Example sentences of "[vb base] it [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , analysts still expect it to manage a small improvement on 1991 's profits and dividend . |
| 2 | You expect it to go a little bit just a tiny bit off |
| 3 | Although languages differ in the extent to which they regularly specify the gender of human referents ( cf. English they and French ils/elles ) , we all readily recognize the distinction and expect it to reflect a genuine aspect of experience . |
| 4 | A program ( issue 44 ) is a file containing a series of instructions for the computer which cause it to do a particular job ( such as behave like a word processor or a flight simulator ) . |
| 5 | The size of the department and the diversity of interests among its staff allow it to offer a wide range of supervision , not only in modern and medieval British economic , social , demographic and business history , but also on South Asia , the Caribbean , Russia and contemporary South-Eastern Europe . |
| 6 | You can er , use it to highlight a key piece of information , whether that 's in the diary or in the work organiser . |
| 7 | It is less clear whether it can be used to measure plant area though a possible technique is to redesign its optical system to focus on a small area and then use it to scan a larger area , agreeing that a reading above some pre-determined level is ON , below it is OFF . |
| 8 | Start by calculating the real cost of crime to your business and your employees by carrying out a ‘ Crime Audit ’ and use it to produce a written strategy on crime prevention in your business . |
| 9 | In this book I use it to denote an uncritical obsession with consumption . |
| 10 | They use it to assume a new appearance . |
| 11 | Now the moth-balled site is to be revived with extra mirrors — or heliostats , as solar researchers call them — and an energy cycle that will heat molten nitrate salt to 565° C and store it to generate a steady flow of stream for the existing turbo-generators . |