Example sentences of "it [verb] a [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She yeah , that 's her her nickname , cos she was quite big and she played the nurse in Romeo and Juliet in the season on Stratford on Avon and she did it using a Welsh accent because she thought Shakespeare , having coming from quite near the Welsh Border Country might well have had might well have had a Welsh nurse . |
| 2 | She yeah , that 's her her nickname , cos she was quite big and she played the nurse in Romeo and Juliet in the season on Stratford on Avon and she did it using a Welsh accent because she thought Shakespeare , having coming from quite near the Welsh Border Country might well have had might well have had a Welsh nurse . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , belatedly in keeping with its stand on law and order , it tabled a new clause that disallows , in computing taxable income , expenses which themselves constitute the commission of a criminal offence . |
| 4 | Pentrite can explode without a detonator if it receives a severe blow or strong friction . |
| 5 | At the same time , it represents a necessary condition that must be fulfilled before any references can be significantly made to non-meanings as ontological existents . |
| 6 | It represents a tremendous opportunity and challenge , but these will only be obtained if the development of organisational change and information systems is properly integrated and managed . |
| 7 | A semi-circle with a smaller semi-circle in it represents an Aboriginal mother and child . |
| 8 | Offered for sale at a realistic price , it represents an ideal investment or family purchase . |
| 9 | This is not merely a matter of re-stating what had already been said ; it involves a genuine progress and advance towards a fuller and clearer understanding enabled by the onward movement of history . |
| 10 | It involves a constant holding-back or a holding-together of the self , and uses enormous energy , as if letting go would be desperately dangerous . |
| 11 | We shall think that it defies a physical law if we are naive enough to treat it simply as a structureless lump of matter with a certain mass and wind resistance . |
| 12 | Neither can it make a specific issue or prohibited steps order so as to require a child to be accommodated by a local authority as this would in effect allow the authority to take the child into care without necessarily satisfying the s31 criteria ( s9(5) ( b ) ) . |
| 13 | Luckily we killed it before it became a full-blown institution and today no one seriously expects that food , or clothing , or even that overriding necessity , a television set , should be subsidised for all consumers , still less for a minority . |
| 14 | It became a great treasure because there was n't much money to spare in those days . |
| 15 | To its critics , it became a mild tabloid and a very pale imitation of what was originally intended . |
| 16 | It became a runaway success and , until the introduction of PageMaker on the PC , had no real competition . |
| 17 | Then it became a residential nursery before the social services took it over five years ago . ’ |
| 18 | It became an annual event and a major source of Army income , with the public soon being asked to share in the exercise . |
| 19 | Perusal of Fig. 6.5 indicates that it does appear to work , and that it offers a pragmatic solution that could probably be developed further into a general-purpose GIS ‘ error button ’ . |
| 20 | The stone they used to build Aberdeen may be built for endurance rather than seduction , but when it catches the sun it offers a lively spirit as well as a safe haven . |
| 21 | Thirdly , it depicted a mental hospital as containing mentally handicapped adults who were sexually perverse or completely unable to look after themselves ; suggesting that this was typical of most mentally handicapped people . |
| 22 | We have argued that much communication is English-based , and in education it constitutes a real choice since a purpose may be the teaching of specific English structures through sign . |
| 23 | The size of the compulsory core of a discipline might tell us something about the strength of its identity , and the extent to which it constitutes an organic whole or , to use a common expression , ‘ seamless web ’ . |
| 24 | It was indeed hierarchical : both in theory and practice it made a great difference where a man was born . |
| 25 | It made a small noise as he opened it and he paused . |
| 26 | Apple Computer Inc has always jealously guarded its Macintosh environment , but it made a striking gesture when it allowed IBM to build machines that would run the PowerPC version of Macintosh System when the chip is ready . |
| 27 | What was funny it made a loud noise but it hurt my ankle as well . |
| 28 | It made a detailed study and in particular conducted trial runs on both gauges under similar conditions . |
| 29 | A dark cloud rose from Carey 's head and was swatted away by a wave ; it made a little slick that thinned and trailed out to sea . |
| 30 | Uniformitarianism triumphed because it provided a general theory that was at once logical and seemingly " scientific " . |