Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is economical because it allows a high temperature to be maintained in just a small area , and useful as it encourages speedy germination of seeds and rapid rooting of cuttings . |
| 2 | It engendered immediate feelings of friendship , of belonging . |
| 3 | However , the non-markers again included the three informants who read very little science fiction , and the fact that the phrase occurs towards the end of the passage suggests that readers have become accustomed to the science fictional discourse model to the extent that elements of it display diminishing values of foregrounding . |
| 4 | A baby separated from its mother also uses infrasound , and when suckling it emits infrasonic versions of a human baby 's gurgles . |
| 5 | Emeryville , California-based Sybase Inc is also getting in on the act , saying that it has licensed IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture and plans to use it to support distributed unit of work access between IBM databases , and Sybase SQL Server and Open Client and Open Server applications . |
| 6 | Emeryville , California-based Sybase Inc has licensed IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture and plans to use it to support distributed unit of work access between IBM databases , and Sybase SQL Server and Open Client and Open Server applications systems pay $150,000 for full distribution rights . |
| 7 | It had always been generous in terms of sick pay and sympathetic and understanding towards employees with family problems , though it expected high standards of dress and deportment and lateness , absenteeism and incivility were not tolerated . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Lep Group , the transport business which is attracting increasing US investment , fell 16p to 149p after it announced interim profits of £9.5m against £5m . |
| 10 | The electricity distributor yesterday cut tariffs by 1pc for 1.3m customers as it announced pre-tax profits of £111.2m . |
| 11 | The electricity distributor yesterday cut tariffs by 1pc for 1.3m customers as it announced pre-tax profits of £111.2m . |
| 12 | Last week it announced first-quarter contributions of £11.1m from CMB — the result of the £900m merger between Metal Box and the French Carnaud company . |
| 13 | As we have seen , this involves far more than the language being used ; it involves pre-existent knowledge of the world . |
| 14 | It involves regular inspection of every church , and embraces not only the fabric of the buildings but their contents and churchyards . |
| 15 | It involves detailed description of what is actually said and done by the participants . |
| 16 | It involves detailed examination of commercial records and discussion with virtually all company functions that come in contact with the products and markets to be analysed . |
| 17 | It involves careful placing of the services to meet and match the client 's family network as far as possible . |
| 18 | It involves national teams of four/five historians and will result in a book to be published in all three countries in 1993 . |
| 19 | The crucial feature of the market as a coordination device is that it involves voluntary exchange of goods and services between two parties at a known price . |
| 20 | Thus it involves massive amounts of reporting , in person or on paper , to keep everyone up to date : |
| 21 | It involves constant disturbances of equilibrium ( disappearance of products in consumption and deterioration ) and a constant re-establishment of equilibrium ( the products reappear ) ; but this re-establishment is always on the old basis . |
| 22 | It rouses far-off memories of infancy , of being handled and given comfort . |
| 23 | This project looks at the Youth Training Scheme and asks : is it helping young people of either sex to break into fields of training and work that are non-traditional for their sex ? |
| 24 | It offers selectable levels of RAID fault-tolerance — 0 , 1 , 3 or 5 — for users of IBM 's High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing mode . |
| 25 | It offers extensive coverage of the previous sitting-day 's events in the Commons , both in the Chamber and in committees ; it also reports the debates in the Lords . |
| 26 | The insecticide is carried in a very penetrating light oil but it is nor fair to expect it to penetrate heavy deposits of dust , dirt and cobwebs before it reaches the timber . |
| 27 | BELOW Before this building on the banks of the River Thames in London was constructed , the site was excavated ; it produced important evidence of a Roman quay ( see reconstruction on the previous page ) . |
| 28 | Germany , though it produced massive quantities of coal , steel and iron , was still a very backward place . |
| 29 | In the gut , the main symptom of candidiasis is said to be bloating and wind , because as the yeast ferments its food it produces prodigious quantities of carbon dioxide gas . |
| 30 | It produces condensed volumes of modules which can be reproduced on paper , microfilm or microfiche . |