Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the arrival of scientific methods in the twentieth century , we have been able to determine the essential nature of a healthy diet , and with it make dietary changes based on knowledge . |
| 2 | It encourages woman-centred psychologists to ignore the wider discursive structuring of methodology , and to assume that revaluing a traditionally female-identified method positively guarantees its feminism . |
| 3 | It involves drastic measures to cut the use of energy and materials : 750,000 Chinese bicycles are on order , factories have been shut down . |
| 4 | Applied to ecology , hierarchy theory throws new light on old knowledge , it offers new models to test , and it tells ecologists where to look for phenomena that might not be apparent to human senses . |
| 5 | Its deliberations had been hurried , its request for evidence stressed the need for a brevity viewed by many as excessive and it lacked sufficient resources to produce a credible alternative to any Government proposals . |
| 6 | But Night Trap could not be exempted because it depicted violent actions involving realistic images of human beings rather than straightforward computer graphics . |
| 7 | It made public declarations supporting the work done by purity groups , insisting that child prostitution was one of the burning issues of the day . |
| 8 | In this and other cited areas ( such as the development of high-rise flats and the commercial redevelopment of numerous town centres since the 1950s ) , central government did more than simply exhort — it provided financial incentives to help secure compliance . |
| 9 | In respect of the Genocide Act , the judge said , it created criminal offences described in the Genocide Convention that were not previously criminal . |
| 10 | It exhibits other features found in the Avenue mosaic ( e.g. the fan-flower of sixteen petals with a guilloche knot at its centre , and the lotus buds which occupy the angles of the pavements ) , and which are here associated with pelta-urns with volutes of two or three bands , ( i.e. motif stylistically closer to those at Chedworth ) . |
| 11 | Severe actions may be sanctioned against Ireland because it is naturally cursed , or because it needs extreme measures to bring it the fruits of reformation ( desired by God ) , or because it holds some particular horror for England which the English will deserve unless they do something about it . |
| 12 | Harney 's death was a political assassination , it triggered nationwide riots followed by the biggest murder investigation South Africa has seen . |
| 13 | Thus C is diagonal ; we assume it to be in standard canonical form , i.e. it has equal eigenvalues grouped together : this only requires the columns of X to be written in appropriate order . |
| 14 | Hence each enforcement authority ( i.e. local trading standards department ) now has power to serve a ‘ suspension notice ’ upon a trader where it has reasonable grounds to think legal safety requirements have been infringed , section 14 . |
| 15 | Staff at the Commission have claimed that it has insufficient funds to do this . |
| 16 | When a graphic is places it has eight handles positioned at the corners and centres of each side for re-sizing and general manipulation . |
| 17 | Seymour Cray has been left holding the baby at his struggling Colorado Springs-based Cray Computer Corp : Neil Davenport has resigned as president and chief executive , saying that Cray Computer had reached the point where it has appropriate resources to complete the Cray-3 so he is free to seek other opportunities — but the company is still seeking its first firm customer for the supercomputer . |
| 18 | According to Electronic News it has no OEM customers as yet , but it has two deals cooking . |
| 19 | The government of the day will often let it be known to one of its aspiring party members that it would greatly welcome his ballot victory to promote a particular piece of legislation which it , the Government , does not wish to devote its own time to , either because of its controversial nature or simply because it has better things to do . |
| 20 | Time itself is finite — a government will not devote it to passing less desirable and more controversial laws when it has better things to do with its time . |
| 21 | Surely it has better things to do than worry about such matters , and Professional Conduct Committees and indeed , the Joint Monitoring Unit , should be concentrating on cases of misbehaviour or improper conduct by its members . |
| 22 | A world transfixed by the horror in the Balkans is entitled to feel it has better things to worry about than what is not happening in the Middle East . |
| 23 | Constructed in wood and glass on three floors , it has five galleries totalling 372 metres in size , and a library . |
| 24 | The large , cheerful village of As Cain is an excellent first taste of this lushly rural hinterland and , although still almost at sea level , a possible place to stay , because it has good hotels set where village hotels ought to be , in the main square . |
| 25 | The European Commission will have to review and approve or otherwise IBM Corp 's proposed acquisition of Compagnie Generale d'Informatique SA : it has four weeks to decide whether the alliance could harm competition in Community markets ; if it has ‘ serious doubts ’ about the transaction , it will then launch a deeper , four-month probe . |
| 26 | It has antiseptic properties to help fight pimples , acts like a cleanser because it draws dirt out of pores , yet at the same time it moisturises and softens too . |
| 27 | Table 4 shows the bank 's initial position ; it has total deposits amounting to £10,000 and is just maintaining its 10 per cent cash ratio by holding in its tills £1,000 in cash . |
| 28 | The rattlesnake is a more formidable enemy , because it has infra-red detectors to see in the dark and makes virtually no noise as it glides along . |
| 29 | Univel Inc , which last week closed its first full quarter booking orders , says it has 500 resellers signed and another 2,000 US , 1,000 PacRim and 1,000 European resellers going through the process . |
| 30 | A rare native of Southern England , it has bell-shaped flowers chequered with pink , purple and white . |