Example sentences of "it [verb] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may not always mean a great deal ( though sometimes a title of this sort can be read as a genuine sign of worth ) , but it plays an essential part in reassuring people in a notoriously insecure and uncertain business . |
| 2 | it plays an essential role in shaping and informing the Christian God-consciousness . |
| 3 | Is my hon. Friend aware that the rural sub-post office is at the heart of the rural community and that it plays an essential role in west Norfolk ? |
| 4 | I do not deny that it plays an important part , but the key to our strength is our industrial might . |
| 5 | It plays an important part in targeting benefits at families with children , they say . |
| 6 | I am sure , however , that it plays an important role . ’ |
| 7 | It plays an important role in defining typologies which can be then be used to help date or provenance new examples . |
| 8 | Although fibre has no positive food value , it plays an important role in maintaining a healthy digestive tract , aiding in the passage of waste and the elimination of fat and poisonous chemicals which cause constipation , inflammation of the colon and worse . |
| 9 | The hallmark of the Christian faith is that it turns an apparent defeat into a victory . |
| 10 | On balance , studies have found no indication of harmful physical effects ; no evidence that television introduces a harmful amount of aggression , violence or fear into an already normal child or that it turns an undisturbed child into a disturbed one or a non-delinquent child into a delinquent . |
| 11 | Adams ' report , one of a long line of studies , expert groups , advisory committees and internal and external task forces that have looked at Super-SARA , declared that the project was still viable if it got an immediate go-ahead . |
| 12 | It looked awful at first — so bad it was wonderful — but as it dried it revealed an incredible gradient of colour . ’ |
| 13 | The result from the program 's point of view is that it receives an odd collection of keypresses , probably a set that it never received during testing . |
| 14 | When it receives an acoustic signal transmitted from a range of up to 40 km , the weapon jettisons its ballast and rises to just below the sea surface . |
| 15 | Meantime process-type industries make up some 60% of the total number of Ross 's manufacturing customers — a figure that is expected to grow in line with the expected 15% to 20% increase in the UK market for process-based systems — and Ross intends it to include an increasing number of large multinational customers . |
| 16 | In the ecclesiological context of Dei Verbum 10 , it represents an exemplary exercise of magisterium as the ministry of teaching in the Church . |
| 17 | Since any glass can only take a certain amount of fluid it represents an easy way of thinking of our body 's limitations to the amount of stress we can endure . |
| 18 | The concept of ‘ satisfaction with housework ’ follows the concept of ‘ work ’ or ‘ job ’ satisfaction as used in the sociology of industry and paid work ; it represents an overall assessment of the degree to which housewives are positively or negatively oriented to their work . |
| 19 | It represents an idealized view of the information needs of an area of particular human interest or activity . |
| 20 | A semi-circle with a smaller semi-circle in it represents an Aboriginal mother and child . |
| 21 | In one way this statement is more conservative than the previous one in that it has elevated the popular usage ‘ Republican Sunday ’ to a part of party language and thus confirmed the belief that Catholicism and republicanism are the same thing , but it represents an important departure from previous positions in clearly tying the DUP 's position to that of the electorate . |
| 22 | It represents an important contribution to the ongoing debate between non-disabled feminists and the disabled people 's movement about the construction of community care . |
| 23 | ‘ It represents an important piece of both Liverpool 's and Rivington 's history , ’ said North West Water project manager Phil Luff . |
| 24 | ‘ It represents an important piece of both Liverpool and Rivington 's history , ’ says project manager Phil Luff . |
| 25 | It represents an important clarification of the Soviet position on German unity , after Mr Eduard Shevardnadze , the Foreign Minister , and other senior Soviet spokesmen took issue with Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's 10-point plan for German reunification . |
| 26 | It represents an important clarification of the Soviet position on German unity , after Mr Eduard Shevardnadze , the Foreign Minister , and other senior Soviet spokesmen took issue with Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's 10-point plan for German reunification . |
| 27 | It represents an instinctive knowledge ( a " kynde knowynge " ) acquired by trial and error of how to maintain an inner balance , and reason 's active initiative ends here , giving way to a new kind of knowledge of God experienced as a gift that discretion enables man to receive . |
| 28 | Offered for sale at a realistic price , it represents an ideal investment or family purchase . |
| 29 | It now has wholly-owned offices in Paris , Amsterdam , Brussels , Frankfurt , Geneva , Stockholm and Gothenburg , is a shareholder in a well-established US firm and has associate arrangements in the USA and elsewhere , enabling it to sustain an annual growth rate of between 20% and 30% which is now generating annual total fees of up to £5m . |
| 30 | But it displays an astonishing degree of intellectual captivity when the entire way he doubts what he believes is infiltrated too . |