Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb -s] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because there are so many variables in the equation , it is inevitable that management has some discretion as to how much weight it attaches to any point in a particular case . |
| 2 | A further merit of the presentation is the help it offers to those company functions whose responsibilities involve risks contingent upon the completion date of an R&D project . |
| 3 | A further merit of the presentation is the help it offers to those company functions whose responsibilities involve risks contingent upon the completion date of an R&D project . |
| 4 | Another attraction of the scheme is the flexibility it gives to general practitioners to make budgetary savings in certain aspects of their clinical practice which can then be reinvested in other aspects of patient care . |
| 5 | Together they went to bullfights , to watch Chamaco and Ordonez perform , Minton 's interest in this art having been fired by Hemingway 's Death in the Afternoon , by its colourfulness , sense of theatre and by the focus it gives to male idolatry . |
| 6 | Representation is redefined as a kind of quotation : When a text turns its attention to giving a physical description of a character it resorts to various strategies which give its presumed object the status of a representation . |
| 7 | They have suggested that the loss of associability suffered by a pre-exposed stimulus is determined not by the extent to which it is predicted by its antecedents but by the relationship it bears to subsequent events . |
| 8 | The content it attaches to physical reality makes the natural world autonomous ; its quest is to determine what is . |
| 9 | Most of us take for granted food packaging and the convenience it offers to modern life . |
| 10 | In April 1873 W. H. Flower , subsequently to be in charge of the British Museum , Natural History , in South Kensington , lectured on palaeontology and the support it gives to evolutionary theory . |
| 11 | If the business buys goods for resale , or components for assembly , the terms on which it buys should be considered : to what extent is it possible to pass back liability for defects in those goods ; can the business recover an indemnity from its supplier against any liability it incurs to third parties , or is such liability excluded ? ( 3 ) Who are the business 's customers ? |
| 12 | [ … ] The social efficiency decision rule , that the optimal quantity of a good is produced when the amount it adds to social benefits ( its marginal social benefit ) equals the amount it adds to social costs ( its marginal social cost ) is difficult to apply . |
| 13 | [ … ] The social efficiency decision rule , that the optimal quantity of a good is produced when the amount it adds to social benefits ( its marginal social benefit ) equals the amount it adds to social costs ( its marginal social cost ) is difficult to apply . |
| 14 | If the Commission regards the complaint as validly demonstrating a breach of the Convention it reports to that effect , and the case proceeds to the European Court of Human Rights unless it is solved in the meantime . |
| 15 | If the law of life is struggle , the ‘ bottom line ’ in economic activity as with any other , is the contribution it makes to that struggle , and no sector can simply opt out of it , even if it can be shown by some other criteria that doing so would improve matters . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the broader range of perspectives reflected in recent scholarship has added immeasurably to our understanding of the pre-1950s era and the context it provides to postwar growth . |
| 17 | Repeated use is perceived as necessary in order to survive , yet at the same time it contributes to further decline . |
| 18 | Hence it is a duty which every race owes to itself , and to the human family as well , to cultivate by every possible means its own strength ; directly it falls behind in the regard it pays to this duty … it incurs a penalty which Natural Selection , the stern but beneficent tyrant of the organic world , will assuredly exact , and that speedily , to the full . |
| 19 | In fact it seems to this reviewer that Quinton 's framework offers essential support for Eccleshall 's vision of Conservatism , in that the axioms Quinton describes provide for a specifically Conservative conception of political authority and social discipline . |
| 20 | In the hareem , prayer is as necessary to life as air to breathing , but in Ramadan it reaches to that depth of spirit where the inexplicable lies . |