Example sentences of "it [verb] [pos pn] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it lowered its wings in threat posture , I took a last few shots before backing away , mindful of Valdemar 's account of the owl which left long , bloody furrows up the back of a photographer who pushed his luck too far ! |
| 2 | Sun is clearly demonstrating to Bill Gates some of the black arts on which the Unix industry has cut its teeth — more of which Microsoft can undoubtedly expect to face when it launches its Windows NT challenge . |
| 3 | Tel ( 021 ) 711 1343 ) has a code of practice for funeral directors which it encourages its members to display . |
| 4 | It encourages its employees to do the same on an individual basis . |
| 5 | It pinned her sleeves to her side and cuffed both cheeks ; somehow it blew all the badness away and out of her and she was safe . |
| 6 | For a moment she thought it shared her doubts ; there was a hint of a fumble as it doubled its hind legs under for the leap . |
| 7 | More daughters than would admit it hate their mothers . ’ |
| 8 | It appeared that more was required and Liz , resenting the inanity thus forced upon her even as it passed her lips , found herself saying ‘ And how are you looking forward to the 1980s ? ’ |
| 9 | Seeing no need why it alone should be expected to make up the deficit , it requested its allies to increase their defence expenditure . |
| 10 | It interrupted her thoughts . |
| 11 | If they think it spoils their chances . |
| 12 | However closely it cultivated its links with the labour movement , the UDC was not simply a device for maintaining Labour politics during the wartime political truce or for bringing individual ex-Liberals into the labour movement . |
| 13 | Duran reckons that the Institute adds value to Microsoft 's business because it receives its products first and understands its philosophy and strategy best . |
| 14 | Early in December it channelled its supporters ' energies into a mass petition calling for the implementation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Northern Ireland , obtaining the signatures of nearly half the population of the city . |
| 15 | To suggest that the board was cowering timorously before the Government is ludicrous and pays no tribute or attention to its good work and to the robust way in which it represents its interests and those of the industry . |
| 16 | It stows its towels . |
| 17 | A slow down in the bathroom business — identified by MB when it announced its results last week — affected City confidence in Caradon . |
| 18 | The Ecology Building Society argues that it is recreating the original grass-roots feel of a membership-owned mutual society , and says that it involves its members closely in the development of new savings accounts . |
| 19 | As is often the case with such surveys , no clear consensus emerged over many of the questions and some apparently contradictory points were made ( ‘ Not enough homework ’ ; ‘ too heavy a coursework load ’ ) but the whole exercise must have yielded useful information for teachers and a welcome awareness among parents that here is an open school much concerned about the quality of experience it offers its students and responsive to the views of all partners in the education service . |
| 20 | There were entire countries , reigns , religions , philosophical systems , centuries , species and schools of art contained in its files , which had been of no interest whatsoever to the human race since it emptied its records , museums and libraries into their Al dump bin . |
| 21 | Humber Manure is not easy to get because it has a strong smell and shopkeepers think it drives their customers away ! |
| 22 | But they did not maintain an image ; or at least , not until an outsider pressed them , assembled one from what he thought were the parts , tried it out on them and modified it to accommodate their comments and additional information . |
| 23 | Penal control , on the other hand , ‘ prohibits certain conduct , and it enforces its prohibitions with punishment ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ What harm can it possibly do anyone if we do n't let it invade our lives ? |
| 25 | It took two years for the Bureau of the Census to draw up the list of 106m households to which , on March 23rd , it posted its questionnaires . |
| 26 | This bird is so named because it incubates its eggs in a mound of rotting vegetation . |
| 27 | It gave her confidence a boost to know that she had spotted him , and it made her actions easy . |
| 28 | I did n't because it made her feet ache . |
| 29 | I think she was twenty-eight when she learned to milk , and she said it made her knees shake . |
| 30 | It made her eyes water but she stayed where she was until the saucepan was full , then tried to douse the flames . |