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

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1 You can shape it using traditional hand tools such as rasps and spokeshaves .
2 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 .
3 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 ’ .
4 A unique feature of the Video Guide is that it offers alternative lesson plans .
5 It offers clear business benefits . ’
6 It offers special education facilities for children who are maladjusted , usually those referred by the child guidance clinics .
7 It produced distinctive pottery vessels in human or animal form , which are now found in large numbers in collections throughout the world .
8 So also can treating the water in ion-exchange systems but sometimes it produces other side effects . )
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 The rest came from increasing the electricity supply only until it met specific development needs .
12 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 .
13 It incorporates National Certificate Modules in aeration and flour technology , as well as advanced cake decoration .
14 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 ) .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 It has extensive manufacturing facilities in the US , Singapore , Malaysia and Scotland .
19 Keeping fit does n't just make you feel better — it has real health benefits , too .
20 It has good insulating qualities , and is used in furnishing fabrics mixed with other fibres .
21 If you want to use Ventura to enter text directly then you can as it has basic editing facilities and a spelling package .
22 It has twin west towers and gables with similar eastern towers flanking the apse .
23 It has sophisticated reporting features , which involve taking information from the database and arranging it in tabular form .
24 But it 's an expensive drug and it has unpleasant side effects .
25 Health and safety watchdogs say they 're not convinced that it has sufficient safety measures in place to protect passengers .
26 Sometimes it is called the laminar sub-layer , but that is less accurate as it contains large velocity fluctuations ; and are free to rise more rapidly from the wall than .
27 That would have been risky with ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ — also a continuo song — because it contains difficult display passages in the bass line as well as the vocal part . )
28 Well , you could do , if , particularly if you had one of our meters , but what , what happens , as sound goes through the air it causes small pressure fluctuations , and our meter measures the size of these , and it gives a reading on a scale in units which we call decibels .
29 In Washington , the Combined Anglo-American Chiefs of Staff Committee was reactivated , and it proposed massive rearmament programmes for both countries .
30 Make him a delicious cup of 99 tea , Brenda , it licks other bedtime drinks — and it 'll put an end to his night-time grinding !
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