Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the context of ancient sites , it involves becoming aware of the special nature of the place and taking some action , however small , in recognition of this . |
| 2 | ‘ What does it want to do that for ? ’ |
| 3 | Its impact could probably have been even greater but it ceased to become available to students by 1980 and this was unfortunate when many much less meritorious texts have soldiered on ! |
| 4 | As a mineral , corundum has proved its value to man partly as an abrasive , which allowed it to play a key role in the shaping of jade , and partly because it has contributed two of the most keenly sought after transparent coloured gems , sapphire and ruby . |
| 5 | Ithanguni is important because it has contributed most of the fine ash deposits that blanket the lower slopes of west Mount Kenya and make rich farming and ranching land . |
| 6 | Its success can be measured by how it has moved Labour to the right of the Heath Tory government . |
| 7 | The sky is grey and abysmal ; it has grown blacker since morning . |
| 8 | There can be no doubt that if Britain wants to look forward to a level of economic health even approaching that to which it has grown accustomed over the past 50 years , it must back Alvey 's proposals . |
| 9 | MIPS Computer Systems Inc is desperate to be seen to be non-aligned once it is part of Silicon Graphics Inc , and to that end , it has rallied 12 of the computer industry Great and the Good to help guide the future directions of the MIPS microprocessor architecture and help ensure that it remains competitive and open . |
| 10 | For example , there is no conclusive evidence from anywhere that DDT has ever killed anybody , yet we have ample evidence that it has saved millions of lives . |
| 11 | It has saved billions of pounds by writing reports that are always respected and independent , and which suggest ways in which local government — and , now , the health service — can get better value for money . |
| 12 | Since the 1985 unrest , and particularly after the 1987 General Election , the Government has announced a number of initiatives on the inner city , and it has presented these as part of an effort to rejuvenate depressed areas on a sound basis . |
| 13 | The Damsel certainly sounds as if it has gone blind through an undetermined infection . |
| 14 | In four thousand years , for that is its approximate age , it has surrendered few of its secrets . |
| 15 | Imaginative and incalculable youth , which clamours for the moon and may not be content till it has damaged most of the street lamps . ’ |
| 16 | The Picador 21st Birthday Book which could be very good indeed since it has asked 21 of its top authors to write an original personal memoir on an important year . |
| 17 | Britain has been governed by south-east England for the past 13 years , and it has become possible for London and the Home Counties to ignore some aspects of reality . |
| 18 | They have meant , for example , that housing policies have endorsed the view that each nuclear family should have its own household , and thus increasingly it has become possible for people to take that option . |
| 19 | In the twentieth century increasingly it has become possible for older people who have withdrawn from the labour market to support themselves from resources provided by the state rather than rely on their families ; the same has not been true of the youngest generation . |
| 20 | Erm it has become worse in a way that er we did , I did experience some sort of er , er racial intolerance er with the youth , but the middle-aged and the er m older people were very , very er tolerant I had to ask er when I could n't find my way , ask my way to certain places and er there was an that er the lady just walked by me er with me and she , she said I 'll have to walk with you you ca n't find it . |
| 21 | The NHS was supposed to treat all equally but now it has become similar to the difference between first class and tourist class air travel . |
| 22 | Although a native of southern Europe , it has become naturalized in the rest of Europe , and is now grown commercially . |
| 23 | It has become clearer to people what they are there for , and the importance of research and students . |
| 24 | A colourless gas with a faint tang , it can produce narcosis and even ( after a lengthy exposure at a concentration of 5 per cent or more ) unconsciousness and death , but it is as a greenhouse gas emitted in the course of producing man-made energy that it has become central to our end-of-century concerns . |
| 25 | As it has become familiar over the years , the constant discord and the rhythmic complexities have ceased to shock . |
| 26 | Charles took up watercolour painting nearly twenty years ago , and it has become one of his greatest pleasures . |
| 27 | As a result , it has become one of the great monuments of the world and a national symbol , like the Eiffel Tower , the Statue of Liberty and the Great Wall of China . |
| 28 | IT HAS BECOME one of the clichés of political debate that a concern for conservation is a new — and therefore probably transient — phenomenon and in addition that it is the hobby of an élite determined to fight against the inevitable overriding dictates of modern economic growth . |
| 29 | It has become one of the basic and seminal texts in the sociological study of this topic . |
| 30 | But it has become one of the big post-war economic success stories , with one of the world 's most open trading systems and a business environment not far behind Switzerland , Japan and west Germany . |