Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judging by the latest letter he had received from New York , care of Isobel Dawson , it was going to go up with a bang — there had been sufficient talk of banning it to make sure that everybody bought it , without any real danger that it would be banned from the bookstores . |
| 2 | While confident of the benefit of mefenamic acid , the authors advise more evaluation of its risks before recommending it to prevent pre-term labour . |
| 3 | Many women are unable to get beyond this sequence , finding It so graphic that the act of watching it becomes close to an act of violation in itself . |
| 4 | Rather than bear the cost and inconvenience of having it put right , he would count the revolutions of the pedals and would dismount exactly in time to adjust the chain manually . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Productivity on the whole range of plant , old and new , may be improved as experience in operating it breeds better methods of organization . |
| 7 | It was not long before a cheaper method of making it became possible . |
| 8 | But another charity , The Knights of St Columba , has stepped in to put unsold stock to good use by sending it to help needy families in Poland . |
| 9 | If Euclidean space-time stretches back to infinite imaginary time , or else starts at a singularity in imaginary time , we have the same problem as in the classical theory of specifying the initial state of the universe : God may know how the universe began , but we can not give any particular reason for thinking it began one way rather than another . |
| 10 | Tory Darlington councillor Peter Jones hit out at the show after hearing it contained erotic love scenes , a roller skating comic , and a simulated sex act . |
| 11 | In view of the results on spreading it becomes possible to say something about the amount of new material seen as exposure increases . |
| 12 | In contrast to the psychological rationalization , an ideological rationalization can refer to the socially shared content of ideology : in particular it can refer to the son of ideology , which seeks to explain the social world by making it seem rational . |
| 13 | Glasgow offers an excellent Higher Education infrastructure and the Agency 's Technology Programme aims to build on this strength by helping it develop stronger links with key high technology companies . |
| 14 | For this reason , the Presentation attainment target stops at level 7 ( the level that should be achieved by the average 16 year old ) because there is no way of extending it to level 10 , other than by specifying lists of increasingly irregular and unusual words — which would be absurd . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Having produced the fake , there is then the problem of making it look old . |
| 17 | ‘ Please check your bonfire before lighting it to make sure no hedgehogs have hibernated there . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Please check the bonfire before lighting it to make sure no hedgehogs have hibernated there . ’ |
| 19 | I certainly never insulted my memory by asking it to store all that routine junk . |
| 20 | Indeed , at the time of writing it has seven out of the 15 titles on The Bookseller 's bestsellers list . |
| 21 | It is generally held that it should be larger but no agreement on enlarging it seems attainable . |
| 22 | When you come to evaluate the software always ensure that you test its capabilities by having it produce real examples of the work that you will be doing . |