Example sentences of "a [noun] it [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | With a play it brings the message home more and the message we want to get accross today is ’ Run , yell and tell ’ . |
2 | If it needed a car it borrowed the Army 's one . |
3 | For a bank(s) it reduces the element of interest rate risk associated with fixed rate loans . |
4 | When the solar wind encounters the magnetic field of a planet it has the effect of compressing the planetary field on the ‘ upwind ’ side , and of trailing it out into a long magnetotail on the ‘ downwind ’ side . |
5 | Even after the lamb has been weaned and has joined a flock it remembers the hand that fed it . |
6 | Once a bat has detected a moth it has the advantage , because bats can fly much faster than moths . |
7 | The necessity of a supply bag to the parachutist is that dangling twenty feet below him on a cord it hits the ground first , a useful precaution when landing in the dark . |
8 | For a start it reduces the volume of waste which goes into landfill sites and it also helps to make better use of the Earth 's natural resources . |
9 | Once again this is wrong , clearly so : ‘ It is a ‘ scam ’ on such a scale it takes the breath away . ’ |
10 | In a sense it continues the focus on the interior shown in our Ingres , ‘ La Comtesse d'Haussonville ’ in the exhibition devoted to that picture in 1985 ’ . |
11 | There is a mistaken impression amongst many anglers that when a fish bites on a link-leger it pulls the line through the swivel . |
12 | When an action potential reaches a synapse it releases the neurotransmitters which spread across the synapse to reach the next , or postsynaptic , nerve cell . |
13 | As a hormone it stimulates the absorption of calcium from the food we have eaten and the healthy development of teeth and bones . |
14 | When a form is used in a context it eliminates the meanings possible to that context other than those the form can signal : the context eliminates from consideration the meanings possible to the form other than those the context can support . |
15 | The project should get off the ground before the end of this year , when the final touches have been put to the package of financial backing that ACE needs to build and test two prototypes of a design it calls the ACE 3000 . |
16 | Every time a table it scratch the wall . |
17 | Indeed , for a time it enabled the service to become an all HST operation so that some places actually had a better service . |
18 | When the company knew it had won an Award it telexed the Saudis . |