Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb -s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these days of restrictions on capital investment it makes good sense to adapt to current and probable future needs when incurring capital expenditure . |
| 2 | Insofar as municipal systems set limits to the use of force and punish at least some of those guilty of crimes of violence it has some success as law and an undisputed claim to be regarded as law for as long as the officials of the system pursue these objectives by taking steps against non-compliance ( Hart , 1961 , pp. 79–88 and 213ff . ) . |
| 3 | The Act does not as a matter of law preclude a court from holding that an action for negligence lies in favour of a person who could formerly have brought an action based on loss of services but in view of the current law on economic loss it seems most unlikely that such a development will occur . |
| 4 | This gerbil is strictly nocturnal in contrast to some of the more common rodents , and as a result it suffers more predation by the owls than do the others . |
| 5 | As a result it enters 1993 with the twin objectives of expanding its home sales and divesting some of its landholdings . |
| 6 | When we consider the essential role of susceptibility it becomes plain that the people who caught a cold in the bus were ‘ ill ’ before they ever stepped onto it , for if they had been healthy they would never have picked up the bugs in the first place . |
| 7 | It is one of the most ancient of dye plants , its use being recorded 2,500 years ago , and it is such a strong dye that it will produce a deep pink-brown without a mordant — with alum and tin it supplies red and red-brown . |
| 8 | The other greenhouse gases are : Methane It contributes 18 per cent of the current greenhouse effect . |
| 9 | An amino acid is a chemical sub-unit of a protein , and ultimately everything that happens in a cell it produces some kind of protein , so you can see that erm the triplet or produces erm which is one of the , one of the er amino acids and so on and there are also punctuation marks U A A or U A G means stop , as does U G A , so when , when a R N A template running through a gets to a sequence which reads , where was it now , U A A it stops reading because it knows it 's got to the end of the gene . |
| 10 | Suppose that in the future it becomes possible to predict others ' behaviour more efficiently by observation and computation than by the always hazardous venture of trying to fathom the mysteries of the human heart . |
| 11 | Nobody seems to mind ; as an aberration it rates low , on a level with Christianity or driving carefully . |
| 12 | Yeah but if you put it in the dark it goes all starry . |
| 13 | In the New Testament it means total allegiance . |
| 14 | The constant impression given by the Prague School is that the sort of description and analysis they call for is essentially objective and scientific in character , but in practice it seems impossible to exclude a strong element of subjectivity from this kind of structural study . |
| 15 | In practice it seems inevitable that the CCITT will simply respond to the initiatives of the manufacturing giants . |
| 16 | In practice it overlooks two things . |
| 17 | To those with no operational experience such as MPs , Courts of Enquiry , magistrates etc. , it can appear a sensible and foolproof system , but in practice it has many deficiencies . |
| 18 | Mill 's ‘ harm-to-others ’ principle seems simple , but in practice it has many problems . |
| 19 | Over the piece it shows more beauty and riches than reality can master . |
| 20 | It 's said the engine is the same as any injected 1.6 but in this car it feels torquier , much smoother , more eager and quieter , though this could be as a result of top-down wind roar . |
| 21 | As a rule it contains varying proportions of base or less precious metals . |
| 22 | In effect it travels 230 miles ( 370 kms ) also the entire northern flank of the Swiss High Alps , crossing 16 passes and passing below some spectacular peaks including those celebrated giants of the Bernese Oberland — the Wellerhorn , Eiger , Monch and Jungfrau . |
| 23 | To the agriculturist it offers a basic form of protection against urban influences , and for the minerals industry it retains accessible , cheap , and exploitable natural resources . |
| 24 | Whatever the future of the ferry industry it seems clear that the Channel ports are bound to suffer sharp job losses in the short term . |
| 25 | There 's a definite fashion of yes , yes , the only thing is , is that people are not erm , er religious bound by the fashion , they do n't , sort of say like well I think we 'll have to change our porch light it looks old fashioned compared to the one next door , erm |
| 26 | In the short term it proposes increased monitoring to ensure that the highest standards of pesticide use are maintained . |
| 27 | For the short term it sees patchy signs of improvement and no speedy recovery . |
| 28 | But in the much longer term it seems doubtful that diversification should be exclusively towards nuclear power , which carries its own commercial , political and possibly safety risks . |
| 29 | The key to the seeding argument is Article 24 of Fifa 's World Cup rule book , which in effect allows it to use whatever criterion it thinks fit when allocating seeds . |
| 30 | If it gets into the predator 's nose it can injure the tissues there and if it enters the mouth it causes violent vomiting . |