Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never use plonk — it contributes nothing to the recipe and can ruin a dish . |
| 2 | It alerts one to the importance of contextual factors such as those relating to the institution 's regulations , resources and ethos . |
| 3 | It offers none of the support for removable drives ( floppies and Syquest volumes ) that Stacker provides , which some will doubtless miss , but is purely and simply ( and simple is the watch word here ) a device for squeezing more data onto a fixed disk drive . |
| 4 | i , but it needs two of us , it needs somebody on the inside and somebody on the out just to stop them flying through it . |
| 5 | It owes everything to the puppets but the tongue is firmly in the cheek for this production of Thunderbirds … |
| 6 | The problem is that in its juvenile form it looks nothing like the adult specimen . |
| 7 | I do not think this experience is confined to women , but it symbolizes something of the quality of the Great Mother , and it shows how we have the ability to conceive and carry to birth on a level other than the physical . |
| 8 | As well as beautiful surroundings , it has everything for the more active holidaymaker : scuba diving , dinghy sailing , paragliding , riding , microliting , golf , judo classes , shark-fishing , tennis , all-in wrestling , a fully-equipped gym and a banked motor racing track engineered for speeds up to 200 mph . |
| 9 | It has something of the look of the Aberdeen Angus but is a little rougher and without the tapering poll of its eastern cousin . |
| 10 | It has something of the African tomtom and voodoo dance . ’ |
| 11 | Charity workers have recently returned from Romania after completing a survey of the hospital and Mr Paul Stage , chairman of the organisation , said : ‘ It has nothing in the way of modern conveniences . |
| 12 | Wearing 175/60 Continental tyres , it has nothing like the grip of a 205 GTi , nor does it have the Peugeot 's steering feel . |
| 13 | While this contributes to crime prevention , especially with respect to joy-riders who steal and drive cars at speed at might ( which requires neighbourhood men in West Belfast to work might duty ) , it has none of the wider community service functions evident in Easton . |
| 14 | On politics , it has none of the Washington Post 's killer instincts . |
| 15 | It has none of the spontaneity of Barrie , nor any of the wistful melancholy that lies submerged beneath the bright surface of the tale . |
| 16 | It has none of the spontaneity of Barrie , nor any of the wistful melancholy that lies submerged beneath the bright surface of the tale . |
| 17 | By comparison housework is boring , lonely , unrewarding work , and it has none of the prestige associated with meeting famous people and working in a glamorous establishment like Claridges . |
| 18 | It is a very effective package , paperbacked with a threatening kind of picture on the cover ; it has a subtitle ( ’ The fight to save children from damage by lead in petrol ’ ) which begs the question , and although it contains nothing but the truth , it certainly does not contain the whole truth . |
| 19 | If reliability is defined in terms of the production of truth , it adds nothing to the first condition once we restrict our attention to the particular case . |
| 20 | If it is defined in terms of justification , it adds nothing to the third . |
| 21 | Reg. v. Grant and Hewitt , 12 J.L.R. 585 , although it adds nothing to the established principles , is an example of inconsistent previous statements wrongly withheld by the Crown at the trial but properly , if belatedly , disclosed on appeal , so that a conviction depending on evidence of identification was quashed for want of a fair trial . |
| 22 | I think we might need to look at that one very carefully to see whether it adds anything to the er criteria . |
| 23 | The employee top 10 features those companies which are expanding fastest , and it says something for the performance of WPP that it has managed to perform well in eps and return on capital terms at the same time as it has achieved that expansion . |
| 24 | It says something for the delicacy of the proposal that it comes not from the Japanese government , but from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party . |
| 25 | ‘ It says something for the civilising effect of our upbringing that we can both sit here calmly sharing a meal together when we freely admit to the same deep-seated and violent antipathy . ’ |
| 26 | It takes a year to organize this grand event and it says something for the racecourse when the only thing that went wrong yesterday was the weather . |
| 27 | Erm it says something along the lines of um , it does n't say on there . |
| 28 | I call that a restricted international perspective because it does not explain or attempt to explain how production is organized internationally and , to my mind , a theory can not do that unless it says something about the changes in the organization of labour that go along with innovations in machinery , transport , instruments and products . |
| 29 | It started in 1976 and it says something about the timescale over which these sorts of things have to be planned that the first results of any value appeared 16 years later . |
| 30 | The original entries for 995 and 996 may have been lost , and it says nothing of the hostile relations which probably existed with Normandy for a time , and only hints at the troubles in the Irish Sea mentioned above . |