Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , it plays little part in standard accounts of the history of English before about 1600 , and in ME stop-deleted forms ( such as bes , lan : ‘ best , land ’ ) are amongst the forms that are typically corrected by textual editors as errors . |
| 2 | Since history affects people 's decisions , it plays some part in producing future history . |
| 3 | This study aimed to define the route whereby EGF gains access to the oesophageal epithelium , by immunohistochemical determination of the EGF distribution in biopsy specimens from healthy and diseased oesophageal mucosa , to determine whether it plays any role in the pathogenesis of oesophagitis . |
| 4 | It supplies much information which even the specialized dictionaries of technical and scientific subjects do not provide . |
| 5 | The subterranean passage view offers a plausible account of how the monsters could feed , but unfortunately in doing so it destroys another theory about ‘ Nessie ’ , which is that the animal is a relic of the dinosaur age , possibly a plesiosaur . |
| 6 | This might seem onerous but it guarantees that configuration control is maintained and , with some care , should be a very unusual occurrence . |
| 7 | ‘ It sleeps all day and most of the night . ’ |
| 8 | about , no , no it 's only about a fortnight ago , I was on site doing a job and I come out and as far as you know what you call courtesy dial in a card , so that you do n't cut anybody off , you can dial it and everybody says oh what 's going off , you know , you can courtesy dial it , when we 've finished it shuts that channel down |
| 9 | So you dye it yellow and then you dye it blue and it goes that green . |
| 10 | this , this , they only start from sort of like , there 's the house , and it goes half way up the garden , so I want fifty up at one side , and put fifty to go up other side , I want fifty to go across the garden , and they 're gon na go across the garden and cut the garden in half |
| 11 | Sir Kenneth Newman — then commandant — suggests that the book 's claim to attention is that its contents are contributed by insiders ; while in their introduction , the authors claim it goes some way to challenging Holdaway 's claim ( 1979 ) that ‘ research from the Police Staff College has not resulted in a major project on the police ’ . |
| 12 | If this is correct , it goes some way towards dealing with cases of ‘ cumulative provocation ’ , and towards a broader defence of emotional pressure . |
| 13 | Surely a forlorn ambition , but it goes some way to explain , what would otherwise be so difficult to understand , why eminent members of the nascent |
| 14 | Most of the old great Elf towns date from this period and it goes some way towards accounting for their remoteness . |
| 15 | All this formed a background to the first century of crusading ; and it goes some way to explaining the more secular aspects of the magnetism which drew French knights to take up the cross in their thousands . |
| 16 | It probably means that the average family is a much more relaxed affair than the traditional Scottish household used to be , but it goes some way towards explaining the numbers of children at risk in our society from adults outside the home , as well as from their own undisciplined emotions . |
| 17 | On the twin assumptions that workers act rationally and that time is divided between work and leisure , it follows that if taxation encourages more leisure then it discourages more work and vice versa . |
| 18 | This is partly because Spain wants ‘ economic union ’ , by which it understands more aid for poorer countries , to be in place to cushion the shock of the monetary sort . |
| 19 | It is keen to exploit the so-called personal communications market — supposedly destined to grow from one million world users in 1994 to 100 million by 2000 — and having a finger in both pies means it wins either way . |
| 20 | Although it receives little publicity outside the ICI Group , Chlor-chemicals is one of ICI 's longest standing and most consistently successful businesses . |
| 21 | It is a strong , resilient , twisted rope to which the baby is attached in the womb , and through which it receives all nourishment until birth , when the cord is severed . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , the BBC SSO is holding fire on balloting its members until it receives more information about the merger to create a National Orchestra of Scotland , which would double as the orchestra for both the BBC and SO . |
| 23 | With the detector in omnidirectional mode it bleeps when it receives any radar swap from within 5 miles ( 8 km ) . |
| 24 | The lysosome is called a ‘ suicide bag ’ said Prof Mayer , not only because it digests any waste materials by the use of powerful enzymes but also because this cocktail can kill off the cell . |
| 25 | For it represents another step in the royal progress towards real life . |
| 26 | It represents another arm of holiday firm diversification . |
| 27 | While he agrees that it involves more risk , it does not deter him . |
| 28 | In the second place , it involves some intention to maintain that control on the part of the possessor . |
| 29 | In many ways the VDU command is similar to a PRINT CHR$ ( num ) command , but it involves less typing and a number of characters may be easily sent . |
| 30 | Whilst this is more difficult to remember , it involves less typing . |