Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose that an infant who has hired a horse injures it by careless riding . |
| 2 | It would n't take a very big hit with the mass of a forklift to dent it in actual fact . |
| 3 | It may be that his partner also loves the outdoors but feels a need to limit it to small doses . |
| 4 | The software needs a lot of work before it 's mature and the current situation puts OSF and DCE vendors in a race to get it to that point before the marketplace grows leery of it . |
| 5 | Have you had a chance to play it at all ? |
| 6 | contribution from local residents that we have achieved — the figure in Scotland is even lower — but , on the contrary , a commitment to raise it to 20 per cent . |
| 7 | I saw a woman preparing it with such a stick as is used for chocolate , and in the same manner . ’ |
| 8 | To expect a man to understand it about another man 's son is expecting a very great deal . ’ |
| 9 | Commonly we consider a disease to be the symptoms that we experience when ill but if we are to take the susceptibility into account then we need a word to include it in this larger view of disease . |
| 10 | think of a number multiply it by two now divide it by two back to the number you though of . |
| 11 | Add the oil and deep fry the pork , stirring with a spatula to break it into small pieces . |
| 12 | To be involved professionally in a thing as creative as this is a great privilege and we have a duty to make it in such a way that we can help bring pleasure and a sense of fulfilment to those who are not so fortunate . |
| 13 | This is why although he dares to pose his overwhelming question , he can never be in a position to answer it with more than an assertion and the promise of more totalizations . |
| 14 | It is our belief that the idea of a grammar as a theory , subject at every point to testing and criticism , is difficult to establish unless the student is in a position to contrast it with another . |
| 15 | Multiprotocol is something of a misnomer — currently only TCP/IP and SNA are supported , although there is a promise to extend it to Open Systems Interconnection in the future . |
| 16 | When financial devolution was first mooted there was a tendency to divorce it from other considerations , but as suggested in Chapter 1 , the change in title from LFM ( Local Financial Management ) to LMS ( Local Management of Schools ) reflects a significant change in thinking . |
| 17 | Simon Werman 's work , at Broomfield , can be most easily identified by his edge mouldings , where they all carry a uniform design of a continuous running stem pattern that has a leaf crossing it at regular intervals . |
| 18 | In general , we can say that if the free energy-composition curve has a shape which allows a tangent to touch it at two points , phase separation will occur . |