Example sentences of "it [verb] [art] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The backing of the union is not only important because of the information and clerical services it provides to strikers applying for supplementary benefit , but also , perhaps , because it evokes a more sympathetic treatment from the supplementary benefit officers . |
| 2 | That has not prevented assertions that it plays a particularly significant role in trusts . |
| 3 | Certainly , it plays a more important role in higher mammals than in lower ones . |
| 4 | Not withstanding that , I think it plays an extremely valuable role in the education and the training of our activists . |
| 5 | If , you see if you put down literacy the the whole show 's in there , I mean if you 're going to put i , put isolated spelling it i it encourages a very limited view of what English is about and success in using language . |
| 6 | The Anatomy Act did not end the odious traffic in corpses , though it checked the more extravagant crimes of body-snatchers , such as the murders committed in Edinburgh in 1828 by Burke and Hare , and in London three years later by Bishop and Williams . |
| 7 | It had Courbet , Degas , Corot , Picasso , Braque , Matisse , Delacroix , and it got a very good review in the New York Times . |
| 8 | It revealed an unrepentantly superficial world where life revolved around the minutiae of outward appearances and public display . |
| 9 | On the same day , however , it passed a highly controversial law by which all residents of Lithuania would be given certificates of citizenship provided they signed a pledge to uphold Lithuania 's independence constitution . |
| 10 | It is true that it squirts a scaldingly hot mixture of hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinone at enemies . |
| 11 | Firstly , I hope to clarify what spiritual direction is — and what it is not — for it represents a tremendously rich tradition in the church 's history which , by its very nature , has been both a hidden and profound influence in the lives of many . |
| 12 | While we do not wish to go even this far , there is no doubt that it represents a powerfully persuasive tradition of social research . |
| 13 | This is not , I think , meant to be ironical , and it represents a quite logical development from the premiss that the whole production , definition , and reception of literature has now become intramural to the academy . |
| 14 | His anti-Semitism may be a separate issue ( though many of course will deny even that ) ; but his Fascism can not be , since it represents a disastrously false judgement made in the course of following through a conviction not self-evidently false — about there being a connection between the health of letters and the health of the commonweal . |
| 15 | The triangular shape gave the maximum protection of the greatest number of traders ; but whether it represents a fairly general type of early plan — say pre-Conquest — I do not know . |
| 16 | Thus it would seem that the ‘ dawn of civilisation ’ , so often quoted in a context suggesting that it represents a fairly finite occurrence taking a relatively short space of time , did , in all probability cover a very long time indeed , perhaps many thousands of years . |
| 17 | It 's lighter , lasts longer , is more convenient and hard-wearing ; and it represents a more efficient use of energy . |
| 18 | Morphologically it represents the most anterior region of the head and has secondarily acquired a basal hinged attachment . |
| 19 | Secondly , I urge him to make the best possible speed in this matter because for many of us it represents the most dreadful stain on our criminal justice system . |
| 20 | There are , of course , an increasing number of exceptions but concerns still exist about the time involvement of clinicians and whether it represents the most valuable use of their time . |
| 21 | Like the best fakers from the snake world , it displays a slackly open mouth with its tongue lolling out , and its eyes are half-closed . |
| 22 | ‘ It involves a very serious commitment by several of the design staff in a tutorial and critical appraised role throughout the College terms . |
| 23 | Compost-making on a farm scale is yet uncommon in Britain ( it has been practised for over 4,000 years in China ) as it involves a very careful balance and mixing of ingredients , control of ventilation and moisture , and the extra work of at least one turning . |
| 24 | But the peculiar nature of the relationship between women and men means that women 's struggle for liberation is particularly delicate and difficult because it involves the most intimate facets of life and affects social and personal relations within the family . |
| 25 | During the nineteenth century , as more people survived their last child leaving home , it became a particularly important form of support , with perhaps a quarter of working-class older people in some towns taking in boarders : a pattern which persisted until young people began to marry much earlier in the 1950s , setting up on their own instead — and leaving more of the old on their own . |
| 26 | The legendary Miller ski , made in the USA , was one of them and it became a rather hot seller in the upmarket ski boutiques of London . |
| 27 | So it became a really useful place of education . |
| 28 | As we might expect , partisanship was a major influence upon image ratings , and it became an increasingly powerful influence as the election approached . |
| 29 | It became an extremely successful series , done with Professor Chris Kiernan , with a special agenda for mentally-handicapped children but appearing like a rather glossy children 's comic . |
| 30 | The London Board , which inherited a particularly efficient contracting subsidiary from a company undertaking , expanded it further ( even being allowed for special contracts to compete in the area of other Boards ) and it became the most profitable part of their operation . |