Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have carried out several privatisations in my time in commercial and industrial departments , and my understanding of the word privatisation is that one takes something currently managed in the public sector and transfers it to the private sector — the last such transfer in which I was engaged involved British Steel . |
| 2 | In particular , he suggests that the educational system has a marked effect on the production and reproduction of scientific knowledge , and criticizes it for the ahistorical way in which it teaches scientific problems , theories , experiments and proofs . |
| 3 | Hirtle 1975 : 37 for examples with realize , agree and understand ) , its meaning places it in the unique position of becoming the equivalent of a verb of perception when it is used in the operative sense . |
| 4 | The exceptional importance of the legislature in the American system is provided for by a constitution that makes Congress the ‘ first ’ branch of government ; endows it with the legislative power ; gives it control over the purse strings ; allows it a considerable role in the making of foreign policy ; and makes senior executive appointments subject to its approval . |
| 5 | You are incorporating humus on which the beneficial bacteria thrive and which both drains the soil of surplus moisture , yet holds it in the right degree . |
| 6 | Simpson still delays taking the kick , now it comes in , he knocks it into the far post , looking for Paul . |
| 7 | Patrick has plenty to say on such subjects , and he says it in the lordly way which does much to furnish the book with its presiding idiom . |
| 8 | Frodo uses it in the Old Forest : |
| 9 | first finds the key of the record found at the beginning of the selected trail and establishes it as the current record . |
| 10 | last finds the key of the record found by the end of the selected trail and establishes it as the current record . |
| 11 | The media item can be used again , but only if the Offline Manager re-initialises it and allocates it a new , unique identifier in VMS , then re-introduces it to the Offline System . |
| 12 | The media item can be used again , but only if the Offline Manager re-initialises it and allocates it a new , unique identifier in VMS , then re-introduces it to the offline system . |
| 13 | It draws magical power from the War Altar and passes it into the Grand Theogonist . |
| 14 | Teachers retain control of registration — keeping the important element of one-to-one contact — and perform it in the usual time , but instead of noting absences on paper , they feed the information directly onto a portable electronic register which then passes it to the central computer . |
| 15 | The landlord collects the charge on the basis of the number of days a person has been resident and passes it to the local authority . |
| 16 | The Dear Report on Handsworth captures this image and links it to the social condition of young blacks : |
| 17 | Commodore 's CDTV also benefits from an association with CD-A but approaches it from the other direction . |
| 18 | Product stability is the stability of the product stored in an inert , impermeable container with which it does not interact and which fully protects it from the ambient atmosphere . |
| 19 | The dog entered regularly in breed classes will need to be thoroughly groomed beforehand , standing still while its owner prepares it for the big event . |
| 20 | Once the soil has been dug , it should be broken up with a fork , hoe , back of a rake , by hand , with a hand fork , or whatever you find most convenient , until it reaches the stage at which raking it backwards and forwards , and then crossways , reduces it to the fine tilth described . |
| 21 | The author charts this progress and compares it with the British decision to choose the advanced gas cooled reactor ( AGR ) in 1965 . |
| 22 | It 's not a federated system , it actually , positively talks about moving forward as Professor states it in the economical situation the council is in . |
| 23 | Everything you say , he takes it in the wrong way . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Again , the way he applies it to the specific case of popular music poses problems : the utopian promise which , for Adorno , is the mark of great art 's autonomy is in his view relevant to popular music solely by its absence , for here , he thinks , social control of music 's meaning and function has become absolute , musical form a reified reflection of manipulative social structures ; and this moment in the historical process actually represents , in effect , the end of history — the possibility of movement by way of contradiction and critique has disappeared . |
| 26 | In another case it will mean that the writer creates his own special kind of language : and it is in this sense that Halliday applies it to the Neanderthal language of The Inheritors . |
| 27 | He applies it to the particular case of young people living with their parents after marriage , by arguing that in the expanding industrial towns there was every opportunity for young people to be wage earners and therefore to be net contributors to the parental household , at a time when wages were at a very low level . |
| 28 | In continuous processes , a filter medium containing manganese dioxide oxidizes the iron and removes it as the ferric hydroxide . |
| 29 | It is the overdetermined character of the materialist dialectic that distinguishes it from the Hegelian dialectic . |
| 30 | The fact that it aims to provide a systematic account of time use is what distinguishes it from the literary diary . |