Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that ethanol has a duel action on the secretory function of the gastric parietal cell ; at low concentrations it stimulates gastric secretion and at high concentrations it has no effect or an inhibitory one . |
| 2 | It was urged into the air again , kicking out with its back legs , seeming to hang there motionless , and then on hind legs it walked several steps forwards . |
| 3 | With higher after-tax wages it takes fewer hours to earn any given target income . |
| 4 | The more mischievous may suggest that , as an exercise in the once-discredited art of nationalisation , it was a huge success ; but as an attempt to apply market forces to public services it made little difference . |
| 5 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 6 | Much of America 's apparent lead in intelligence technology and the vast sums it spends each year on these organisations has been negated by the large number of spies and traitors continually found within them . |
| 7 | For obvious reasons it has special appeal for those who , on either political or temperamental grounds , feel a need to justify such institutions as chattel slavery , colonial domination , or any other of the cruder forms of economic exploitation . |
| 8 | Six months later in the municipal elections it fought eight seats in five London boroughs . |
| 9 | AS Lyles customer base grows to include an ever increasing number of independent retailers it places increasing marketing emphasis on their point of sale material . |
| 10 | The reason : The provincial government paid Mount Providence , operated by Roman Catholic nuns , 75 Canadian cents a day each for the care of orphans — for mentally retarded children it paid 2.75 dollars . |
| 11 | In civil operations this affects revenue earning potential and therefore profitability and in military environments it affects operational readiness . |
| 12 | Suffice it to say that in any extended study of the martial arts it warrants closer examination . |
| 13 | In recent weeks it sold one Ford franchise for £8m and bought another for £6m . |
| 14 | When employed in the financial reports it provides external users with some measure of performance . |
| 15 | In most of the present liberal-democratic countries it required many decades of agitation and organization , and in few countries was anything like it achieved until late in the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | Like most creative processes it requires certain skills and an overall understanding of simple design principles before even partially decent results are achieved . |