Example sentences of "it [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can also use it to report incidents of sexual or racial harassment . |
| 2 | Analysts predict it to report profits of £41 million in 1991 , compared with £63 million in 1990 . |
| 3 | After redesigning from scratch the way it processed orders from customers , it has cut delivery times from 8-12 weeks to ‘ days ’ even while using 35% fewer people to do the job . |
| 4 | It saddled liberalism with the problem of generals in politics and the mystique of the guerrilla . |
| 5 | The noxious substance contained in the two anal glands , one on either side of the animal 's rectum , is called butyl mercaptan and it plays havoc with a predator 's face . |
| 6 | In May you can visit its arts festival , and in September , it plays host to a famous antiques fair . |
| 7 | It plays host to an array of events ; from weekly activities such as quiz nights and live music on Friday , to special parties and celebrations . |
| 8 | The North Yorkshire resort of Whitby promises to be a particularly noisy place later this month when it plays host to the region 's first-ever town criers ' competition . |
| 9 | ‘ It plays hell with the tyres , senator ! ’ |
| 10 | Because the presentation is diagrammatic , needing no specialist knowledge to construct or discuss , it encourages discussion between workers of different disciplines and backgrounds who are collaborating on a project . |
| 11 | The bubble policy is efficient because it encourages equalization of the marginal cost of cutting back pollution at different plants within the firm . |
| 12 | Such a system is inherently inflationary as it encourages escalation of costs and there is no evidence that it gives any encouragement to the cost effective use of different procedures since the health care suppliers know that , whatever the cost , they will be reimbursed . |
| 13 | Such a system is inherently inflationary as it encourages escalation of costs . |
| 14 | Familiarity can also encourage a mutual sense of trust which enhances the officer 's capacity to detect and control because it encourages self-reporting of deviance . |
| 15 | Do n't place a mirror over an open fire , it encourages people of all ages to stand too close . |
| 16 | Lastly , in the project for a prison institution that was then developing , punishment was seen as a technique for the coercion of individuals ; it operated methods of training the body — not signs — by the traces it leaves , in the form of habits , in behaviour ; and it presupposed the setting up of a specific power for the administration of the penalty ( ibid. , p. 130–1 ) . |
| 17 | It intensifies debate about gender differences , and acts against the pacifying , inoculating effects egalitarian feminist psychology often has . |
| 18 | Second , it supplies hardware from most of the major vendors , including IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co . |
| 19 | It supplies stores like Harrods and Selfridges as well as having a big export market . |
| 20 | It mistook excuses for reasons . |
| 21 | The first category has the greatest potential for ambiguity , for it requires more interpretative work , in that it associates places with types of people . |
| 22 | It drains humanity of its humour , reduces adults ' behaviour to that of petulant children . |
| 23 | Ian then set Jo 's hair using the Pin-curl technique and styled it using products from the Schwarzkopf Silhouette professional range . |
| 24 | He tests it using data from a number of different countries over the same time period , reasoning that if equation ( 6.1 ) were true , then those countries in which aggregate demand has been highly unpredictable should be those countries in which unpredictable aggregate demand has little effect on real output . |
| 25 | It destroys hope for a better life . |
| 26 | When used with the bare infinitive , it denotes a direct experiencing of , and so contemporaneity in time with , an occurrence and can often be replaced by see — although it denotes perception in a more abstract way than the latter — or by have in its experiential sense : ( 93 ) Rather surprised to find them break fence at this season . |
| 27 | Freud refers to this process of strengthening of the superego as the ‘ most precious cultural asset ’ , and observes that it turns enemies of civilization into its vehicles , and greatly enhances the security of culture . |
| 28 | In Chur , the oldest town , it turns north to Liechtenstein and Germany . |
| 29 | Visionary leadership creates drama ; it turns work into play . |
| 30 | Separation gives us so much else , for it turns part of our minds into a sanctuary . |