Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 But it did not institute systematic means of monitoring school curricula to check on whether or not inspectorate advice was being followed , nor did it devise systematic means for exerting pressure on schools to follow this advice .
2 By the summer of 1992 , when the last count was made , it owned 19,056 works .
3 Research also suggests it discourages some people from re-offending .
4 That is why , on the costing basis , we are right to say that it represents another 10p in the pound on basic income tax .
5 It displays simple graphics as well as text .
6 It involves other people — society generally .
7 It involves modernist media such as fur , latex , wax and hair and alternative practices such as video , performance and time based pieces .
8 This project looks at the Youth Training Scheme and asks : is it helping young people of either sex to break into fields of training and work that are non-traditional for their sex ?
9 ‘ The catering industry is unique in the challenges it offers young people and every effort must be made to ensure that it plays a central role in careers advice , ’ he said .
10 It offers older people the chance to revisit places of interest which they maybe have n't seen for years .
11 Furthermore , it gave valuable information about the Permian sequence ; in particular it penetrated 370 ft of Upper Permian salt , and the 1800 ft of lavas and tuffs believed to be Lower Permian .
12 There were n't , we did it singly and it made more people did n't it ?
13 The particular benefits of this approach for this study were that it provided quantitative data on important treatment/intervention issues in a population where group-comparison studies alone would be inappropriate , because of the individual nature of each person 's challenging behaviour and the small number of potential subjects .
14 Very often , it incorporates real' people , for example in the News , game shows and Blind Date ( a declining scale of ‘ realness ’ , perhaps ) .
15 This has to be the most awesome wall around , so get down there and get cranking — be warned though , within four hours of it opening four people had damaged their tendons : remember always to warm up first !
16 It accepts noisy data .
17 ‘ I had always thought that its grip on me was purely personal , ’ wrote Amanda , ‘ — I loved it simply because it was my home — but then I found that it caught other people in its web too . ’
18 It weighed 10 cwt and stood 5 ft 7 in high on its plinth .
19 It needs that £8bn interest-free loan .
20 It develops 53 bhp providing identical performance for the basic 14D Echo three- and five-door cars and the 14TZD .
21 One feature alone redeems the book , namely that it illustrates many works which have rarely been reproduced since the original publication of the albums by Redon , though we could also have hoped that the quality of the reproductions were a little better .
22 It covers 550 staff across the board , from the finance department , through to housing , in 12 remote sites .
23 It has 460 people on its books — all of them far better qualified than Macaulay Culkin in the hit film Home Alone — who are ready to take up temporary residence anywhere from John O'Groats to Land 's End .
24 It has 2,000 staff dedicated to systems integration , some 450 in the UK .
25 It has regular people doing their own thing .
26 It has 10,000 sq ft for sales , and 32 staff , 24 of them full-time equivalents .
27 It has excellent graphics and flight simulation , you can even leave the plane and walk around it if you wish .
28 It has excellent graphics and flight simulation , you can even leave the plane and walk around it if you wish .
29 It has 36 aircraft on order and 34 under option .
30 A tiger with extra-sharp teeth can kill prey more efficiently than a normal tiger ; hence it has more offspring ; hence it passes on , vertically , more copies of the gene that makes sharp teeth .
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