Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] it a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Everyone thinks it a great idea , ’ Mrs Bean said happily . |
| 2 | Everyone writes it a little bit differently , with a personality all his own . |
| 3 | As the outcome of official action by an organ of the state , the police case comes before the court stamped with a seal of authority which gives it a powerful influence . |
| 4 | The fibres of this paper are meshed absolutely at random , which gives it a special surface character and also makes it very strong and long lasting . |
| 5 | Told retrospectively as though from Judd 's disjointed , unhappy remembering , the book achieves a sad , distant , emotional intensity which gives it a special unity of tone . |
| 6 | Yet , in sharp contrast , village life here moves little faster than at a slow donkey 's pace and has a simple , rustic feel which gives it a special charm . |
| 7 | For , if he decides that the wooden hut is a building , he is in effect adding an interpretation clause to the statute which gives ‘ building ’ an extended application ; whereas if he decides that the hut is not a building , he adds a clause to the statute which gives it a narrower meaning . |
| 8 | The current version is powered by a Microturbo TJA 24 engine , which gives it a maximum airspeed of 400 knots . |
| 9 | Highly charged personal reminiscence is bound up with the anthropological perspective which gives it an impersonal respectability . |
| 10 | Bottled mild also contains fats which makes it a good conditioning and soothing skin cleanser . |
| 11 | In Kenya Harris Okong'o Arara continues to serve a five-year sentence imposed in 1988 under a law which makes it a criminal offence simply to possess literature critical of the government . |
| 12 | What would be the relevance of section I(2) ( a ) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , which makes it a criminal offence for the person legally liable to maintain the child not to provide , inter alia , medical care ? |
| 13 | The Casio TV 470 has a retail value of £99.99 , which makes it a great prize for our readers . |
| 14 | You know birds of prey ca n't fly over water so Israel 's part of a kind of funnel for them which makes it a great place to do bird counts . |
| 15 | They 're a little bit faded today , we 're all in today , which makes it a little bit easier . |
| 16 | While many managers are increasingly concerned at recording unmet need , both how to do it and whether they should at all , he was confident Dorset has come up with a method which makes it a positive experience for staff and service users and , hopefully , avoids potential legal pitfalls . |
| 17 | Although it is not primarily vocational , the course provides a valuable training in analytical techniques and writing skills which makes it a valuable preparation for a wide variety of careers , including the media , central and local government , and industrial and commercial management . |
| 18 | Unlike most extruded synthetic fibres , duck down has a branched and ramifying structure which makes it an unrivalled heat insulator . |
| 19 | The transputer contains a processor , memory , and communications links on a single chip , which makes it an ideal building block for multi-processor computers . |
| 20 | It is the total dependence of kinematics on the geometric model and the synthesis approach that it supports , which makes it an ideal design tool upon a computer graphics system . |
| 21 | Which makes it an apposite time for the Science Museum to open a new £1.2m permanent Gallery , Food For Thought , to ‘ explain the impact of science and technology on today 's food ’ . |
| 22 | She finds it a little bit difficult . |
| 23 | we can say generally that whatever is regarded as a truth functions as a norm of thinking , [ and ] imposes upon the conscious agent who recognizes it a distinctive selection and organization of some data of his experience . |
| 24 | No one thinks it an important proposition that what promotes survival of the human species promotes survival of the human species . |
| 25 | ‘ I do , ’ she answered , ‘ but everybody gives it a different name . |
| 26 | I rarely comment on Irish affairs , not because of lack of interest but because the Irish communities would reject any opinion or suggestion if they considered it a ’ Brit ’ suggestion or opinion , but , in this instance , the circumstances are so hideously distressing that I feel compelled to comment and to ask the Minister whether he thinks it a heavy irony that last Friday 's incident followed successive discoveries of large caches of arms and whether perhaps it was a desperate attempt by the IRA to reassert some degree of authority . |
| 27 | As Mr Scicluna pointed out , ‘ If you turn a committee into a faculty , it gives it a new lease of life , a breath of fresh air , and it thinks about its role a bit more purposefully , as we have already seen from the Tax Faculty . ’ |
| 28 | First , it makes it a criminal offence for anyone in the course of a business to display at a place where consumer deals are likely to be made ( e.g. at a shop or garage ) a notice of an exemption clause which is void by virtue of section 6 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act . |
| 29 | It makes it a criminal offence for the advertiser to fail to make it clear that he is selling in the course of a business . |
| 30 | It makes it a criminal offence to make a demand for payment without reasonable cause to believe there is a right to it . |