Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [coord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It involves moral and practical problems which cross political and ethical boundaries . |
| 2 | Folk culture provides the clearest example of this process , since it involves informal but deliberate procedures for the oral transmission of an expanding folksong repertoire from one generation to the next . |
| 3 | The language had to be one accessible to more than the ruling elite , so it became one or other dialect of the vernacular . |
| 4 | The report concluded that the passing of information to paramilitaries did take place , but on a very limited scale , and it recommended procedural and technical improvements . |
| 5 | It thinks universal or random drug testing of employees is an unwarranted invasion of privacy . |
| 6 | And in the event of fire , it offers immediate and reliable information on the number and location of people to be evacuated . |
| 7 | It offers multilingual and interdisciplinary curriculum at University degree level . |
| 8 | Maintained by the North Wales Counties Joint Education Committee , consisting of Gwynedd , Clwyd and Powys , it offers initial and in-service courses for teachers including Dip.HE , BEd . |
| 9 | Overall , the review may be judged to have been effective in that it produced valid and reliable evidence of how things were in the Art department , on the basis of which prescriptions for institutional changes might be made , and it provided the necessary motivation for those changes of the most direct importance to the pupils to be acted upon . |
| 10 | It made moral and ritual demands upon the people . |
| 11 | Frequent whitewashing or repapering , like John Barton 's ‘ clean stencilled pattern ’ , is often alluded to , no doubt because it made damp and derelict rooms look fresh and dry but that is the way that they remain for the reader . |
| 12 | His will , made on 30 November 1679 and proved on 1 April 1680 , shows him in possession of lands in Essex and Ireland ; it made modest but adequate provision for his wife Martha , daughter of John Ireland of Hale in Lancashire , and for a son and three daughters . |
| 13 | It provided intellectual and spiritual leadership and some alleviation from hunger and starvation . |
| 14 | The court heard he ignored professional advice that the animal should have an operation , leaving it to suffer chronic and constant pain . |
| 15 | It exhibits oestrogenic and antioestrogenic properties , depending on the species and tissue . |
| 16 | It needs constant and creative re-appraisal to ensure its relevance . |
| 17 | It needs careful and knowledgeable underwriters to monitor and hopefully improve the capacity in future years . |
| 18 | Suitable for undergraduate or postgraduate use , it covers atomic and molecular structure , interaction of electromagnetic radiation with atoms , molecular spectra and collision theory . |
| 19 | It has lofty and spacious reception rooms and a ballroom and has been declared a national monument . |
| 20 | Like the milt it has wide and ancient associations . |
| 21 | It has passive and active input jacks , gain and master volume controls , an ‘ aural enhancer ’ , a tuner input , tone controls for bass , midrange and treble , an effects blend control , clip indicators for both the preamp and power amp and a balanced line output . |
| 22 | Keeping your fingers crossed and plunging on is one way of dealing with tricky situations which may gain a reputation for the school that it has firm and strong management but it can have costs in the loss of a number of unhappy families . |
| 23 | GKR 's business in London dominates its income , although it has Northern and Southern offices , in Leeds and Bath respectively . |
| 24 | Just over a metre wide and weighing a total of 100kg , it has military and civilian versions . |
| 25 | It has large and influential cereals and sugar barons in the north , but it has many small livestock farmers as well . |
| 26 | At all events , when the innovative literary theory derived from structuralism began to arrive about twenty years ago it found actual or potential fissures in the form of life and it sought to enlarge and penetrate them . |
| 27 | It contains three- and four-letter word picture cards , and children have to make up the words using eight cubes with letters on each side . |
| 28 | This is a reasonable sample , and since it contains large and small departments , Scottish and English universities , and departments active in several sub-fields , it is considered representative . |
| 29 | It emphasises lengthy and direct involvement with one 's subjects , sometimes over a period of years ; it places great stress on the recording of actual speech ; and it stresses the need to consider the apparently trivial , the story behind the story , the background that is normally omitted from conventional journalism . |
| 30 | Where it studies young and old subjects , it commonly implies their inferior status by investigating young subjects ' development towards adult thinking and feeling , and old subjects ' loss of these faculties . |