Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | It involves constant disturbances of equilibrium ( disappearance of products in consumption and deterioration ) and a constant re-establishment of equilibrium ( the products reappear ) ; but this re-establishment is always on the old basis . |
| 32 | It averages 3,000 hours of sunshine each year ; in fact more than the Costa Brava , Mallorca and the French Riviera . |
| 33 | Sainsbury won much publicity when it appointed former Friends of the Earth director Jonathan Porritt to be its environmental policy adviser . |
| 34 | It rouses far-off memories of infancy , of being handled and given comfort . |
| 35 | Zenith also said it sold 500,000 shares of newly issued common to institutional investors for whom Crabbe Huson Co of Portland , Oregon serves as investment advisor . |
| 36 | However , it thinks some kind of contact will be forged over time and expects a port to the company 's DRS6000 Unix box to materialise in the not too distant future . |
| 37 | This project looks at the Youth Training Scheme and asks : is it helping young people of either sex to break into fields of training and work that are non-traditional for their sex ? |
| 38 | It offers selectable levels of RAID fault-tolerance — 0 , 1 , 3 or 5 — for users of IBM 's High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing mode . |
| 39 | It offers extensive coverage of the previous sitting-day 's events in the Commons , both in the Chamber and in committees ; it also reports the debates in the Lords . |
| 40 | Underwritten by the Economic Insurance Company , it offers two levels of cover — gold card or silver — and three hospital bands — ranging from most private hospitals in the UK , including London , at Band A , to NHS provincial teaching and general hospitals , and lower cost private hospitals , at Band C. |
| 41 | It offers little discussion of some topics and is not controversial ( contrary to the claim on the back of the book ) . |
| 42 | As a particular strength , it offers broader coverage of specialist vocabulary — from medicine to computers , journalism to aerospace — than any other advanced learner 's dictionary . |
| 43 | The insecticide is carried in a very penetrating light oil but it is nor fair to expect it to penetrate heavy deposits of dust , dirt and cobwebs before it reaches the timber . |
| 44 | Furthermore , it gave valuable information about the Permian sequence ; in particular it penetrated 370 ft of Upper Permian salt , and the 1800 ft of lavas and tuffs believed to be Lower Permian . |
| 45 | BELOW Before this building on the banks of the River Thames in London was constructed , the site was excavated ; it produced important evidence of a Roman quay ( see reconstruction on the previous page ) . |
| 46 | He then began adding back one food per day and when he included instant coffee it produced another bout of severe depression . |
| 47 | Germany , though it produced massive quantities of coal , steel and iron , was still a very backward place . |
| 48 | In the gut , the main symptom of candidiasis is said to be bloating and wind , because as the yeast ferments its food it produces prodigious quantities of carbon dioxide gas . |
| 49 | An amino acid is a chemical sub-unit of a protein , and ultimately everything that happens in a cell it produces some kind of protein , so you can see that erm the triplet or produces erm which is one of the , one of the er amino acids and so on and there are also punctuation marks U A A or U A G means stop , as does U G A , so when , when a R N A template running through a gets to a sequence which reads , where was it now , U A A it stops reading because it knows it 's got to the end of the gene . |
| 50 | It produces condensed volumes of modules which can be reproduced on paper , microfilm or microfiche . |
| 51 | Without hesitation I said ‘ it transcends artificial barriers of race , class , sexuality and gender . |
| 52 | At the meeting the SOC finally ceased its efforts to amend the UN draft plan so that it made explicit mention of " genocide " , in reference to the appalling human rights record of the Khmer Rouge government of the late 1970s . |
| 53 | It made pre-tax profits of 95.3 billion roubles in the year ending on January 1st 1993 ( $141m , at the average exchange rate for 1992 ) . |
| 54 | In 1992 it made pre-tax profits of £4.6m on sales of £80m . |
| 55 | Brewin was sold to management by Scandinavian Bank for about £6 million last year , when it made pre-tax profits of £1.4 million on turnover of £14.4 million . |
| 56 | It made brilliant use of a difficult site and united station and thoroughfare in a most satisfying way . |
| 57 | It made good use of two colours and presented a clear financial summary showing how each pound of income was used . |
| 58 | It made short work of our Windows performance tests , WinTach , clocking up an impressive index of over 9.3 . |
| 59 | We know if it made any note of where we 're meant to be going . |
| 60 | When the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics signed Protocols 2 and 3 to the Nuclear Free Zone Treaty , it made interpretive statements of its commitments . |