Example sentences of "it [verb] [noun] of " 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 | The bubble policy is efficient because it encourages equalization of the marginal cost of cutting back pollution at different plants within the firm . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Such a system is inherently inflationary as it encourages escalation of costs . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Do n't place a mirror over an open fire , it encourages people of all ages to stand too close . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | It drains humanity of its humour , reduces adults ' behaviour to that of petulant children . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Separation gives us so much else , for it turns part of our minds into a sanctuary . |
| 12 | It guarantees sales of 160 million tonnes of coal over five years to the electricity generators , but will phase out subsidies prior to privatization , which is to be speeded up . |
| 13 | Two pages later the Report proceeded to do exactly what it said it would not do : it coupled levels of attainment to ages , by defining the expected range of levels at which pupils aged 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 would perform.4 This represented ‘ a rough speculation about the limits within which about 80% of pupils may be found to lie ’ ( DES 1988a : para.104 ) . |
| 14 | I 'll bet it got kind of cosy at night ! |
| 15 | In 1987 it registered profits of an impressive £6.2 million . |
| 16 | It revealed frequencies of abnormal fetal presentation by older women ( 40–44 ) and younger ones ( 25–29 ) to be 31 and 18 per cent , respectively , and postpartum haemorrhage due to uterine inertia of 6.2 and 2.7 for the same two age groups . |
| 17 | But the major writer , where his imagination is responsive to environments , has an influence that is both less obvious and more profound , since it transforms awareness of the significance of domestic contexts . |
| 18 | It is to be hoped that recent changes within the SDA ( notably its drift towards self-help , business-orientated projects ) will not allow it to lose sight of wider goals in Scotland , where extensive areas of economic decline and outright poverty can still be identified . |
| 19 | Yet too much concentration on the military angle could , in the end , lead the UN astray , causing it to lose sight of what it is trying to do . |
| 20 | The computerised method assures a standard experimental procedure for each subject … it minimises interaction of the subject with the experimenter . |
| 21 | It forbids infiltration of insurgents and arms into South Africa , the training of guerrillas in the country , and the establishment of ‘ underground structures ’ . |
| 22 | For example , Kaelin 's ( 1968 ) notion of ‘ surface ’ and ‘ depth ’ counters is particularly relevant for the way in which it separates aspects of a direct sensory , perceptual nature from those referring to imaginative content , based upon observations of a cognitive or conceptual kind . |
| 23 | But as the key diagram stands at the moment , because it goes north of Knaresborough in its indication of where the route proposal will be , I think if that i key diagram is to remain , it is right for the examination to consider what the need for that route is as opposed to a route or any other route which goes between Harrogate and Knaresborough . |
| 24 | and then it homes in on one of the men right and it goes sort of whee one hour later whee whee bom bom bom and the other one goes one hour later right and the computer just explodes and it just goes boom |
| 25 | It discourages investigations of specific aspects of lesbian subjectivity . |
| 26 | Labour has vowed to keep the Works open if it wins control of the Council at the next election . |
| 27 | After the unsuccessful talks on June 12 [ see above ] , Markovic addressed the Slovenian Assembly , urging it to remain part of Yugoslavia . |
| 28 | Sri Lanka would never have such problems if the country relied on its own resources — if it cultivated appreciation of native food and agricultural systems which have evolved over centuries to meet the population 's needs . |
| 29 | For example , it receives payments of taxes due to the government and pays out interest to the holders of the National Debt . |
| 30 | After leaving the cylinders , it powers items of auxiliary equipment before passing through a large radiator in the support unit , returning cool to the water tank . |