Example sentences of "it [vb -s] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This suggests that make expresses antecedent causation , since it evokes a process of causation giving rise to a state of affairs that comes into being only at the end of the process . |
| 2 | The silver birch is so elegantly beautiful , from spring 's pale green bud-burst until the final golden accolade of autumn , that it plays a part in all the seasons , not least because it is especially favoured by long-tailed tits as a food source in winter . |
| 3 | The significance of an offer of compensation is that it may be taken as a token of the defendant 's remorse , and that it redresses the private loss of the victim , and to that extent and no other it plays a part in the sentencing exercise . |
| 4 | So it plays a part in that sense . ’ |
| 5 | It plays a role in processes , hydrolysis and condensation of carbohydrates and proteins . |
| 6 | Some of the manifestations of septic shock , such as hypotension , haemoconcentration , and gastrointestinal ulceration were reported to be mimicked after intravenous administration of platelet activating factor in rats suggesting that it plays a role in this syndrome . |
| 7 | Its shares shot up 10 p.c last week and the company , Portugal 's largest quoted stock , is hoping to ride the tide of interest in the escudo when it launches a sale of shares and convertible bonds later this month to raise $300m of new capital . |
| 8 | My emphasis is on ‘ given ’ : it denotes a degree of willingness on the part of the giver . |
| 9 | It denotes an illness in which the action of the mind creates a damaging reaction in the body , with physical symptoms that can be observed or measured . |
| 10 | We have seen that it turns a state of arbitrary polarisation into one polarised perpendicular to the crystal 's optical axis . |
| 11 | A picturesque bridge carries the path across the water to continue very pleasantly to the head of the valley , and here it turns a corner into Trow Gill . |
| 12 | First it guarantees a kind of harmony in the market economy . |
| 13 | It guarantees a place to anyone aged 18 to 25 who has been unemployed for over six months , and attempts to offer a place to anyone up to 50 who has been unemployed for over two years . |
| 14 | The maintenance of at least a partial tree cover is particularly advantageous because it guarantees a supply of nutrients via litter fall , as well as affording protection against soil erosion . |
| 15 | Almost entirely herbivorous , it excavates a maze of galleries in the banks of waterways and ponds . |
| 16 | It transforms a state of wealth into a state of penury . |
| 17 | When the bat hunts , it emits a string of pulses at a rate of about ten a second . |
| 18 | Although DCE does not provide any fundamentally new functionality — there is no single DCE component that has not already been implemented elsewhere — it integrates a set of highly complex functions in a way that is claimed to make it easy to develop and run distributed applications . |
| 19 | Although Evil has now been banished , paradoxically , with it goes a lot of beauty . |
| 20 | The stepwise progression of colorectal cancer through a series of genetic alterations as proposed by Vogelstein is attractive in that it postulates an inter-relationship between the accumulation of genertic changes and tumour stage . |
| 21 | If it pecks at one it receives a grain of food ; if it pecks at the other it does not . |
| 22 | It is not possible to understand this interesting document until it is remembered that it represents a SHARE of sheep taken over and not a public SALE and then fractions of an animal become acceptable . |
| 23 | Rather it represents a configuration of several different and mutually interlocking strands , in which substances appear as objects in an intersubjective context . |
| 24 | It represents a scale of commercial activity which threatens the quiet sanctuary of the National Parks . ’ |
| 25 | But it represents a compromise between opposing or contradictory interests not untypical of media policy . |
| 26 | We call this a radical pluralist position , since it represents a compromise between Marxism and the pluralist tradition in sociology . |
| 27 | It is impossible to predict when QT prolongation will be beneficial , in that it represents a prolongation of ventricular refractoriness , and when it will be harmful . |
| 28 | As such , it represents a trivialization of nature and an optimistic glorification of man to suit an Alexandrian-theoretical culture . |
| 29 | It represents a way of life , it seems , that has only really become possible in the nineteenth century , although Kepler may have approximated it . |
| 30 | But it represents a way of doing it which is not what the members of this Committee , of all three parties I suspect , want to do . |