Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] it [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coun Bob Brady , committee chairman described it as an exciting project which would be part of the town 's City Challenge programme . |
| 2 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 3 | How much better it is to remove trees carefully rather than wait for a gale to do it in an uncoordinated way . |
| 4 | Stok quoted it with an excellent Highland accent , ‘ Robert Burns , ’ pronounced Stok , ’ ‘ To a Mouse ’ . ’ |
| 5 | The research team referred to in the follow-on milk ad took it as an established fact and were interested in finding out what effect this minimal rise in blood loss had on a baby 's iron levels . |
| 6 | It was once a country remedy for rheumatism , using the fresh green tops made into a tea , and Culpeper recommended it as an excellent medicine for the " quinsy … to gargle it , when boiled with figs " . |
| 7 | Er and of course if you 're in one group , you might think that something 's trivial and you might denigrate another a group for talking about those things , when in fact that group sees it as an important talk about it might see the thing that the other group hold dear to talk about as something trivial , and to denigrate . |
| 8 | But when the frog leapt out from behind one of the bananas , the astonished shopper scooped it into an empty tub of margarine and , fearing it might be poisonous , rushed Freddie to Lydney police station . |
| 9 | The funding money had to be matched pound for pound by other backers ; the people who believed in the paper had to put up £5,000 of their own money between them ; and the paper had to have a controlling group to protect it from an outside takeover which might change the political line . |
| 10 | Independent soft-commission brokers regard it as an acceptable method of payment so long as they deal at the best price . |
| 11 | Does my right hon. Friend remember that when the investment income surcharge was abolished in 1984 , the then Chancellor of the Exchequer described it as an unfair and anomalous tax on savings and on the rewards of personal enterprise ? |
| 12 | It does not take too much distortion to see it as an anti-abortion tract . |
| 13 | The present appearance of the bridge owes much to the Counter-Reformation , its famous gallery of sculpture transforming it from an ordinary thoroughfare into a via sacra ( see p. 55 ) . |
| 14 | The decision to turn it into an independent corporation has been welcomed , although the government 's power to veto members less so . |
| 15 | There were plans to turn it into an opencast mine , but now the Forestry Commission , which administers the Forest from its headquarters in Coleford , has withdrawn its permisssion for British Coal to mine there , deciding instead to start re-planting trees . |
| 16 | When it had been authenticated by its silver hallmarks , Sir Charles bought it and for the rest of his life regarded it as an important heirloom . |
| 17 | Thus the Church offered opportunities to the ambitious as well as to the devout , although it would be a mistake to regard it as an egalitarian institution . |
| 18 | The dress proved such a hit that the London company who made the original for Diana turned it into an off-the-peg line . |
| 19 | Critics of the report saw it as an old-style socialist attempt to plan the future of an industry , without due regard to market forces . |
| 20 | Marxists argue that it derives from the needs of the capitalist mode of production , while elite theorists see it as an institutional-bureaucratic coincidence of interest . |
| 21 | Both had begun the war as conscientious objectors , Vaughan ending it as an Orderly Room clerk for the Army in a prisoner-of-war camp in Yorkshire . |
| 22 | The fried brains , the sun-bleached looks , the tie-dyed duds , the slurred intonation , the language — Spicoli walked it like an entire demographic talked it : incomprehensibly . |
| 23 | While O'Neill and his supporters represented that visit as the Republic s de facto recognition that the North did exist as a separate entity and that doing necessary economic business with the North meant the Republic attenuating its claims to the territory of Ulster , the conservative Protestants saw it as an horrendous betrayal of the history and sacrifice of Ulster Protestants . |
| 24 | Whatever it was , the Regent saw it as an unlooked-for opportunity . |
| 25 | McFarlane won it in an extraordinary 10.08 seconds , gale assisted . |
| 26 | Whilst some welcome the opportunity of early retirement , others see it as an unwanted imposition on their lives . |
| 27 | Many consumers are against it : about three out of ten say it 's never a good thing , and most others see it as an occasional necessity rather than as having positive advantages ( see Appendix I , Main survey ) . |
| 28 | But the North 's recent comb-out of traditional industries leaves it with an imbalanced legacy and serious economic handicap . |
| 29 | The verdict on whether Mr Lamont will remain as Chancellor remained open last night , with many Tories seeing it as an electoral mistake to raise fuel bills in the run up the next election , while others praised him for tackling the public deficit . |
| 30 | Stonehenge still has a very special air in spite of the official attempts to destroy the place ; York Minster has it , and Chartres has it to an incredible extent . |