Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | High-level ozone is a life saver because it screens out the UVB ; but low-level ozone is a serious pollutant , causing respiratory and other health problems for many people . |
| 2 | The next developments involved spectroscopy. the study of the sharp coloured lines resolved by a prism when it splits up the light emitted by a heated specimen . |
| 3 | In fact , the chemistry on the earth is rather special — it 's the sort of chemistry we 're used to doing at the temperature on the earth in the conditions that occur on the earth , but interspatial space the conditions are quite different and so , in fact , it turns out the chemistry is different , and so also we find that there are molecules that we do n't expect . |
| 4 | It turns out the inventor by then had come to the conclusion that ‘ I really ought to go off and look at something else now . ’ |
| 5 | Well , I finally got Miguel to talk to them about it and it turns out the reason there are n't any old folk around is because they do n't live much longer than about 35 . |
| 6 | The programme does not apportion blame , or claim a conclusive link , but it points up the lack of long-term monitoring on people working with the chemicals , and suggests warning labels on the products do not always make clear what type of protective clothing is suitable . |
| 7 | It points up the importance of admissions , and suggests that the assessment of a course may ‘ wash back ’ on its content and aims . |
| 8 | and put your heel down and it clips up the back , it was like |
| 9 | It goes down the line , all the way down the line . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the greenhouse effect is so efficient that this energy becomes trapped to the extent that it drives up the surface temperatures to the observed values . |
| 11 | And no , I do n't think it holds up the action . |
| 12 | It holds back the contribution to the economy of many highly skilled workers . |
| 13 | It holds out the promise of swifter verdicts . |
| 14 | It holds out the promise of swifter verdicts . |
| 15 | It wo n't obstruct no light though because I told you the sun is more er , without the back it joins down the car |
| 16 | It speeds up the game and takes controversy away ’ . |
| 17 | Once the residue of a meal rich in natural fibre leaves the stomach after its lengthy residence there , it speeds down the intestine at a faster pace . |
| 18 | On the contrary — it uses up the time we 've saved with the dishwasher and the vacuum cleaner . |
| 19 | Sometimes a mass of viscous lava gets intruded near the surface , but does n't actually manage to break through ; instead it forces up the surface of the ground on top , forming a considerable hill where there was no hill before . |
| 20 | It bears out the straightforwardness of parent comments , too , in its report of how they regard headteachers , good and bad , as in these examples ( SED 1989:7 — 11 ) : The parents used to have their own meeting room . |
| 21 | Although this particular complication must be exceedingly rare , it bears out the point that syphilis is a multi-system disease and in the secondary stage can present in the most unlikely ways . |
| 22 | You know quite apart from the fact that you get a situation where somebody sets fire to the infrastructure and it closes down the whole of the East coast main line like it did two days ago . |
| 23 | And it cuts up the grass in wee bits and instead of er making the roads better it makes them worse . |
| 24 | For it cuts up the grass like farmyard manure , it chops it up you see and it rots quick and makes the grass grow quicker . |
| 25 | And it cuts down the work then . |
| 26 | ‘ It cuts down the friction . ’ |
| 27 | It cuts out the middleman . |
| 28 | Its defence mechanism is not rapid reproduction like the greenfly , instead it surrounds itself with the familiar frothy blob of air bubbles that it forms as it spits out the sap it has taken from the plant — instead of spitting it back into the plant . |
| 29 | Flavia said , ‘ Your head seen against the white wall , it shows up the structure , I know now whom you remind me of , I saw it when I first met you , but could not place it , it 's not a literal resemblance , it 's something basic , you do look like someone I know . ’ |
| 30 | The natural way to interpret the EPR experiment is not that it shows up the incompleteness of quantum theory but that it manifests the falsity of naive locality . |