Example sentences of "[noun prp] it [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | On Afghanistan it welcomed the latest initiative by the UN Secretary General to find a political solution , and supported " the Afghan mujaheddin 's efforts to form a broad-based government " . |
2 | At Haringey it needed the direct intervention of council leader Bernie Grant , later to become the first black MP for Tottenham , to change the policy of leaving all investment decisions to the advisers . |
3 | No longer a mixture of local dialects , Standard English " had emerged " , and the east Midland dialect " had now become " the King " s English ; finally , " through the works of Chaucer it became the literary language of the country " . |
4 | Like PageMaker it lacks the sophisticated text entry and manipulation tools necessary to generate the material it will process but , unlike PageMaker , once it has that material it can produce documents virtually automatically . |
5 | This religion concentrates upon a particular person , Jesus of Nazareth , but in its definition of God it describes the divine being as a Trinity — that is to say three persons . |
6 | We had a date for this afternoon but when I heard about Francis it seemed the decent thing to postpone the arrangement . |
7 | The teetotal movement had another important effect : once it took root in America it strengthened the Anglo-American bond . |
8 | At its last meeting on the 11th June it passed the following resolution : |