Example sentences of "it [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It horrified the Council 's more conservative wing for , despite all protestations that it was complementary to and not contradictory of Vatican I 's teaching on papal primacy , it did inevitably suggest a remarkably different overall understanding of how the Church should be governed . |
| 2 | It petrifies the governess and she gets into an acute state of anxiety . |
| 3 | It evokes the wonder and richness of creation from formlessness to teeming life . |
| 4 | Of particular interest is the recurrence , amid abstract patterns , of an affective ornament known as the chute , which Campra had earlier associated with flute timbre and ornamented , French-style melody in Alcine to depict enchantment : it evokes the sighing of lovers whom the sorceress has turned into trees ( Act 2 , scene 1 ) and the music heard in Alcine 's Labyrinth of Love ( Act 3 , scene 1 ) . |
| 5 | The time of high and low water is one of the most important things you should know , since not only does it affect the direction of any dangerous currents but also how flat the water will be . |
| 6 | How did it affect the way the story about the fight is told , for example , or the uses to which the unofficial communique was put ? |
| 7 | If that information became available to the police officer investigating the assault , would it affect the way in which he pursued the investigation ? |
| 8 | Granted that the expansion of lending may be profitable , how does it affect the money supply ? |
| 9 | This does not prevent members from seeking an injunction to restrain the act from being done , nor does it affect the liability of the directors for such an act ( s. 35(1) — ( 3 ) CA ) . |
| 10 | A project manager has to be able to look over people 's shoulders electronically to check the work is going to meet specification and if not , will it affect the deadline . |
| 11 | How will it affect the environment and you ? |
| 12 | Furthermore , it does nothing to improve the safety of flying and neither does it affect the manner in which aircraft accident investigations are carried out . |
| 13 | Thoth interrupted his stream of self-justification with the sentiment that it agreed the eigen state theory was possible and then humorously pointed out that simply because Ewan had thought of it , it was infinitely more possible . |
| 14 | Lastly , it make the base for construction of a large scenario — a first short at identifying , with least danger of short sight ( though perhaps roughly drawn in the first stages ) , the major issues to be treated as priorities for action . |
| 15 | The approach used by Watts and Quimby does not have these problems , however , it encourages the subject to focus on the external environment in order to answer the question , moreover it makes the assumption that subjective risk is determined only by the chances of a near miss , it may clearly relate to other factors as well ( e.g. severity of consequences in an actual accident , presence of a police car , unpredictability of pedestrians ) . |
| 16 | It encourages the formation of farmer cooperatives and advances them loans for irrigation pumps . |
| 17 | Competition may be no bad thing if it encourages the development of new perspectives , sets standards and encourages groups to improve their performance . |
| 18 | It encourages the purchase of strong and well known products and brands , and emphasises those products and services which confer status and make life as secure and predictable as possible . |
| 19 | The foot placement is very important as it encourages the rest of the body to take up a good position . |
| 20 | This will have a profound influence on the structure of the industry in the way it encourages the emergence of new corporate actors in the sector . |
| 21 | As a facilitator of management activities this imposes an opportunity — cost framework in that it encourages the reappraising of how differing expenditure patterns can best make a contribution to achieving organisational objectives . |
| 22 | Demonstrative reference is clearly an important aspect of the deixis of the poem : it encourages the reader to process the deictic meanings in a specific way . |
| 23 | it encourages the perception of pupils ' attainments as being at one of a number of discrete ‘ levels ’ . |
| 24 | Elsewhere , the close-up , detailed approach which works brilliantly , say , for Imogen Stubbs 's affecting Desdemona ( the pathos of her disoriented , jittery jauntiness intensified by beautiful touches such as the sepia photograph of her estranged father she keeps on the bedside table in Cyprus or the chocolates from Casio that she has secreted in a locked draw , not because she fears sexual misconstruction but because she would like to be thought too grown-up for frivolous sweet-guzzling by Othello ) paradoxically diminishes Iago because it encourages the belief that he can be realistically ‘ explained ’ like a figure in a novel . |
| 25 | Secondly , it encourages the belief and even resentment outside the area that most loose government money is going to nationalist West Belfast . |
| 26 | The one of the Dallachy Strike Wing ( FP November , p29 ) has been less publicised than its counterpart at Banff to the south , perhaps because it operated the Beaufighter rather than the more glamorous Mosquito . |
| 27 | It allies the development of contemporary feminism to wider political upheavals of black consciousness in America and student protests in Europe . |
| 28 | Food is essential to human life because it supplies the energy required by living cells for maintenance , repair and activity . |
| 29 | It supplies the background for appreciating the many exciting advances currently unfolding . |
| 30 | The more the puppy is travel sick , the more it associates the car with a bad experience and the harder it is to break this association . |