Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Like other simple sugars , glucose is soluble in water ( which is why it is easily digestible ) because it has five hydroxyl groups ( see Appendix 1 ) which have a strong attraction for water molecules , and also because the glucose molecules are physically small enough to shuffle around fairly freely in a liquid , provided there are not too many of them .
32 The decision to buy in or not is particularly relevant to personal computer sales where margins are tight , but Bearpark reckons that the company can remain competitive because it has huge purchasing power and can buy components at volume discounts — especially in Germany as the Deutsche Mark is very strong at the moment .
33 A. griegi differs from all three because it has 2 tentacle scales on each pore , by the shape of the oral papillae and the shape of the arm spines .
34 The disadvantages , however , are that it would be much more expensive to construct , requiring the construction of several bridges , and the fact that while it straddles two council areas , there will be no possibility of support from Ards Borough Council as their Tourist Officer has an agreement with Down District Council not to support a tourist railway in the Ards area as there is already one under way in the Down District area at Downpatrick .
35 The NPP is building television in its own states , while it has three state radios and three daily newspapers .
36 It is a useful model since it recognizes internal household characteristics and the requirements of other models such as life-cycle or space needs .
37 The latter is of particular significance , since it allows two way communication : input and output through an LCD screen , using a special pen .
38 It has been pointed out that the legal protection of children 's welfare is not the same as the conferment of rights on children , since it presupposes that welfare agencies , judges and even parents would have the right to take decisions on the child 's behalf .
39 Turning to the full three equations , the instability condition becomes This condition , derived in 1964 by Korobkin and others { 16,25 } is termed the " bad cavity " requirement , since it demands that cavity loss damp the field more strongly than the damping of either the polarisation or the population .
40 As revealed exclusively in TODAY , yesterday , the £100 million contract was awarded to multinational Alcatel after it undercut British firm Westinghouse .
41 In determining whether the offer of alternative work is suitable , the tribunal takes into account factors such as status , skills required , pay , hours of work and whether it involves additional travelling time and/or expense or perhaps a need to move house .
42 And erm you know the erm er , I , I do n't know whether it had any adjustment changes or what , but
43 The ‘ heap ’ of important VAX announcements that Digital Equipment Corp said it would make before it reveals more Alpha RISC licencees ( UX 386 ) , will take place on July 7th .
44 It is also , more generally , the essence of what the Barclay Report ( 1982 ) was seeking when it characterized social care planning as one of the core roles in which community social workers should be engaged .
45 The latest version of DataClub — version 3.0 — has just been announced by Novell , which acquired the technology when it bought International Business Software Inc a year ago .
46 Toyota plans to make them at Georgetown when it doubles annual car output from 200,000 to 400,000 in the next few years .
47 The board had hoped that , when it lost statutory monopoly power to buy all milk in its area some time next year , it would retain 100 per cent loyalty from its dairy farmers .
48 Olivetti will continue to supply Hitachi Ltd mainframes in Italy , though it expects top-of-the-range Alpha systems to take sales away from the Japanese kit .
49 The CEGB disclosed the escalation in nuclear costs as it announced that operating profits are £603 million lower than expected at £355 million .
50 The fact of its presence was all I was going to learn , however , as it had revolving combination locks which were easy enough to undo , but only if one had two hours to spend on each lock , which I had n't .
51 UK , Cambridge-based Tadpole Technology plc is touting its Sparcbook notebook as fetching 12.6 SPECmarks , 12.7 SPECint and 12.5 SPECfp , slightly faster than the IPC workstation from Sun Microsystems Inc , claiming it performs integer intensive applications equally as well as it does floating point applications : the Sparcbook is now on the GSA schedule being peddled to the US government by C3/Telos — Genstar Rentals in Palo Alto , California is renting it out .
52 Like calcium , vitamin D may protect against colorectal neoplasia as it reduces epithelial cell proliferation and induces differentiation .
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54 Sometimes it is called the laminar sub-layer , but that is less accurate as it contains large velocity fluctuations ; and are free to rise more rapidly from the wall than .
55 It 's a graph of average household size in North Yorkshire , and it 's to that extent it 's an attempt to summarize into one figure , the headship rate effect as it affects average household size .
56 Underlying inflation , which provides a better guide to cost pressures as it excludes volatile mortgage interest rates , was slightly stronger at 3.4 per cent , up from 3.2 per cent in January .
57 ( The timber roofing is not merely picturesque but intensely practical as it prevents heavy winter snowfalls from rendering passage over the bridge either impossible or very hazardous . )
58 If you want to use Ventura to enter text directly then you can as it has basic editing facilities and a spelling package .
59 Some commentators see The Stock Exchange 's rejection of the option to relaunch and reposition the second market as a mistake , as it deprives new growth companies of a low cost source of equity capital .
60 The particle of matter is instantly whipped towards the black hole by the huge gravitational tug ; the antiparticle is simultaneously repelled , and zips off to become a part of our Universe — although probably not for very long , because it will annihilate itself as soon as it encounters another matter particle .
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