Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb -s] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 The nutty edge is carried through into the flavour , where it meets pleasant hints of green apples and greengages .
2 This religious dimension is conserved as a sub text in many political ideologies , where it furnishes particular articles of faith in the self-emancipation of ethnic minorities , or in their special role as makers of their own history .
3 Extensive shallow lakes or lagoons of salt or soda water , where it builds conical heaps of mud on which to lay its eggs .
4 Section 7(4) imposes a duty on the disposal authority to issue such a notice where it appears that continuation of activities to which the licence relates would cause pollution of water , a danger to public health or are seriously detrimental to amenities of the locality , and can not be avoided by modifying the conditions specified in the licence .
5 In recent years , however , the canine colon has become a standard model for colonic motility studies and , although it displays some kinds of contractile activity not seen in man , it has been useful for investigating neuropharmacological interactions .
6 The Lugg is in general a silty river , although it has natural riffles of gravel where the crowfoot also occurs .
7 If it possesses some sort of strength — physical , chemical or armoured — it can face up boldly to its enemies and defy them .
8 A junior conveyancer is equally obliged to his or her own client , and if it takes that member of the profession a little longer , or if they need to consult with senior colleagues before agreeing to a particular course of action , then so be it .
9 Co-operative R&D may also reduce the costs of doing research if it eliminates wasteful duplication of R&D projects , and , to the extent that co-operating firms apply their research in a wider range of output markets , cooperative R&D ventures may undertake more productive research .
10 And if it means fifty percent of whatever we get in capital receipts going to pay off our debts , it 's a worthwhile attitude , and I think we ought to take our debts responsible .
11 If music is like a language , if it communicates some kind of emotional or spiritual message , then noise is best defined as interference , something which blocks transmission , jams the code , prevents sense being made .
12 Thus where the discretionary fund management arm of a conglomerate receives confidential information from the corporate finance arm about Company X , the fund management arm may be prevented from using the information of disclosing it if it has actual knowledge of the breach of confidence or possibly where it ought to have known of the breach .
13 As the reader will appreciate , a country can fund a continuing current account deficit only if it has limitless reserves of gold and foreign exchange or unlimited foreign borrowing power .
14 If it has less incidence of such needs , does it not follow that it should score highly in the narrow spectrum of examination results for the most able pupils ?
15 But goodness can choose to change its nature if it has true freedom of will .
16 If it works appropriate use of technologies and procedures will lead to success for any health plan .
17 cos it has two bands of rib
18 Learning linguistic terminology is enabling , because it forms one part of children 's growing vocabulary and thinking .
19 Now we 're told to , you know , beware of having too much fats , too much milk , too much this , that and the other because it creates all sorts of what 's the truth ?
20 This model differs from the public law model because it presupposes separate spheres of operation for regulatory rules and " ordinary " law .
21 From Laruns you might also travel east , up the smaller valley of the river Valentin , which is enormously lush because it gets unusual amounts of rain .
22 Professional Footballers ' Association spokesman Brendan Batson said : ‘ Paul spoke to us following his injury , but because it involves two members of our association we have to adopt a neutral position .
23 This process is particularly interesting because it involves two types of irreversible physicochemical changes ( problems in a general subject area that has recently seen the award of the Nobel Prize for physics to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ) .
24 Forestry is to a certain extent in conflict with agriculture not only because it removes large areas of land from farming for 50 or more years , but also because in its modern forms of organisation it tends to employ fewer local people .
25 The intermediate form is called IF/ALT form , because it eliminates all uses of SEQ and PAR .
26 Zeolite-softened water may be quite alkaline because it contains substantial quantities of sodium carbonate and bicarbonate .
27 MANY people believe that the Royal Navy is referred to as the Senior Service because it has some sort of superiority to the Army , but the term was not even heard before the 17th Century .
28 But if X + Y is an organic unity then the fact that it has 100 degrees of value may be because it has 90 degrees of value as a whole while Y has none .
29 A local authority that spends less on special educational needs does so either because it has less incidence of such needs or because it is in dereliction of its duties to pupils with those needs .
30 Its distribution is certainly more restricted than the Moorhen 's , since it requires larger areas of water for breeding .
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