Example sentences of "[det] [vb -s] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Unfortunately IBM has not submitted it yet to the likes of X/Open Co Ltd , neither has it signed any deals with the likes of DEC to push MQSeries on its own machines : instead the firm is relying on the system 's own merits to attract software developers .
2 This requires it to have paid-up capital of at least £5 million and to meet other requirements about its asset structure and the range of banking services it offers .
3 If the car has a constant speed of fifty miles per hour this means it goes fifty miles in every hour .
4 A motor boat has a speed of four miles per hour this means it goes four miles in every hour
5 This means it needs effective screening and filtering which can be difficult , bulky and expensive .
6 If this makes it seem inevitable that Labour 's electoral support should slump , it has to be pointed out that , according to the opinion polls , Labour might well have won had an election been called in 1978 .
7 For some strange optical reason this makes it look bigger than it really is and it has been argued that this illusion would have the effect of making an attacking lion misjudge its leap , striking short of the true position of the prey .
8 The third stage is seeing our anxiety getting bigger and bigger and this makes it get worse .
9 I know it and that says it has all the right people in it has n't it , it 's got wobba .
10 Far less does it make any attempt to improve these procedures to meet their critics .
11 The Literary Critic does n't understand English ; still less does it have any feel for the aesthetics of the language .
12 Neither does it inform complex and stressful child care decisions .
13 We do not want to say that one kind of state causes the other kind , but neither does it make much sense to say that they are ‘ parallel ’ or ‘ identical ’ .
14 That makes it sound good . ’
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