Example sentences of "[vb -s] it an [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 ? |
2 | 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% . |
3 | Unlike most extruded synthetic fibres , duck down has a branched and ramifying structure which makes it an unrivalled heat insulator . |
4 | The transputer contains a processor , memory , and communications links on a single chip , which makes it an ideal building block for multi-processor computers . |
5 | 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 . |