Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It induces parties to submit their disputes voluntarily to conciliation or administrative decision and , in some areas such as divorce and custody , it involves them in working out a private solution , thus enhancing their acceptance of the outcome . |
| 32 | At other times it involves them in working with familiar phenomena . |
| 33 | In situations of moral dilemma he does what he considers must be done , even though it involves him in distress and suffering . |
| 34 | This he will normally be planning to do , but it involves him in a more considerable recasting of his planned activities than the university teacher , and brings him into contact with many more parts of the school life . |
| 35 | A rite is part of the culture the individual is born into , and it imposes itself on him from the outside like the rest of his culture . |
| 36 | Now , after every Hong Kong citizen with a television set has seen how Peking treats its dissenters , it offers nothing to a public whose mood has become one of restrained panic . |
| 37 | It offers none of the support for removable drives ( floppies and Syquest volumes ) that Stacker provides , which some will doubtless miss , but is purely and simply ( and simple is the watch word here ) a device for squeezing more data onto a fixed disk drive . |
| 38 | Mr Wakeley is enthusiastic about CD-Rom 's potential : ‘ It offers lots of advantages , it 's cheap , safe and the discs ca n't be erased . |
| 39 | It prides itself on this fact and points out in its brochure that while a large group can offer a wide range of services ‘ many of which you are unlikely to want … its investment managers suffer from real problems and conflicts of interest : supporting in-house issues , buying in-house unit trusts , helping its market makers and churning portfolios ’ . |
| 40 | Whilst other sections of the population are clearly severely affected by these government policies , disabled people experience these particular ‘ reforms ’ as an attack on their human right not to be incarcerated without trial and conviction , in so far as it renders it in some cases impossible to live outside institutions . |
| 41 | ‘ The forgetfulness and repeating things all the time — it drives me round the bend . ’ |
| 42 | It hates you for putting it there , but is loyal to you because you bring it food . |
| 43 | That there was a pattern for her in Lermontov 's novel is conceivable : but it ca n't be claimed that it fits her with exactitude , or that it provides an explanation of her conduct . |
| 44 | What we require is a formulation of that universal imperative to take into account in choices which imposes its authority whenever something is recognized to exist , whenever it confronts us as not illusory but real . |
| 45 | It is also shocking because it confronts us with her body , an old woman 's body with cancer , only touched when it is being cut or hit . |
| 46 | So it behoves you to be wary when planting . |
| 47 | But I wish to relate to the council a particular episode , which I hope will convey something to those people who are perhaps still wavering erm , and whilst we all have principle stands on issues it behoves us as members to consider the views of our constituents and the sorts of things that take place in our wards . |
| 48 | It behoves us to be sceptical , then , about Victorian genealogical status symbols ; frequently there is an inverse proportion between the degree of pomp and the humble nature of the ancestry . |
| 49 | It disguises itself in the trappings of its rival ’ ( p. 1 13 ) . |
| 50 | It focusses them on some of the visual clues they might otherwise miss . |
| 51 | Relatively undemanding , it needs plenty of light and iron fertilisation . |
| 52 | Spacing should be about 23cm ( 9in ) , and it needs plenty of sun and well-drained but fertile soil . |
| 53 | It needs somebody with or whatever you see . |
| 54 | i , but it needs two of us , it needs somebody on the inside and somebody on the out just to stop them flying through it . |
| 55 | ‘ Ideally it needs someone from Alton . |
| 56 | ‘ It 's now coming up for its 12,000 mile service , and does n't feel as though it needs it at all . |
| 57 | Women bear children in rapid succession when young and when they can no longer face the prospect of another child , they choose sterilization because it exempts them from having to take conscious and continuing responsibility for their own fertility in a culture which constantly denies women this right . |
| 58 | The secret of Proudfoot 's success is hard to encapsulate but it owes something to its leadership in productivity consultancy , advice which is likely to have enduring appeal when times are hard . |
| 59 | It owes everything to the puppets but the tongue is firmly in the cheek for this production of Thunderbirds … |
| 60 | It covers me for the preparation work to an industrial tribunal . |