Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Familiarity can also encourage a mutual sense of trust which enhances the officer 's capacity to detect and control because it encourages self-reporting of deviance . |
| 2 | If a career as a solicitor offers anything , it offers variety of opportunity . |
| 3 | It 's a blummin beautiful colour — all sort of black with bits of brown in it , and sometimes , in the sun , it looks sort of blue . |
| 4 | It has many of the characteristics of a great ecclesiastical building ; it has vast arches , void spaces , coloured lights , and above all , it has recurrence of ritual . |
| 5 | Roman ornament is a continuation of development from Greek and Etruscan work ; it has solidity of mass and grouping , it is bold and vigorous , magnificent , but often lacks the Greek standard of refinement . |
| 6 | According to the label , it contains bicarbonate of soda . |
| 7 | In literate society , these interlocking conversations go on ; but they are no longer man 's only dialogue ; and in so far as writing provides an alternative source for the transmission of cultural orientations it favours awareness of inconsistency . |
| 8 | It uses extract of apricot which helps to reduce the drying effect sometimes caused by soap . |
| 9 | If ‘ knowledge is power ’ then there is a danger that the system will lose much of its power if it loses control of information about itself . |
| 10 | Although this transfer of responsibility makes sense in many ways , it hampers continuity of care for a group of people with long term needs . |
| 11 | It takes strength of character to admit one needs help . |
| 12 | It disappears without trace on the skin and , because it contains hydrogels , highly absorbent substances which hold 1,000 times their weight in water , it reduces evaporation of moisture from the skin dramatically . |
| 13 | He said that he liked a novel when , ‘ it promotes fusion of response between teacher and pupils ’ . |
| 14 | The concept of the basic award in unfair dismissal is akin to that of the redundancy payment , ie it reflects loss of job security . |
| 15 | In both novels the solution to the problem the heroine faces is harmony through love , yet the outcome is considerably less satisfying in The Sycamore Tree because it entails renunciation of life itself . |
| 16 | It problematises inequality of treatment . |
| 17 | Gestodene is a progestogen in the contraceptive pill Femodene , but work at the King 's College and Royal Marsden Hospitals , London shows that — in a test-tube situation — it inhibits growth of cancer cells . |
| 18 | It gives pride of place , however to the householder , whose order supports the other three . |
| 19 | Then again , it gives clarity of vision : it 's a windscreen wiper across the eyeball . |
| 20 | The scythe of time creates superiority of title as it does seniority of age . |
| 21 | If the board is sectioned by coloured tape , and each section clearly headed ( e.g. Introductory Course ; Year 1 ; Year II ; UKCC Royal College of Nursing notices ) , it makes selection of material to be read easier . |
| 22 | It makes use of JPEG for bitmapped clip-art and in terms of features it 's on a par with PhotoFinish and CA-Paint . |
| 23 | ART format it makes use of clipart in the . |