Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The forest is important as a source of food , since some gardens are situated in it , and it supplies palm wine , fibre for making clothes , wood for house construction and also a variety of sacred medicines . |
| 2 | He performs the test and demonstrates that the evolving gas is carbon dioxide by showing that it turns lime water milky . |
| 3 | It guarantees record viewing figures in Italy , more than films or variety shows . |
| 4 | On ozone , it records world consumption of chlorofluorocarbons and halons as 1.17 million tonnes , of which the EC accounts for 318,000 tonnes . |
| 5 | The TM operates on the same principles as the MSS , but it has a ground resolution or pixel size of 30 x 30 m rather than 57 x 79 m , and it records ground reflection in six , not four , wavebands . |
| 6 | Before it goes phut Death Becomes Her manages to show us Streep at her best and confirms Robert Zemeckis as the ultimate purveyor of films for the fast-forward MTV generation . |
| 7 | But there 's a , then underneath it goes record stroke underneath it , battery . |
| 8 | It grants outline planning permission for the construction of those works prescribed by the Act but the detail still has to be agreed through the normal planning process . |
| 9 | It also deprives the country of aid programmes of about $350 million a year , a modest sum in itself ; but as it represents IMF endorsement it is the key to unlocking further substantial bilateral aid to support the economy . |
| 10 | This dynamic function of money stems from the fact that it represents purchasing power , which , when exercised , stimulates production of goods and services . |
| 11 | It turns from Proust 's text and looks outward to the language system in general ; and at the same time it represents de Man 's voice speaking from outside and intruding into Proust 's text . |
| 12 | It involves order processing , warehousing and transport and related activities . |
| 13 | In science it involves peer review — other scientists examine , criticise , and question your work and only when you pass this rigorous vetting can you be truly confident that the work is valid . |
| 14 | It is highly technical not just in the sense that it involves computer technology but also because it is totally based in the area of printing . |
| 15 | It involves capital spending of £79 million over the next 12 years , plus up to £3.3 million a year revenue spending on schemes including pedestrianisation , traffic calming , cycle paths , improved bus facilities , more railway stations , and new rail links to Alloa and , later , to Grangemouth . |
| 16 | This approach is broadly statistical in nature , as it involves corpus analysis to determine the empirical likelihood of various syntactic combinations . |
| 17 | Early in April , the European Commission persuaded the Japanese government to cut 1993 car imports by 9.4% from last year , even though it thinks EC demand will fall by only 6.5% . |
| 18 | The strategy of the Bank of England is to bring forward auctions and offers for sale by tender at times when it thinks market demand will be strong and not at times when prices are falling . |
| 19 | It offers price discovery for market participants and , if coupled with liquidity , will encourage them to use exchange prices as a marker or bench mark for other business . |
| 20 | The main advantage of forfaiting is that it offers 100% finance . |
| 21 | It offers 8,192Mb RAM per unit , with a system maximum of 65,536Mb . |
| 22 | It offers 8,192Mb RAM per unit , with a system maximum of 65,536Mb . |
| 23 | Kaprun is unique in that it offers summer skiing , along with a multitude of other activities . |
| 24 | It offers research training across the whole spectrum of the discipline of Geography . |
| 25 | It offers motion video at 10 to 15 frames per second at transmission rates of 112Kbps or 128Kbps . |
| 26 | It offers database management , desktop publishing and direct mail services and numbers IBM , Bowater , First Leisure and the Northumbria Tourist Board among its customers . |
| 27 | It offers network security through data encryption , audit trails and user password , and TCP/IP support enables simultaneous connection to multiple systems with a variety of network protocols . |
| 28 | It dumps taciturn criminal Bill ( Burke ) and his vacationing student brother Dennis ( Sage ) in a Long Island small-town . |
| 29 | The latter is subscribed by institutions and is , in commercial terms , more in the nature of a loan carrying a fixed rate of interest than equity , though it constitutes share capital for company law and tax purposes . |
| 30 | If proven that it constitutes Treasure Trove ( i.e. it was buried with the intention of later removal , rather than as part of a funerary burial ) , it is most likely to be retained by the Crown for the British Museum and the finder paid a sum equal to the market value of what is retained . |