Example sentences of "it [vb -s] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This collection is a sampler only — there are no more than six poems from each poet — but it testifies to the way in which poetry can — and does — survive in the most unpropitious circumstances . |
| 2 | It 'appens to a lot of us and everyone ai n't as lucky as I was . ’ |
| 3 | And so throwing up its hands in horror and resignation it turns to the priests and pastors of religion — of a more primitive world order — and tells them to get on with it . |
| 4 | Then it turns to the effect of the ‘ managerial revolution ’ ; that is , it says , to concentrate power in the hands of directors and to withdraw power from ineffective and acquiescent shareholders who only exercise it at times of crisis . |
| 5 | The Learning that goes on in higher education justifies the label ‘ higher ’ precisely because it refers to a state of mind over and above conventional recipe or factual learning . |
| 6 | A common problem is a clash between two people modifying modules ; that is , one person is unable to activate a DC because it refers to a module which is also part of a DC activated by someone else on another package . |
| 7 | Miliary er i it it refers , well you 've heard of millet seed and it 's it refers to a seeding of many different lesions er , around the body it means the disseminated form of of tuberculosis where the lesions occur all over the place . |
| 8 | It refers to a paper called ’ Personnel Policy and Practice ’ , which advises the managers of all opted-out hospitals to sack renegades and subversives . |
| 9 | Sometimes communication fails : " " " I do not see this picture " " " ( p. 96 ) seems to mean " I do not understand " , since it refers to an event which took place before the character 's birth . |
| 10 | But in its more common uses it refers to an indirectness of relation between experience and its composition . |
| 11 | It refers to an ability to identify patterns or relationships in information and events ( inductive reasoning ) and to convey the meaning by developing a framework using appropriate metaphors and analogies . |
| 12 | It refers to the damage or destruction of forty Christian churches and monasteries ( of which two are listed as Orthodox ) ; two Jewish monuments ( the Old Cemetery at Kovacic , Sarajevo , and the Synagogue , Sarajevo ) ; and forty-six Muslim buildings , comprising forty-three mosques , two schools and the Islamic Faculty of Theology at Sarajevo . |
| 13 | The central charges as items is that it refers to the charges from my own department , legal department , all the other central departments and an input to er the Strategic Planning Committee operating , but it 's not items that the Strategic Planning Committee has a control over , so there 's a change , an estimated change of cost and sometimes that reflects the changes in methodology of agricultural cost and that seems to be happening at the moment . |
| 14 | Well , if you look at the document , it refers to the bureaucracy , the elimination of the bureaucracy , and how is it going to be done ? |
| 15 | One question that immediately arises is whether it refers to the content of speech or to the form — the sequencing of utterances , for instance . |
| 16 | It refers to the fable of the sick lion and the wary fox , who is frightened at seeing all the footprints pointing towards the den and none the other way . |
| 17 | It refers to the fable of the sick lion and the wary fox , who is frightened at seeing all the footprints pointing towards the den and none the other way . |
| 18 | It refers to the resurgence of manufacturing during the 1980s and the mistaken but widespread belief that manufacturing is still shrinking . |
| 19 | It refers to the tendency to transform social relations into relations between things . |
| 20 | It refers to the reduction in the number of teachers , to cuts in the provision for children with special educational needs , to larger classes , to cuts in the expenditure on books and equipment and to the national curriculum . |
| 21 | It refers to the presence of social groups which are ranked one above the other , usually in terms of the amount of power , prestige and wealth their members possess . |
| 22 | It refers to the address bus of a chip — how it receives and sends data . |
| 23 | In its most general interpretation , the word STYLE has a fairly uncontroversial meaning : it refers to the way in which language is used in a given context , by a given person , for a given purpose , and so on . |
| 24 | Consider , for example , the following beginning to an essay entitled " Foregrounding in King Lear " : In its most general interpretation , the word " style " has a fairly uncontroversial meaning : it refers to the way in which language is used in a given context , by a particular person , for a certain purpose . |
| 25 | Rather , it refers to the processes , categories and know ledges through which communities are defined as such : that is , how they are rendered specific and differentiated . |
| 26 | The term de-industrialisation has several meanings but in this section it refers to the argument that public expenditure pulls human and capital resources out of the manufacturing sector of the economy . |
| 27 | MEAN — Without further specification it refers to the arithmetic mean ( the word average is sometimes used synonymously ) ; a measure of the central tendency in the values of a variable of the population observed . |
| 28 | From then on , it refers to the file by the number it allocated to it when it was opened . |
| 29 | The concept of cohesion is a semantic one ; it refers to the relations of meaning that exist within the text , and that define it as a text ; it occurs when the interpretation of some element in the discourse is dependent on that of another . |
| 30 | It refers to the fact that subjects do not engage in ideology but are ‘ always already subjects ’ . |