Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] it [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not clear if the Government 's tactics over the last few days are typical of the muddle that has beset it in recent months or if it is deliberately designed to throw its opponents into confusion . |
| 2 | Brook has not simply plonked the cameras in front of his original production : he has re-conceived it in filmic terms , making obvious concessions to cinematic literalism while retaining the sense of wonder . |
| 3 | I I 've got to say that it 's somebody that 's got a personal project that has done it in one force ai n't it . |
| 4 | So can you er look at it in that light and you will see of course that and I can understand why Mr has done it in this way , he has actually broken down er his the approach to this to looking at this criterion , under the three heads , road , rail and bus . |
| 5 | I 've scoured the the technical professional press to find out if there is some general statement which sums up what sustainability means , and the one which I 've seen most commonly referred to , I think , and the government has used it in this way , is a requirement to ensure the needs of the present generation are met in a way which does not prejudice future generations , now I do not believe that a properly conceived and located new settlement is any less sustainable in the long term that other forms of urban growth , and by properly conceived I 've got to say I believe that to mean properly balanced er form of development for the new settlement , and I think I would say that new settlements have usually been proposed because continued infilling , like the the normal forms of accommodating further development requirements , infill , and peripheral development , have been determined in York context not to be sustainable , the sorts of issues which arise as a result erm of additional development in or on the edge of York and the surrounding villages , problems of additional congestion , loss of green space in towns , loss of employment opportunities and so on . |
| 6 | Whatever the outcome , the UK financial sector has entered a period of increasing risk and uncertainty in which it remains to be seen whether the deregulation of the 1980s has provided it with competitive advantages . |
| 7 | Most of the money for the campaign has come from the central government and the United Nations , but it seems to be Marxist enthusiasm that has put it to good use . |
| 8 | Her family 's history , although nobody has recorded it in such detail , seems to have been almost as adventurous as that of the Crankos . |
| 9 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 10 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 11 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 12 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 13 | I think it was a car that she 'd had for was well looked after her dad used to see to it for her but it was she 'd had it for some years and she was always poodling about in you see . |
| 14 | As I put on a plaster in here an hour ago , I wondered if I 'd left it on that shelf above the sink . |
| 15 | Well yeah but , cos I mean I 'd left it on all night before . |
| 16 | The race was the brainchild of Chay Blythe , he 'd planned it for 4 years and raised the money for 10 million pound yachts . |
| 17 | She 'd chosen it for that reason — and because it was the colour of wine . |
| 18 | Presumably the library should at least have highlighted it in some way such as printing it in red , on the front of the delivery note , perhaps with a large red hand pointing to it . |
| 19 | But could he have heard it from this room ? |
| 20 | This remodelling might also be contemporary with the decision to provide earthwork defences , though it could have preceded it by several years on current dating evidence ; either way , such changes mark a significant watershed in the town 's development and pose important questions about its status and function . |
| 21 | Oh , sure , it 'll take long enough to complete , but another couple of levels — not difficult to program once the initial stage has been coded — would have pushed it into another league entirely . |
| 22 | The wasp will remember exactly what to do at each burrow , according to its stage in the cycle , and the number of caterpillars it already contains , even though she may not have visited it for several days . |
| 23 | I 'd have done it with minimalist technology ; say , beans swelling in water and lifting a diaphragm and bare wire to a contact for the time-fuse . |
| 24 | He would n't have done it for most people . |
| 25 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 26 | If she could have wiped his memory as well as her own , she 'd have done it without any hesitation , and at whatever cost . |
| 27 | I should never have done it on that day . ’ |
| 28 | Burton did the job on screen as efficiently , one felt , as he would have done it in real life . |
| 29 | He would have seen it as infantile behaviour . |
| 30 | She says she just could n't have made it through those times without the support of her actor boyfriend , Robert Lugan . |