Example sentences of "it [vb -s] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It petrifies the governess and she gets into an acute state of anxiety . |
| 2 | It evokes the wonder and richness of creation from formlessness to teeming life . |
| 3 | Of particular interest is the recurrence , amid abstract patterns , of an affective ornament known as the chute , which Campra had earlier associated with flute timbre and ornamented , French-style melody in Alcine to depict enchantment : it evokes the sighing of lovers whom the sorceress has turned into trees ( Act 2 , scene 1 ) and the music heard in Alcine 's Labyrinth of Love ( Act 3 , scene 1 ) . |
| 4 | TO SOMEONE who has , in the past , had her intelligence insulted by experts , it presented no problem at all , last week , to respond to two programme makers with a sceptical , ‘ Pull the other one , dear , it plays The Bells Of St Mary 's . ’ |
| 5 | Intel Corp has no intention of consigning its 80486 processor to the scrapheap when it launches the Pentium , and later this year it will come out with a 100MHz clock-tripler 80486DX3 version of the part , US PC Week reports . |
| 6 | The approach used by Watts and Quimby does not have these problems , however , it encourages the subject to focus on the external environment in order to answer the question , moreover it makes the assumption that subjective risk is determined only by the chances of a near miss , it may clearly relate to other factors as well ( e.g. severity of consequences in an actual accident , presence of a police car , unpredictability of pedestrians ) . |
| 7 | Of course yes I know it encourages the pigeons and they make a mess but anything to beautify the inner city . |
| 8 | It encourages the conditions for crime in communities that already feel more impact from crime because they contain more victims of crime , as well as more offenders . |
| 9 | It encourages the formation of farmer cooperatives and advances them loans for irrigation pumps . |
| 10 | Competition may be no bad thing if it encourages the development of new perspectives , sets standards and encourages groups to improve their performance . |
| 11 | It encourages the purchase of strong and well known products and brands , and emphasises those products and services which confer status and make life as secure and predictable as possible . |
| 12 | The foot placement is very important as it encourages the rest of the body to take up a good position . |
| 13 | The justification of the partnership approach is that it encourages the notions of quality and excellence , whilst providing a framework within which a wide range of activities can be given a sense of coherence and wholeness . |
| 14 | This will have a profound influence on the structure of the industry in the way it encourages the emergence of new corporate actors in the sector . |
| 15 | As a facilitator of management activities this imposes an opportunity — cost framework in that it encourages the reappraising of how differing expenditure patterns can best make a contribution to achieving organisational objectives . |
| 16 | She said : ‘ It encourages the children to go and talk to their grandparents and great-grandparents and other old people about their days at school . |
| 17 | Demonstrative reference is clearly an important aspect of the deixis of the poem : it encourages the reader to process the deictic meanings in a specific way . |
| 18 | it encourages the perception of pupils ' attainments as being at one of a number of discrete ‘ levels ’ . |
| 19 | Elsewhere , the close-up , detailed approach which works brilliantly , say , for Imogen Stubbs 's affecting Desdemona ( the pathos of her disoriented , jittery jauntiness intensified by beautiful touches such as the sepia photograph of her estranged father she keeps on the bedside table in Cyprus or the chocolates from Casio that she has secreted in a locked draw , not because she fears sexual misconstruction but because she would like to be thought too grown-up for frivolous sweet-guzzling by Othello ) paradoxically diminishes Iago because it encourages the belief that he can be realistically ‘ explained ’ like a figure in a novel . |
| 20 | Secondly , it encourages the belief and even resentment outside the area that most loose government money is going to nationalist West Belfast . |
| 21 | It allies the development of contemporary feminism to wider political upheavals of black consciousness in America and student protests in Europe . |
| 22 | Food is essential to human life because it supplies the energy required by living cells for maintenance , repair and activity . |
| 23 | It supplies the background for appreciating the many exciting advances currently unfolding . |
| 24 | The more the puppy is travel sick , the more it associates the car with a bad experience and the harder it is to break this association . |
| 25 | that it drains the street and all you see |
| 26 | It sours the relationship a bit . |
| 27 | ‘ However , it destroys the possibility that the child is motivated to co-operate for himself , ’ says Jackson . |
| 28 | ‘ Total im-mersion is debilitating , ’ she told me , adding : ‘ It destroys the muscles of the breast . ’ |
| 29 | Taxol was discovered in America ; a chemical found in the Pacific Yew tree it can paralyse cancer cells , but extracting it destroys the tree . |
| 30 | They produce beef that no one will buy at the price at which they want to sell it , so they are subsidised by the European taxpayer to dump it in West Africa , where it destroys the livelihoods of poor farmers . |