Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Offices It works in this fashion : If you were working in a suite of offices , you might , if you were so inclined , have one office dedicated to word processing , one for drawing , another for accounting and so on . |
| 2 | The processor can interpret several elements of the picture at once ; in other words it acts in parallel fashion . |
| 3 | In its natural habitat it grows in clear , still waters , sometimes in depths where there is strong sunlight penetration and sometimes in dappled shade . |
| 4 | It has sought little from the companies it nationalised in 1982 . |
| 5 | He was making a careful examination of the bowls and plates it contained in dusty confusion . |
| 6 | These examples suggest that while antislavery could not become an explicit test of membership of chapel communities it did in many cases become a norm of memberships and of a minister 's identity . |
| 7 | Ken , in the event neither fulminated nor frothed , and managed to restrict himself to a 15-minute speech in which he advanced some very cogent and well measured arguments for preventing bolting gaining the same sort of prominence it has in other countries — notably France and America . |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the current level of unemployment in the city of Leicester ; and by what numbers and what percentage it changed in 1990 . |
| 9 | Silphium laciniatum , from the prairies of the central and southeastern states of America , is another six-footer , sometimes more , whose large , deeply divided foliage is far more ornamental than the yellow daisies it produces in late summer . |
| 10 | x Unix operating systems and on to Solaris 2. x and naturally does n't want to share all the goodies it has in 2. x with 1 . |
| 11 | However , the company ran at a net loss of $28.7m as opposed to the $2.7m in profit it got in 1990 or the $4.2m it tallied in 1989 . |
| 12 | Another important field that will not receive the attention it deserves in this book is the whole area of music . |
| 13 | Reporting for the first time on its environmental emissions , the UK subsidiary of Swiss chemicals and drugs giant Ciba-Geigy says it increased the amount of waste it incinerated in 1991 while reducing the amount sent for landfill . |
| 14 | Polgar resolved to do the same , although for years it resulted in severe poverty . |
| 15 | Actually what is now taken to be the normal and basic meaning of the English word " family " is far removed from the meaning it carried in earlier times when the economic basis of English society was different . |
| 16 | Prima facie the rules of construction must be applied as at the date of execution of the lease : thus a word will be interpreted in the sense it bore at the time ( Texaco Antilles Ltd v Kernochan [ 1973 ] AC 609 : the phrase " public garage " was given the meaning it bore in 1933 and not the one it bore at the date of the litigation ; St Marylebone Property Co Ltd v Tesco Stores Ltd [ 1988 ] 27 EG 72 construing the word " grocer " ) . |
| 17 | It bears the meaning it has in ordinary language : Lawrence & Pomroy ( 1971 ) 57 Cr App R 64 . |
| 18 | Accordingly , the Agricultural Training Board , like similar organisations , needed to consider the priorities it gave in these areas . |
| 19 | Thus the death of Catherine I of Russia in 1727 and the changes it produced in Russian policy in the Baltic brought about a reconciliation with Britain after a long period of antagonism ; the death in 1762 of the Empress Elizabeth meant Russia 's immediate withdrawal from the Seven Years War ; and the accession to the throne of Frederick II was an essential preliminary to the Prussian attack on Silesia in 1740 . |
| 20 | It is doubtful , indeed , whether the difficulties it faced in 1861 and 1862 were as great as they look , and it is highly unlikely that the tsar decided in 1861 to substitute conservatives for reformers at the heart of the imperial administration . |
| 21 | From an aerial view one can still trace the travellers ' ways it had in 1245 when a market grant was made . |
| 22 | The independent status ascribed to this concept by elite theorists , as opposed to the reflective and subordinate quality it has in late Marx and early Marxism , is an important characteristic of elite theory . |
| 23 | He began to notice how people deferred to it , seeking to mollify its tyranny : this business , for instance , of praising the compassion it displayed in healing old wounds . |
| 24 | As a result of the current devolution in favour of the regions , the Arts Council will be directly funding only about half the 170 arts bodies it funded in 1991 . |
| 25 | He is clearly rather tired of preaching the design gospel when it has been evident to him for many years the fundamental role it plays in good business practice . |
| 26 | Analysis of the atk protein product will shed light on the role it plays in B-cell pathways , particularly in view of the fact that src -related protein-tyrosine kinases such as blk , fyn , lyn and lck , and others have already been implicated in B-cell activation . |
| 27 | The role it plays in normal memory may therefore have been underestimated . |
| 28 | At Clogau St. David 's mine it occurs in small , rich , steeply-dipping shoots associated with pyrite and pyrrhotite together with galena and bismuth tellurides . |
| 29 | In a lengthy study of Britain it addressed in particular what it described as the " rather fashionable " debate on the imminence of change and decline in the Anglo-American relationship . |
| 30 | It need not , however , have had the significance it acquired in tenth-century documents when it did come to express claims to a kingship of all Anglo-Saxons . |