Example sentences of "it [verb] the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The approach used by Watts and Quimby does not have these problems , however , it encourages the subject to focus on the external environment in order to answer the question , moreover it makes the assumption that subjective risk is determined only by the chances of a near miss , it may clearly relate to other factors as well ( e.g. severity of consequences in an actual accident , presence of a police car , unpredictability of pedestrians ) . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ It encourages the children to go and talk to their grandparents and great-grandparents and other old people about their days at school . |
| 3 | Demonstrative reference is clearly an important aspect of the deixis of the poem : it encourages the reader to process the deictic meanings in a specific way . |
| 4 | Food is essential to human life because it supplies the energy required by living cells for maintenance , repair and activity . |
| 5 | I held it between my own , uncovered it to see the fingers lying on mine : a square hand , fine-boned , fine-textured , not large . |
| 6 | This is due to the use of a special microlouvre film , which only allows the person seated directly in front of it to see the information displayed on the computer 's monitor . |
| 7 | This is due to the use of a special microlouvre film , which only allows the person seated directly in front of it to see the information displayed on the computer 's monitor . |
| 8 | When a fish depends heavily on electricity or water movements to respond to its environment , we visualise it using the stimulus to form an image or picture of its surroundings . |
| 9 | Retrieve the blank standard letter , loading it using the method given in Task 5 . |
| 10 | As far as he was concerned , the loss of all personnel in the field with the exception of Bronson Manolo could be classed as an acceptable casualty rate if it got the job done . |
| 11 | This facilitates the smooth running of government and must be advantageous to those in government as it minimises the need to effect formal changes , a task which is time-consuming and may be beset with difficulties . |
| 12 | Although the SPD agreed with the bill 's intention and much of its detail , it used its majority in the Bundesrat to reject the bill because it empowered the government to use telephone-tapping and mail-interception to gather evidence of illegal arms sales . |
| 13 | It requested the Secretary-General to convene a UN-sponsored international conference on this issue . |
| 14 | It concerned the plot to overthrow his brother and form a new dictatorship ; but he had discovered another side to the story , a sinister angle that would make international headlines if it were ever made public . |
| 15 | It asked the officers to reflect on the discussions which led up to , and followed the issue of , Partnership in Validation , and subsequently accepted the advice offered in an officers ' paper to set up a working party to pursue the discussion further and report back in May 1978 , after consulting the Council 's committees and boards . |
| 16 | It asked the participants to stop haggling in public and permitted each bishop to take a decision either way for his own diocese ( Murphy 1959 ) . |
| 17 | It divided the forces arrayed against the Tsar . |
| 18 | By practising the skill we show the subconscious what is involved and allow it to acquire the ability to master the skill . |
| 19 | This is difficult to define satisfactorily , but in the context of brief therapy it involves the therapist suggesting to the patient the possible motivation underlying his behaviour , with the objective of increasing understanding as a step towards behaviour change ( e.g. overeating may be explained in terms of a patient 's need for comfort at times of loneliness so that the patient may be more able to tackle the problem ) . |
| 20 | THE BRYAN ADAMS LIVE show calls for simple staging and a powerful sound , and to make things more intimate for the audience it involves the band disappearing from the main stage to reappear on a small podium set out in the audience . |
| 21 | But envy is an ambivalent structure of feeling ; it involves the desire to possess certain idealized attributes of the Other and the desire to destroy them because they signify what is felt to be lacking . |
| 22 | As the technical programmes evolved , they gave rise to commercial activities — such as selling fuel elements and graphite to the civil power stations — and as these matured it became the practice to spin them off as separate entities or to transfer the technology and the responsibility to commercial organisations . |
| 23 | In the early 1970s it became the practice to tell the press what had happened and whether any votes were taken . |
| 24 | Come holidays abroad it became the thing to sport a deep tan . |
| 25 | It became the rule to serve the vegetable a fairly plain dish — as a pleasant change after the usually rich taste of the entrée , as a kind of diversion after the sauce , and , so to speak , to clean the palate for the roast to come , the roast being always ( it still is ) accompanied by a green salad . |
| 26 | In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries it became the custom to bind a number of small books and , especially , pamphlets up together in calf or morocco , often suitably labelled on the spine . |
| 27 | ( In this context it may be mentioned that in Athenian law courts it became the custom to have a clepsydra to ensure that most speeches were limited to half an hour . ) |
| 28 | To mainstream children it offers the opportunity to live with and work alongside children who are triumphing over pain and crippling disability . |
| 29 | Given that such an emergency admission should be avoided at all costs , how can a social worker plan an admission so that it offers the person concerned a positive choice ? |
| 30 | Best remembered as the setting for Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet and The Gentlemen of Verona , it offers the chance to live with history — by attending productions still staged in its 1st century Roman Arena . |