Example sentences of "[verb] it [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say , has it got the fair-trade mark on it ? |
| 2 | Our first question is has it got the fair-trade mark ? |
| 3 | Has it got the same number of petals on it ? |
| 4 | It has never been used for that purpose , although Sir Anthony Eden contemplated invoking it for government propaganda during the Suez crisis , and during the Falklands recapture it provided the legal basis for the Government 's use of BBC transmitters on Ascension Island to beam propaganda broadcasts at Argentina . |
| 5 | But production only reached 421,000 last year and the real bright spot was Land-Rover , whose Discovery model helped it achieve the best year for sales since the first Land-Rover rolled out in 1948 , while productivity jumped 25 per cent . |
| 6 | Last year Philips petitioned Brussels for this price rise , without even telling Sony , the Japanese company that helped it develop the digital disc system . |
| 7 | Step one , then , in intelligent persuasion is to acknowledge the status of your ‘ audience ’ through targeting what you say and how you say it to meet the specific needs of the individuals involved : the ‘ What 's in it for you ? ’ factor . |
| 8 | Health watchdogs say it indicates the tight martgins on which hospitals are required to run . |
| 9 | They were laid on a table before the canopied throne and an Act of Parliament became law only when the King , or his Commissioners , took up the Sceptre and used it to touch the relevant document . |
| 10 | The study 's thesis was that Attlee built on the Whitehall machine constructed in the Second World War and used it to implement the Labour Party 's reform programme . |
| 11 | He used it to describe the new age of Western history which , according to Toynbee , began in the 1870s with the simultaneous globalization of Western culture and the re-empowerment of non-Western states . |
| 12 | I want it to reflect the living area in the 1990s |
| 13 | In this section the facility of the Laplace transformation technique will be demonstrated by applying it to find the transient response in a few illustrative cases . |
| 14 | One of the key determinants of US policy towards Iraq last August was that it believed it has the military forces sufficient to evict Iraq from Kuwait . |
| 15 | Coun Brady said : ‘ Our figures show it costs the public £202 per week , £10,500 per year to place a family of four in bed and breakfast accommodation . |
| 16 | The Dictionary had reached its sixth edition and Miller was working on the seventh , revising it to incorporate the Linnaean system of classification . |
| 17 | If this happens it seems the old male is doomed . |
| 18 | The Post Office says it hopes the two sides can come to an agreement at a branch meeting this evening . |
| 19 | Oh yes it 's ver I mean the priest , it says it has the British Embassy , he has , he is an American serviceman and he actually has |
| 20 | Zenith says it believes the new agreement should provide the financial flexibility it needs to carry out its business plan ; it replaces Zenith 's existing $60m bank agreement , which was to have run out in June 1994 , but is subject to negotiation and signing of a definitive loan agreement . |
| 21 | James Matthews , our reporter in Jordan says it appears the pro-Iranian group thought to be holding most of the hostages , Hezbalar is ready to end its demands for a prisoner exchange . |
| 22 | Conservative MP Warren Hawksley says it gives the wrong message to young people . |
| 23 | American and Australian warships joined with British forces in a combined operation to intercept the Iraqis , and Defence Secretary , Tom King says it shows the multi-national force is working well as a unit . |
| 24 | Xerox Corp , figures , page five , says it expects the European economy to remain weak for the rest of the year , but Xerox forecasts ‘ some encouraging signs of recovery ’ in Japan for the remainder of 1993 ; the plan to leave the financial services business remains on track but it might take several years . |
| 25 | Like an archaeologist who digs up a tiny shard in the desert and from it extrapolates a whole civilisation , so Simon Charsley lifts an inconsequential marzipan confection and uses it to illuminate the shifting sands of Western civilisation . |
| 26 | Many anglers are hailing it as the most significant advance in fishing tackle during the past 20 years and Dave Chilton , the man who has popularised its use , believes that the line , made from the world 's strongest man-made fibre ( Lancia uses it to strengthen the internal bodywork of its cars ) , may revolutionise all branches of the sport . |
| 27 | Amalgamemnon takes the pejorative term ‘ redundancy ’ and uses it to fight the very exclusion it designates . |
| 28 | In one sense ( typically , when it occurs before a countable noun , meaning ‘ an unknown individual ’ ) it has the strong form : ‘ I think some animal broke it ’ It is also used before uncountable nouns ( meaning ‘ an unspecified amount of ’ ) and before other nouns in the plural ( meaning ‘ an unspecified number of ’ ) , in such uses it has the weak form . |
| 29 | During the impact the right side and top of the instrument panel was twisted upwards and to the left , causing it to strike the left-hand side of the straining bar beneath the canopy to the left of the pilot 's head as well as impacting on the right side of the pilot 's face , resulting in minor injuries . |
| 30 | Fiona Weir , FoE 's air pollution campaigner , said that the group did not feel it had the necessary expertise or information to produce warnings on " nuclear winter " effects , ozone depletion and acid rain . |