Example sentences of "[verb] it [verb] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With 15 to 20 per cent of tin or more , the alloy becomes brittle and almost unworkable , although it can still be cast to shape , and as more tin is added it becomes whiter in colour . |
| 2 | Say it rotates left to right about the vertical axis , as a line segment reaches the right extreme , it is removed . |
| 3 | Whenever the film crew opened a cupboard in a shop to store some electrical equipment , they found it stocked high with food . |
| 4 | Britain , France and West Germany have argued for a joint world turnover threshold of £3.5bn , while the majority want it set lower at £1.4bn . |
| 5 | If you do a lot of entertaining and want it to look spectacular at night , then mirror tiles will gleam and sparkle and reflect candle-light beautifully . |
| 6 | As well as milking the 715/33 for all its worth , Hewlett-Packard says it remains hard at work on developing what it says will be an Apple Computer Inc Mac-like Unix environment for the thing , in addition to the on-board multimedia hardware it is supposed to incorporate . |
| 7 | As well as milking the 715/33 for all its worth , HP says it remains hard at work on developing what it says will be an Apple Mac-like Unix environment for the thing , in addition to the on-board multimedia hardware it is supposed to incorporate . |
| 8 | There were also delightful rumours that the heavy overhaul on sister No 4498 Sir Nigel Gresley would see it repainted green as No 60007 . |
| 9 | Not content with this , a successful male inserts a chemical plug in the female which prevents other males mating with her and causes any male which sniffs it to become impotent for days . |
| 10 | The golf course is no problem because you 're getting it done free of charge . |
| 11 | The company now intends shipping production code for the first time this week , saying it has hundreds of orders . |
| 12 | It intends shipping production code for the first time this week , saying it has hundreds of orders . |
| 13 | but United have the knack … they have the know how to beat the best … they 've proved it smashing four past Newcastle … |
| 14 | June milk was the best and strongest because you could leave it to turn blue for Christmas . |
| 15 | Syria remained hostile to any political process which would leave it standing alone against Israel . |
| 16 | As the days passed it became clear to Ned 's family that he was drifting away from them and his strange affair with the stone was fast turning into a deep and meaningful relationship ! |
| 17 | Alternatively the higher mobility of the shift produced by this protein ( Figure 2b ) suggests that it may be smaller in size than Oct-1 allowing it to bind adjacent to bound NF1 and activate gene expression synergistically . |
| 18 | Only eight out of more than two hundred teams made it to today' final at Silverstone |
| 19 | So , although the events leading up to the Civil War made it seem desirable to Hobbes to write De Cive before the completion of De Homine , his finding this possible was not inconsistent with his conception of a three-part ordered system of Elements of Philosophy . |
| 20 | ‘ Old people bringing something out of the attic they 've never cared for , and then seeing it fetch thousands of pounds at auction . |
| 21 | The Walrus and Carpenter Restaurant st Church Street , Whitby , is appealing against Scarborough Council 's refusal of permission to enable it to remain open until midnight , an hour longer than current planning permission allows . |
| 22 | Did it arrive complete with stripes when its ancestors moved north ? ( right ) . |
| 23 | I 'll go straight into er item two A I think the first thing the County Council would would wish to say this erm examination is that er today we are really seeing the culmination of I suspect er ten year work erm in Greater York by the Greater York authority and a particularly intensive period of work over the last five years , er by the Greater York authorities , the paper that I put round N Y five the matter two A really addresses the history and why we reached the conclusions corporately that we have and as all as we 've already indicated erm progress was able to be made when the Secretary of State included a Greater York er dimension erm into the er into the structure plan in a the first alteration , erm and that enabled a body of work to be undertaken by the Greater York authority , and I think I ought to say at this point that the Greater York authority comprises of the County Council er and five District Councils , and there you have six different councils , all with an interest in the future of Greater York , sitting down together , trying to sort out the way in which the future of Greater York erm ought ought to be developed , and the means they did it did that of course was through the Greater York study , which began in nineteen eighty eight and started off immediately with a study of forty , fifty development , potential development sites , erm in and around er er Greater York which produced a report , as I said in on page three of the of N Y five , around about April nineteen eighty nine , the conclusions of which were quite clearly unacceptable to erm members of the Greater York authority , because they saw quite clearly , and they were supported by the public in this , that to continue peripheral development , which had been the pattern of development in the Greater York area , erm certainly through the sixties and seventies er was unacceptable in terms of its impact on settlements , and particularly er its impact erm on erm erm the York greenbelt which still at that stage erm had yet to be made statutory , and that was again one of the main stimuli to making progress , the need to s formally define er the York greenbelt . |
| 24 | When , I wonder , did it become fashionable for politicians to talk not about the world but about the planet ? |
| 25 | There was a freshness and gaiety about her which lit up the brothel , making it appear dismal by comparison . |
| 26 | With the threat of bombing it seemed sensible for Mrs Daly to go to stay with a widowed friend in Rainford , and she seemed to have settled there very happily . |
| 27 | I think it looks awful on boys ! |
| 28 | The ant repays the tree by sweeping it leaves free of fungi , by assaulting any leaf-eating animals that it encounters and by attacking any competing plant that dares come within chewing distance . |
| 29 | Does the Minister agree that three-year funding for the Sports Council would allow it to plan better for development and expansion ? |
| 30 | Crumbling masonry means it needs millions of pounds of building work to make sure it is safe . |