Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It now has wholly-owned offices in Paris , Amsterdam , Brussels , Frankfurt , Geneva , Stockholm and Gothenburg , is a shareholder in a well-established US firm and has associate arrangements in the USA and elsewhere , enabling it to sustain an annual growth rate of between 20% and 30% which is now generating annual total fees of up to £5m . |
| 2 | It massively increased the budget of the Manpower Services Commission , enabling it to play a dominant role in vocational education . |
| 3 | Since the article need not be made or adapted for burglary , stealing or cheating it bears a wide meaning . |
| 4 | As the matter spirals into the black hole , it would make the black hole rotate in the same direction , causing it to develop a magnetic field rather like that of the earth . |
| 5 | Though it still needed to learn to live with the ways of the new peoples , it had its own mature traditions , and cultural and institutional development , encapsulating much of Roman civilization and fitting it to play a decisive role in shaping the new Germanic societies . |
| 6 | The maxim that life should not be extended at the cost of worsening it has an obvious appeal : it is also a gross over-simplification . |
| 7 | The style is emotive but the intellectual understanding informing it has an astringent clarity which is very moving . |
| 8 | Finally , there is a nastily cursed item : among a box of silver jewellery ( worth 150 GCs ) is what appears to be an Amulet of Righteous Silver , but in fact the making of the item was botched and anyone wearing it suffers a -20 penalty to all Cl tests to resist the fear and terror effects of certain undead . |
| 9 | This is not the only case in which it is known that the egg contains a special localized material which causes cells containing it to follow a particular path of differentiation . |
| 10 | Some of the sacked workers were delighted at news of the departure , saying it removed a major obstacle to settling the bitter five-month row . |
| 11 | That 's , my one , I do n't know how you 'd ever get over it , but that 's my one criticism of the thing is that sometimes when you walk in it 's the first thing that hits you and unless people are dancing it creates a cold atmosphere . |
| 12 | In so doing it reversed an earlier commitment , made in 1988 in the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster [ see pp. 36161 ; 34831 ] , to begin the shut-down of the country 's 12 nuclear reactors in 1995 . |
| 13 | At the moment I 'm training a red-tailed buzzard and only letting it move a few inches — just off my fist and back again . |
| 14 | Manufacturing it requires a prohibitive amount of electricity , unless the electricity comes from cheap renewable sources , like photo-voltaic cells in the Sahara , where the sunlight is guaranteed even if the water to make the hydrogen is not . |
| 15 | High level gene expression may then result from this protein being a stronger trans-activator than NF1 allowing it to direct a higher level of gene activation even following displacement of NF1 . |
| 16 | It is this sovereign self of Europe which is today being deconstructed , showing the extent to which Europe 's other has been a narcissistic self-image through which it has constituted itself while never allowing it to achieve a perfect fit . |
| 17 | The retail sales figures sent the FT-SE 100-Share Index five points higher , helping it recover an initial fall in line with Wall Street overnight . |
| 18 | Smadja argues that knowledge of relations such as these is necessary to both understanding and generation , and he outlines an approach for automatically acquiring such restrictions from a corpus , and then using it to augment an existing lexicon . |
| 19 | In 1990 , he was charged with applying for a copy of a birth certificate in that name and using it to make a fraudulent passport application . |
| 20 | ‘ It looks as if they were interrupted at their meal , ’ he remarked , righting the overturned stool and using it to indicate a soiled trencher and several dusty earthenware mugs on the table . |
| 21 | I entered one full of nuns , their winged white coifs illuminating the dim interior , making it like a candle-lit church . |
| 22 | Every day a compromise is effected on the ground that the party making it has a fair chance of succeeding in it , and if he bona fide believes he has a fair chance of success he has a reasonable ground for suing , and his forbearance to sue will constitute a good consideration . |
| 23 | Like WordStar , WordPerfect has drop-down menus , making it look a whole lot friendlier for the uninitiated |
| 24 | Then you 'd be plucking the sides to make it tidy and carrying it to make a round top sort of a roof on it . |
| 25 | Peroxiding it seemed a hopeful idea . |
| 26 | Some interviewers address candidates by their first names thinking it encourages a relaxed atmosphere . |
| 27 | In the later part of the decade , its theories and campaigns seemed to many to be the only active and innovative part of the western feminist movement , and affirming or rejecting it occupied an enormous proportion of feminist writing and talk . |