Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This hotel is just off the main square of Sorrento , with a private lift linking it to Marina Piccola . |
| 2 | Formerly a private hotel , it has needed only a little work to convert it to its new use . |
| 3 | We snap a toothpick and make a half-hearted attempt to stick it to our chin . |
| 4 | On the north side of this Paddock a low wall separates it from some buildings occasionally used for canine patients , but chiefly as a Storage … |
| 5 | It is likely to come about only as a consequence of a general election yielding a majority for no single party thus putting a minority party favouring change in a strong position to secure it as a price for joining or supporting another minority party in government . |
| 6 | Farmers still dilute a concentrated formulation to apply it in 200 litres or more of water per hectare . |
| 7 | We have developed a procedure for quantifying a specific mRNA purifying it with a selected biotinylated oligonucleotide ( sbODN ) and measuring its absorbance by free solution Capillary Electrophoresis ( CE ) . |
| 8 | And his hand picked up a dropped boot to hurl it against the crackling plastic doors . |
| 9 | I employ the term ' sharing' in a technical sense to distinguish it from ‘ reciprocity ’ as a specific type of transaction . |
| 10 | ‘ All we do know , ’ he concluded , ‘ is that the assassin must have been a member of the community at the Tower who knew Sir Ralph had changed his bed chamber , and he or she either committed the murder or hired a professional assassin to do it for them . ’ |
| 11 | A few women make it despite the system and then become vaunted as a great example of personal initiative and drive , thus suggesting that employment is a matter of personal ability rather than an economic and political issue . |
| 12 | Woosnam himself , angry at the time of the incident at the 13th , said this week that ‘ only a few people spoilt it for a lot ’ . |
| 13 | It 's in books a few books have it in it . |
| 14 | A yurt is comfortable and a wooden floor raises it from the ground . |
| 15 | The process of designing the Act took nearly two years ; Butler took a further year to steer it through Parliament . |
| 16 | He said that he and his partner , Frank Anderson , bought the empty property in Marine Park Mansions , Wellington Road , for £750,000 and spent a further £200,000 converting it from flats into a hotel . |
| 17 | The word ‘ patronymic ’ is sometimes used as an easy synonym when referring to any surname , but its meaning is more limited than that , for a proper application restricts it to describing those names descending from fathers or ancestors . |
| 18 | And anyway , I would n't like it if a male author did it with he . |
| 19 | The striking resemblance to graft v host disease in our case has been described in cytomehalovirus colitis and its occurence here in a non-transplant patient shows it to be a true feature of cytomegalovirus colitis . |
| 20 | And so what he 's trying to do is to as Andrea says erm uncover the truth , get to the , get to what really happened as it were , under the layers of myth and distortion could have been introduced in the Bible story , and as I said if you read the book erm and it is quite fascinating in many ways , it is a bit like a detective story because what Freud does is he tries to get to the truth by analyzing the , the actual texts and the texts contains discrepancies and anybody who 's ever tried to erm edit a book , learns this to their cost actually , but er you find no matter how carefully you change things , there 's usually things you miss , little discrepancies that give away how it was the first time and er Freud 's view is this , this has happened very much to the Bible , it 's been so heavily edited and re-written and later the the various editings show and if you read it very critically , you can begin to see perhaps the underlying pattern er coming through and erm just as you can tell for instance by reading Genesis , that it 's a of two accounts because there are two stories , the first story is Chapter One of Genesis , then in Chapter Three or something there 's a second story repeats it with variations . |
| 21 | After a roof-top walkabout on the terraces we viewed ‘ Towards 2000 ’ a promotional video describing the dramatic changes that are taking place at the £500m investment site of Terminal 2 , part of a complex that employs over 10,000 people ( 30,000 projected for the year 2005 ) and is set to expand with a second runway taking it from a regional role into the top 20 of world airports . |
| 22 | Software designers will never agree to a standard format for the data in their programs so instead there has to be another piece of software that will bundle the information into a standard format to enable it to be transmitted to another computer . |
| 23 | Reduced to serving as a mere garden hut , a lucky chance brought it to the notice of a vigilant W & L member fresh from success in W & L 's competition to design a ( new ) building for Raven Square . |
| 24 | Failure to ensure dogs wear a collar and some form of identification in public places will be an offence and the legislation also requires those who find a stray dog to report it to the authorities . |
| 25 | It has had Locus Computing Corp dissect NT and do a functional analysis comparing it to desktop Unix on both the client and server levels . |
| 26 | The whole movement is conceived in cases such as She got me to break down the door , which have been diagrammed as : In this sense , the infinitive can be said to evoke a subsequent actualization , i.e. an event which is actualized as a consequence of a previous event bringing it into being . |
| 27 | His favourite horse was shot and draped over the grave and a dreamer bell was suspended over the chief 's body , to ring in the wind until a white man stole it in 1874 . |
| 28 | And if a white guy tells it to a bunch of woolly liberals … ’ |
| 29 | Held , allowing the appeal , that it was a requirement of all leases and tenancy agreements that the term created was of certain duration ; that the lease purportedly created under the memorandum of agreement , being for an uncertain period , was void and the land was held on a yearly tenancy created by virtue of the tenant 's possession and payment of yearly rent , on such terms of the memorandum of agreement as were consistent with a yearly tenancy ; and that , accordingly , since the term preventing the landlord from determining the tenancy until the land was required for road widening purposes was inconsistent with the right of either party under a yearly tenancy to determine it on six months ' notice , the plaintiffs ' tenancy had been lawfully determined ( post , pp. 283B–C , F–G , 284G–H , 285E–F , 286E–F , H — 287B , G–H ) . |
| 30 | Appeal organisers would like anyone thinking of holding a coffee morning or jumble sale in aid of a worthy cause to do it for the day care centre . |