Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | You can shape it using traditional hand tools such as rasps and spokeshaves . |
2 | It owned two bus stations in Southampton . |
3 | It crosses two mountain ranges , 561 rivers , 124 km of permafrost and more than 1000 km of West Siberian bog and marsh on its journey through five time zones to Western Europe . |
4 | This treaty empowered France to exercise certain sovereign powers on behalf of Morocco , provided it respected all treaty obligations to which Morocco had been subject before the formation of the Protectorate . |
5 | Page 27 Buoyant Borland : Borland International said it expected second quarter results to beat analysts ' expectations after buoyant sales of Paradox , the US software company 's database product . |
6 | Answer guide : Managers would be using it to plan future activity levels , order stocks , employ labour etc. whereas bankers are more interested in an overview of where the business is likely to go and perhaps also as a monitoring tool , although it is doubtful that such a level of sophistication is applied to the majority of enterprises . |
7 | The lysosome is called a ‘ suicide bag ’ said Prof Mayer , not only because it digests any waste materials by the use of powerful enzymes but also because this cocktail can kill off the cell . |
8 | The Wallis window in the south aisle also reflects early church history : it represents 7th century missionaries converging in East Yorkshire . |
9 | The CEGB disclosed the escalation in nuclear costs as it announced that operating profits are £603 million lower than expected at £355 million . |
10 | The social welfare and material benefits which the imperialist state could grant to workers in Britain and Germany at the turn of the twentieth century allowed capitalism to survive because it divided Third World workers from their similarly exploited , if differently rewarded , working-class brethren in the industrialised centre of the world economy . |
11 | It recommended that school leavers aged 14 to 16 should attend ‘ continuation ’ schools for the equivalent of a day a week ( this was never implemented ) . |
12 | Non-Abta and non-Iata , it refuses to sell the traditional sun-and-sand Mediterranean package : instead it offers cheap air fares to ‘ responsive travellers ’ . |
13 | A unique feature of the Video Guide is that it offers alternative lesson plans . |
14 | ‘ It offers clear business benefits . ’ |
15 | It offers special education facilities for children who are maladjusted , usually those referred by the child guidance clinics . |
16 | It produced distinctive pottery vessels in human or animal form , which are now found in large numbers in collections throughout the world . |
17 | So also can treating the water in ion-exchange systems but sometimes it produces other side effects . ) |
18 | A hacksaw may be the only possible tool to cut existing pipe which is installed against a wall ; however , the disadvantages of a hacksaw are that it produces fine copper filings ( and care must be taken not to get these into the pipes ) and that it will tend to flatten the pipe slightly — particularly if this is held in a vice . |
19 | Not only is it allowing certain health authorities to waste millions of pounds on computer systems that do n't work , it also allowed the London Ambulance Service to put lives at risk with a system that had not been fully proven in practice . |
20 | The rest came from increasing the electricity supply only until it met specific development needs . |
21 | At the summit meeting last month between Bill Clinton and Japan 's prime minister , Kiichi Miyazawa , America insisted that Japan should come up with specific measures that would enable it to meet new import targets . |
22 | It incorporates all cargo activities in relation to airlines , handling agents , customs brokers , freight forwarding agents and express transport operators . |
23 | It incorporates National Certificate Modules in aeration and flour technology , as well as advanced cake decoration . |
24 | It created segregated education systems with eleven departments of education divided on regional lines in addition to departments for whites , Coloureds and Rehoboth ( German speakers ) . |
25 | When , in 1987 , the EPA did a laborious review of the relative seriousness of America 's environmental problems , it ranked old hazardous-waste sites below 30 others . |
26 | As before , it is the Standard that we turn to and , as a measure of its interest , it devoted 10 column inches to the event in the issue before the opening , and a further 24 inches in the week afterwards ! |
27 | First , it used national income figures to show the size of the problem ; secondly , its economic analysis was a genuinely dynamic one , showing clearly how the inflationary spiral was operating . |
28 | It bore branch-coloured collar patches of rank ; these were replaced for all officers by subdued khaki patches by an order of April 1941 , to be implemented from October 1941 , but the outbreak of war disrupted this programme , and many photographs show uniforms still bearing coloured patches long after that date . |
29 | It has six granite columns with Corinthian capitals that are twelve point five metres in height . |
30 | It has extensive manufacturing facilities in the US , Singapore , Malaysia and Scotland . |