Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If the government continues to ignore us and deny our presence in this country , ’ he asked , ‘ what right has it to demand 100% loyalty from us for action ? ’ |
| 2 | But the commission wants it to include recipes for worker participation , an idea tried in the rejected Vredeling proposal of the early 1980s . |
| 3 | Its constitution allows it to publish contracts and practice notes only where these have been approved unanimously by the constituent bodies . |
| 4 | This allows it to gather moisture should it become lost ; its mouth remains wet and the string is wet too . |
| 5 | The company reckons that its superstore approach allows it to offer product at a much lower price than in a conventional computer dealership . |
| 6 | The traditionalism of egalitarian feminist psychology gains it a hearing in the conventional discipline , and allows it to make changes within the established framework . |
| 7 | In concert with other senses , the bat 's nose-leaf allows it to find prey and helps it to discriminate between , say , a cold hoof and the warmer blood-filled tissue further up the leg . |
| 8 | A speaker for whom " you know what I mean ? " is only an agreement-seeker may not understand a speaker who uses it to mark agreement . |
| 9 | So there are about 120000 tonnes of shell , and the frugal California Almond Growers Exchange uses it to generate electricity . |
| 10 | Apparently Charles only uses it to entertain VIPs . |
| 11 | British Gas uses it to trace leaks . |
| 12 | To the extent the seller uses it to manufacture stock for the buyer ahead of any orders he does so at his own risk . |
| 13 | The idea is that the mind , stimulated by key words or phrases in the text , or by the context , activates a knowledge schema , and uses it to make sense of the discourse . |
| 14 | colour is all-important to her and she uses it to convey feeling and sensation . |
| 15 | Nevertheless s32(1) requires the court to draw up a timetable for disposing of the case without delay and s1(2) requires it to have regard to the general principle that any delay is likely to prejudice the child . |
| 16 | The beetle 's antenna also helps it to locate prey by sensing the tell-tale vibrations of any small insect which falls onto the surface . |
| 17 | No provision of the Convention of 1958 obliges it to have recourse to particular conditions in order to ensure that there is a ‘ genuine link ’ between it and the ships to which it intends to grant flag rights . |
| 18 | Snow does have a certain corpuscular arrangement , which fits it to produce ideas of coldness and of whiteness in us ; but just as there is nothing in fire resembling our idea of pain , so there need be nothing in snow resembling the whiteness and coldness it appears to have . |
| 19 | The infant retrieves , or witnesses the retrieval of an object from behind A ( say ) three times , after which he watches as the experimenter moves it to place B. On seeing it vanish at B he will go straight back to A. Although the back-to-A error is more likely to be made the longer the delay between hiding at B and allowing search , this is not a memory problem in any simple sense because the infant will return to A even if the object remains visible at B. We find a particularly clear demonstration of this kind of ‘ perseveration ’ in an experiment by Paul Harris in which there were two transparent , lockable boxes as the A and the B location . |
| 20 | New York-based Computer Outsourcing Services Inc signed a definitive agreement to acquire that privately-owned provider of payroll processing and services , which the acquirer declines to name , for 150,000 new shares : Computer Outsourcing expects it to do $3m in gross revenues in the first year . |
| 21 | The impact of this resolutely conservative and often authoritarian political ideology can be felt right across the field of social and economic policy where an idealized and homogenized vision of ‘ The Black Community ’ is the object of a discourse that urges it to take care of its own problems and assume the major burden of managing its own public affairs . |
| 22 | These attract a small moth with a specially curved proboscis that enables it to gather pollen from the yucca stamens . |
| 23 | Blood loss started about the eighth day of infection when the immature adult has developed the toothed buccal capsule which enables it to grasp plugs of mucosa containing arterioles . |
| 24 | This enables it to send video , audio and data from any point in the UK , via satellite , to closed groups of users . |
| 25 | ICI 's strength in the polypropylene market lies not only in its manufacturing technology which enables it to produce materials specially adapted to customer 's needs but also in the integrated structure of Chemicals & Polymers Limited . |
| 26 | Its highly flexible neck enables it to keep watch over a wide area while it is both searching for and chasing prey . |
| 27 | The deal enables it to offer creditors a 25% cash dividend to keep the company in business . |
| 28 | Late last week , Hewlett-Packard Co released HP OpenWarehouse , claiming it to be the first fully scalable open system for data warehousing and contrasting it with mainframe-based and proprietary data-warehousing offerings , and saying that the open systems approach enables it to offer data warehousing at a small fraction of the cost of proprietary systems . |
| 29 | Hewlett-Packard Co has released HP OpenWarehouse , claiming it to be the first fully scalable open system for data warehousing and contrasting it with mainframe-based and proprietary data-warehousing offerings , and saying that the open systems approach enables it to offer data warehousing at a small fraction of the cost of proprietary systems . |
| 30 | Market intervention by the Bank of England enables it to influence market rates of interest and thereby all other sterling interest rates across the complete maturity spectrum . |