Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] it in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When in the " sick Chicken " case of 1935 the Supreme Court ruled against the act , declaring Federal code-making an unconstitutional interference with the authority of the separate states , Roosevelt made no attempt to revive it in a new form . |
| 2 | How much better it is to remove trees carefully rather than wait for a gale to do it in an uncoordinated way . |
| 3 | The cockroach has a similarly high-speed existence and can react to any attempt to crush it in a fiftieth of a second , while our own reaction time is a tenth of a second . |
| 4 | Picasso 's dismissal of traditional perspective had been the result of his interest in investigating the nature of solid form and of a desire to express it in a new , more thorough and comprehensive , pictorial way . |
| 5 | As he snipped several inches off the length of Aimee 's hair , he pointed out why he encourages all his clients who have fine hair to keep it in a short style — or at least above their shoulders . |
| 6 | The local area , of course should be a springboard not a straitjacket , and pupils need to be encouraged to move out from their locality to see it in a wider context , to compare it with other places , and above all , whatever period is under study , to begin to understand why the changes they have documented took place . |
| 7 | To return to Griffith 's experiments , Griffith was not the first man to draw strong glass fibres but he was probably the first man to do it in a systematic way and to provide a plausible explanation of the results . |
| 8 | The formal definition of these classes in the SGML syntax used to express the TEI scheme makes it possible for users of the scheme to extend it in a simple and controlled way : new elements may be added into existing classes , and existing elements renamed or undefined , without any need for extensive revision of the TEI document type definitions — though this is perhaps a benefit which only those who have ever tried to modify an existing dtd by hand will truly appreciate . |