Example sentences of "it [vb -s] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharp , clean minimal arts in such a rough space will make an interesting contrast and it launches an exhibition programme by the imaginative Jopling , who will be looking for unusual spaces for showing art as a solution to the uncertainties , expenses and predictability of opening his own gallery . |
| 2 | What is legally disturbing is that this aspect appears in a summing-up at all , since it encourages an assumption that a libel has been perpetrated . |
| 3 | It denotes an illness in which the action of the mind creates a damaging reaction in the body , with physical symptoms that can be observed or measured . |
| 4 | Here again it denotes an event whose occurrence was unexpected . |
| 5 | It denotes an attempt to unify society through ‘ corporations ’ , each of which has a monopoly on the representation of particular categories of workers , professions and business ( capital ) . |
| 6 | It forbids an attitude rather than an action . |
| 7 | The stepwise progression of colorectal cancer through a series of genetic alterations as proposed by Vogelstein is attractive in that it postulates an inter-relationship between the accumulation of genertic changes and tumour stage . |
| 8 | If there is a particular site for which you want to be kept informed of any future development , you can ask the planning department to tell you if it receives an application affecting it . |
| 9 | Yet it represents an angle to the horizontal of less than 6° . |
| 10 | It represents an asset capable of many further applications by the OUP in extending its range of English language reference books . |
| 11 | The influx of new citizens from Russia may be exacerbating the friction in the settlements being established in the Israeli-administered territories won from the country 's Arab neighbours in the various attacks on the country since 1948 , and it represents an exodus of skills that Russia can ill afford to lose , but it is doing nothing but good for the vibrant information technology sector of the Israeli economy . |
| 12 | The challenge of AIDS involves more than individual sexual behaviour : it represents an opportunity to work through our commonest societal fears–and taboos , to reach new understanding and evolve compassionate action . |
| 13 | And for me , it represents an opportunity to complete the kind of Freud-Darwin synthesis I 've been working on really , for the last ten years , and it kind of represents the completion of the synthesis , as it were now completely merged in my mind into a single , the single kind of entity that I , I know call psychoanalytic . |
| 14 | We typically have a relatively short micro-instruction format ( perhaps 16 bits ) , part of which specifies how the remainder of the micro-instruction is to be interpreted ( that is , it represents an operation code ) . |
| 15 | The third component should be written off against profit if it represents an overpayment or transferred to reserves if an underpayment . |
| 16 | The right to demand a dissolution is the most striking example , since it represents an appeal from the legal to the political sovereign . |
| 17 | Indeed a similar equivocal attitude exists towards the issue of council-house sales , some women ( like some socialists ) even appearing to endorse the ‘ right to buy ’ clause in the new Act , presumably on the basis that it represents an avenue for women to enter into the private market ( Brion and Tinker , 1980 , p. 43 ) . |
| 18 | It represents an attempt to solve the problem by logic-chopping . |
| 19 | We have already seen that you will not be able to rely upon employment law rights if , in reality , you are not an employee or if your contract is unenforceable , as when it involves an element of illegality . |
| 20 | The essence of the crime of assault , as distinct from battery , is that it involves an apprehension of the immediate application of unlawful force . |
| 21 | It involves an act of imagination to see one 's society and culture through the eyes , as it were , of someone from a different culture , to whom the normal ways of living and acting in Western societies appear odd and to demand explanation . |
| 22 | It involves an attitude of extreme asceticism and a hatred of all worldly things — especially the pleasures of the flesh . |
| 23 | It involves an analysis of environmental trends likely to affect sales levels , and a detailed examination of those environmental conditions ( such as changes in people 's life-style , standard of education ( etc ) ) for which specific forecasts have to be constructed . |
| 24 | The new procedure is simple in that it involves an application form having three parts on the front of it ( the declaration of means being on the back ) , first the information about the applicant and the charge , second a part to be completed by the Sheriff Clerk , and last a part to bc completed by the Local Secretary . |
| 25 | Section 13(4) removes ‘ conspiracy to injure ’ from the field of trade disputes because it involves an action which would not be actionable in tort if done without agreement or combination . |
| 26 | A typical objection against it might be that it involves an attempt to settle a metaphysical issue without first clarifying the conditions under which such an issue can be meaningfully discussed . |
| 27 | The very resonant recording is no help , and in Acis it imposes an ambience that I find quite alien to this fresh pastoral . |
| 28 | It offers an opportunity to engage in group delinquency and , occasionally , in group fights . |
| 29 | He declared that it provides time for the family to gather or the body to be transported home and it offers an opportunity for them to see the person in a state of peaceful repose . |
| 30 | It offers an opportunity to improve the environment of the United Kingdom generally , by taking traffic off the roads and by diverting some of the airline traffic which causes such congestion because the link will probably provide an equally fast alternative route to the continent . |