Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [noun sg] " 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 | Each spring it signals life with glaucous green , |
| 4 | Heads it causes cancer , tails it does n't |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It sold out quickly and after a repressing it reached number four in the independent chart published in Melody Maker . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | In practice it means government by the representatives of a majority of the people . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | From all concerned parties it invites commitment , which eliminates negativism . |
| 19 | By displaying both critical path and slack it stops crash programs being set up for every activity . |
| 20 | By displaying both critical path and slack it stops crash programs being set up for every activity . |
| 21 | On the other side it says Start . |
| 22 | In United States law , for example , it is unclear whether a bank that relies solely on the CKR as its collateral can perfect a security interest in the goods , or whether having perfected its interest in the CKR it has priority over bona fide purchasers of the goods or over holders of purchase money security interests in the customer-buyer 's inventory . |
| 23 | ‘ Like cocaine it has anaesthetic qualities . |
| 24 | When your skin becomes damaged by sunburn it loses heat and moisture more easily and when it is extensive then sunstroke follows when someone is dehydrated and lacking salt . |
| 25 | Devolution of responsibility from central government to regional and district health authorities may be a good thing , but when this includes the collection and use of important NHS data it hampers monitoring of national programmes like that for modernising mental health care . |
| 26 | But in the split second it took Angel Two to cover the few feet between them , Grant reflexively pulled the trigger of the shotgun . |
| 27 | Until Christ 's return it remains enemy territory . |
| 28 | Last May it directed member states to do away with licensing rules like Britain 's , which create import monopolies . |
| 29 | Even with scholarships it takes money . |
| 30 | The lecture he gave and the responses it provoked form perhaps the most widely read debate in jurisprudence in Britain in the period since the Second World War . |