Example sentences of "it [verb] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharp , clean minimal arts in such a rough space will make an interesting contrast and it launches an exhibition programme by the imaginative Jopling , who will be looking for unusual spaces for showing art as a solution to the uncertainties , expenses and predictability of opening his own gallery . |
| 2 | What is legally disturbing is that this aspect appears in a summing-up at all , since it encourages an assumption that a libel has been perpetrated . |
| 3 | Not all transmitters excite the post synaptic membrane , some inhibit it so that it is more difficult for it to carry an impulse . |
| 4 | To solve this you can save the diagram to a file using : and then view it using an editor . |
| 5 | This was not welcomed by all the students , some of whom left the College after the secretary 's dismissal , causing it to issue an advertisement calling on clients not to employ them as farriers . |
| 6 | It denotes an illness in which the action of the mind creates a damaging reaction in the body , with physical symptoms that can be observed or measured . |
| 7 | Here again it denotes an event whose occurrence was unexpected . |
| 8 | It denotes an attempt to unify society through ‘ corporations ’ , each of which has a monopoly on the representation of particular categories of workers , professions and business ( capital ) . |
| 9 | When the sample 's average score out of twenty was calculated , it revealed an increase from 9.5 to 14.3 out of twenty . |
| 10 | The most reliable and systematic survey was that carried out by Dr Kenneth Mellanby into pediculosis , and it revealed an incidence that was quite high . |
| 11 | It revealed an inability to compromise which remained unaltered after the fall of the Government in August . |
| 12 | It forbids an attitude rather than an action . |
| 13 | The stepwise progression of colorectal cancer through a series of genetic alterations as proposed by Vogelstein is attractive in that it postulates an inter-relationship between the accumulation of genertic changes and tumour stage . |
| 14 | However , in Ronbar Enterprises Ltd v Green Jenkins LJ , having reviewed some earlier business sale cases in which severance had taken place viz Goldsoll v Goldman [ 1914 ] 2 Ch 603 and British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Co Ltd v Schelff [ 1921 ] 2 Ch 563 , said that Attwood v Lamont could be distinguished because it concerned an employment contract . |
| 15 | If there is a particular site for which you want to be kept informed of any future development , you can ask the planning department to tell you if it receives an application affecting it . |
| 16 | Yet it represents an angle to the horizontal of less than 6° . |
| 17 | It represents an asset capable of many further applications by the OUP in extending its range of English language reference books . |
| 18 | The influx of new citizens from Russia may be exacerbating the friction in the settlements being established in the Israeli-administered territories won from the country 's Arab neighbours in the various attacks on the country since 1948 , and it represents an exodus of skills that Russia can ill afford to lose , but it is doing nothing but good for the vibrant information technology sector of the Israeli economy . |
| 19 | The challenge of AIDS involves more than individual sexual behaviour : it represents an opportunity to work through our commonest societal fears–and taboos , to reach new understanding and evolve compassionate action . |
| 20 | And for me , it represents an opportunity to complete the kind of Freud-Darwin synthesis I 've been working on really , for the last ten years , and it kind of represents the completion of the synthesis , as it were now completely merged in my mind into a single , the single kind of entity that I , I know call psychoanalytic . |
| 21 | We typically have a relatively short micro-instruction format ( perhaps 16 bits ) , part of which specifies how the remainder of the micro-instruction is to be interpreted ( that is , it represents an operation code ) . |
| 22 | The third component should be written off against profit if it represents an overpayment or transferred to reserves if an underpayment . |
| 23 | The right to demand a dissolution is the most striking example , since it represents an appeal from the legal to the political sovereign . |
| 24 | Indeed a similar equivocal attitude exists towards the issue of council-house sales , some women ( like some socialists ) even appearing to endorse the ‘ right to buy ’ clause in the new Act , presumably on the basis that it represents an avenue for women to enter into the private market ( Brion and Tinker , 1980 , p. 43 ) . |
| 25 | It represents an attempt to solve the problem by logic-chopping . |
| 26 | We have already seen that you will not be able to rely upon employment law rights if , in reality , you are not an employee or if your contract is unenforceable , as when it involves an element of illegality . |
| 27 | The essence of the crime of assault , as distinct from battery , is that it involves an apprehension of the immediate application of unlawful force . |
| 28 | It involves an act of imagination to see one 's society and culture through the eyes , as it were , of someone from a different culture , to whom the normal ways of living and acting in Western societies appear odd and to demand explanation . |
| 29 | It involves an attitude of extreme asceticism and a hatred of all worldly things — especially the pleasures of the flesh . |
| 30 | It involves an analysis of environmental trends likely to affect sales levels , and a detailed examination of those environmental conditions ( such as changes in people 's life-style , standard of education ( etc ) ) for which specific forecasts have to be constructed . |