Example sentences of "it [verb] and [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of words and symbols to influence other people in predictable ways requires that the child must be able to represent mentally the relationship between the symbol ( word or gesture ) , the meaning for which it stands and the intended effect on the other person . |
| 2 | The wall is not as steep as it looks and a pleasing sequence of stretches and foot-changes , made all the more enjoyable by more excellent protection , leads to a stopping place just short of the arête . |
| 3 | However , their analysis goes beyond encouraging us to ’ vote with our feet ’ , to a condemnation of consumerism itself : Both for the environmental destruction it causes and the damaging messages it sends women through ads that constantly tell us we 're ’ not being discreet enough ’ . |
| 4 | This is a genuine surgical emergency if it occurs and the unfortunate victim has to be whisked off to hospital . |
| 5 | ‘ Tencel 's main appeal for me is the strength of the fibre , the way it drapes , the way it handles and the finishing effects you can get . |
| 6 | It was a track which Emerson had never favoured , it rained and the best Emerson could do , after a couple of sorties , was third behind Beltoise and Ickx . |
| 7 | There was a rattle of bolts at the stout door : it opened and a military policeman stepped in |
| 8 | The warblers ' own young are turfed out of the deeply cupped reed nest by the cuckoo chick soon after it hatches and the foster parents find themselves feeding an enormous monster with a huge red gape and insatiable appetite — a monster which will eventually grow to three times their size . |
| 9 | When any of its provisions conflict with a provision of the ordinary law , it prevails and the ordinary law must give way . ’ |
| 10 | As it rises it cools and the invisible water vapour in the air is changed into visible water droplets , which make clouds . |
| 11 | It opens and a young man with a bald head looks up , too startled to speak , from a desk draped in yards of printout . |
| 12 | The glass rocked and wavered for an instant before it fell and a dark pool of wine spread over the tablecloth between them . |
| 13 | How this community developed along the intensely nationalistic lines it did and the subsequent crisis resulting from the clash of ‘ German ’ chemistry with the revolutionary ‘ French ’ chemistry , forms the main thrust of this excellent book . |
| 14 | Then it cleared and the old man 's face came into focus . |
| 15 | This argues that there was a drift away from the union after the strike , although it did not , apparently , happen immediately ( and there are some discrepancies between the figures it gives and the 1870s records ) . |
| 16 | Indeed it had and the Nonconformist minister stood at the very centre of the Nonconformist world we are discussing . |
| 17 | The Company will benefit because of the tax it saves and the resulting improvement in earnings in 1993–94 . |
| 18 | It was wonderful while it lasted and a better way to make money . |