Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is clearly rather tired of preaching the design gospel when it has been evident to him for many years the fundamental role it plays in good business practice . |
| 2 | It differs from ordinary hammer drills ( which operate on a ratchet/percussion mechanism ) because it is operated by an electro-pneumatic mechanism . |
| 3 | The predictions are supported by evidence that male dwarfism is an evolutionary strategy in solitary , sedentary animals , that it evolves in low population densities ( high search costs ) , and that it correlates with a female-biased adult sex ratio ( reduced male competition ) . |
| 4 | Cunningham said his members are adamant about having input into system software and ensuring that it integrates with other operating environments such as Windows NT , Taligent and OS/2 . |
| 5 | ‘ It goes beyond conventional drug design . |
| 6 | There is a possible solution to this problem , but it goes against standard phoneme theory . |
| 7 | A further merit of the presentation is the help it offers to those company functions whose responsibilities involve risks contingent upon the completion date of an R&D project . |
| 8 | A further merit of the presentation is the help it offers to those company functions whose responsibilities involve risks contingent upon the completion date of an R&D project . |
| 9 | Apparently it belongs to this boy Svend because it was he who suggested they go to Copenhagen instead of staying on in Roskilde when the pop festival ended . ’ |
| 10 | It fits into standard fireplace alcoves and runs on solid fuel . |
| 11 | Studies of ethnic retailing examine how it fits into overall shopping patterns and its potential for the maintenance of retail centres in inner urban areas . |
| 12 | It looks at joint compensation schemes cases in which civil liability principles do not apply . |
| 13 | Brian Richards , vice president of UK preclinical R & D at Searle , which recently spent £15 million designing and building a genetic engineering pilot plant in High Wycombe , near London , argues that ‘ good manufacturing practice ’ may suffice for biotechnology factories — as it has for other fermentation industries such as the antibiotic industry . |
| 14 | It lives in large family groups and is said to be as shy as it is fearsome-looking . |
| 15 | Taking a funeral policy can cost less than paying for a funeral plan by instalments but it depends on average life expectancy . |
| 16 | Moreover , it is anything but unplanned since it depends on considerable state involvement , promotion , and subsidy . |
| 17 | Since it results in long operation code fields , full bit significance is not used for operation code assignment , except at the microprogram level discussed in 3.6 . |
| 18 | Further experiments will be carried out to determine the underlying reasons for this kind of confusion and how far it occurs in everyday life situations . |
| 19 | In contrast , case study materials aim to capture a real lesson as it happens in normal classroom conditions ( although it is never entirely normal to have a camera pointing at you while you go about your daily business . ) |
| 20 | Erm now it says it says about Informed Consent forms . |
| 21 | Or it may need to employ staff , and a statement that it engages in discriminatory employment practices may potentially affect its ability to attract staff of the right calibre . |
| 22 | The remarkable novels of S. E. Hinton — for instance , The Outsiders and That Was Then , This Is Now — describe the operation of honour as it exists within American city gangs with a passionate conviction one looks for in vain in many similar contemporary adventure fictions . |
| 23 | It concentrates on identified market segments , irrespective of the geographic location . |
| 24 | It concentrates on improving soil pollination , pest control and propagation the natural way . |
| 25 | It deals with major negotiating items that have not been settled at the RSJC and in recent years has been the forum in which the unions present their annual pay claims . |
| 26 | A company will be adversely affected if it suffers from low employee morale , for example . |
| 27 | The balance-of-payments deficit is not as bad as it looks , partly because it stems from private sector choices rather than public sector profligacy , and is thus inherently less inflationary as individuals can not resort to the printing press to ease the burden of their debt ; and partly because much of it may be imaginary , since the figures omit the ‘ balancing item ’ of unrecorded net receipts from overseas assets . |
| 28 | It calls for more policy agreements between agencies and a clearer statement of them from senior managers . |
| 29 | It sounds like good fighting talk but , beyond the active birth arena , I wonder how accurate a picture it represents . |
| 30 | Divergent sexuality , it is clear even now , is only permissible as long as it allows itself to be stolen , as long as it conforms to existing industry patterns and dominant sexual stereotypes . |