Example sentences of "[verb] it [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Windows has thousands , whereas OS/2 seems to be bereft of the kind of volume of applications that would signal it acceptance as the standard operating system . |
| 2 | They echo the theme set in last year 's CBI Business Agenda for the 1990s with the emphasis on controlling inflation , public spending , strengthening the Department of Trade & Industry and giving it responsibility for the National Economic Development Council and opposing a national minimum wage . |
| 3 | RTE claims to reach about 30pc of all homes in the province , mainly in the south and west , giving it 8pc of the total TV audience . |
| 4 | He ran forward , scuttled it under-hand between the massive , spread legs , and dived away to the right , rolling and rolling , arms protecting his head . |
| 5 | To keep it solvent in the early days the office sold travel goods such as baggage , guidebooks and walking-sticks in addition to the tours and other travel arrangements , which were the main source of income . |
| 6 | He grew used to her absence , thought of nothing but his book , and decided to call it Principles of the Real . |
| 7 | Put on , on the bottom of the blank line , rather than putting it top of the total line . |
| 8 | The Barbier-Mueller collection contains about seventy pieces , covering the full range of works made on the islands — modelled human skulls , weapons , house posts , ancestor statues and a rare bark mask from the northernmost island of the archipelago — placing it second after the British Museum in terms of the importance of its holdings . |
| 9 | And gave it shelter at the closing Day : |
| 10 | The company believes that the move may save it money in the long run — rather than merely lose it revenue — because reductions in electricity consumption should allow it to cut spending on new equipment needed to cope with increased demand . |
| 11 | The Palace was told that the only way to guarantee protection of her broadcast in future was to make it part of the Official Secrets Act and bring it under Government control . |
| 12 | For a start , it promises to biologize consciousness ; to make it part of the natural world . |