Example sentences of "it [vb -s] new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contact with it turns new wine sour , crops touched by it become barren , grafts die , seeds in gardens are dried up , the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled , hives of bees die , even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust , and a horrible smell fills the air ; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison … |
| 2 | Illustrate the bank 's profit-maximising balance sheet on the assumption that it grants new advances . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In addition , it involves new technology and we would hope that once the system is perfected large scale orders will follow . |
| 6 | Applied to ecology , hierarchy theory throws new light on old knowledge , it offers new models to test , and it tells ecologists where to look for phenomena that might not be apparent to human senses . |
| 7 | It offers new opportunities , a new way of life , and a new independence . |
| 8 | On the other hand we all know that any social and political change — call it revolution or not , it does n't really matter — is meaningful only if it builds new institutions . |
| 9 | It incorporates new instructions , more pipelining than expected , support for single-precision arithmetic and a new cache structure . |
| 10 | it needs new batteries |
| 11 | It has new modules for Sceptre and Senator ; it is collaborating with another unnamed software house on a broking evaluation product , which is about to be tested . |
| 12 | It is no longer dominated by established tradition , or established religious beliefs ; it has new populations with new sets of consciousness . |
| 13 | It plans new satellite launches in the next two years which will provide full global coverage . |
| 14 | It features new stone sculptures intended to be shown outdoors as well as in the gallery , a new red ‘ Void ’ from that continuing series of wall sculptures , one of which was shown in Kapoor 's pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1990 , and material related to the stage designs which he made for recent performances by dancer Laurie Booth at the Queen Elizabeth Hall . |
| 15 | It monitors new developments in brewing and serving beer . |
| 16 | It monitors new developments in brewing and reports on such matters as ingredients and methods of storing beer . |
| 17 | Tidy up borders , but wait until spring before taking dead foliage off herbaceous plants , as it protects new shoots . |
| 18 | It introduces new arrangements for degree-awarding powers and for achieving university status . |
| 19 | Recently completed at a cost of £3.6 million , it includes new paving , lights , litter bins , planters , telephone kiosks and seats — all the usual paraphernalia which fills every city street from which the traffic has been taken away . |
| 20 | The book is an imaginative outgrowth of practical criticism , but it breaks new ground in its choice of late Augustan poets — Charles Wesley and Samuel Johnson — and ( by a bold leap of association ) Wordsworth , Coleridge and the later Romantics : its chapter on ‘ Shelley 's urbanity ’ , paradoxical in its very title , showing the entry of a commanding new critical voice . |
| 21 | Fidelity believes it breaks new ground by getting over the problem that has stopped unit trusts from showing any real growth since the Great Crash five years ago namely that 90pc of unit trusts are in high risk equities , whereas 90pc of savings are in low risk investments such as banks or building societies . |
| 22 | Often , as the new feature is formed , so it creates new currents , which begin the destruction all over again . |
| 23 | for art historians , incomplete schemes or dismembered works such as altarpieces have the attraction of needing detective work ; but a critic takes an interest in a reconstruction only if it throws new light on surviving art . |
| 24 | Roughly translated it means new beginnings — it dates back to the thirteenth century and confers a purely honourary degree — something to put in a ’ Who 's Who ’ entry . |
| 25 | It means new funds going into the banks as a result of liquidating assets have cost more . |
| 26 | It recommends new laboratories to study the possibilities of long-term storage . |
| 27 | The ‘ succession ’ of plant life as it colonises new territory takes the vegetation of the areas through a series of phases , culminating in woodland . |
| 28 | Some commentators see The Stock Exchange 's rejection of the option to relaunch and reposition the second market as a mistake , as it deprives new growth companies of a low cost source of equity capital . |
| 29 | Barry Morse quoted by Kersey : ‘ It lends new meaning to the phrase ‘ keeping a shop ’ . ’ |
| 30 | Where logically necessary , it generates new linking text , and tries to rearrange the whole assembly of statements into their neatest logical tree . |