Example sentences of "it [verb] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How does it affect Operation Cuckoo ? ’ |
| 2 | It is essential that healthcare staff know how to prevent cross-infection of HIV without letting it affect patient care . |
| 3 | Yesterday 's meeting , which saw the group change its name from Ferranti International Signal to Ferranti International , also approved changes in its articles designed to prevent it breaching borrowing powers as a result of the decimation of its equity base by the £215million write-off . |
| 4 | Improvisation of any kind typifies Medau accompaniment — it encourages class members to feel and appreciate for themselves the many-sidedness of movement , and learn through aural perception rather than mere visual mimicry . |
| 5 | The forest is important as a source of food , since some gardens are situated in it , and it supplies palm wine , fibre for making clothes , wood for house construction and also a variety of sacred medicines . |
| 6 | If you can soften your water then it will be easy enough to acidify it using peat filtration ; if you do n't soften your water then the dissolved salts will buffer it back to neutral/alkaline as fast as you try to acidify it . |
| 7 | If you can soften your water then it will be easy enough to acidify it using peat filtration ; if you do n't soften your water then the dissolved salts will buffer it back to neutral/alkaline as fast as you try to acidify it . |
| 8 | Now a school choir from Oxford is performing it using period costume to reflect the era in which it was written . |
| 9 | The Local Government Board had bought the waterworks three years earlier , and on August 4 1856 it commissioned town surveyor Mr G Mason to design and build the first spouter at the top of Tubwell Row . |
| 10 | He performs the test and demonstrates that the evolving gas is carbon dioxide by showing that it turns lime water milky . |
| 11 | It guarantees record viewing figures in Italy , more than films or variety shows . |
| 12 | At least it got column inches — the worst reviews for years |
| 13 | Rolling Stone was originally a reaction to the underground newspaper look and bit by bit it got art direction and , you know , good illustration , good photography , for this and all that , and then I got in there and pushed the type stuff . |
| 14 | The wet cobbles in the mill-yard only needed huddled operatives arriving for an 18-hour shift in their shawls , but instead it got art critics . |
| 15 | In all then , Telecom would probably have outlaid £14m — allowing for very modest fees on the purchase — before it actually laid one brick , and that is if it got planning permission . |
| 16 | It was er cut out of palm trees and it got palm trees on hundred feet high , both sides of the runway . |
| 17 | But the scales down Fenna 's tail grew gradually smaller and smaller , the darker shades of his back and the paler shades of his underside blending together , and at the very tip , small as a child 's thumb , they were minute and a shade that , when she tried to match it to paint sample cards was usually called eau de nil . |
| 18 | On ozone , it records world consumption of chlorofluorocarbons and halons as 1.17 million tonnes , of which the EC accounts for 318,000 tonnes . |
| 19 | The TM operates on the same principles as the MSS , but it has a ground resolution or pixel size of 30 x 30 m rather than 57 x 79 m , and it records ground reflection in six , not four , wavebands . |
| 20 | It led to impossibly puritan attitudes , a crusade against the enjoyments of the artisan , onslaughts on the bullfight , not because it was cruel , but because it wasted working time ; it supported an attack on charity as an anti-social habit , which merged with the bleak belief of later liberals in the virtues of competition . |
| 21 | Before it goes phut Death Becomes Her manages to show us Streep at her best and confirms Robert Zemeckis as the ultimate purveyor of films for the fast-forward MTV generation . |
| 22 | But there 's a , then underneath it goes record stroke underneath it , battery . |
| 23 | and it goes apple pies or , great big line , wrapped round I think it 's bread pudding . |
| 24 | The group relief position between the various members of the vendor group , including Target , needs to be considered by both Newco and the vendor , because it will have a bearing on : ( a ) what the parties to the buy-out agree should be paid by Target for group relief to be surrendered to it by other members of the vendor group or , conversely , what payment Target should receive for losses and other group relief items which are available for surrender from Target to other members of the vendor group ; ( b ) whether adjustments need to be made to inter-company loan accounts ; for example if it has been assumed that in the accounting period of Target in which the buy-out occurs it will achieve a certain level of profitability which will enable it to claim group relief from other group companies and that those other companies will accordingly be able to write off £x of inter-company debt due to Target , the fact that Target leaves the vendor group , say , half-way through that accounting period , will prima facie reduce the amount of group relief it can claim to half of £x ; furthermore Newco may not be willing to pay as much as half of £x out of Target unless this represents a discount on the amount of corporation tax Target would otherwise have to pay on such profits ; additionally , the notional disposals which Target makes under s179 TCGA when it leaves the group may either increase its profits ( if a gain arises ) or decrease them ( if a loss arises ) ; ( c ) what the parties agree in terms of indemnity cover for Newco for tax charges crystallising in Target ; for example , the vendor goup may agree to surrender sufficient group relief to Target free of charge to preclude any charge to corporation tax arising from the operation of s179 when Target leaves the group . |
| 25 | But you could use it to combat office harassment ( do I hear you say ‘ Chance would be a fine thing ? ’ ) . |
| 26 | It grants outline planning permission for the construction of those works prescribed by the Act but the detail still has to be agreed through the normal planning process . |
| 27 | Earlier this week it asked Crest Homes , the developers of a new primary school for the area , to think again about the proposed site . |
| 28 | Following yesterday 's helicopter shooting in Yugoslavia , the European Community is halting truce monitoring until it receives safety assurances for its observers . |
| 29 | This dynamic function of money stems from the fact that it represents purchasing power , which , when exercised , stimulates production of goods and services . |
| 30 | An agreement in principle has reportedly been signed , but the proposed transaction has to be sanctioned by the bankruptcy court before it can go through because it involves company assets . |