Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has committed it to an inevitable struggle with the Palestinians for control of policy on the Palestine question and , by extension , for control of Jordan itself . |
| 2 | Chamberlain had seen it as an ideal way of combining the efficient running of Birmingham with improving its water supplies , housing and city centre . |
| 3 | I was not so much gratified with the interior of the country as I had anticipated but the people tell me I have seen it in an unfavorable season , in consequence of no rain having fallen for 3 months . |
| 4 | Fashion editors had used it as an exotic background to collections of fabulous clothes . |
| 5 | After its discovery in 1873 , the Tongue had found its way into the hands of a treasure-hunter , who had kept quiet about it and sold it to a London dealer , who in turn had sold it to an American collector , who had lent it to an exhibition in Philadelphia in 1922 — which latter appearance had provided the clues , sixty-five years later , for a detective-story-like investigation on the part of Theodore Kemp of the Ashmolean Museum — a man who now lay dead in the mortuary at the Radcliffe Infirmary . |
| 6 | Mr Kronenburg 's lawyers accepted that the defamation was accidental , four-figure damages were paid , and Chatto & Windus , having first withdrawn the book , has reissued it with an elaborate disclaimer slip . |
| 7 | You can also recover all SMP paid in previous months in the same tax year if you have not recovered it in an earlier month . |
| 8 | Cynthia Iliffe shared with the Board a feeling that it could be rather ‘ a hybrid sort of degree course at first ’ , but Pocock and the Board really believed in it , understood that the Crick model of a discipline-based degree had provided it with an academic foundation , but even then ‘ we talked a lot about integration ’ . |
| 9 | I learned the next song from my four-year-old son Russell whose teacher had adapted it from an older song to help with subtraction . |
| 10 | Science may be concerned with impersonal forces , religion with personalized gods ; but the very word force carried religious meanings , even for Isaac Newton ( 1642–1727 ) who , in describing the operation of a gravitational force in mathematical terms , also ascribed it to an omnipotent God . |
| 11 | When it had been authenticated by its silver hallmarks , Sir Charles bought it and for the rest of his life regarded it as an important heirloom . |
| 12 | I accepted this distinction at once and have ever since regarded it as an indispensable tool of thought . ’ |
| 13 | Alice took out a ten-pound note — not enough , she knew , and placed it in front of Mrs Whitfield , who took it up , smoothed it flat , placed it in an old-fashioned cashbox in a drawer , wrote out a receipt . |
| 14 | She fetched a cardboard box left over from her last shopping trip , lined it with an old towel and put the tiny creatures in . |
| 15 | However , whereas Chatterjee had left it as an interesting hypothesis , Jones and Palmer had designed an experiment right away to try and simulate the effect in the lab . |
| 16 | Surely she had taken it as an ill omen ? |
| 17 | Within a year of his appointment he had managed to sever the College from the Ministry of Education and had established it as an independent foundation with its own College Council . |
| 18 | Binoculars show that it is very highly coloured ; telescopically I have described it as an orange blob , quite unlike a normal star . |