Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second type of control is therefore also necessary ; it involves drawing inferences by comparing like with like . |
| 2 | It involves taking sperm from men and mixing it with their partner 's eggs which are replaced in the Fallopian tube in the GIFT technique — Gamete Intra Fallopian Transfer . |
| 3 | It involves administering food in such a way that the patient can not taste it , and somehow assessing their mental symptoms objectively . |
| 4 | It involves making judgements about how people will and should behave on the basis of gender stereotypes believed to be determined by their sex . |
| 5 | The second reason why playing the numbers game with female and male psychologists does not work is that it involves equating women with feminists . |
| 6 | It rubs hoarding space with Howard Hodgkin , whose paintings sell for a million pounds and more . |
| 7 | It gives them an excuse to use the riot vans — and it beats booking drivers for speeding . |
| 8 | It needs to give details of the type of person seen by the organisation as most able to succeed in the foreign environment . |
| 9 | Based largely on Michels 's study of trade union organizations , the model supposes that once any radical organization has grown to the size where it needs to delegate responsibility to professional organizers , and once it has been in existence long enough to produce a complex bureaucracy , then the original radical thrust is lost as the professionals redirect the organization to serve their own ends . |
| 10 | To begin with , its uses are somewhat limited by its bland taste — even enthusiasts agree that it needs to absorb flavours in a recipe such as a stir-fry or casserole to draw out its best qualities : though arguably it has slightly more taste and texture than tofu , tempeh and TVP . |
| 11 | As such it needs to make use of concepts which define the political sphere , the nature of political relations and institutions , the state , government , law , etc. ; and it generally has as its point of departure a broader scheme of thought about human nature and society . |
| 12 | But that 's going to be withdrawn , and the lease terminated , because the council says it needs to cut costs by using the building for it 's own staff . |
| 13 | Two thirds of the 74,000 households it covers take part in its green box scheme . |
| 14 | It has secured supplies of high quality food at affordable prices . |
| 15 | So far , I am happy to say that in the case of children — I was about to come to that exception — and in the case of rape victims , the balance that Parliament has chosen , in that it has granted exceptions in those cases , has proved to be an effective one . |
| 16 | All its profits are covenanted to third world charities : since November 1986 it has contributed £33,500 to organisations such as Unicef , a Tibetan children 's home , Oxfam , Church Relief in Uganda and others . |
| 17 | Iraq confirms that it has moved Westerners to military bases and President Bush acknowledges that Americans in Kuwait are " hostages " . |
| 18 | One of Scottish football 's greatest achievements is the way it has turned virtue on its head . |
| 19 | SNA communications house Systems Strategies Inc says it has designated UnixWare as the primary development platform for its new Express 2.0 Unix-to-IBM ( AS/400 and mainframe ) comms software . |
| 20 | Good as its word , Advanced Micro Devices Inc yesterday announced that it has begun shipments of the first members of its Am486 microprocessor family with 33MHz , 40MHz and clock-doubled 50MHz versions , all of them full clones of the Intel Corp 80486 with maths co-processor on board . |
| 21 | Once it has recorded features of the sequence of parses , the algorithm continues : |
| 22 | It has received evidence from the teachers ' associations , the employers and the Department of Education and Science , and has listened to the representations of all those bodies . |
| 23 | Difficulties over timing are normally resolved by the respective lawyers giving appropriate undertakings , particularly if the chargee will not release the charge until it has received part of the sale proceeds . |
| 24 | The company says that it has received inquiries from about 470 companies , of which perhaps a quarter are potential customers . |
| 25 | Archer Communications Inc , Calgary , Alberta reports that it has received $2.25m from Capcom Co of Japan and its Capcom USA Inc unit , as the second and final stage of a previously announced $6.525m loan agreement . |
| 26 | It has strengthened links between school and college , it encourages dialogue , it gives opportunity to classroom teachers to develop new skills and to take on new responsibilities . |
| 27 | Secondly , it has expressed fears about changing a public sector monopoly into a private sector monopoly , and expressed concern about consumer protection . |
| 28 | The Private Practice and Professional Fees Committee of the BMA agrees that none of this adequately explains the rise in my premium and it has expressed astonishment at the figures I have provided . |
| 29 | They said speculation focused on BP because it has expressed interest in refining and marketing in the western US . |
| 30 | And the accumulation of capital has been internationalized by the internationalization of production : it has generated flows of direct investment as multinationals expand their enterprises in different countries and it has also indirectly generated flows of portfolio investment as the multinationals ' cash and financing needs have been channelled through the financial markets of the City , New York and Tokyo . |