Example sentences of "[det] [vb base] it [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The fact is that most parents find discipline one of the most difficult parts of their job ; not a few find it an impossible task — especially at particular periods of their children 's lives .
2 Gloria Swanson 's Grand Guignol performance , the film noir fatalism , the rats in the swimming pool all make it a never-bettered portrait of Hollywood gothic .
3 We opt for The Baker 's Wife at the Phoenix and all vote it a definite winner , and I wonder again at the jaundiced palate of critics who gave it a fair old drubbing when it first trotted out .
4 The Trinity has remained the kingpin of Greek and Russian spirituality but in the West it has tended to retreat to the sidelines and many find it an impossible concept : God is seen as One and Jesus often becomes a sort of divine friend in a vision which robs the Christian mystery of much of its transcendent power .
5 Many think it a fatal weakness in any such attempt to base morality upon egoism that this answer is false .
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