Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The noxious substance contained in the two anal glands , one on either side of the animal 's rectum , is called butyl mercaptan and it plays havoc with a predator 's face . |
| 2 | In May you can visit its arts festival , and in September , it plays host to a famous antiques fair . |
| 3 | It plays host to an array of events ; from weekly activities such as quiz nights and live music on Friday , to special parties and celebrations . |
| 4 | The North Yorkshire resort of Whitby promises to be a particularly noisy place later this month when it plays host to the region 's first-ever town criers ' competition . |
| 5 | ‘ It plays hell with the tyres , senator ! ’ |
| 6 | Because the presentation is diagrammatic , needing no specialist knowledge to construct or discuss , it encourages discussion between workers of different disciplines and backgrounds who are collaborating on a project . |
| 7 | The bubble policy is efficient because it encourages equalization of the marginal cost of cutting back pollution at different plants within the firm . |
| 8 | Such a system is inherently inflationary as it encourages escalation of costs and there is no evidence that it gives any encouragement to the cost effective use of different procedures since the health care suppliers know that , whatever the cost , they will be reimbursed . |
| 9 | Such a system is inherently inflationary as it encourages escalation of costs . |
| 10 | Familiarity can also encourage a mutual sense of trust which enhances the officer 's capacity to detect and control because it encourages self-reporting of deviance . |
| 11 | Do n't place a mirror over an open fire , it encourages people of all ages to stand too close . |
| 12 | It intensifies debate about gender differences , and acts against the pacifying , inoculating effects egalitarian feminist psychology often has . |
| 13 | Second , it supplies hardware from most of the major vendors , including IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co . |
| 14 | It supplies stores like Harrods and Selfridges as well as having a big export market . |
| 15 | The first category has the greatest potential for ambiguity , for it requires more interpretative work , in that it associates places with types of people . |
| 16 | It drains humanity of its humour , reduces adults ' behaviour to that of petulant children . |
| 17 | It destroys hope for a better life . |
| 18 | When used with the bare infinitive , it denotes a direct experiencing of , and so contemporaneity in time with , an occurrence and can often be replaced by see — although it denotes perception in a more abstract way than the latter — or by have in its experiential sense : ( 93 ) Rather surprised to find them break fence at this season . |
| 19 | Freud refers to this process of strengthening of the superego as the ‘ most precious cultural asset ’ , and observes that it turns enemies of civilization into its vehicles , and greatly enhances the security of culture . |
| 20 | In Chur , the oldest town , it turns north to Liechtenstein and Germany . |
| 21 | Visionary leadership creates drama ; it turns work into play . |
| 22 | Separation gives us so much else , for it turns part of our minds into a sanctuary . |
| 23 | It turns neighbour against neighbour , breaking down trust in a way that the paramilitary organisations are finding easy to exploit . |
| 24 | It slinks greyly among the marram grass ; it slides over and under barbed wire ; it makes an eagle lose direction and settles a dank wetness on his feathers ; it softens the landscape into obscurity , it hides the familiar cliffs , it turns sheep into monsters and highland cattle into roaring mountains which lurch up towards an eagle out of the clinging mist . |
| 25 | A novel development , the company claims , it turns Macs into cheap workstations . |
| 26 | It turns Jones into penniless Jones , Smith into penniless Smith , and if I rob Smith and Jones together they have n't a penny between them . |
| 27 | To have found it turns evil to great good . |
| 28 | Although the desire to become a home-owner may represent a genuine social aspiration for these women and their families , there is no evidence that it guarantees satisfaction with housework : the housewives in the sample who did own their homes were no more satisfied than those whose homes were rented . |
| 29 | It guarantees sales of 160 million tonnes of coal over five years to the electricity generators , but will phase out subsidies prior to privatization , which is to be speeded up . |
| 30 | Another farmer , Crematogaster borneensis , is no less solicitous ; it excavates chambers in the stems of the Macaranga tree ( a member of the spurge family ) in which to shelter its brood and its livestock . |