Example sentences of "it [verb] new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contact with it turns new wine sour , crops touched by it become barren , grafts die , seeds in gardens are dried up , the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled , hives of bees die , even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust , and a horrible smell fills the air ; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison … |
| 2 | Illustrate the bank 's profit-maximising balance sheet on the assumption that it grants new advances . |
| 3 | Therefore , each time it receives new deposits and operational balances , the additional balances serve only to replace the balances used to increase its own advances . |
| 4 | The guidelines make it clear it is council policy not to permit golf development if it involves new buildings or associated development in the open countryside , and is unrelated to existing settlements . |
| 5 | In addition , it involves new technology and we would hope that once the system is perfected large scale orders will follow . |
| 6 | Applied to ecology , hierarchy theory throws new light on old knowledge , it offers new models to test , and it tells ecologists where to look for phenomena that might not be apparent to human senses . |
| 7 | It offers new opportunities , a new way of life , and a new independence . |
| 8 | It inserted new material . |
| 9 | On the other hand we all know that any social and political change — call it revolution or not , it does n't really matter — is meaningful only if it builds new institutions . |
| 10 | At the summit meeting last month between Bill Clinton and Japan 's prime minister , Kiichi Miyazawa , America insisted that Japan should come up with specific measures that would enable it to meet new import targets . |
| 11 | It incorporates new instructions , more pipelining than expected , support for single-precision arithmetic and a new cache structure . |
| 12 | It created new industries and employment opportunities . |
| 13 | If such propitiation did not result in the sewing-up of any chinks , at least it stopped new chinks from showing through . |
| 14 | it needs new batteries |
| 15 | As it flies along , the enhanced shimmer of water helps it to find new pools . |
| 16 | Independence allows it to try new parts that others may not be able to play . |
| 17 | It has new modules for Sceptre and Senator ; it is collaborating with another unnamed software house on a broking evaluation product , which is about to be tested . |
| 18 | It is no longer dominated by established tradition , or established religious beliefs ; it has new populations with new sets of consciousness . |
| 19 | It plans new satellite launches in the next two years which will provide full global coverage . |
| 20 | It features new stone sculptures intended to be shown outdoors as well as in the gallery , a new red ‘ Void ’ from that continuing series of wall sculptures , one of which was shown in Kapoor 's pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1990 , and material related to the stage designs which he made for recent performances by dancer Laurie Booth at the Queen Elizabeth Hall . |
| 21 | It monitors new developments in brewing and serving beer . |
| 22 | It monitors new developments in brewing and reports on such matters as ingredients and methods of storing beer . |
| 23 | In Yugoslavia 's biggest postwar strike , nearly 700,000 workers in Serbia 's textile , leather and metallurgical industries stopped work on April 16 to demand that the Serbian government pay them the guaranteed minimum monthly wage , backdated to January , and that it abolish new taxes introduced at the end of 1990 . |
| 24 | Tidy up borders , but wait until spring before taking dead foliage off herbaceous plants , as it protects new shoots . |
| 25 | It introduces new arrangements for degree-awarding powers and for achieving university status . |
| 26 | Conservation of energy was comparable to evolution as an organizing principle of the sciences ; it opened new doors , and indicated new relationships . |
| 27 | Recently completed at a cost of £3.6 million , it includes new paving , lights , litter bins , planters , telephone kiosks and seats — all the usual paraphernalia which fills every city street from which the traffic has been taken away . |
| 28 | The book is an imaginative outgrowth of practical criticism , but it breaks new ground in its choice of late Augustan poets — Charles Wesley and Samuel Johnson — and ( by a bold leap of association ) Wordsworth , Coleridge and the later Romantics : its chapter on ‘ Shelley 's urbanity ’ , paradoxical in its very title , showing the entry of a commanding new critical voice . |
| 29 | Fidelity believes it breaks new ground by getting over the problem that has stopped unit trusts from showing any real growth since the Great Crash five years ago namely that 90pc of unit trusts are in high risk equities , whereas 90pc of savings are in low risk investments such as banks or building societies . |
| 30 | They need it to finance new projects and which they ultimately hope those projects will bring in a profit on the capital employed . |