Example sentences of "[verb] it [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Health watchdogs say it indicates the tight martgins on which hospitals are required to run . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If this happens it seems the old male is doomed . |
| 5 | The Post Office says it hopes the two sides can come to an agreement at a branch meeting this evening . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Conservative MP Warren Hawksley says it gives the wrong message to young people . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In terms of how the visual system is organized it raises the exciting possibility that different properties of objects are computed by anatomically distinct circuits . |
| 14 | When you have read ( and re-read ) your Medau News we hope it gives the same feeling . |
| 15 | Even though the statutory offence that replaces it reduces the public order characteristics of the offence and raises doubts as to whether affray is properly characterised as a public order offence at all , the likelihood is that it will continue to be employed in the prosecution of spontaneous brawls that result in no great injury in circumstances where the evidence of specific offences against the person is deficient . |
| 16 | Under the Education Reform Act 1988 , if an authority believes that a budget is mismanaged it has the ultimate power to withdraw it . |
| 17 | Phonelink Plc has applied to the London Stock Exchange for trading of its shares on the Unlisted Securities Market ( CI No 2,166 ) and will use the £9.9m raised to fund research and development , increase its visibility on the market , and ensure it has the financial clout to sit alongside its partners on a equal footing . |
| 18 | Poet Software Corp reckons it has the first object database for NT ( CI No 2,176 ) , but Objectivity Inc is stomping at its heels with the Objectivity/DB Starter Kit for Windows NT , also claiming it to ‘ the first object-oriented database management system for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system ’ . |
| 19 | Poet reckons it has the first object database for NT , but Objectivity Inc is stomping at its heels with the Objectivity/DB Starter Kit for Windows NT , also claiming it to ‘ the first object-oriented database management system for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system ’ . |
| 20 | As the size of a non-ectothermic herbivore increases it has the additional problem of finding enough food ( so there is , incidentally , a selective advantage for any plant to become unpalatable ) . |
| 21 | To calculate its fictional arm 's length profits , a firm is supposed to assume it pays the same price ( the ‘ transfer price ’ ) for those imported bits that it would have done were it buying them from an unrelated company . |
| 22 | The amount of fat we actually need is staggeringly low at 5 grams ( less than a quarter of an ounce ) per day , providing it contains the right kind of fatty acids . |
| 23 | Free pre-school places for those wishing it remains the main plank of Labour 's education policy and would eat up the vast majority of the extra £4 million the party would spend while still staying within Government capping levels . |
| 24 | As a new word position is encountered it replaces the oldest information stored |
| 25 | The comparison can be taken further ; as with child abuse in the home , people either believe it happens the whole time or not at all . |
| 26 | In so doing it rejects the classical vision of the company which defines the interests of the company as those of the shareholders , who are the only members of the company . |
| 27 | They claim it prevents the dead man 's troubled soul from walking abroad . |
| 28 | For the Black Crowes it spans the whole music business , including those who try to label the band the ‘ new Rolling Stones ’ or ‘ The Faces reincarnated ’ . |
| 29 | Because once costed it represents the estimated fee for the group 's involvement in a project , either in the form of an appointment contract for the client to sign . |
| 30 | Just as Figure 3.1 draws attention to the proper use of science , so there is something extremely valuable and " right " about a relativist approach , provided it does not overstep itself and pretend it has the whole truth . |