Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A motor boat has a speed of four miles per hour this means it goes four miles in every hour |
| 32 | this , this , they only start from sort of like , there 's the house , and it goes half way up the garden , so I want fifty up at one side , and put fifty to go up other side , I want fifty to go across the garden , and they 're gon na go across the garden and cut the garden in half |
| 33 | well you drive through it on the main road and it goes both sides of the road |
| 34 | It hardly seemed to augur well for the firm 's chances when it goes head-to head with the likes of Brown Boveri ASEA or GEC Alsthom . |
| 35 | If this is correct , it goes some way towards dealing with cases of ‘ cumulative provocation ’ , and towards a broader defence of emotional pressure . |
| 36 | Most of the old great Elf towns date from this period and it goes some way towards accounting for their remoteness . |
| 37 | It probably means that the average family is a much more relaxed affair than the traditional Scottish household used to be , but it goes some way towards explaining the numbers of children at risk in our society from adults outside the home , as well as from their own undisciplined emotions . |
| 38 | Sir Kenneth Newman — then commandant — suggests that the book 's claim to attention is that its contents are contributed by insiders ; while in their introduction , the authors claim it goes some way to challenging Holdaway 's claim ( 1979 ) that ‘ research from the Police Staff College has not resulted in a major project on the police ’ . |
| 39 | All this formed a background to the first century of crusading ; and it goes some way to explaining the more secular aspects of the magnetism which drew French knights to take up the cross in their thousands . |
| 40 | This has the advantage of relating expenditure to sales , but it discourages innovative approaches to advertising expenditure and does not allow for distinctions to be made between products or sales territories . |
| 41 | Research also suggests it discourages some people from re-offending . |
| 42 | This is partly because Spain wants ‘ economic union ’ , by which it understands more aid for poorer countries , to be in place to cushion the shock of the monetary sort . |
| 43 | Entitled Challenge , it ‘ will be progressive in the sense that it understands Christian faith to be of necessity a commitment to the cause of all who are oppressed , discriminated against or unjustly treated . ’ |
| 44 | Such responsibilities as education and social services are carried out by North Yorkshire County Council but could become those of Richmondshire if it wins unitary status under any local government changes . |
| 45 | The central paradox of this kind of ‘ trading places ’ is that through the very symmetry of its inversions it postulates imaginary correspondences between black and white positions even as it seeks to naturalize difference and domination . |
| 46 | Although it receives little publicity outside the ICI Group , Chlor-chemicals is one of ICI 's longest standing and most consistently successful businesses . |
| 47 | It is a strong , resilient , twisted rope to which the baby is attached in the womb , and through which it receives all nourishment until birth , when the cord is severed . |
| 48 | ‘ The only way that 's going to happen is if it receives wholehearted support from the clubs , ’ he said . |
| 49 | In common with these base emotions it receives general condemnation as an anti-social force which , by its very nature , is inherently immoral and despicable . |
| 50 | It receives concrete expression in the first instance in the proletarian control of industry , in general — in the proletarian leadership of the entire economic life of the country . |
| 51 | Meanwhile , the BBC SSO is holding fire on balloting its members until it receives more information about the merger to create a National Orchestra of Scotland , which would double as the orchestra for both the BBC and SO . |
| 52 | It receives further consideration in the next chapter . |
| 53 | By ‘ thought ’ Descartes did not just mean deliberation , or some strictly intellectual activity ; he took it to include other forms of consciousness , such as imagining and feeling . |
| 54 | Since founding the chain in 1988 he has expanded it to include 17 concessions in Debenhams department stores and 20 high street shops . |
| 55 | Detecting water movements helps many insects of fast-flowing streams to maintain their position , and it alerts aquatic leeches to the approach of animals which might provide a meal of blood . |
| 56 | It represents 125,000 officers in what is unfortunately only too truly the sharp end of policing . |
| 57 | Despite liberal panic over this new agenda , it represents greater possibilities for the re-examination and re-presentation of disabled people . |
| 58 | It is no surprise to discover its presence , since it must surely belong to a very early stage in the mental development of the human species ; indeed insofar as it represents one aspect of the principle of treating like as like , it can be seen as common perceptual property for all sentient organisms . |
| 59 | Finally , as prices range from £15,190 to £26,910 it represents superb value for such a high specification . |
| 60 | I hope that the Opposition will get their act together on the Bill and recognise that it represents enormous investment in Wales and something that will put Cardiff and Wales generally on the world map in a very big way . |