Example sentences of "it [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as he mulls over his reasons for behaving as he has and for writing and publishing this record , the footnote status of ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ causes it to embrace a wide range of familiar themes . |
| 2 | I did not intend it to include a mere error of law . |
| 3 | The suet crust is rich , but has enough air in it to absorb a generous amount of the dark , meaty gravy . |
| 4 | Normal market practice is for SCP to be issued on a non-interest bearing basis at a discount to its face value , although provision has also been made for it to bear a stated rate of interest . |
| 5 | They made a dazzling bouquet , not without charm , but the bunch which was presented each May Day by Mrs Curdle in person to the doctor was of such gargantuan proportions that Mrs Bailey was hard put to it to find a suitable place for it . |
| 6 | His Wisdom closed transfer system ( CTS ) has gone on the market for £560 and he expects it to find a ready market amongst arable farmers and growers . |
| 7 | You can use it to find a particular place in a text if you know a word used there , or as a way of following up a particular theme , metaphor or symbol . |
| 8 | The aim of the meeting it to provide a wide awareness of the problems industry faces and to illustrate how these can be dealt with positively . |
| 9 | This is because the increased size and strength of the heart muscle enables it to pump a larger volume of blood into the arteries with each beat . |
| 10 | You can er , use it to highlight a key piece of information , whether that 's in the diary or in the work organiser . |
| 11 | Leave the groove of Primevil as soon as possible and stay within 6 metres of it to reach a poor belay at the foot of a groove in the first tier of the wall above the slab ( about 50m ) . |
| 12 | Its 3.5 litre injection V8 engine , with 164 brake horsepower , enables it to reach a maximum speed of 105 mph , with acceleration from 0–60 taking 11.2 seconds . |
| 13 | Although languages differ in the extent to which they regularly specify the gender of human referents ( cf. English they and French ils/elles ) , we all readily recognize the distinction and expect it to reflect a genuine aspect of experience . |
| 14 | Though it still needed to learn to live with the ways of the new peoples , it had its own mature traditions , and cultural and institutional development , encapsulating much of Roman civilization and fitting it to play a decisive role in shaping the new Germanic societies . |
| 15 | As a mineral , corundum has proved its value to man partly as an abrasive , which allowed it to play a key role in the shaping of jade , and partly because it has contributed two of the most keenly sought after transparent coloured gems , sapphire and ruby . |
| 16 | It massively increased the budget of the Manpower Services Commission , enabling it to play a dominant role in vocational education . |
| 17 | Now the moth-balled site is to be revived with extra mirrors — or heliostats , as solar researchers call them — and an energy cycle that will heat molten nitrate salt to 565° C and store it to generate a steady flow of stream for the existing turbo-generators . |
| 18 | However , analysts still expect it to manage a small improvement on 1991 's profits and dividend . |
| 19 | It will also enable it to put a common view to the Lord Chancellor about needs for resources and about priorities for some needs . ’ |
| 20 | One can therefore say that the courts retain the power to read statutes in the light of general principles , the only question being whether the particular court will be able to find or invent a general principle that will enable it to give a sensible effect to the statute . |
| 21 | Engineers can use it to model a wide range of process industry applications ; from complete plant to individual items of equipment . |
| 22 | The façade is squat and heavy — the architect deliberately lowered it to allow a frontal view of the octagonal tiborium that surmounts the cupola — but it is difficult not to admire the effort that must have gone into it . |
| 23 | On the other hand , it requires a membership large enough to enable it to represent a significant number of credit managers . |
| 24 | The size of the department and the diversity of interests among its staff allow it to offer a wide range of supervision , not only in modern and medieval British economic , social , demographic and business history , but also on South Asia , the Caribbean , Russia and contemporary South-Eastern Europe . |
| 25 | ESAT 's licence allows it to offer a full range of satellite services , with the exception of speech telephony . |
| 26 | On March 27 the Russian Supreme Soviet rejected the government 's draft budget for the second quarter of 1992 and ordered it to present a new version in April . |
| 27 | High level gene expression may then result from this protein being a stronger trans-activator than NF1 allowing it to direct a higher level of gene activation even following displacement of NF1 . |
| 28 | So we should expect it to have a stronger influence on public information and perceptions than on public attitudes and choices . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , we have attempted to derive a better index of fetal adiposity than simple birth weight and have found it to have a significant bearing on results of regression analysis , suggesting that maternal glycaemia does have an impact on fetal size independent of maternal weight . |
| 30 | He seems to have found it more difficult to extrapolate remote , romantic adventures from the complex , changing world of the 1920s and after than Anthony Hope found it to transport a late-Victorian man-about-town to a small Central European kingdom . |