Example sentences of "[det] it [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I found some it had a strange smell — of sweet and sour sauce — and it seemed to be very moist . |
| 2 | As such it offers a wide range of services : ‘ These include hardware , consultancy , on-site training and a telephone support hotline , ’ says Peter Munson . |
| 3 | The announcement effectively signalled the government 's intention to end its state of war with mainland China and as such it removed a major obstacle to closer ties with the Chinese government . |
| 4 | Although this is still far too many it represents a substantial improvement . |
| 5 | For most people , retirement does not offer such vistas ; for many it represents a grinding poverty , and the monotony of a life-style structured by the meagre levels of state pensions . |
| 6 | Did you find that so many it took a long time for change to take place |
| 7 | Fisher Row was similar to some of the contemporary rural communities which have been studied in depth in that it had a stable core of local families which remained for generation after generation while another group which included carters , drovers and seasonal workers who found cheap lodgings in the parish were always on the move . |
| 8 | For example , a birthday card greeting is written in a different register from a legal contract in that it uses a different vocabulary , uses a different layout on the page , uses rhyme , etc . |
| 9 | An election may also be a realigning one in that it produces a long-term shift in the balance of support between the parties , perhaps installing one as the new majority . |
| 10 | Although modest in scope and requiring Senate and presidential approval before becoming effective , the legislation — known as the " Brady bill " — was of the utmost symbolic importance in that it represented a historic defeat for the National Rifle Association ( NRA ) , one of the country 's most powerful interest groups . |
| 11 | The present exhibition differs in that it takes a thematic approach , organising the material around six key subjects which are further examined in a series of essays in the accompanying catalogue . |
| 12 | Peter Townsend argues that the dependence of the elderly is ‘ structured ’ in that it bears a structural relationship to social class inequalities , the division of labour , social security policies , social institutions , and so on . |
| 13 | On top of that it has a whole life of its own with sports , a nightly disco , live music , and a daily English film . |
| 14 | All I had was a testimonial from Harold Fletcher of G.C.H.Q. , which was no testimonial in that it gave a potential employer absolutely no enlightenment because it could not do so : |