Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once it agrees to the other two bits of the resolution , the sanctions committee ( which has overseen the embargo since August ) would lift the export ban . |
| 2 | This approximation is shown by the dashed horizontal line in Fig. 2 b , and it agrees with the numerical results significantly better than we would have expected . |
| 3 | The historical significance of this book is therefore multi-levelled : it is a reminder of the intellectual scope of one of America 's leading feminist art historians , it testifies to the changing interests of the discipline of the history of art and , perhaps most importantly , it charts the developing priorities and concerns of the American women 's movement . |
| 4 | I am inclined to say that ‘ Here ’ , in answer to ‘ Where are you ? ’ is true only in so far as it basks in the reflected glory of such genuine truths as , ‘ Here ’ , said as I point into the flower-vase , having been asked , ‘ Where is it ? ’ in the course of a game of hunt-the-thimble . |
| 5 | and then thump it with a huge mallet and it splits along the natural lines of the grain . |
| 6 | One investigation aimed at characterisation of this response showed that it differs in the various colonic segments , with the proximal ones displaying brisk and less sustained contractile activity than the distal ones . |
| 7 | It differs from the latter in that the viewpoint is not a single point but an artificial one extending the full length of the section . |
| 8 | In this respect it differs from the four perspectives discussed earlier in the chapter , which converge in adopting a social model of health for a restructuring of priorities and goals . |
| 9 | No , no , it 's not only their own er we have got er entries from W I members of other villages , but mainly its from the members who live in the villages and of course that is the beauty of the book , where it differs from the normal travel book , it 's the story of villages by people who actually live in them . |
| 10 | I find it convenient to treat it as Round 3 , because I think it differs from the two ‘ round-robin ’ tournaments more fundamentally than the two round-robin tournaments differ from each other . |
| 11 | It differs from the ordinary railway by using lightweight trains , calling at more convenient places and operating economically by the use of advanced technology now available for the custom-built rapid transit systems . |
| 12 | It differs from the standard sociological thesis in that it regards the gender difference as the most fundamental and most fully explanatory division in human society . |
| 13 | It differs from the other consumer goods in the private market in four ways . |
| 14 | It is not clear how it differs from the third tribal substage associated with settled agriculture . |
| 15 | He also said that he would not undertake to follow best practice while it differs from the operational guidelines . |
| 16 | It differs from the more-or-less subconscious concept of " the gentle rain from heaven " type of sedimentation , which probably only applies in special circumstances such as those of the oceanic oozes . |
| 17 | This was a large rectangular building in the same tradition as the mortuary houses at Phourni , with a rabbit warren of small chambers inside and a colonnade along the east front ; it differs from the Phourni mortuary houses in having been built all at once . |
| 18 | Meanwhile the body of Boromir establishes a similar transverse thread as it drifts down the Great River , to be seen by Faramir , to have the workmanship on its belt noted and compared with the brooches of Sam and Frodo eight days later . |
| 19 | A short bout of exercise has a further role , namely of waking you up in the morning as it turns on the alerting mechanisms of the body . |
| 20 | It turns on the general relation between the justification for a binding directive and its status as a reason for action , and more generally on the relation between rules as reasons for action and their justification . |
| 21 | Nevertheless it is pernicious because it trades on the pernicious habit of labelling things or qualities ( hard/soft , consonant/vowel ) masculine or feminine ( a habit we must return to in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 22 | It trades in the primal delight which the hills bring ; in their clean innocence and the wonderment they inspire . |
| 23 | He goes to work , and when he arrives he gets it working ; when he leaves , at the end of the day , it sleeps until the next morning . |
| 24 | Peripheral awareness becomes progressively blurred as it recedes from the foveal zone and adjusts to an overall equilibrium . |
| 25 | Such ‘ normality ’ can surely apply not just to the sciences , but to any discipline ; it refers to the working acceptance of current assumptions and procedures . |
| 26 | FERTILITY — As a demographic term , it refers to the actual reproductive performance of women and is distinguished from fecundity . |
| 27 | A derivation of White Sunday , it refers to the white garments worn by the recently baptised Christians of the early Church . |
| 28 | In rug-making it refers to the contoured areas at the four right-angles of the field adjacent to the borders , usually only found in rugs employing a central medallion . |
| 29 | In the foregrounding model , stylistic value has a slightly different meaning from that which it has in the " stylistic variants " model : it refers to the special act of interpretation which we make in order to make sense of what would otherwise appear strange and unmotivated . |
| 30 | This too , is a dialect word , seldom used now : it refers to the yellow and red worsted ornament spread over the collars of horses in a team . |