Example sentences of "it [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but assuming the deal goes ahead , how will it affect the rights of the policyholders , who at present own the company ? |
| 2 | ‘ If there 's no wind it 's a fine day ! ’ is a Shetland expression , and to me it is especially relevant because not only does it affect the movements of birds and animals , but it makes them so much easier to see on the water . |
| 3 | It applied the methods of Kent campus to imaginary grievances in a divided , or divisible , community in Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | TO SOMEONE who has , in the past , had her intelligence insulted by experts , it presented no problem at all , last week , to respond to two programme makers with a sceptical , ‘ Pull the other one , dear , it plays The Bells Of St Mary 's . ’ |
| 5 | Of course yes I know it encourages the pigeons and they make a mess but anything to beautify the inner city . |
| 6 | It encourages the conditions for crime in communities that already feel more impact from crime because they contain more victims of crime , as well as more offenders . |
| 7 | The justification of the partnership approach is that it encourages the notions of quality and excellence , whilst providing a framework within which a wide range of activities can be given a sense of coherence and wholeness . |
| 8 | She said : ‘ It encourages the children to go and talk to their grandparents and great-grandparents and other old people about their days at school . |
| 9 | I held it between my own , uncovered it to see the fingers lying on mine : a square hand , fine-boned , fine-textured , not large . |
| 10 | It takes so much time , and conditions can be terrible , but it 's worth it to see the passengers . |
| 11 | ‘ Total im-mersion is debilitating , ’ she told me , adding : ‘ It destroys the muscles of the breast . ’ |
| 12 | They produce beef that no one will buy at the price at which they want to sell it , so they are subsidised by the European taxpayer to dump it in West Africa , where it destroys the livelihoods of poor farmers . |
| 13 | He had cause to be ; a number of the clergy who compiled the 1801 Returns saw the improving larger farmer as a mixed blessing , likely to be more interested in maximising his profits than in keeping prices reasonable , ‘ the cause of the dearness of Butcher 's meat , cheese , etc. etc … . it destroys the comforts of the lower class of society ’ . |
| 14 | More fundamental doubts about the war were expressed by Richard de Bury Bishop of Durham in his Philobiblion , where he said that ‘ war , wanting discretion of reason , furiously attacks whatever falls in its way , and not being under the guidance of reason it destroys the vessels of reason ’ , and he beseeched ‘ the ruler of Olympus and the most high Dispenser of all the world , that he may abolish war , establish peace , and bring about tranquil times under his own special protection ’ . |
| 15 | It crosses the boundaries of the organization and allows us to differentiate between the power of members ( e.g. those employed ) and non-members ( those external to the organization ) . |
| 16 | I know they can be affected by wind and frost and it turns the leaves brown and kills off the buds , but why is only one affected ? |
| 17 | ‘ Poison takes time , and it hurts , it turns the lips black . |
| 18 | Dans le labyrinthe ( 1959 ) was the first of Robbe-Grillet 's novels not to have a tangible focalization , unless we accept Morrissette 's interpretation that it dramatizes the attempts of a delirious narrator to construct a text from objects around him . |
| 19 | Again , it avoided the words black and white but it classified people as patrials and non-patrials ; in general terms , patrials , who can come and go as they wish , are almost always white ; non-patrials are almost never white . |
| 20 | Next day Walesa threatened that he would dissolve parliament unless it passed the amendments he wanted , in time for an October election . |
| 21 | It integrates the approaches of economics and philosophy : four of the award holders are economists and one ( Hollis ) is a philosopher . |
| 22 | It tackles the problems of both dispersing stubborn , localised fat deposits and toning up an uneven , ‘ lumpy ’ skin tone with a revolutionary two-step ‘ liposome-system ’ . |
| 23 | The fact that the ad sits in between other normal commercials gives it added impact , but the trouble is it tackles the symptoms , not the cause and could feed on guilt . |
| 24 | We do n't want it to hit the clients . |
| 25 | It records the memories of a Miss Marjory Mary MacKinnon of Rose Cottage , Tobermory , born there in 1864 . |
| 26 | It records the names of some 70,000 of the forces of the British Commonwealth and Empire who fell in the battle in the neighbourhood and have no known grave . |
| 27 | Edward VI 's Bill of 1547 encountered a great deal of opposition throughout English society not only because it concerned the chantries but also because it struck at the system of confraternities on which much of medieval life was based . |
| 28 | For the most part it concerned the speakers ' contemporary experience . |
| 29 | Still , it impresses the grant-givers , without whom … ’ |
| 30 | It asked the officers to reflect on the discussions which led up to , and followed the issue of , Partnership in Validation , and subsequently accepted the advice offered in an officers ' paper to set up a working party to pursue the discussion further and report back in May 1978 , after consulting the Council 's committees and boards . |