Example sentences of "it [verb] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How does it affect Operation Cuckoo ? ’ |
| 2 | It is essential that healthcare staff know how to prevent cross-infection of HIV without letting it affect patient care . |
| 3 | The forest is important as a source of food , since some gardens are situated in it , and it supplies palm wine , fibre for making clothes , wood for house construction and also a variety of sacred medicines . |
| 4 | If you can soften your water then it will be easy enough to acidify it using peat filtration ; if you do n't soften your water then the dissolved salts will buffer it back to neutral/alkaline as fast as you try to acidify it . |
| 5 | If you can soften your water then it will be easy enough to acidify it using peat filtration ; if you do n't soften your water then the dissolved salts will buffer it back to neutral/alkaline as fast as you try to acidify it . |
| 6 | Now a school choir from Oxford is performing it using period costume to reflect the era in which it was written . |
| 7 | The Local Government Board had bought the waterworks three years earlier , and on August 4 1856 it commissioned town surveyor Mr G Mason to design and build the first spouter at the top of Tubwell Row . |
| 8 | He performs the test and demonstrates that the evolving gas is carbon dioxide by showing that it turns lime water milky . |
| 9 | It guarantees record viewing figures in Italy , more than films or variety shows . |
| 10 | Rolling Stone was originally a reaction to the underground newspaper look and bit by bit it got art direction and , you know , good illustration , good photography , for this and all that , and then I got in there and pushed the type stuff . |
| 11 | In all then , Telecom would probably have outlaid £14m — allowing for very modest fees on the purchase — before it actually laid one brick , and that is if it got planning permission . |
| 12 | On ozone , it records world consumption of chlorofluorocarbons and halons as 1.17 million tonnes , of which the EC accounts for 318,000 tonnes . |
| 13 | The TM operates on the same principles as the MSS , but it has a ground resolution or pixel size of 30 x 30 m rather than 57 x 79 m , and it records ground reflection in six , not four , wavebands . |
| 14 | It led to impossibly puritan attitudes , a crusade against the enjoyments of the artisan , onslaughts on the bullfight , not because it was cruel , but because it wasted working time ; it supported an attack on charity as an anti-social habit , which merged with the bleak belief of later liberals in the virtues of competition . |
| 15 | Before it goes phut Death Becomes Her manages to show us Streep at her best and confirms Robert Zemeckis as the ultimate purveyor of films for the fast-forward MTV generation . |
| 16 | But there 's a , then underneath it goes record stroke underneath it , battery . |
| 17 | The group relief position between the various members of the vendor group , including Target , needs to be considered by both Newco and the vendor , because it will have a bearing on : ( a ) what the parties to the buy-out agree should be paid by Target for group relief to be surrendered to it by other members of the vendor group or , conversely , what payment Target should receive for losses and other group relief items which are available for surrender from Target to other members of the vendor group ; ( b ) whether adjustments need to be made to inter-company loan accounts ; for example if it has been assumed that in the accounting period of Target in which the buy-out occurs it will achieve a certain level of profitability which will enable it to claim group relief from other group companies and that those other companies will accordingly be able to write off £x of inter-company debt due to Target , the fact that Target leaves the vendor group , say , half-way through that accounting period , will prima facie reduce the amount of group relief it can claim to half of £x ; furthermore Newco may not be willing to pay as much as half of £x out of Target unless this represents a discount on the amount of corporation tax Target would otherwise have to pay on such profits ; additionally , the notional disposals which Target makes under s179 TCGA when it leaves the group may either increase its profits ( if a gain arises ) or decrease them ( if a loss arises ) ; ( c ) what the parties agree in terms of indemnity cover for Newco for tax charges crystallising in Target ; for example , the vendor goup may agree to surrender sufficient group relief to Target free of charge to preclude any charge to corporation tax arising from the operation of s179 when Target leaves the group . |
| 18 | But you could use it to combat office harassment ( do I hear you say ‘ Chance would be a fine thing ? ’ ) . |
| 19 | It grants outline planning permission for the construction of those works prescribed by the Act but the detail still has to be agreed through the normal planning process . |
| 20 | It also deprives the country of aid programmes of about $350 million a year , a modest sum in itself ; but as it represents IMF endorsement it is the key to unlocking further substantial bilateral aid to support the economy . |
| 21 | This dynamic function of money stems from the fact that it represents purchasing power , which , when exercised , stimulates production of goods and services . |
| 22 | It turns from Proust 's text and looks outward to the language system in general ; and at the same time it represents de Man 's voice speaking from outside and intruding into Proust 's text . |
| 23 | By 1968 the war was recognised to be ‘ unwinnable ’ , it divided US society and was proving an enormous drain on economic resources . |
| 24 | It involves order processing , warehousing and transport and related activities . |
| 25 | In science it involves peer review — other scientists examine , criticise , and question your work and only when you pass this rigorous vetting can you be truly confident that the work is valid . |
| 26 | It is highly technical not just in the sense that it involves computer technology but also because it is totally based in the area of printing . |
| 27 | It involves capital spending of £79 million over the next 12 years , plus up to £3.3 million a year revenue spending on schemes including pedestrianisation , traffic calming , cycle paths , improved bus facilities , more railway stations , and new rail links to Alloa and , later , to Grangemouth . |
| 28 | This approach is broadly statistical in nature , as it involves corpus analysis to determine the empirical likelihood of various syntactic combinations . |
| 29 | However , in 1990 the government launched a full-scale economic restructuring package for which it sought World Bank support . |
| 30 | In fact it became standing room only as Mr Duncan Broady , curator of the Greater Manchester Police Museum , gave a fascinating lecture about crime in the period , particularly as it affected Manchester and Salford . |