Example sentences of "it [vb -s] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once it agrees to the other two bits of the resolution , the sanctions committee ( which has overseen the embargo since August ) would lift the export ban . |
| 2 | This collection is a sampler only — there are no more than six poems from each poet — but it testifies to the way in which poetry can — and does — survive in the most unpropitious circumstances . |
| 3 | The historical significance of this book is therefore multi-levelled : it is a reminder of the intellectual scope of one of America 's leading feminist art historians , it testifies to the changing interests of the discipline of the history of art and , perhaps most importantly , it charts the developing priorities and concerns of the American women 's movement . |
| 4 | And so throwing up its hands in horror and resignation it turns to the priests and pastors of religion — of a more primitive world order — and tells them to get on with it . |
| 5 | Then it turns to the effect of the ‘ managerial revolution ’ ; that is , it says , to concentrate power in the hands of directors and to withdraw power from ineffective and acquiescent shareholders who only exercise it at times of crisis . |
| 6 | Because it , it , it turns to the , you do n't lose so much bass in the back |
| 7 | ( 'Prime' does not simply mean ‘ expensive ’ — it refers to the more desirable types of property within each group , whether quaint country cottages , Georgian rectories or large estates . ) |
| 8 | It refers to the fable of the sick lion and the wary fox , who is frightened at seeing all the footprints pointing towards the den and none the other way . |
| 9 | It refers to the fable of the sick lion and the wary fox , who is frightened at seeing all the footprints pointing towards the den and none the other way . |
| 10 | Rather , it refers to the ‘ Woopies ’ — Well-Off Older People — who are in their middle 50s , or at pre- or just retirement age . |
| 11 | In the early part of the April issue , it refers to the Veterinary College , but in the later part to the Royal Veterinary College . |
| 12 | A derivation of White Sunday , it refers to the white garments worn by the recently baptised Christians of the early Church . |
| 13 | One question that immediately arises is whether it refers to the content of speech or to the form — the sequencing of utterances , for instance . |
| 14 | It refers to the tendency to transform social relations into relations between things . |
| 15 | It refers to the fact that subjects do not engage in ideology but are ‘ always already subjects ’ . |
| 16 | Given Shakespeare 's unlimited verbal energies it is no surprise to find him culling ingenuity from this idea of giving and receiving , as in the dazzling wit of 24 : ( I have italicized his in line 5 since it refers to the Poet ; his in line 8 since it refers to his bosom ; and They in line 14 as referring to his eyes . ) |
| 17 | It refers to the damage or destruction of forty Christian churches and monasteries ( of which two are listed as Orthodox ) ; two Jewish monuments ( the Old Cemetery at Kovacic , Sarajevo , and the Synagogue , Sarajevo ) ; and forty-six Muslim buildings , comprising forty-three mosques , two schools and the Islamic Faculty of Theology at Sarajevo . |
| 18 | In its most general interpretation , the word STYLE has a fairly uncontroversial meaning : it refers to the way in which language is used in a given context , by a given person , for a given purpose , and so on . |
| 19 | In the foregrounding model , stylistic value has a slightly different meaning from that which it has in the " stylistic variants " model : it refers to the special act of interpretation which we make in order to make sense of what would otherwise appear strange and unmotivated . |
| 20 | In rug-making it refers to the contoured areas at the four right-angles of the field adjacent to the borders , usually only found in rugs employing a central medallion . |
| 21 | Such ‘ normality ’ can surely apply not just to the sciences , but to any discipline ; it refers to the working acceptance of current assumptions and procedures . |
| 22 | Rather , it refers to the processes , categories and know ledges through which communities are defined as such : that is , how they are rendered specific and differentiated . |
| 23 | It refers to the presence of social groups which are ranked one above the other , usually in terms of the amount of power , prestige and wealth their members possess . |
| 24 | The term de-industrialisation has several meanings but in this section it refers to the argument that public expenditure pulls human and capital resources out of the manufacturing sector of the economy . |
| 25 | This too , is a dialect word , seldom used now : it refers to the yellow and red worsted ornament spread over the collars of horses in a team . |
| 26 | It refers to the duty being placed on the new committee , ( a ) to monitor the effects of this Act on bus passengers in Scotland ; and , ( b ) to make recommendations to bus operators and the Secretary of State regarding the effects of this Act on bus passengers in Scotland . " |
| 27 | It refers to the method of accounting which reports in terms of funds rather than in terms of organizations . |
| 28 | In the WFS surveys , it refers to the interval between the reported date of birth and the date of interview or other event measured in completed years . |
| 29 | FERTILITY — As a demographic term , it refers to the actual reproductive performance of women and is distinguished from fecundity . |
| 30 | MEAN — Without further specification it refers to the arithmetic mean ( the word average is sometimes used synonymously ) ; a measure of the central tendency in the values of a variable of the population observed . |