Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It harasses other gulls until they drop their hard-won food and then swoops down to catch it — often in mid-air . |
| 2 | This is spoken in the north and also understood in the eastern and western states ; but it receives short shrift once it ventures to enter the south . |
| 3 | It displays simple graphics as well as text . |
| 4 | Instead it involves such things as finding new uses for old products or showing how solutions considered impracticable can be made to work . |
| 5 | A notice is preferable as it imposes greater protection than a caution ( which can be warned off ) but requires the consent of the landlord as the land certificate will need to be placed on deposit for the purpose of registration . |
| 6 | Newcastle 's Tote Eider Chase is always a recognised Grand National trial , but with Bonanza Boy , Mr Boston and Mr Ed the most notable of several Liverpool aspirants who pulled out at yesterday 's declaration stage , it offers fewer clues than usual . |
| 7 | 1.2 It is tempting at this point to plunge straight into an account of the adjectival system and how it produces such results as those above ; and in fact we should state clearly at this point that readers who prefer to build up the picture piece by piece , assessing the validity of the connexion between data and theory by starting from the evidential end , may pass immediately to Chapter 2 without any disadvantage . |
| 8 | The pancreas is vital for digesting food , because it produces digestive enzymes as well as the hormone insulin . |
| 9 | Living as it does at high level , it produces fewer lambs than other breeds . |
| 10 | Not that it carries the equivalent of flab — merely that it needs extra strength because of its different combustion process operating under compression ratios twice that of petrol engines . |
| 11 | This figure is non-committal as to the precise mechanism likely to lead to the generation of passive margin upwarps as it illustrates secondary convection as well as non-uniform ( depth-dependent extension ) and the effects of lateral heat flow into unthinned lithosphere . |
| 12 | It covers such activities as parachuting , mountaineering , hang-gliding , sub-aqua diving and motor racing . |
| 13 | Senior detectives have told TODAY : ‘ While we must treat these deaths as another murder , it has political overtones because of the tourist business with your country . |
| 14 | It has other advantages as well . |
| 15 | Many artists are now drawn to it , and find that it has other attractions than the records of the burial of kings : they love to paint the children who come to meet the tourist with wave-worn pebbles from the sacred isle , and also the scenery of Mull , and the many lochs that indent that isle of bold headlands and rugged mountains masses , as they are seen from Iona . |
| 16 | With its low market share it has higher costs than the rival , and so , by pricing to give its rival a zero NPV , it can only earn a negative NPV itself . |
| 17 | Although it is modest compared with the major producing fields , it has great significance as one of the first of a new generation of small fields to use the processing facilities offered by another field operator . |
| 18 | For women it has serious consequences because childcare costs are not taken into account . |
| 19 | But it has particular force when attempting to understand design-and-society relations . |
| 20 | Insofar as municipal systems set limits to the use of force and punish at least some of those guilty of crimes of violence it has some success as law and an undisputed claim to be regarded as law for as long as the officials of the system pursue these objectives by taking steps against non-compliance ( Hart , 1961 , pp. 79–88 and 213ff . ) . |
| 21 | It has this name because it enables you to alter the order of slides — you just drag them to their required positions . |
| 22 | It has this year as well I think . |
| 23 | In 1993 , eight years short of its 250th anniversary , and still trading under its original name , it has fewer branches than Thins and a turnover probably around £13m ( Thins is believed to be around £15m ) . |
| 24 | It has more routes than Shepherds Crag , ranging from VD to E6 , and is a popular wet weather venue for those retreating from the hills . |
| 25 | Again it is generally definable only through social custom but in this case it has more significance since the breaking of social taboo may have adverse effect on the child . |
| 26 | There is no difference between government coverage and party coverage in this respect except that government has more initiative in determining the news , which means that it has more opportunity than the opposition to ensure that its coverage is favourable . |
| 27 | ' It has more weight than seems natural . ’ |
| 28 | We can retort that the city has more miles of canals than Venice ; that it has more parkland than any other city in Western Europe ; that it has a world-famous symphony orchestra , a marvellous Art Gallery ; that it … the list goes on . |
| 29 | It has more facilities than the package we used to use and costs a fraction of the price . |
| 30 | ‘ It has more dignity than charm but it has shops and is closer than Córdoba . ’ |