Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skull with the lead in it doth weigh thirty pounds and sixe ounces , which with the neck-bone , and some other bones ( in like manner full of lead ) are reserued , and kept in a little chest in the said Church , neare to the place where the corps were found ; there to bee showne to strangers as reliques of admiration . |
| 2 | And it goes to show these sportswomen are shrewd as well as skilled . |
| 3 | It involves using strict criteria for admission , such as failure in a nursing home or extreme restlessness and aggression . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It involves taking 13 juices every hour . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It needs to allow further challenges and be extendable . |
| 11 | It needs to allow further challenges and be extendable . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Overland , it needs to see 4 satellites at any one time to give a three dimensional ‘ fix ’ including altitude . |
| 17 | ‘ It needs to acquire some teeth from somewhere , ’ he said . |
| 18 | In order to attract more users , it needs to offer more information . |
| 19 | It gives local government in Wales the money it needs to provide high quality services and to get on with the job . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | Will he bear it in mind that the law as it stands does great injustice and that many women are suffering life sentences that they should not be suffering ? |
| 26 | It can prove that it has secured additional revenue sources , while protecting our screens from unwelcome foreign imports . |
| 27 | It has built empty factories which it lets out free of rent for up to five years . |
| 28 | The latter has become a form of economic drip-feed of dubious value to the patient , although it has maintained economic activity at a higher level than would otherwise be the case . |
| 29 | I think it has prevented more activity than it has allowed . |
| 30 | For some unknown reason it has moved eleven times . |