ’ worker . |