Example sentences of "it [verb] [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Level of intelligence affects communicating in that it influences learning ability . |
| 2 | Trafalgar House , for example ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November , p 10 ) , does not appear to have breached any of the detailed requirements of the Companies Act or of accounting standards when it avoided putting £102.7m of write-downs through the p&l . |
| 3 | From there it goes fucking shitty ! |
| 4 | It 's amazing how many hard rocking mothers are queuing up to perform this somewhat unrock and weedy indie task as soon as they find out it involves wearing things that girls wear . |
| 5 | The second type of control is therefore also necessary ; it involves drawing inferences by comparing like with like . |
| 6 | He can do no better than argue that it involves apprehending things simultaneously rather than in succession though he does not explain how the successful mystic can transcend the limits of the magic number seven , which most psychologists agree is the maximum number of entities that can simultaneously be held before the mind . |
| 7 | It involves setting priorities , planning your approach and tailoring your answer to the time available . |
| 8 | It involves leaving parents . |
| 9 | It involves taking sperm from men and mixing it with their partner 's eggs which are replaced in the Fallopian tube in the GIFT technique — Gamete Intra Fallopian Transfer . |
| 10 | We need to be aware that this approach has a strong emotional appeal and that using it involves taking responsibility and guiding these emotions , once engaged . |
| 11 | It involves administering food in such a way that the patient can not taste it , and somehow assessing their mental symptoms objectively . |
| 12 | It involves removing steel partitions , twenty-five feet tall , that presently separate each compartment . |
| 13 | From the description of the requirements of the vanaprastha āśrama contained in the Laws of Manu , we see that it involves abandoning possession , a fact we noted in connection with the requirements of a satyāgrahi . |
| 14 | It involves making judgements about how people will and should behave on the basis of gender stereotypes believed to be determined by their sex . |
| 15 | The teacher tells you what to do , or the manager tells you what he wants done , and it 's logical and it involves manipulating information , bringing files together , bringing tax together , working it all out , and it 's not calculation _ you 're manipulating information . |
| 16 | The second reason why playing the numbers game with female and male psychologists does not work is that it involves equating women with feminists . |
| 17 | It involves recasting sentences so that they clearly do not exclude either women or men . |
| 18 | Legal requirements may prevent a significant proportion of men returning to their original job , particularly if it involves driving motor vehicles . |
| 19 | It rubs hoarding space with Howard Hodgkin , whose paintings sell for a million pounds and more . |
| 20 | Does it make whistling noises ? |
| 21 | Cadbury World is a permanent exhibition devoted entirely to Chocolate — where it came from , who first drank the mysterious potion , when it became eating chocolate and the part Cadbury played in this fascinating story . |
| 22 | The company denied huge redundancies at its Edinburgh plant although it admitted ax-ing Sunday and overtime working , banning non-essential recruitment and introducing voluntary early retirement . |
| 23 | It made nodding dogs seem in good taste . |
| 24 | ‘ It beats buying records , eh , Rodney ? ’ laughed Branson . |
| 25 | It gives them an excuse to use the riot vans — and it beats booking drivers for speeding . |
| 26 | Gandhi could not countenance such an approach because it involved rejecting ahi sā and relinquishing sarvodaya . |
| 27 | It involved exchanging ore from his new McCamey 's Monster mine for manufactured goods . |
| 28 | If you enjoy penetrative sex and would like your partner to use a condom , his response might range from ‘ it interrupts making love ’ , ‘ it reduces my sensitivity ’ , or ‘ it is unnecessary as we trust each other ’ . |
| 29 | Some of you may remember her because we stayed at her hotel er a little while ago and she has a lovely horse chestnut tree er outside her hotel and since we went it stopped producing conkers . |
| 30 | It stopped making television sets . |