Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boundary-maintaining function , as stated by Erikson , says that crime and the response it evokes provide the essential function of defining and maintaining the moral boundaries of society . |
| 2 | It involves sucking the contaminated oil into a cleaning system housed in a mobile trailer , cleaning it and returning it to the transformer . |
| 3 | It involves recognising the crucial element which is similar in each context , and is the basis of acquired cue value ( Rivers 1964 ) . |
| 4 | The tough love hurts the family member not simply because it involves allowing the primary sufferer to experience the full painful consequences of addictive disease but also because it involves the family member in resisting his or her own addictive urges to " fix " all the problems and manage the life of the primary sufferer . |
| 5 | Most guitarists have heard of the ‘ waxing ’ method of eliminating feedback , but unfortunately this is a difficult process to carry out at home as it involves dipping the whole pickup assembly into hot paraffin wax , which has to be carried out at a controlled temperature : too hot and the bobbins melt , too cold and the wax does n't penetrate the coil windings . |
| 6 | It involves lowering the existing lake in Albert Park , constructing a new one in the south eastern corner of the park where the children 's playground is at present , and diverting Marton West Beck into the new lake as a buried overflow pipe . |
| 7 | Essentially it involves reducing the individual words to their root index . |
| 8 | It involves selecting the best channels by which to ensure the movement of goods and services from their original suppliers to their eventual consumers . |
| 9 | This policy was formulated in 1976 , and the range of locational , growth and service features that it incorporates illustrates the increased sophistication that now characterizes selected settlement policies ( Lockhart 1982 ) . |
| 10 | Secondly , influenced by the new metaphors of natural science , psychology has distorted the nature of psychological life by subjectivising and literalising experience and it needs to recover the metaphorical character of psychological life . |
| 11 | If ADAS wishes to continue to provide the service that it has done for many years to our industry , and as an ADAS spokesman said ‘ not to price itself out of the market ’ , then it needs to join the real world . |
| 12 | Before management can proceed it needs to understand the key elements in the information process . |
| 13 | It needs to have the necessary quality of confidence about it. ) 4 Whether the relevant information can be easily isolated from other information which the employee is free to use or disclose This to some extent relies on the intelligence and honesty of the employee . |
| 14 | It needs to rediscover the latent power of the media in preaching the Good News of justice , freedom and peace . |
| 15 | It defaults to give the shortest route , although this may well be the most expensive . |
| 16 | The satellite television company yesterday announced it has secured the exclusive rights to live coverage of England 's three Tests and six one-day internationals this winter . |
| 17 | It has to resemble the real thing as done in the fields . |
| 18 | The company is almost entirely dependent on Royal Navy orders , although it has built the odd merchant ship of a more complex kind . |
| 19 | It has championed the best artists from the Soviet Union ; it has supported feminist art , some of it theoretically difficult and perhaps recalcitrant to a wide audience ; it has staged recuperative exhibitions such as the Independent Group . |
| 20 | WWF-Malaysia is opposed to the tropical timber boycott advocated by most environmental groups , and it has echoed the Malaysian government 's complaints that European environmental groups are using misinformation in their campaigns [ see EDs 57 , 58 ] . |
| 21 | It seems to me there is no foundation for it whatever ; all that a court of justice can look to is the parliamentary roll ; they see that an Act has passed both Houses of Parliament , and that it has received the royal assent , and no court of justice can inquire into the manner in which it was introduced into Parliament , what was done previously to its being introduced , or what passed in Parliament during the various stages of its progress through both Houses of Parliament . |
| 22 | In the first place , it has confirmed the Soviet charge that the liberals were both unable and unwilling to appeal for mass protest to break the government 's resolution . |
| 23 | That part of the collection 's rotation has worked surprisingly well but it has necessitated the temporary removal to storage , or to its branch in Liverpool , of masterpieces which visitors expect to find on permanent view . |
| 24 | Either way , it has cut the vast queues . |
| 25 | Woodbury , New York-based Cablevision Systems Corp says it has completed the first stage of its electronic superhighway to homes , businesses and institutions in the New York metropolitan area : the $300m project , scheduled for completion in 1995 , involves installation of over 3,000 miles of fibre network . |
| 26 | It then works its way back through all the calls until it has completed the final multiplication , when it returns the answer . |
| 27 | Separately , Praxis revealed that it has completed the initial version of an Architecture Neutral Distribution Format ( ANDF ) installer for IBM Corp 's RS/6000 platform . |
| 28 | Since the Baath Party came to power in 1968 , it has filled the burgeoning city of Baghdad with new roads , monuments , redevelopment zones and 45 new shopping centres . |
| 29 | The only sense in which the legislature can be properly said to have authorised these things to be done is that it has enabled the Poor Law Board to order , and the managers to do them , if , and when , and where , they can obtain by free bargain and contract the means of doing so . |
| 30 | SunSoft Inc also says that it has reached the second milestone in its Project DOE Distributed Objects Everywhere programme and completed a distributed object system consisting of the DOMF Distributed Object Management Facility , SunSoft 's implementation of the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture specification , and a set of system objects . |