Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you create a document in Ventura it has an underlying frame . |
| 2 | In practice it involved an enormous amount of administration also . |
| 3 | The area had been on the periphery of the Kandyan Kingdom , and in the early years of British rule it remained an impoverished backwater . |
| 4 | For a small village it has an absolute wealth of historic treasures and one most impressive modern innovation — Alvingham Pottery . |
| 5 | Like Malvern Mill it had an overshot wheel , of 12 feet in diameter , and although this no longer exists , traces of the machinery do . |
| 6 | Once the system has accepted an in put from the tablet it gives an acknowledging Beep from the computer and prompts for the next command to execute the function . |
| 7 | In winter it makes an early morning crossing , returning in the late afternoon and allowing some six hours 2. shore in Porto Santo . |
| 8 | If this was Richard 's first experience of war it bore an ironical similarity to his last . |
| 9 | She has no sense of her own sexuality — which stimulates the clerk — or of the value of her sexuality : though promised to her husband it becomes an easy counter to pay on the threat of being changed into an animal . |
| 10 | Since our silver wedding anniversary was the following day it seemed an ideal way to celebrate , so my wife and I decided to go . |
| 11 | In October it staged an important loan exhibition of Dutch 17th century paintings , which included more than 140 works from Holland 's Golden Age drawn from collections throughout the country , including those of the National Gallery and HM the Queen . |
| 12 | To celebrate the event it launched an annual competition , Le Trophée des Mères Cuisinières , held in Vichy . |
| 13 | But when she resisted the charms of Hollywood 's legendary romeo it hit an all-time low . |
| 14 | but it is primary evidence and I think as primary evidence it has an extra value to the child 's records , and to the school 's records , over and beyond what |
| 15 | A big , glossy hardback with lavish colour pictures , it is handsome enough but now that so many general cookbooks include first-class vegetarian recipes it seems an expensive extra . |
| 16 | Baldersdale was far too remote for any of the gentry to be interested in building a country residence there All the more accessible dales had their halls , manors and castles , but the high moors sweeping up to 1,500 feet above the valley of Baldersdale was the habitat of a creature which every aristocrat , and many wealthy merchants and other nouveau riche with aristocratic pretensions pursued , then and now , with fanatical zeal — Lagopus scoticus , feathered-footed member of the Tetraonidae family , otherwise known as the red grouse For the locals it meant an extra cash crop during the days following the Glorious Twelfth — the shillings and sovereigns tossed , somewhat disdainfully , at them for providing a back-up service , such as beating the heather to alarm the birds into the air and towards the buckshot , or placing their horses and wagons at the disposal of their lordships so that ammunition , lunch and the essential bottles of whisky could be transported to the guns and the day 's bag of slain birds brought safely to the all-important count . |
| 17 | As a behind-the-scenes view of an artist 's life it makes an interesting comparison with other recent artists ' lives — Rodin , John , Modigliani and Picasso — all of whom he knew . |
| 18 | In addition it provides an appropriate preparation for the Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists . |
| 19 | This is a vindictive and intolerant motion it sets an unfortunate precedent and in this debate about freedom we should support the rights of our tenants to choose . |
| 20 | With space available for you to add your own pictures and information it makes an invaluable keepsake of your courtship . |
| 21 | Firstly , if the argument is that any of the suggested markets — be they for products , corporate control or managerial talent — at present actually operates to constrain corporate managers , this is not something which is empirically demonstrated , and given the present nature of these markets it seems an implausible claim . |
| 22 | Although this approach has much to commend in terms of logic and rationality , by requiring justification of every activity and expenditure item it places an enormous workload on schools at a time when they are already overwhelmed . |
| 23 | But in the end it proved an enormous advantage . |
| 24 | Since any glass can only take a certain amount of fluid it represents an easy way of thinking of our body 's limitations to the amount of stress we can endure . |
| 25 | Last year it broadened an earlier agreement with Venezuela and Ecuador . |
| 26 | This year it has an improved range which again highlights the benefits of Torsion technology , although for the first time it 's combined with injected EVA , rather than firmer PU which turned some runners away . |
| 27 | In some organizations it is still seen as the junior partner to sales , in others it has an equal status , in yet others it has a superior status . |
| 28 | While most people look forward to summer — for others it means an uncomfortable round of runny noses , sweaty itches and nasty rashes — some brought on by allergies . |
| 29 | WHILST Minton lived at Hamilton Terrace it remained an open house for anyone wishing to call . |
| 30 | The magnitude of erosion is reflected in the silt content of the Huanghe River : before it enters the Loess lands it has an average silt content of 2 kg m-3 of water , but when it leaves the region after its confluence with the Weihe the average silt content is 35 kg m- which can rise to several hundreds of kilograms after storms ( Smil 1984 ) . |