Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This approximation is shown by the dashed horizontal line in Fig. 2 b , and it agrees with the numerical results significantly better than we would have expected . |
| 2 | The historical significance of this book is therefore multi-levelled : it is a reminder of the intellectual scope of one of America 's leading feminist art historians , it testifies to the changing interests of the discipline of the history of art and , perhaps most importantly , it charts the developing priorities and concerns of the American women 's movement . |
| 3 | I am inclined to say that ‘ Here ’ , in answer to ‘ Where are you ? ’ is true only in so far as it basks in the reflected glory of such genuine truths as , ‘ Here ’ , said as I point into the flower-vase , having been asked , ‘ Where is it ? ’ in the course of a game of hunt-the-thimble . |
| 4 | and then thump it with a huge mallet and it splits along the natural lines of the grain . |
| 5 | In this respect it differs from the four perspectives discussed earlier in the chapter , which converge in adopting a social model of health for a restructuring of priorities and goals . |
| 6 | No , no , it 's not only their own er we have got er entries from W I members of other villages , but mainly its from the members who live in the villages and of course that is the beauty of the book , where it differs from the normal travel book , it 's the story of villages by people who actually live in them . |
| 7 | It differs from the ordinary railway by using lightweight trains , calling at more convenient places and operating economically by the use of advanced technology now available for the custom-built rapid transit systems . |
| 8 | It differs from the other consumer goods in the private market in four ways . |
| 9 | He also said that he would not undertake to follow best practice while it differs from the operational guidelines . |
| 10 | This was a large rectangular building in the same tradition as the mortuary houses at Phourni , with a rabbit warren of small chambers inside and a colonnade along the east front ; it differs from the Phourni mortuary houses in having been built all at once . |
| 11 | Meanwhile the body of Boromir establishes a similar transverse thread as it drifts down the Great River , to be seen by Faramir , to have the workmanship on its belt noted and compared with the brooches of Sam and Frodo eight days later . |
| 12 | A short bout of exercise has a further role , namely of waking you up in the morning as it turns on the alerting mechanisms of the body . |
| 13 | It turns on the general relation between the justification for a binding directive and its status as a reason for action , and more generally on the relation between rules as reasons for action and their justification . |
| 14 | Nevertheless it is pernicious because it trades on the pernicious habit of labelling things or qualities ( hard/soft , consonant/vowel ) masculine or feminine ( a habit we must return to in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 15 | It trades in the primal delight which the hills bring ; in their clean innocence and the wonderment they inspire . |
| 16 | He goes to work , and when he arrives he gets it working ; when he leaves , at the end of the day , it sleeps until the next morning . |
| 17 | Peripheral awareness becomes progressively blurred as it recedes from the foveal zone and adjusts to an overall equilibrium . |
| 18 | Such ‘ normality ’ can surely apply not just to the sciences , but to any discipline ; it refers to the working acceptance of current assumptions and procedures . |
| 19 | A derivation of White Sunday , it refers to the white garments worn by the recently baptised Christians of the early Church . |
| 20 | In rug-making it refers to the contoured areas at the four right-angles of the field adjacent to the borders , usually only found in rugs employing a central medallion . |
| 21 | In the foregrounding model , stylistic value has a slightly different meaning from that which it has in the " stylistic variants " model : it refers to the special act of interpretation which we make in order to make sense of what would otherwise appear strange and unmotivated . |
| 22 | A Design Change can be aborted using option 2.7.0 , Abort DC , if , for example , it refers to the wrong module or it has been activated through the wrong package . |
| 23 | Secondly , in an exchange like the following ( from Lyons , 1977a : 668 ) : ( 94 ) A : I 've never seen him B : That 's a lie the pronoun that does not seem to be anaphoric ( unless it is held that it refers to the same entity that A 's utterance does , i.e. a proposition or a truth value ) ; nor does it quite seem to be discourse-deictic ( it refers not to the sentence but , perhaps , to the statement made by uttering that sentence ) . |
| 24 | In the early part of the April issue , it refers to the Veterinary College , but in the later part to the Royal Veterinary College . |
| 25 | Although he suggests he is not wholly against the permissive society , all that he can find to say in its favour is that it points to the continual necessity to make traditional values relevant to contemporary society , to the fact that the importance of the family , ‘ the very principles of order itself … are not … accepted by all ’ . |
| 26 | It burrows into the subcutaneous tissues and spends up to 60 days feeding on them . |
| 27 | What I 'm suggesting really , is let's get it on the agenda for budget review whenever the next meeting is , to be considered in depth , and if that gives an extra couple or three weeks for officers to write the report , fine , if it goes beyond the next policy and resources a week or two wo n't matter in the scheme of things , it 's detailed consideration I 'm looking for , rather than a fast fix in ten minutes at the next P and R. |
| 28 | So it goes beyond the original definition of the conscious that we talked about when we , when we did that . |
| 29 | This monorail goes around , it stops at the bo the bottom stage and it goes over the top stage . |
| 30 | Food in a fibre-rich diet stays in the stomach longer ; and it seems probable that the food is less efficiently digested as it goes through the digestive tract . |