Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 It involves using strict criteria for admission , such as failure in a nursing home or extreme restlessness and aggression .
32 A nice piece of work ; but bear in mind that a much more ambitious measurement , which would have taken the biggest chunk of the Hubble 's observing time , is completely beyond the telescope 's present capacity , because it involves seeing faint variable stars in far-off galaxies .
33 It involves taking 13 juices every hour .
34 It involves pushing one crate into an adjacent space , thus producing a new naive state , and also extending the sequence of naive operations by this extra push .
35 The application of microelectronics to regulate the use of energy is , likewise , being depicted by this country 's government as a manifestation of progress since it involves harnessing advanced technology to promote efficient consumption .
36 It sought to achieve some form of policy coordination in other , more economic sectors : transport in 1953 , civil aviation in 1954 , and agriculture in 1955 ( though the latter was essentially organised within the context of OEEC since Switzerland and Portugal , not then Council members , were also participants ) .
37 For them , the survey embodied the scientific method because it sought to make basic observations of the phenomena of interest and out of this formulate generalisations .
38 Old reflexes and outsider instincts , along with its army 's need for cash ( see page 76 ) , make it want to duck great-power responsibilities and go on quietly selling dangerous nuclear technologies to the Irans of the world , and missiles and other advanced equipment to rogue regimes anywhere .
39 Computer Horizons Corp 's largest shareholder , CGI Informatique SA , itself under agreed offer from IBM Corp , is seeking to persuade other shareholders to overturn corporate policies that it thinks deter potential acquisition offers for the Mountain Lakes , New Jersey company .
40 It offers to show that practice in its best light , to deploy some argument why law on that conception provides an adequate justification for coercion .
41 At one time , the Hang Seng Index was down 116 points , but it recovered to close 98 points lower at 4,827 .
42 In the eyes of the Department of Energy , wave power on a large scale is uneconomical and it ceased to fund such projects following reviews in 1983 and 1985 .
43 It involved identifying common concerns of teachers and then producing stimulus materials to initiate and focus discussion and trigger groups working on them to devise their own plans of action .
44 It stopped making low-density polyethylene , a basic petro-chemical characterised by massive international over-capacity , a decade ago .
45 Is it designed to avoid some activity or person ?
46 It needs to allow further challenges and be extendable .
47 It needs to allow further challenges and be extendable .
48 Whilst the timetable may need to be flexed throughout the transaction , it needs to include regular meetings to coordinate the input from the various parties .
49 If consumerism is to be as important as this suggests , then the definition of consumer needs to be wide : it must include the ‘ hidden consumers ’ who do not have much contact with social services departments , and it needs to include both clients and their carers .
50 Like NCR , it needs to collect more data on what they 're really doing , figure out the structure and find out how COSE would want DEC to participate .
51 Like NCR Corp , it needs to collect more data on what the gang is really doing , figure out the structure and find out how COSE would want DEC to participate ; also like NCR , if the effort is primarily concerned with the desktop , then DEC would not be very interested .
52 Overland , it needs to see 4 satellites at any one time to give a three dimensional ‘ fix ’ including altitude .
53 It needs to acquire some teeth from somewhere , ’ he said .
54 In order to attract more users , it needs to offer more information .
55 It gives local government in Wales the money it needs to provide high quality services and to get on with the job .
56 However , it may be that management has its own objective , or is forced into one by its shareholders , so that the state may find it needs to impose additional constraints to mould that objective to its own desires .
57 USL says it ‘ would be happy to help Sun do that , ’ but SunSoft , which also has a seat on USL 's board , is currently lobbying hard to get its own views adopted by UI , and to do that it needs to get other members on its side .
58 As my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) said , some supervised car projects may be an effective alternative to custody ; but do the Government give the probation service the resources that it needs to run such projects ?
59 The river needs to be deep enough for the otters to swim and catch fish , the dog otter eating two or three pounds of fish every day , it needs to have thick covering of vegetation along the banks and above all , the water must be clean , fresh and not polluted in any way .
60 What can be done to harness this interest and give the public the scientific background it needs to make informed decisions on subjects like acid rain , the greenhouse effect , nuclear weapons , and genetic engineering ?
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