Example sentences of "[vb -s] it a [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has it a long publishing history ( many impressions ) ? |
| 2 | Why do people think that inserting a candle into something they have no further use for renders it an indispensable household utensil instead of litter they should be taking home in their rucksacks ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Those canny souls that know how often these things fall at the last hurdle can stop holding their breath and relax over Tadpole Technology Plc 's deal to do a Power RISC-based notebook for IBM Corp : IBM has paid £325,000 for 500,000 new Tadpole shares at what is now the bargain issue price of 65p , which at last week 's price of 224 pence gives it an instant paper profit of £795,000 ; it also gets warrants for 2.22m more shares at the same price to take it to 12.9% . |
| 5 | Today , Singapore 's exotic mix of cultures — mostly Chinese , Indian and Malay — makes it a fascinating holiday destination . |
| 6 | Clematis armandii Apple Blossom The foliage of this evergreen clematis makes it a useful screening plant in sheltered areas . |
| 7 | The life-history reminds us that we are always talking , in the end , about people , and this makes it a favoured research tool of the ethnographic researcher , though it may also be used as an initial guide for ‘ opening up ’ almost any area of research . |
| 8 | In England , the public interest is solely protected by the criminal law where s75 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 makes it a strict liability offence to sell an unroadworthy vehicle , irrespective of the nature of the sales transaction . |
| 9 | Unlike most extruded synthetic fibres , duck down has a branched and ramifying structure which makes it an unrivalled heat insulator . |
| 10 | The transputer contains a processor , memory , and communications links on a single chip , which makes it an ideal building block for multi-processor computers . |
| 11 | 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 . |