Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 But it did not institute systematic means of monitoring school curricula to check on whether or not inspectorate advice was being followed , nor did it devise systematic means for exerting pressure on schools to follow this advice .
2 It displays simple graphics as well as text .
3 It involves other people — society generally .
4 It involves modernist media such as fur , latex , wax and hair and alternative practices such as video , performance and time based pieces .
5 This project looks at the Youth Training Scheme and asks : is it helping young people of either sex to break into fields of training and work that are non-traditional for their sex ?
6 ‘ The catering industry is unique in the challenges it offers young people and every effort must be made to ensure that it plays a central role in careers advice , ’ he said .
7 The particular benefits of this approach for this study were that it provided quantitative data on important treatment/intervention issues in a population where group-comparison studies alone would be inappropriate , because of the individual nature of each person 's challenging behaviour and the small number of potential subjects .
8 Very often , it incorporates real' people , for example in the News , game shows and Blind Date ( a declining scale of ‘ realness ’ , perhaps ) .
9 It accepts noisy data .
10 ‘ I had always thought that its grip on me was purely personal , ’ wrote Amanda , ‘ — I loved it simply because it was my home — but then I found that it caught other people in its web too . ’
11 It has regular people doing their own thing .
12 It has excellent graphics and flight simulation , you can even leave the plane and walk around it if you wish .
13 It has excellent graphics and flight simulation , you can even leave the plane and walk around it if you wish .
14 It monitors other people 's , usually those of the drug companies .
15 It uses multiple media data types .
16 The fourth department that purchases statistics does so for the preparation of its quantitative economic outlooks ; it uses sufficient statistics to justify use of an online facility as well as of hard copy .
17 A year later further serious violence occurred during the weekend of 10–12 April 1981 in the Brixton area of south London ; this resulted in many injuries and widespread damage , and it attracted enormous media attention .
18 Certainly it provoked wide media interest which continues today , and it remains a highly emotive issue .
19 It says young people are the future and unless we invest in them , that future looks bleak .
20 For example , one of the attractions in my area , Balmoral Castle , as a couple of exhibitions which are open to the public for part of the year , now the entrance fees for that actually goes to charity so it benefits other people apart from the tourists themselves .
21 Your attitude is important because it shows other people how you feel .
22 I wanted to do it to help other people in this position .
23 It concerns operational staff , even if they carry out no cleaning themselves , as well as contractors , suppliers and trade customers .
24 For many years university academic staff have enjoyed the unique position of having tenure for their working lives , the argument in support of this being that it protected academic staff from political pressure and avoided the possibility of someone being dismissed for expressing unpopular or unconventional views .
25 It surfaced last year during the trial of Frank Beck , former head of a Leicestershire children 's home , who used it to abuse young people in his care both sexually and physically .
26 First , it enabled clueless people to quote ‘ soul ’ , then it allowed intelligent people to get away with expressing fake emotions .
27 There 's an important element in this crisis and , in a sense , the government 's reaction , belated as it is , shows a recognition that the crisis , as it affects gay people , can only be stopped or delayed , deferred or whatever through involvement with the gay community — and that 's an odd recognition in this climate .
28 Conflict is personal in that it affects different people in different ways .
29 er well er here again I think er it 's the old old story of erm it affects different people different ways .
30 Its feeding technique is also similar : drifting downward through the water , it captures small fish or plankton with its tentacles .
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