Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suffice it to say that in any extended study of the martial arts it warrants closer examination . |
| 2 | However , USL finds the royalties it pays third parties for using their technology , particularly those sent to Microsoft Corp for its Xenix functionality and Sun Microsystems Inc for its BSD functionality , on the increase and likely to rise further . |
| 3 | It is clear that ethanol has a duel action on the secretory function of the gastric parietal cell ; at low concentrations it stimulates gastric secretion and at high concentrations it has no effect or an inhibitory one . |
| 4 | Another accolade has fallen at the feet of Patricia Grant , already honoured with an OBE by the Queen for her efforts in building up Norfrost , the domestic freezer supplier which exports 75 per cent of the 5,000 units it produces each week . |
| 5 | In civil operations this affects revenue earning potential and therefore profitability and in military environments it affects operational readiness . |
| 6 | To help it in these roles it has two seats on Council which is the top executive body of the University . |
| 7 | Right , so you fix them just as quickly as you can fix them , but if that takes nine months it takes nine months , that 's one of the views you can take on it . |
| 8 | In common with these base emotions it receives general condemnation as an anti-social force which , by its very nature , is inherently immoral and despicable . |
| 9 | ‘ These days it takes two people 's wages to keep one household going , ’ observed Bernard . |
| 10 | By the time it is four days old , it is as heavy as one of its parents ; after three weeks it weighs four times as much as they do , and dwarfs them both . |
| 11 | AS Lyles customer base grows to include an ever increasing number of independent retailers it places increasing marketing emphasis on their point of sale material . |
| 12 | When a graphic is places it has eight handles positioned at the corners and centres of each side for re-sizing and general manipulation . |
| 13 | After two years it has strategic alliances with DEC , HP , IBM , NCR , SGI and Sun , 100 customers , 500 development seats , 10,000 run-times out and 10,000 deployed applications . |
| 14 | Simply ideal for families it has direct access on to the beach and offers a wide range of holiday activities for children . |
| 15 | Amid talk of rebuilding and reorganising resources it appears suitable material is in short supply . |
| 16 | ‘ For many farmers it spells financial disaster and few of the smaller ones have recovered . |
| 17 | PagePlus is cheap , and for single-page work like flyers , headed stationary and ads it represents good value — in my judgement , which is based on my experience as well as my prejudices . |
| 18 | In many ways it has considerable weaknesses . |
| 19 | Whatever it is called , in many ways it has more going for it than Greenness and can even incorporate it . |
| 20 | Much of America 's apparent lead in intelligence technology and the vast sums it spends each year on these organisations has been negated by the large number of spies and traitors continually found within them . |
| 21 | Although symptoms can be controlled in most patients it takes several weeks for maximal effect and prolonged relief requires higher radiation dose regimes . |
| 22 | ‘ The catering industry is unique in the challenges it offers young people and every effort must be made to ensure that it plays a central role in careers advice , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Like most creative processes it requires certain skills and an overall understanding of simple design principles before even partially decent results are achieved . |
| 24 | For higher speeds the load angle d increases until at the highest speeds it approaches 90 degrees . |
| 25 | Most colleges it seems contained people made unhappy by sexual harassment , who find little or no support from the people charged to provide that support . |
| 26 | So the idea is you have some kind of token so that er , classic example in sort of junior schools , primary schools , that y'know if a child actually does what you want it to do , it gets a kind of star in a star chart and added up so many stars it gets some kind of present and basically the same kind of thing can be applied in clinical and in occupational settings as well . |
| 27 | Compared with Burton 's or that of Sir John Gell [ q.v. ] for 1659 his diary is somewhat slight , but as the only internal account and commentary on the debates it has unique value . |
| 28 | For obvious reasons it has special appeal for those who , on either political or temperamental grounds , feel a need to justify such institutions as chattel slavery , colonial domination , or any other of the cruder forms of economic exploitation . |
| 29 | It specialises in motor insurance and has doubled the number of policies it sells each year as well as moving into household insurance . |
| 30 | If they are , in many cases it means certain death for them . |