Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] it [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How much better it is to remove trees carefully rather than wait for a gale to do it in an uncoordinated way . |
| 2 | The funding money had to be matched pound for pound by other backers ; the people who believed in the paper had to put up £5,000 of their own money between them ; and the paper had to have a controlling group to protect it from an outside takeover which might change the political line . |
| 3 | It does not take too much distortion to see it as an anti-abortion tract . |
| 4 | The decision to turn it into an independent corporation has been welcomed , although the government 's power to veto members less so . |
| 5 | Thus the Church offered opportunities to the ambitious as well as to the devout , although it would be a mistake to regard it as an egalitarian institution . |