Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It has something of the African tomtom and voodoo dance . ’
2 While this contributes to crime prevention , especially with respect to joy-riders who steal and drive cars at speed at might ( which requires neighbourhood men in West Belfast to work might duty ) , it has none of the wider community service functions evident in Easton .
3 Reg. v. Grant and Hewitt , 12 J.L.R. 585 , although it adds nothing to the established principles , is an example of inconsistent previous statements wrongly withheld by the Crown at the trial but properly , if belatedly , disclosed on appeal , so that a conviction depending on evidence of identification was quashed for want of a fair trial .
4 If reliability is defined in terms of the production of truth , it adds nothing to the first condition once we restrict our attention to the particular case .
5 If it is defined in terms of justification , it adds nothing to the third .
6 It says something for the civilising effect of our upbringing that we can both sit here calmly sharing a meal together when we freely admit to the same deep-seated and violent antipathy . ’
7 The original entries for 995 and 996 may have been lost , and it says nothing of the hostile relations which probably existed with Normandy for a time , and only hints at the troubles in the Irish Sea mentioned above .
8 It says nothing about the actual conditions of re-identification of any such topic .
9 Finally , one major gap in Oakeshott 's theory is that it says nothing about the fundamental issue of how societas may be reconstituted in the modern age .
10 A joint initiative between BMW and Bolney Motors , it recycles everything in the damaged cars that are sent there for ‘ treatment ’ .
11 Such rationalization is , however , of great interest to the historian because it reveals something of the social processes involved in gaining respect for scientific work both inside and outside a scientific community .
12 It takes one to the high , isolated polar desert at the height of the summer season .
13 Zephandra Butolphi has this idea that you have repeat everything until it becomes one with the cosmic miasmal consciousness , so pages one , two and three read :
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