Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A computer programmer would almost certainly get a computer to do it that way , but I doubt whether the brain does . |
| 2 | However , the future of its messy OSF/1-Ultrix-Open Desktop strategy is so unstable that even its own spokespeople were at a loss to explain it last week — ‘ it 's too early to say , ’ they conceded . |
| 3 | But if you 're religiously inclined , then clearly the universe looks a bit different , because the universe has a creator , and having a creator gives it some kind of meaning . |
| 4 | She had no idea what she wanted , but it was n't a licence to have it both ways . |
| 5 | Rather than moving back to a more conventional approach based on genuine consultation , it had opted for a system giving it greater control . |
| 6 | It rolled into a hollow and it took me half an hour to get it one yard back onto the road . |
| 7 | Mannheim 's relationism seemed to his detractors like a hollow promise , an attempt to have it both ways . |
| 8 | Well y Yes , but no but you see if you do an emergency stop it all runs to the front anyway . |