Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb -s] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TNF α additionally induces expression of the powerfully procoagulant tissue factor , released only at sites of endothelial damage where it activates the extrinsic limb of the coagulation cascade . |
| 2 | In Spain it weathers into the mushrooms , ships and other weird pinnacles of the Ciudad Encantada ( Enchanted City ) near where it shades the back streets of Cuenca ( plate 1.1 ) . |
| 3 | Butt up a whole panel against the skirting and mark off where it overlaps the last fixed panels . |
| 4 | We shall begin by discussing uses where it expresses the mere state of being aware of a fact , a sense which calls for the use of the to and never the bare infinitive . |
| 5 | Where it studies the specific characteristics of old and young subjects , it makes age the single focus of investigation , and frequently ignores gender differences . |
| 6 | A more speculative exploration area for stratabound mineralisation is the south-eastern margin of the back-arc Lower Palaeozoic Welsh Basin where it abuts the continental margin of the Midlands Microcraton . |
| 7 | Novell Inc has formed a new business unit at the old Digital Research base in Monterey , California to focus on helping customers use commodity hardware and Novell 's client operating systems to build low-cost turnkey systems for manufacturing and service industry applications such as manufacturing process control , industrial automation and support of point-of-sale terminals — where it claims the Digital Research FlexOS has become the standard . |
| 8 | Now Dr A. Noyan and colleagues from Hacettepe University in Ankara have discovered that the lymph nodes ( small swellings ) found at intervals along the lymph vessels act as tiny hearts , pumping lymph up from the extremities of the body towards the neck , where it enters the venous circulation ( Journal of Muscle Research and Ceil Motility , vol 4 , p 103 ) . |
| 9 | Once the correct order of probes has been established it is easy to fit the clones to this probe order , using an algorithm which essentially places each clone on that section of the probe order where it has the highest density of positives . |
| 10 | At just 24p , the chocolate treat is cheaper here than anywhere else in the world , except America where it costs the same . |
| 11 | This may be an entirely uncontentious outline of the process of delivering care to individuals , although it conceals the profound organisational and operational difficulties of devising appropriate mechanisms and relationships to ensure that it happens . |
| 12 | The Commission will have limited powers , although it lacks the full enforcement machinery , to apply Articles 85 and 86 to any merger which does constitute a concentration within the Merger Regulation , but does not meet the turnover thresholds . |
| 13 | Although it retains the overall configuration and shape of previous models , the BV will be a substantially different aircraft with a seven-foot increase in fuselage length over the Guylfstream IV , an entirely new wing of thirteen feet greater span with an airfoil section optimised for high-altitude , high-speed operation , an enlarged flight deck ( the airstair door has also been moved five feet aft for easier cabin access ) , and new braking , nose-wheel steering and electrical systems . |
| 14 | It has been shown that the Upper Freshwater Bed of the Cromer Forest Bed dates probably from an early interglacial , but there is no sign of a marine transgression in the bed although it covers the middle part of the interglacial , when such a transgression would be expected . |
| 15 | The Etude retrouvée that he also plays is one that the composer did not use in the final set ; although it has the same title and key as Pour les arpèges composés , it is otherwise quite different and a splendid piece which pianists will look forward to seeing in print . |
| 16 | Ian can blast this cruise missile on wheels to 100mph in less time than it takes the average family car to reach 30mph . |
| 17 | Sport has helped to give the English a coherent national culture no less than it has the Irish , the Welsh , or the Scots . |
| 18 | The Roman copies can not have been made from this , since it was not then available ; so it gives the only incontrovertible evidence for an exact replica being made in classical times . |
| 19 | Ministers have already decided that they will have to give cable operators a free choice on the technology they use , provided it meets the basic requirements already laid down by the DoI and endorsed last month by the Eden Committee . |
| 20 | Our concern is rather to break away from the stale confrontation of reason and spontaneity which has persisted since the Romantic Movement , to invite the man of reason to admit that he never has had any ends which did not spring from his own spontaneity , and the intuitive and impulsive that no insight that flashes from theirs can be acknowledged as objective truth until it survives the ruthless justice of reason . |
| 21 | Push the pipe into the fitting until it meets the internal stop . |
| 22 | When the river is nearing low ebb , vast stretches of sand are laid bare , but channels of grey brown water of varying widths and depths continue to rush out between the sand formations until it meets the next tide coming in , twelve hours later . |
| 23 | This little bubble of unreality has since expanded until it enfolds the entire Paisley Park complex in Minneapolis , with all the technology and all his minions at Prince 's beck and call . |
| 24 | Make a cast of this with a suitable filler , remove it from the mould when set , and clean it with a file and glasspaper until it matches the original moulding . |
| 25 | The process can be modelled by taking a balloon filled with water and pushing a finger in at one point until it touches the other side . |
| 26 | The caddis chooses its stones carefully , rejecting those that are too large or too small for the current gap in the wall , even rotating each stone until it achieves the snuggest fit . |
| 27 | You let the temperature come up until it reaches the boiling point |
| 28 | The returning sonar thus passes virtually unimpeded through the ‘ auditory window ’ , the delicate layer of tissue covering a thin lower mandible , travelling thence along the jaw until it reaches the auditory bulla , an auditory sense receptor lying close to the point of articulation of the lower jaw with the remainder of the skull . |
| 29 | A line is fed through a peripheral vein until it reaches the right atrium of the heart . |
| 30 | Therefore V c falls until it reaches the lower logic 0 threshold ( V- ) , upon which the output once more goes high and the cycle repeats . |