Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I cleaned the little beauty and mounted it in my new display case , I promised myself that I would do everything possible to provide it with a few companions in the months that followed . |
| 2 | well it 's easier to carry it on the front ru font , oh , front foot rest |
| 3 | Negotiations continue but no clear way forward has yet presented itself , the Cooking Centre is zoned for housing and there is little prospect that the Region would be prepared to acquire it at the residential land value — £150,000 . |
| 4 | Only 40% thought that there will be a united Ireland one day but few expected it in the short term — 16% expected it to come about in 25 years , 13% in 50 years and 11% in 100 years . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , well , some make it to the big time , others do n't , ’ Melissa remarked smugly . |
| 6 | As you will have realised by now this is not a fish for the person with a small community tank , but as long as you are prepared to provide it with the correct conditions , it is perfectly feasible for the novice to keep and breed the fish successfully . |
| 7 | The English used it as a convenient base for raids into the Scots East and Middle Marches , and as a permanent threat , its strong position on the rocky spine at the junction of the two rivers making it a very difficult nut to crack . |
| 8 | While some described it as an important strengthening of the rights of children , others saw it as a willingness to overturn natural family links in order to pander to a child 's desire to acquire richer parents . |
| 9 | 1001 Ways to Save the Planet deserves to experience the irony of being consumed in vast quantities — and it 's interesting that Penguin has been willing to launch it towards a mass readership sheathed in a determinedly dowdy recycled cover . |
| 10 | On patrol , Constable Keith Raw describes it as a difficult estate to police . |
| 11 | Combined with their reluctance to enter the war , the Turks entertain great hopes of their army , upon which a major portion of the budget is spent : and they can not fail to recognise something ludicrous in an attitude which , at one moment , abhors the idea of fighting and at another lauds it as the noblest activity of man . |
| 12 | At first sight it is a pretty enough spectacle to see a matchbox made ; one motion of the hands bends into shape the notched frame of the case , another surrounds it with the ready-pasted strip of painted wrapper , which , by long practice is fitted instinctively without a wrinkle , then the sandpaper or phosphorous paper , pasted ready beforehand , is applied and pressed on so that it sticks fast . |
| 13 | Place the egg yolks in a small bowl , and half submerge it in a large saucepan of hot water . |
| 14 | Some took it as a great laugh ; others as a brave attempt to champion a little-known music ; and others just hated it . |
| 15 | But there is no life , if you dare not test yourself , if you dare not feel free to live it to the full . |
| 16 | Pressing F9 evaluates what is on the entry line and this changes it from a changing value to one that is fixed . |
| 17 | Some do it with a bitter look |
| 18 | The castle changed hands many times during the Scottish Wars of Independence and remained a thorn in the crown until James V sacked it in the sixteenth century ; but before the level of the loch was raised in the 1930s , |
| 19 | Some see it as the perfect exercise for keeping fit ; others train purely for self-defence purposes . |
| 20 | Dampt disgrace that couple that done it in the Golden Divans . |
| 21 | was one of the pioneers of embalming and did much to promote it within the Co-operative Funeral Service and was held in high esteem by colleagues for his long standing service to the Institute . |
| 22 | He should understand that ‘ the story of Christ is simply a true myth : a myth working on us in the same way as the others , but with this tremendous difference that it really happened : and one must be content to accept it in the same way . ’ |
| 23 | Anyone familiar with the clear , highly distinctive aroma of geranium would know that one would need to be totally anosmic to confuse it with the soft , deep notes of sandalwood . |
| 24 | This cultural change is the second major theme of this book , but it is not easy to separate it from the political story . |
| 25 | For the non-obese patient over 65 years who needs a sulphonylurea , a short-acting drug like tolbutamide has much to commend it as the elderly are more prone to hypoglycaemia . |
| 26 | Specialist suppliers may also provide a cold-weld compound to seal joins where it 's impossible to lay it in a single sheet . |
| 27 | Digital telecommunication has much to recommend it over the analogue alternative , and the move away from analogue systems is n't restricted to the mobile networks . |
| 28 | Its positioning accuracy alone ( + or -1mm ) has much to recommend it over the human alternative . |
| 29 | An expensive all-concrete , all-dredge , work-from-both-sides approach may in certain cases have much to recommend it to a few of the more old-fashioned river managers , especially since the cutting of straight ditches involves minimum initial design and subsequent supervision , combined with maximum actual earth-moving and construction works on the ground . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the principle of chisel ploughing has much to recommend it in the right conditions . |