Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In civil operations this affects revenue earning potential and therefore profitability and in military environments it affects operational readiness . |
| 3 | Unlike most dinosaurs it had sharp teeth with which it ate smaller creatures . |
| 4 | Like many other coastal shipping companies it met hard times after the First World War , when motor lorries began taking the general cargoes that used to go by sea to all the little ports . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So many cities enrolled him as a freeman , usually by giving him a scroll of membership in a gold box , that Horace Walpole summed up his popularity in the phrase ‘ For some weeks it rained gold boxes ’ , and the more prosaic Duke of Newcastle recognized that no government could survive if Pitt opposed it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It offended the friends and allies of the USA , especially in western Europe ; and in the Cold War years it provided splendid propaganda for her enemies in the Communist World . |
| 10 | Simply ideal for families it has direct access on to the beach and offers a wide range of holiday activities for children . |
| 11 | Amid talk of rebuilding and reorganising resources it appears suitable material is in short supply . |
| 12 | ‘ For many farmers it spells financial disaster and few of the smaller ones have recovered . |
| 13 | From these figures it monitored key ratios which indicated the capital adequacy , liquidity and degree of risk for each firm . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | DEC said that for the first time in six quarters it generated positive cash flow from operations and investments , even with restructuring activities . |
| 16 | In many ways it has considerable weaknesses . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | Like most creative processes it requires certain skills and an overall understanding of simple design principles before even partially decent results are achieved . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The home authority , on the other hand , could find its funds being compulsorily diverted to services and cases it considered low priority . |
| 23 | The home authority , on the other hand , could find its funds being compulsorily diverted to services and cases it considered low priority . |
| 24 | If they are , in many cases it means certain death for them . |
| 25 | And at times it criticizes class-based politics , for its omission and marginalization of gender issues . |
| 26 | At times it brings woman-centred feminism into alliance with postfeminist discourses , in which gender politics are similarly softpedalled . |
| 27 | The central paradox of this kind of ‘ trading places ’ is that through the very symmetry of its inversions it postulates imaginary correspondences between black and white positions even as it seeks to naturalize difference and domination . |
| 28 | Men it examines feminist attempts to construct gender-fair methods , and the limitations of these attempts . |
| 29 | For women it has serious consequences because childcare costs are not taken into account . |
| 30 | When employed in the financial reports it provides external users with some measure of performance . |