Example sentences of "it [verb] [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neuron Data , better known for its Nexpert expert system until it re-invented itself as a GUI development outfit , plans to push on into what it sees as a burgeoning market for software which can make an ISV 's job designing solutions which work across heterogeneous environments much easier . |
| 2 | Total marketing and sales expenses increased as it turns itself into a market-driven company to $24.3m , up 45% . |
| 3 | The former '80s high flier is already well on the way to digging itself out of the mess it got itself into a few years back . |
| 4 | The French were only ready to discuss a common market if it provided them with a high tariff ‘ wall ’ against outsiders and if there were complicated measures to guarantee equality of competition between members . |
| 5 | It drew her to a big yellow truck , where a dark scarf of smoke tugged across the pavement . |
| 6 | The British have fallen in love with this Mediterranean island because it has everything for a perfect holiday : sunny skies , glorious beaches , bustling resorts , friendly people , fascinating sights and beautiful countryside . |
| 7 | New Zealand has the playing infrastructure but it has nothing like a big enough commercial base . |
| 8 | Frankie could not be one of them , yet he feared in his hear that it might be true , because when she called him ‘ Nigger ’ it wounded him in a special way he did not really understand . |
| 9 | It establishes him in a special relationship with God . |
| 10 | From its first issue it identified itself as a coordinating centre for research in English studies , and indeed , the development of an identity based upon research for the discipline can be seen to have been one of its major functions . |
| 11 | It fills us with a deep warmth that will last past midnight . |
| 12 | Others are more subtle , if not downright clever , like the frog-hopper or spittle-bug that , instead of spitting back the sap it does n't want — like greenfly — uses it to surround itself in a frothy mass that hides and protects it from predatory birds and also prevents the soft-skinned body from drying out . |
| 13 | The past often appears ideal in retrospect , yet if one looks at it closely it reveals itself as a dangerous place where we laid mines to trap others , and others laid them to trap us . |
| 14 | If you follow it along from the historical site it leads you to a perfect waterfall , and then to a point where flat grass lies between the vertical gorge sides . |
| 15 | The document says it is impossible not to notice how society , for the most part , makes human sexuality banal , since it interprets it in a reduced and impoverished way , ‘ connecting it only with the body and egoistic pleasure ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ It takes itself for a little walk at night . |
| 17 | We are confident that IBM is indeed primarily interested in the morphing business even as it metamorphoses itself into a new and presumably reinvigorated enterprise . |
| 18 | A fortress over the centuries , now it beckoned him with a fine house , The Vines , where once the German commandant had surveyed the desolated scene . |
| 19 | A rhetorical figure does not disrupt a conventional meaning randomly ; it shifts it in a particular direction . |
| 20 | It stung her to a sharp reply . |
| 21 | Of course , you can run the programs in a DOS window , but it seems something of a regressive step . |
| 22 | It finds her in a maximum security prison on a far-off planet . |
| 23 | And then he turned over and saw the empty crumpled pillow beside him , and it hit him in a great wave . |
| 24 | It saw itself in a paternalistic role in relation to them , seeking to persuade wrongdoers of the error of their ways and guiding them back to the right paths . |
| 25 | I can ask it to read one of these three files , and it presents me with a one-dimensional array of alphabetical characters , including the characters that you are now reading . |
| 26 | The appeal of this closely-worked new study is that it presents him as a comprehensive human being . |
| 27 | Now look it asks you for a certain number of things It says As The average does n't it ? |
| 28 | Mister Johnny ca n't bear to be teased , really ca n't bear it ] It sends him into a terrible rage . |
| 29 | It 's so incongruous it stuns me for a few seconds . |
| 30 | ‘ It puts us at a great disadvantage playing at Selhurst Park . |