Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only does the rhythm fit with what the poet is saying , it plays its own central part in creating the mood and meaning of the poem . |
| 2 | However , the company plans to buy shelf space in the New Year , when it launches its new title , House Beautiful , as a monthly magazine . |
| 3 | The court ruling comes at a sensitive time for the Japanese government , which is claiming a lead role in environmental affairs , and has strenuously denied that it encourages its hazardous industries to relocate to third world countries . |
| 4 | It encourages our spiritual growth but the initial step , the initial step which people make is generally as a resump result of something much more simple , much more basic . |
| 5 | It destroys my digestive system . |
| 6 | Frost ai n't good for plants , it turns them black and kills them off if you ai n't careful , but I reckon grass must be OK . |
| 7 | Round-eyed , the knitter said , " It turns you cold all over to think of it . |
| 8 | ‘ Speaking of which , do n't you think we 'd better get this glop off my hair before it turns it green ? ’ |
| 9 | It forbids its own purity . |
| 10 | It spoils them dear , you should n't throw them I can smell a smell |
| 11 | This is illustrated in Fig. 1 where a household , which at first is paid an income of £100 per week , is assumed to spend all of its income in a steady stream until , at the end of each week , it has nothing left until it receives its next £100 . |
| 12 | ‘ Why do so many people use that word as if it represents something ugly ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It represents nothing more nor less than the imposition of the temple architecture of an extinct Mediterranean civilization upon the house design of a northern people ’ , remarks Olive Cook in her English House Through Seven Centuries . |
| 14 | In some ways it represents its worst dehumanising features — the reduction of meaningful human action to a kind of technical fault ( based on the medical analogy ) to be cured by applied technology . |
| 15 | As an organisation , it represents everything rotten about a Stalinist bureaucracy . |
| 16 | It involves nothing more than putting up 80-foot masts all over the land . |
| 17 | Taken literally , it involves nothing less than a judgment about the competition for alternative uses of public resources , and involves the individual police officer making a judgment about what the ordinary ‘ life of the community ’ entails . |
| 18 | It 's not only the patient , who lies there paralysed and unable to talk , and unable to move , it involves his whole family . |
| 19 | Conversely , when a cameo works , it imposes its own dynamics on the film . |
| 20 | The offeror must not employ any " strong-arm tactics " to prevent the board of the target from making an announcement or requesting a suspension of listing if it thinks it appropriate . |
| 21 | The NRA displays such a terrifying range of weapons because it thinks it necessary . |
| 22 | Looking at the legal aid scheme overall , it is clear that it offers nothing new in the system for the delivery of legal services . |
| 23 | It offers nothing less than the prospect of giving substance to the idea of ‘ an academic community ’ , unknown since the medieval foundation of the university . |
| 24 | Madam , Nearly two million of us belong to the National Trust because we believe in what it stands for , and because it offers us superb value for our annual subscription . |
| 25 | And it offers it all in a low-profile systems cabinet which is 30% smaller than comparable machines — yet designed by CompuAdd 212 provides the power and expandability to handle everything from word-processing and spreadsheets to network applications and presentation graphics . |
| 26 | There could be unlawful discrimination in the admission of pupils ( as discussed in Chapter 4 ) , in a pupil 's access to benefits , facilities and services provided by the school , or by the LEA in the way it fulfils its broad duties under the Education Acts . |
| 27 | This restricts the applicability of such rules since it renders them unavailable to any linguist interested in diachronic change or synchronic variation in a language . |
| 28 | We may not obtain it , or we may obtain it and find it renders us unhappy ; we must still believe in it . |
| 29 | ‘ It drives everybody crazy ! |
| 30 | It drives them all crazy . |