Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun] or [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | An improvement in environmental quality is also an economic improvement if it increases social satisfaction or welfare . |
2 | Its feeding technique is also similar : drifting downward through the water , it captures small fish or plankton with its tentacles . |
3 | These factors are worthy of emphasis because in practice they are still dealt with very badly in many organisations and yet it takes little trouble or expertise to make an enormous difference . |
4 | In a nationally televised address on Nov. 8 , the South Korean President , Roh Tae Woo , announced that South Korea " will not manufacture , possess , store deploy or use nuclear weapons " , neither would it develop nuclear reprocessing or enrichment facilities . |
5 | Using a condom can help prevent both men and women getting infected by their partners in penetrative sex , because it prevents vaginal fluids or semen from getting into the other person 's body . |
6 | As it went down it tripped two levers or weighbridges which by means of linkwork connections released a gate at the top of the wheel so as to let it move on by just one scoop . |
7 | Stereotyped deviant behaviour is inevitably a social phenomenon , and concerns us almost as much as it does social psychologists or psychiatrists . |
8 | As with most of these announcements , it held little interest or relevance for virtually everybody whom it did not concern . |