Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 As a result it shows evidence of a score of repairs , some of them very extensive .
2 I do n't know what good it did David in the long run because what it did was cost a lot of money .
3 Each spring it signals life with glaucous green ,
4 For skills and thrills and nailbiting , edge-of-the-seat gladiatorial tension it knocks spots off its US counterpart .
5 Should the ego fail to satisfy the id it becomes prey to neurotic anxiety arising out of the strength of its instinctual drives ; if it fails the superego it is subject to moral anxiety ; and if it can not meet the demands of the outside world it is likely to experience realistic anxiety .
6 More significantly , in practice it encouraged speculation in the more traditional sense — on assets whose prices were expected to rise by considerably more than the overall price level ( and would indeed do so if enough speculators made similar judgements ) .
7 In practice it means government by the representatives of a majority of the people .
8 He was at least partly associated with the decision to introduce ‘ hard labour ’ into prisons , but far from providing regular , steady discipline and useful work it became drudgery of the hardest and most servile kind , a hated example of the additional pains of imprisonment .
9 erm I can not see , and this is where I part company with Peter Williamson to some extent , I can not see any reason why his data should be regarded as showing that when the sudden change did take place it took place for any reason other than natural selection within a single population .
10 It 's , you ca n't in general lay down generalized associative links and say every time somebody dreams about erm an examination it represents anxiety about their future career or something .
11 And they said you know , and then all of a sudden it had sort of gone up six percent .
12 I did n't mean that I meant when you look at a tree it 's sort of got
13 On the other hand if Herakleophorbia was eaten in excess it caused illnesses like tumours and cancer in humans .
14 Yeah but there is n't a flat top it divides sort of in the middle
15 There is n't a flat top it divides sort of
16 And it was pink paper and at the top it had space for your parent 's signature so that when you 've done the work your parents had
17 But if I 'm moving around slightly like this and you 're having to follow with your eyes as I 'm making my presentation it brings variety to it brings that bit of variety like you said earlier that it brings some interest to it .
18 After the service it took time for the galleries to empty .
19 If the Labour Party was to recover intellectually from the collapse of MacDonald 's " biological gradualism " and to build its local organisation it needed support from radical intellectuals and from the youth .
20 In the Highlands and Islands as a whole it received 24% of all HIDB assistance in 1971–79 .
21 After a while it became part of the nomes ' world , so that when it stopped the silence came as a shock .
22 In size and character it matches regions on the Continent qualifying for European Community special regional status , which smaller areas scarcely do .
23 A challenge was issued to the AKA membership in their February 1983 issue of AKA News It gave dimensions for an 80 x 96in ( 203 x 244cm ) Rokkaku and described how teams of two or more could fly against each other as in the traditional Japanese events .
24 In this respect it showed concern for the welfare of all men , and consequently it can be said that satyāgraha whenever it is implemented involves sarvodaya .
25 If you have greenhouse or coldframe , a wise insurance policy it to root cuttings of susceptible species in July and over-winter these under glass just in case the parents do n't make it through a bad winter .
26 When it was on the ground it looked kind of lost .
27 In terms of selection theory it makes sense for an incoming male to kill the young , for the females then come into oestrus quickly and he can get his genes into the assembly line at the earliest opportunity .
28 it effectively gives you the content of your drama work it brings the topic work to life it facilitates continuity within a drama project it makes it easier to do drama in other spaces than the school hall .
29 Nostalgia drew strength from , was nourished by Qaddafi 's ‘ abolition ’ of the state ; and in turn it nourished opposition to the leader 's state-like actions .
30 Knowing that the carp will not have as much energy as when I first hooked it , I pile on the pressure in no uncertain terms , and the fish swings round and immediately makes for the same lily bed it took refuge in previously .
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