Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boundary-maintaining function , as stated by Erikson , says that crime and the response it evokes provide the essential function of defining and maintaining the moral boundaries of society . |
| 2 | The purchaser will use its reasonable endeavours to obtain the release of any personal guarantees made by the Directors in respect of ABC and its subsidiary companies ' existing obligations relating to the business of ABC and subsidiaries ( which after investigating such guarantees and terms of release it agrees to obtain the release of ) and pending such release will indemnify the Directors against any claims under such guarantees . |
| 3 | Today the department of transport said only that it ontinues to support the council 's road safety measures . |
| 4 | And power which is generated there goes to heat and light the city of Niagara , and some of it goes to cook the dinners in the city of Toronto , and some of it heats the homes in the city of Buffalo . |
| 5 | It goes to prove the point that you should always check exactly what you are buying . |
| 6 | Paradoxically , it involves supporting the peseta by granting the right to sell it . |
| 7 | As such , it involves using the survey as a method which , through its design , allows for the testing of theoretically derived hypotheses : this was partly consequent upon the development of statistical methodology . |
| 8 | It involves sucking the contaminated oil into a cleaning system housed in a mobile trailer , cleaning it and returning it to the transformer . |
| 9 | It involves fermenting the wine twice . |
| 10 | It involves fitting the rear of a standard tanker with a parallelogram linkage and then mounting a three , four or five tine injector unit to it . |
| 11 | The withdrawal of English Heritage from looking after the Grade II listed buildings in the capital — those which make up much of its historic fabric — is viewed as alarming because it involves dismantling the highly professional architectural conservation division , with its unifying role , which English Heritage inherited in 1986 when the Greater London Council was abolished . |
| 12 | It involves recognising the crucial element which is similar in each context , and is the basis of acquired cue value ( Rivers 1964 ) . |
| 13 | The tough love hurts the family member not simply because it involves allowing the primary sufferer to experience the full painful consequences of addictive disease but also because it involves the family member in resisting his or her own addictive urges to " fix " all the problems and manage the life of the primary sufferer . |
| 14 | It involves bringing the piece itself before a Committee of State experts ; they declare its value and charge 100% Custom fees . |
| 15 | First , it involves bringing the exclusion directly to the attention of the buyer . |
| 16 | As a mode of explanation it involves bringing the outside in , and linking the particular to the general . |
| 17 | Transnational corporate corruption is therefore perhaps the most pernicious form of crime in the world today because it involves robbing the poor to feed the rich , and brings into political power rulers and administrators who in general will put self-interest ahead of the public interest , and transnational corporation interest ahead of national interest . ’ |
| 18 | This is a highly skilled and sensitive business , but it is a capacity which will be in increasing demand from management developers : it involves combining the skills of the counsellor with those of the management consultant . |
| 19 | This is more than blaming the victim , it involves making the victim part of the problem . |
| 20 | Most guitarists have heard of the ‘ waxing ’ method of eliminating feedback , but unfortunately this is a difficult process to carry out at home as it involves dipping the whole pickup assembly into hot paraffin wax , which has to be carried out at a controlled temperature : too hot and the bobbins melt , too cold and the wax does n't penetrate the coil windings . |
| 21 | It involves lowering the existing lake in Albert Park , constructing a new one in the south eastern corner of the park where the children 's playground is at present , and diverting Marton West Beck into the new lake as a buried overflow pipe . |
| 22 | The quest to solve it involves raising the living standards of two-thirds of the world 's population . |
| 23 | Essentially it involves reducing the individual words to their root index . |
| 24 | This is a much more difficult question to answer , because it involves applying the quantum principle to the structure of time and space themselves and not just to particle paths in a given space-time background . |
| 25 | It involves injecting the substance into the mice 's lungs , a treatment which could not be used on humans . |
| 26 | It involves selecting the best channels by which to ensure the movement of goods and services from their original suppliers to their eventual consumers . |
| 27 | More typically , it sits to give the final yea or nay to policies generated within the bureaucracy and the network of cabinet committees . |
| 28 | The United Kingdom , the Kingdom of Belgium and the Hellenic Republic argue , however , that the position is different when it comes to the competence of each state under public international law to define as it thinks fit the conditions upon which it grants to a vessel the right to fly its flag . |
| 29 | In the case of exercise it appears that the body becomes addicted to the endorphins it produces to ameliorate the pain and stress . |
| 30 | This policy was formulated in 1976 , and the range of locational , growth and service features that it incorporates illustrates the increased sophistication that now characterizes selected settlement policies ( Lockhart 1982 ) . |