Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Video Speed It takes time to create the picture you see on screen . |
| 2 | As a result it shows evidence of a score of repairs , some of them very extensive . |
| 3 | The existence at common law of the tort of enticement of a servant has already been noticed , but though to modern eyes it involved A persuading B to break his contract with C its historical origins lie more in status than in contract . |
| 4 | I do n't know what good it did David in the long run because what it did was cost a lot of money . |
| 5 | AS A writer , Robert Louis Stevenson may have borne the stamp of greatness but after the world-renowned Scot was sized up by the Royal Mail it seems Britain 's letters may never bear a stamp of RLS . |
| 6 | Each spring it signals life with glaucous green , |
| 7 | For skills and thrills and nailbiting , edge-of-the-seat gladiatorial tension it knocks spots off its US counterpart . |
| 8 | History just burps , and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago . ) |
| 9 | Heads it causes cancer , tails it does n't |
| 10 | Should the ego fail to satisfy the id it becomes prey to neurotic anxiety arising out of the strength of its instinctual drives ; if it fails the superego it is subject to moral anxiety ; and if it can not meet the demands of the outside world it is likely to experience realistic anxiety . |
| 11 | Evans ' caution , however , is understandable , and until the effectiveness or otherwise of more elaborate organizations could be tested in a variety of settings it made sense to list more modest requirements for supportive bases to innovative and resource-based work . |
| 12 | As far as property damage is concerned , the provisions are really aimed at the consumer market , so , if you buy a home computer as a Christmas present for your uncle and because of a fault it catches fire and causes £1,500 of damage to his house , then your uncle will have a claim under the 1987 Act against the manufacturer of the computer for the damage to the house and furniture . |
| 13 | It sold out quickly and after a repressing it reached number four in the independent chart published in Melody Maker . |
| 14 | In Hilton it represents stages in the journey to God when the soul is no longer engaged with worldly things and as it were asleep to sin ( 24.90r. – 235 ) but is not yet fully illuminated by the knowledge of Christ : The experience of the dark can be either painful or restful : painful in so far as the soul is still troubled by the pressures of the worldly attractions from which it is hiding ; or restful in so far as the soul is waiting untroubled in its longing for Christ . |
| 15 | In a pilot study it allows researchers to test out various lines of questioning , different ways of phrasing questions , gauge the tenor of likely replies , and so on . |
| 16 | But the radical difference between this and previous dieting methods is that it makes the food you consume more filling and also renders some of the calories it supplies non-fattening , as you will begin to learn in the next chapter . |
| 17 | More significantly , in practice it encouraged speculation in the more traditional sense — on assets whose prices were expected to rise by considerably more than the overall price level ( and would indeed do so if enough speculators made similar judgements ) . |
| 18 | In practice it means government by the representatives of a majority of the people . |
| 19 | In practice it makes mistakes all the time but Horizon showed its English as flawless . |
| 20 | Although NeXT Computer Inc has stumbled , Data General Corp , which last year signed to resell NeXT boxes , will maintain a relationship with Steve Jobs ' company — it says it was always more interested in the NeXTstep software anyway , and it will market the environment on the 80486 personal computers it buys OEM once it becomes available . |
| 21 | When first setting up a fence it takes time to adjust the three wires at the tackle end so that they are under equal tension ( the far end having already been secured to a strong chain link , which in turn is fastened to its anchorage ) . |
| 22 | It finished up with one erm very relevant , relevant to this class , quotation erm ca n't remember the last part of it though , he was talking about the Indian , that he had a , talking about it and saying voodism catholism and then the next stage erm which I ca n't remember the word but in effect it meant co-operation and you ca n't get that it seems to me unless you have a , a change of vision , change in erm not just in society but in people because this is where it starts . |
| 23 | In practice this agreement reflected yet again the pattern adopted by Shearman in Bedfordshire from 1930 onwards , and in effect it gave university resident tutors freedom to arrange both types of Chapter III courses . |
| 24 | Her owner , an anonymous Suffolk man , left the cash in his will to the National Society for Epilepsy on condition it gave Sooty a home . |
| 25 | In one case in the community homes it says staff absence , and I 'm not clear what there is for training purposes , but I would hope that we are checking , or was this simply before Christmas , or what ? |
| 26 | Does the Minister agree that to resolve the problem it is very important to engage those countries in the United Nations and that as Byelorussia and Ukraine are already members of the United Nations it becomes imperative — in view of his earlier answer about Russia remaining a nuclear power — for them to obtain membership of the United Nations and of the Security Council in their own right ? |
| 27 | In the short term it did sterling work in organizing petitions , counter-demonstrations and , most significantly , a mass lobby of Haringey Council in October , 1986 , when the Labour councillors reaffirmed their commitment to all aspects of their lesbian and gay rights policy . |
| 28 | This bull did irreparable harm to the Catholic cause in England ; coming too late to assist the Northern rising , which had already collapsed by the time it was issued , in the long term it equated Catholicism closely with treason and made the recusant community the object of deepening fear and suspicion . |
| 29 | From all concerned parties it invites commitment , which eliminates negativism . |
| 30 | Despite the pleasure it gave Minton to walk into a friend 's house and find his own wallpaper , purchased without his friend knowing he had designed it , he did not take his interest in this area much further . |