Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb base] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference between them lies simply in the fact that while do situates the infinitive in time as an actualization , the modals only situate it as a potentiality . |
| 2 | Although research may appear as logical analysis and mere statistics to you , clients sometimes endow it with a kind of magic . |
| 3 | ‘ It is n't to say The Wedding Present just treat it like a job , it is just that they have natural courtesy and manners . |
| 4 | The irony of black power is that just as whites once used skin colour as a source of privilege , so blacks now use it as a source of entitlement . |
| 5 | How does a woman with a large inheritance commonly bestow it on a man ? |
| 6 | As Lord Salisbury once put it to a German , ‘ nous sommes des poissons ’ . |
| 7 | And I am if at five minutes to five , or five minutes to leaving off time whatever it was and you would n't say well we 'll get ready to go home you had to pick a half a link up make it into a staple and throw it in the box . |
| 8 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 9 | Females often produce it as a contact call for their cubs , particularly when they start going out on rambles together for the first time . |
| 10 | So think of some number right divide it by a hundred and twenty now we want to get it back to the number we first thought of so what |
| 11 | Some historians now view it as an attempt by the state to exercise more effective though subtle control over the lower classes . |
| 12 | Having described the setpoint theory in convincing detail , Bennett and Gurin then put it in a historical context . |
| 13 | Matzner and Tipler accordingly describe it as a ‘ fold singularity ’ . |
| 14 | in the canteen but I ca ca n't take that into the factory Only do it for a week , you 've spilt that , Helen ! |
| 15 | Close the door after you , Jean , and in the meantime please keep it as a secret . ’ |
| 16 | The Royal Commission concluded : ‘ Some advocates of an insurance system evidently see it as a mechanism for automatically increasing expenditure on the NHS as costs rise . |
| 17 | I know what I 'm doing , and I tell the producer just film it like a football match . ’ |
| 18 | This organism often grows in low numbers , and many laboratories still regard it as a contaminant . |
| 19 | Certain spiders also use it as a last resort . |