Example sentences of "[verb] it [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section by section it was being revised in the commissions and then approved during the general congregations — despite last-minute attempts to modify it to contain an explicit condemnation of communism . |
| 2 | The company had expected it to show a quantifiable benefit by reducing absenteeism and labour turnover , and by easing the production control difficulties caused by the inflexibilities of the line system . |
| 3 | However , analysts still expect it to manage a small improvement on 1991 's profits and dividend . |
| 4 | You expect it to go a little bit just a tiny bit off |
| 5 | Although languages differ in the extent to which they regularly specify the gender of human referents ( cf. English they and French ils/elles ) , we all readily recognize the distinction and expect it to reflect a genuine aspect of experience . |
| 6 | It now has wholly-owned offices in Paris , Amsterdam , Brussels , Frankfurt , Geneva , Stockholm and Gothenburg , is a shareholder in a well-established US firm and has associate arrangements in the USA and elsewhere , enabling it to sustain an annual growth rate of between 20% and 30% which is now generating annual total fees of up to £5m . |
| 7 | It massively increased the budget of the Manpower Services Commission , enabling it to play a dominant role in vocational education . |
| 8 | Then General Dynamics used it to demonstrate a ground-based air defense application . |
| 9 | When Neil Kinnock complained that soldiers were forced to leave their guts on Goose Green to show Mrs Thatcher had guts of her own , the Tories used it to mount a massive propaganda campaign against him . |
| 10 | Christian used it to open a small gallery as soon as he left Oxford . |
| 11 | Pascoe says that he used it to put an injured dog out of his misery . |
| 12 | They never used it to mean an earthly kingdom in the sense of an area of land which was ruled by God . |
| 13 | Recently I used it to stick a plastic-coated wire rack to the inside of a kitchen cupboard door while I checked the position of the rack with the door closed . |
| 14 | This pattern is indistinguishable from ‘ fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis ’ described by Davies et al , and like them we found it to portend a bad prognosis . |
| 15 | He seems to have found it more difficult to extrapolate remote , romantic adventures from the complex , changing world of the 1920s and after than Anthony Hope found it to transport a late-Victorian man-about-town to a small Central European kingdom . |
| 16 | Cos the thing is as well , I might be inclined to get a two anyway , because she wants it to last a little while do n't she ? |
| 17 | ESAT 's licence allows it to offer a full range of satellite services , with the exception of speech telephony . |
| 18 | The artefact 's affinity to the unconscious also allows it to play an important role in marking different forms of social reality , and allowing these and the perspectives arising from different social positions to exist concurrently without coming into overt conflict . |
| 19 | So we should expect it to have a stronger influence on public information and perceptions than on public attitudes and choices . |
| 20 | And the human species can not be considered to be eternal either , as we know it did not always exist in its present form , nor can we expect it to have an infinite existence . |
| 21 | Many influential people think it holds the key to strategic defence planning , and that we should study it to prevent a third world war . |
| 22 | As the matter spirals into the black hole , it would make the black hole rotate in the same direction , causing it to develop a magnetic field rather like that of the earth . |
| 23 | Though it still needed to learn to live with the ways of the new peoples , it had its own mature traditions , and cultural and institutional development , encapsulating much of Roman civilization and fitting it to play a decisive role in shaping the new Germanic societies . |
| 24 | A program ( issue 44 ) is a file containing a series of instructions for the computer which cause it to do a particular job ( such as behave like a word processor or a flight simulator ) . |
| 25 | Meantime process-type industries make up some 60% of the total number of Ross 's manufacturing customers — a figure that is expected to grow in line with the expected 15% to 20% increase in the UK market for process-based systems — and Ross intends it to include an increasing number of large multinational customers . |
| 26 | SPORT 'S role as a major employer and contributor to government coffers has helped it to discover a latent power and a voice of its own , discarding its traditionally apolitical posture in the process . |
| 27 | Myra gave her a gaily wrapped parcel , and Claudia opened it to find a beautiful silk scarf printed with white and pink roses on a jade-green background . |
| 28 | I hurried to the Adjutant and he opened it to find an urgent request for a volunteer to serve in Southern Arabia . |
| 29 | Next you have to decide when to enter the date and time information — do you want to use the spreadsheet like a time clock where you record what you are doing at the time you do it or will you use it to maintain a post-hoc record and enter dates and times in batches . |
| 30 | You can use it to find a particular place in a text if you know a word used there , or as a way of following up a particular theme , metaphor or symbol . |