Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It plays full-size discs and can therefore benefit from the international range of CD-I discs made available for full size , in situ CD-I players . |
| 2 | What ‘ Back In Denim ’ is really saying as it launches spiteful attacks on Duran Duran and mourns David Cassidy 's retirement , is that Pop Music Is Important , as much a part of our lives , our personalities as the polluted air we breathe and the clothes we choose to wear . |
| 3 | It encourages woman-centred psychologists to ignore the wider discursive structuring of methodology , and to assume that revaluing a traditionally female-identified method positively guarantees its feminism . |
| 4 | all the memory cells and it destroys recent ones so she ca n't remember things from recent but she can remember things from years and years and years ago , it 's really funny . |
| 5 | If it sells it to the Third World , it destroys local economies . |
| 6 | Freezing food is kinder to the environment and to our health , for it destroys fewer vitamins and does not require chemical additives . |
| 7 | It denotes different levels in the staff hierarchy . |
| 8 | Perhaps for this reason the topmost stone supposedly retains its own curious powers : it is said that when a cock crows nearby , it turns three times . |
| 9 | Linguistic posturing of this sort is the extreme reaction of a character in an extreme situation , but it dramatizes rhetorical manoeuvres available to both men and women who are forced into a position of discursive subservience . |
| 10 | The climate has this moderating power because it influences organizational processes such as communications , problem-solving , decision-making and the psychological processes of learning and motivation . |
| 11 | In Shklovsky 's view , Sterne 's Tristram Shandy consists of a series of violations of literary conventions which draw our attention to the forms of fiction ; in so doing it transforms formal questions into content . |
| 12 | A baby separated from its mother also uses infrasound , and when suckling it emits infrasonic versions of a human baby 's gurgles . |
| 13 | Punctuation is a way of showing your reader the structure of your sentences : it separates successive units ( such as sentences by full stops , or items in a list by commas ) and specifies what function words have ( for example when an apostrophe indicates possession ) . |
| 14 | It goes round corners as if it 's on rails . ’ |
| 15 | If the car has a constant speed of fifty miles per hour this means it goes fifty miles in every hour . |
| 16 | A motor boat has a speed of four miles per hour this means it goes four miles in every hour |
| 17 | well you drive through it on the main road and it goes both sides of the road |
| 18 | It harasses other gulls until they drop their hard-won food and then swoops down to catch it — often in mid-air . |
| 19 | This has the advantage of relating expenditure to sales , but it discourages innovative approaches to advertising expenditure and does not allow for distinctions to be made between products or sales territories . |
| 20 | The central paradox of this kind of ‘ trading places ’ is that through the very symmetry of its inversions it postulates imaginary correspondences between black and white positions even as it seeks to naturalize difference and domination . |
| 21 | Illustrate the bank 's profit-maximising balance sheet on the assumption that it grants new advances . |
| 22 | While an industrial tribunal may err if it misinterprets these guidelines , the Employment Appeal Tribunal has emphasised that , for all the potential complexity , the assessment of compensation is inevitably a rough-and-ready exercise . |
| 23 | Therefore , each time it receives new deposits and operational balances , the additional balances serve only to replace the balances used to increase its own advances . |
| 24 | The museum includes a library and archives documenting the reign of the Orléans-Bragança family ; it receives 300,000 visitors a year and plays a key role in the artistic and cultural life of Brazil . |
| 25 | Detecting water movements helps many insects of fast-flowing streams to maintain their position , and it alerts aquatic leeches to the approach of animals which might provide a meal of blood . |
| 26 | It represents 125,000 officers in what is unfortunately only too truly the sharp end of policing . |
| 27 | First , like all others , it represents general tendencies rather than exact categories . |
| 28 | Despite liberal panic over this new agenda , it represents greater possibilities for the re-examination and re-presentation of disabled people . |
| 29 | Any initial work in multicultural mathematics may be seen to be tokenistic , especially if the only obvious reason for its inclusion is that it represents other cultures . |
| 30 | It represents all households which contain an elderly person . |