Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It plays full-size discs and can therefore benefit from the international range of CD-I discs made available for full size , in situ CD-I players . |
| 2 | What ‘ Back In Denim ’ is really saying as it launches spiteful attacks on Duran Duran and mourns David Cassidy 's retirement , is that Pop Music Is Important , as much a part of our lives , our personalities as the polluted air we breathe and the clothes we choose to wear . |
| 3 | It encourages woman-centred psychologists to ignore the wider discursive structuring of methodology , and to assume that revaluing a traditionally female-identified method positively guarantees its feminism . |
| 4 | all the memory cells and it destroys recent ones so she ca n't remember things from recent but she can remember things from years and years and years ago , it 's really funny . |
| 5 | If it sells it to the Third World , it destroys local economies . |
| 6 | It denotes different levels in the staff hierarchy . |
| 7 | Linguistic posturing of this sort is the extreme reaction of a character in an extreme situation , but it dramatizes rhetorical manoeuvres available to both men and women who are forced into a position of discursive subservience . |
| 8 | The climate has this moderating power because it influences organizational processes such as communications , problem-solving , decision-making and the psychological processes of learning and motivation . |
| 9 | In Shklovsky 's view , Sterne 's Tristram Shandy consists of a series of violations of literary conventions which draw our attention to the forms of fiction ; in so doing it transforms formal questions into content . |
| 10 | A baby separated from its mother also uses infrasound , and when suckling it emits infrasonic versions of a human baby 's gurgles . |
| 11 | Punctuation is a way of showing your reader the structure of your sentences : it separates successive units ( such as sentences by full stops , or items in a list by commas ) and specifies what function words have ( for example when an apostrophe indicates possession ) . |
| 12 | It goes round corners as if it 's on rails . ’ |
| 13 | It harasses other gulls until they drop their hard-won food and then swoops down to catch it — often in mid-air . |
| 14 | This has the advantage of relating expenditure to sales , but it discourages innovative approaches to advertising expenditure and does not allow for distinctions to be made between products or sales territories . |
| 15 | The central paradox of this kind of ‘ trading places ’ is that through the very symmetry of its inversions it postulates imaginary correspondences between black and white positions even as it seeks to naturalize difference and domination . |
| 16 | Illustrate the bank 's profit-maximising balance sheet on the assumption that it grants new advances . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Detecting water movements helps many insects of fast-flowing streams to maintain their position , and it alerts aquatic leeches to the approach of animals which might provide a meal of blood . |
| 19 | First , like all others , it represents general tendencies rather than exact categories . |
| 20 | Any initial work in multicultural mathematics may be seen to be tokenistic , especially if the only obvious reason for its inclusion is that it represents other cultures . |
| 21 | It represents positive results in 75 per cent of games , with 32 wins by the home side and 22 by the visitors . |
| 22 | Third , although Schrager and Short 's definition directs attention to physical as well as economic consequences of corporate crime , it neglects important victims , namely other corporations and organizations ( Vaughan 1980 ) . |
| 23 | It involves regular tests on grass , water , even cows milk . |
| 24 | For turbulence the problem manifests itself as follows : when one formulates an equation for the double correlation function it involves triple correlations , an equation for these involves fourth-order ones ; and so on . |
| 25 | that if we pass on some of your comments at the end of the section , maybe they 'll be able to arrange , maybe in two or three months time a visit that most of us can make , particularly those of you who missed it , because it is an important experience , but obviously quite difficult to arrange , because it involves real tenants and real people but we can pass that back , and I 'm sure the officers will consider it . |
| 26 | How near is your proposed venue to airports ( if it involves international visitors ) , and the road and rail links . |
| 27 | While Cubism aims at purity of draughtsmanship , Orphism is an attempt at ‘ pure ’ painting , not that it involves pure colours , that is to say colours as they come out of the tube . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | An ex-employee is thus allowed to make use of his own memory of the work he has carried out in his previous employment unless it involves genuine secrets or is covered by an express term in the contract of employment . |
| 30 | But if it involves simple images , there 's no need to buy the most complicated package . |