Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since foxes are basically nocturnal animals it takes a great deal of time and patience to shoot a fox , and also a good shot at close range . |
| 2 | It was indeed hierarchical : both in theory and practice it made a great difference where a man was born . |
| 3 | Together with the popular demonology associated in the public mind with these strange monsters called computers it produced a sudden upsurge of anxiety . |
| 4 | Needless to say , being a Finnish car it had a left-hand drive . |
| 5 | Successful living in Los Angeles requires controlling the environment , whereas in Bali it requires a total surrender . |
| 6 | This might appear exorbitant , and indeed as a symbolic castration of the Oedipus complex it represents a partial subversion of Lacanian theory . |
| 7 | But in any reference to useful labour it occupies a significant place as a village where the medieval open field system of farming has survived in some degree . |
| 8 | It acquired and developed the original photocopier technology and in its heyday it had a virtual monopoly and made huge profits . |
| 9 | But Prokofiev 's opera owes just as much of its enthralling power to the brilliance of its orchestral writing , and in Edward Downes it has a superlative master of the composer 's idiomatic style . |
| 10 | In the provinces it took a little time before London fashions were adopted . |
| 11 | In rural areas it assumes a greater significance , comprising , in 1971 , 24 per cent of the total housing stock compared with 21 per cent nationally , although this proportion is falling quite rapidly everywhere . |
| 12 | Despite the vulgar character of such poetry it conceals a genuine sadness . |
| 13 | Because of the translucent water and the high , rocky , almost petrified appearance of the cave 's formation it added a mysterious uniqueness to the beautiful strains of the music . |
| 14 | The stone they used to build Aberdeen may be built for endurance rather than seduction , but when it catches the sun it offers a lively spirit as well as a safe haven . |
| 15 | But in Washington it caused a nasty row . |
| 16 | For a considerable distance it is now followed by a main road ( A422 and B4525 ) , but near Culworth it becomes a narrow lane , running through almost deserted country , past Adstone Lodge and Foxley to Cold Higham . |
| 17 | As it moved south it took a wide variety of other forms from Kurdish to Hindi . |
| 18 | As it moved south it took a wide variety of other forms from Kurdish to Hindi . |
| 19 | But since passion does not come in bottles it seems a vain hope . |
| 20 | Two major Jacobite risings , and the plotting which took place on other occasions , were enough to put a considerable number of gentlemen in danger and , indeed , so long as the Jacobite cause retained a substantial following in Scotland it had a further effect upon politics , for the unwillingness of many gentlemen of Jacobite sentiments to take the oaths to Government further limited an already small electorate . |
| 21 | Like Scotland it has a traditional reliance on textiles and alcoholic drinks — 20,000 people work in Beaujolais production alone . |
| 22 | Possibly even in the most traditional area of slave cultivation , sugar , the mechanisation of sugar-mills from the mid-century diminished the need for labour in processing the product , though in booming sugar economies like Cuba it produced a corresponding rise in the demand for field-hands . |
| 23 | But in the desert it gives a strange moaning sound , low and sensual , accompanied by the singing of the sand as it skates across itself . |
| 24 | With dolphins on the rampage it seems a good idea to spend as much time as possible out of the water . |
| 25 | Fisher wrote a kind letter to Ramsey , who found that in the circumstances it showed a generous spirit . |
| 26 | Powered by a souped-up , 80 bhp Mini engine it has a tough steel frame and fibreglass bodywork . |
| 27 | Unfortunately you chose the ginger beetle , the toffee beetle or something of the sort it had a gingery look to it . |
| 28 | On its Edinburgh site it holds a living collection of around 30000 accessions ; a Herbarium containing some 2 million dried plant specimens from a world-wide range ; and a research library holding 75000 volumes books and over 1500 current scientific periodical titles . |
| 29 | For Christians it defined a national identity from which they were excluded . |
| 30 | These days it takes a long time to get into the ‘ left-hand seat ’ or captain 's position in a major airline ; indeed , as time goes on more and more airline pilots have to recognise the possibility of reaching retirement before they achieve command . |