Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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1 | It is economical because it allows a high temperature to be maintained in just a small area , and useful as it encourages speedy germination of seeds and rapid rooting of cuttings . |
2 | Lying next to it is a Wand of Fear which extracts a special cost for use : if a spellcaster picks it up , it drains one point of T permanently from that spellcaster and is then attuned to him , and will function normally . |
3 | A baby separated from its mother also uses infrasound , and when suckling it emits infrasonic versions of a human baby 's gurgles . |
4 | well you drive through it on the main road and it goes both sides of the road |
5 | It is no surprise to discover its presence , since it must surely belong to a very early stage in the mental development of the human species ; indeed insofar as it represents one aspect of the principle of treating like as like , it can be seen as common perceptual property for all sentient organisms . |
6 | It represents another arm of holiday firm diversification . |
7 | It displays forty-eight coats of arms , in three lines of sixteen . |
8 | In recent years , however , the canine colon has become a standard model for colonic motility studies and , although it displays some kinds of contractile activity not seen in man , it has been useful for investigating neuropharmacological interactions . |
9 | As we have seen , this involves far more than the language being used ; it involves pre-existent knowledge of the world . |
10 | It involves regular inspection of every church , and embraces not only the fabric of the buildings but their contents and churchyards . |
11 | It involves all aspects of erm the law in relation to firearms , their issue , their use er great emphasis placed on er section three of the criminal law act in respect of the use of reasonable force . |
12 | Professional Footballers ' Association spokesman Brendan Batson said : ‘ Paul spoke to us following his injury , but because it involves two members of our association we have to adopt a neutral position . |
13 | This process is particularly interesting because it involves two types of irreversible physicochemical changes ( problems in a general subject area that has recently seen the award of the Nobel Prize for physics to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ) . |
14 | As a forum it involves larger numbers of working-class men and women than any other form of adult education in Britain , and it appeals to them as representatives of a wider movement of working people , banded together into continuing and accountable organisations . |
15 | It involves detailed description of what is actually said and done by the participants . |
16 | It involves detailed examination of commercial records and discussion with virtually all company functions that come in contact with the products and markets to be analysed . |
17 | It involves careful placing of the services to meet and match the client 's family network as far as possible . |
18 | It involves national teams of four/five historians and will result in a book to be published in all three countries in 1993 . |
19 | The crucial feature of the market as a coordination device is that it involves voluntary exchange of goods and services between two parties at a known price . |
20 | Thus it involves massive amounts of reporting , in person or on paper , to keep everyone up to date : |
21 | It involves constant disturbances of equilibrium ( disappearance of products in consumption and deterioration ) and a constant re-establishment of equilibrium ( the products reappear ) ; but this re-establishment is always on the old basis . |
22 | It averages 3,000 hours of sunshine each year ; in fact more than the Costa Brava , Mallorca and the French Riviera . |
23 | It rouses far-off memories of infancy , of being handled and given comfort . |
24 | However , it thinks some kind of contact will be forged over time and expects a port to the company 's DRS6000 Unix box to materialise in the not too distant future . |
25 | It offers selectable levels of RAID fault-tolerance — 0 , 1 , 3 or 5 — for users of IBM 's High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing mode . |
26 | It offers extensive coverage of the previous sitting-day 's events in the Commons , both in the Chamber and in committees ; it also reports the debates in the Lords . |
27 | Underwritten by the Economic Insurance Company , it offers two levels of cover — gold card or silver — and three hospital bands — ranging from most private hospitals in the UK , including London , at Band A , to NHS provincial teaching and general hospitals , and lower cost private hospitals , at Band C. |
28 | It offers little discussion of some topics and is not controversial ( contrary to the claim on the back of the book ) . |
29 | As a particular strength , it offers broader coverage of specialist vocabulary — from medicine to computers , journalism to aerospace — than any other advanced learner 's dictionary . |
30 | In the gut , the main symptom of candidiasis is said to be bloating and wind , because as the yeast ferments its food it produces prodigious quantities of carbon dioxide gas . |