Example sentences of "it [vb -s] an [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | In the ecclesiological context of Dei Verbum 10 , it represents an exemplary exercise of magisterium as the ministry of teaching in the Church . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | It represents an idealized view of the information needs of an area of particular human interest or activity . |
17 | A semi-circle with a smaller semi-circle in it represents an Aboriginal mother and child . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | ‘ It represents an important piece of both Liverpool 's and Rivington 's history , ’ said North West Water project manager Phil Luff . |
21 | ‘ It represents an important piece of both Liverpool and Rivington 's history , ’ says project manager Phil Luff . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Offered for sale at a realistic price , it represents an ideal investment or family purchase . |
26 | But it displays an astonishing degree of intellectual captivity when the entire way he doubts what he believes is infiltrated too . |
27 | It displays an endless variety of moods : lonely , majestic , dangerous , fickle and serene . |
28 | Designed all in one style , it displays an exceptional unity ( 480 ) . |
29 | This means that rhyme monitoring should take longer than word monitoring because it involves an additional stage . |
30 | In sign , it can be seen in the learner 's apparent acknowledgement of comprehension of a statement by the deaf person which the hearing learner in fact has not understood , or it involves an immediate switch of topic by the hearing learner to something in which he feels more competent , without answering the deaf person 's query . |