Example sentences of "it [verb] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can also use it to report incidents of sexual or racial harassment . |
| 2 | Analysts predict it to report profits of £41 million in 1991 , compared with £63 million in 1990 . |
| 3 | After redesigning from scratch the way it processed orders from customers , it has cut delivery times from 8-12 weeks to ‘ days ’ even while using 35% fewer people to do the job . |
| 4 | Lastly , in the project for a prison institution that was then developing , punishment was seen as a technique for the coercion of individuals ; it operated methods of training the body — not signs — by the traces it leaves , in the form of habits , in behaviour ; and it presupposed the setting up of a specific power for the administration of the penalty ( ibid. , p. 130–1 ) . |
| 5 | It supplies stores like Harrods and Selfridges as well as having a big export market . |
| 6 | It mistook excuses for reasons . |
| 7 | The first category has the greatest potential for ambiguity , for it requires more interpretative work , in that it associates places with types of people . |
| 8 | Ian then set Jo 's hair using the Pin-curl technique and styled it using products from the Schwarzkopf Silhouette professional range . |
| 9 | Freud refers to this process of strengthening of the superego as the ‘ most precious cultural asset ’ , and observes that it turns enemies of civilization into its vehicles , and greatly enhances the security of culture . |
| 10 | Two pages later the Report proceeded to do exactly what it said it would not do : it coupled levels of attainment to ages , by defining the expected range of levels at which pupils aged 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 would perform.4 This represented ‘ a rough speculation about the limits within which about 80% of pupils may be found to lie ’ ( DES 1988a : para.104 ) . |
| 11 | In 1987 it registered profits of an impressive £6.2 million . |
| 12 | Another farmer , Crematogaster borneensis , is no less solicitous ; it excavates chambers in the stems of the Macaranga tree ( a member of the spurge family ) in which to shelter its brood and its livestock . |
| 13 | It revealed frequencies of abnormal fetal presentation by older women ( 40–44 ) and younger ones ( 25–29 ) to be 31 and 18 per cent , respectively , and postpartum haemorrhage due to uterine inertia of 6.2 and 2.7 for the same two age groups . |
| 14 | It revealed transcripts from ND1 ( 1000n. ) and Cyto b ( 1200n . ) |
| 15 | It sedates areas in the limbic brain from which the instincts of aggression rise . |
| 16 | Colin bought the cordite and used it to light fires with . |
| 17 | For example , Kaelin 's ( 1968 ) notion of ‘ surface ’ and ‘ depth ’ counters is particularly relevant for the way in which it separates aspects of a direct sensory , perceptual nature from those referring to imaginative content , based upon observations of a cognitive or conceptual kind . |
| 18 | It discourages investigations of specific aspects of lesbian subjectivity . |
| 19 | For a long time KFW has been promoting in particular the small and medium scale sector of the economy , i.e. it grants loans at favourable interest rates to small and medium sized enterprises to make up for their specific financing disadvantages … |
| 20 | For example , it receives payments of taxes due to the government and pays out interest to the holders of the National Debt . |
| 21 | After leaving the cylinders , it powers items of auxiliary equipment before passing through a large radiator in the support unit , returning cool to the water tank . |
| 22 | But the commission wants it to include recipes for worker participation , an idea tried in the rejected Vredeling proposal of the early 1980s . |
| 23 | In Hilton it represents stages in the journey to God when the soul is no longer engaged with worldly things and as it were asleep to sin ( 24.90r. – 235 ) but is not yet fully illuminated by the knowledge of Christ : The experience of the dark can be either painful or restful : painful in so far as the soul is still troubled by the pressures of the worldly attractions from which it is hiding ; or restful in so far as the soul is waiting untroubled in its longing for Christ . |
| 24 | The company describes itself as ‘ essentially a warehousing operation with a sales front end ’ , and believes it is unique as a distribution agent in its very clearly defined ‘ editorial ’ view , which ensures that the mix of publishers whom it represents falls into three distinct categories : mind , body and spirit ; women 's ; and literature . |
| 25 | However , as it diverts resources from historical and current expenditure items and therefore continuing provision , it is essential that it rests on the establishment of carefully planned priorities which are important to the school 's development . |
| 26 | It displays exhibitions of Weardale history and local life . |
| 27 | Yesterday it announced figures for the first half of 1989 so late in the day that the London market had mostly packed up and gone home by the time the screens showed that profits had risen from Ir £109m to Ir £121m and earnings were up from 21.7p to 25.4p basic . |
| 28 | NEWARTHILL , the McAlpine family 's private construction group yesterday joined the sector 's casualties when it announced losses for 1991 totalling £72.2m . |
| 29 | It divided workers from one another , since their earnings might vary widely even within the same establishment , or different types of labour might be paid in entirely different ways . |
| 30 | Rather , it involves moves within those regions ( such as the South East ) which , as described by Massey , have exceptionally high concentrations of senior white collar jobs . |