Example sentences of "[verb] it an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agency 's own Concorde charters swooping over the Grand National , and personal gifts such as bouquets of flowers for customers have earned it an enthusiastic local following . |
| 2 | High vaulted ceilings and historic frescoes have inspired the Fine Arts Commission to designate it an historic monument and guests feel they are living with history . |
| 3 | The study of tone languages is less important for native speakers of non-tone languages , but most students seem to find it an interesting subject . |
| 4 | This is not merely a very bare conception of the world , but argument supports intuition in pronouncing it an incoherent one . |
| 5 | Even as a wee boy I had considered it an unfair exchange . |
| 6 | To a man , of course , we 'd have considered it an enormous privilege to have met our maker while in the presence of a man who , as the greatest Olympian , is something of a sporting god . |
| 7 | ‘ If Elinor is unable to live in Saracen , the trustees might consider it an unjustifiable expense : apart from the income that might be generated by the capital that 's tied up in the place , keeping five full-time domestic staff members and three secretaries would no longer be viable . |
| 8 | I found it an impressive programme and I hope it will not lead Mr Heseltine to conclude that chess sets are less harmful potentially than television sets . |
| 9 | He found it an impossible spectacle to watch , and walked up and down the corridor for nearly two hours . |
| 10 | But hard as John Meaney tried he found it an uphill struggle against Hughes , who was firing on all cylinders , and his great ‘ cool ’ blessed with a wide repertoire of shots saw him a worthy winner 4–0 from seven frames . |
| 11 | So , when Caine told Peter Langan that he was interested in setting up a British restaurant along the lines of La Coupole , Langan found it an irresistible proposition . |
| 12 | It was an admirable venture and most of the Girls found it an exciting place to stay . |
| 13 | during its limited period of service with the RAF , most aircrew who flew the B–29 found it an enjoyable experience ; a good stepping stone into the age of the jet bomber . |
| 14 | Over 100 members attended last year and found it an enjoyable and informative day . |
| 15 | Eventually , John summoned up courage to ask permission to use different music : Ravel 's two-handed piano concerto in G. Presumably he was happier working with that , but few people found it an apt choice for the subject of the ballet , about a witch who destroys her lover . |
| 16 | Patrick 's Hill was so long and steep that even pedestrians found it an excessive strain , and its footpaths had been layered with sets of steps at regular intervals to make the ascent tolerable . |
| 17 | However , some remnants of the latter ( the Citizen Army and Sinn Fein Volunteers ) seized Dublin in 1916 and proclaimed it an Irish republic . |
| 18 | Some , including Mr Townsend himself , would give it an absolute priority . |
| 19 | FURTHER intelligence about the amazing Mr Humphrey Berkeley , who left the Conservative Party after bequeathing it an elective system for choosing its leaders , joined Labour , then moved on to the SDP , only to resign from it , too . |
| 20 | The Gothic style of the mansion has made it an ideal film set in the past . |
| 21 | She had made it an attractive place , beautifully decorated with light paint , and furnished with old pieces picked up at auctions with taste and considerable knowledge of antiques . |
| 22 | Its situation has made it an important centre for both trade and tourism . |
| 23 | Nannies consider it an essential part of their job to buy hundreds and hundreds of scented nappy disposal sacks . |
| 24 | ‘ Auctioneers in general consider it an unworkable scheme which will create absolute chaos to the services provided by livestock auctioneers to the agricultural community , ’ said Mr Heslop . |
| 25 | Many have thought it an objectionable feature of utilitarianism , in its classic formulations , that pleasure and pain are supposedly set off against each other in this simple way . |
| 26 | He graded it an unlikely E7 6c — unlikely in that it is , in all probability , much harder . |
| 27 | We 'll try install , bu but give it an explicit path . |
| 28 | There are some special features about the Klasies River Mouth site , which this book draws attention to , that give it an important place on maps of the prehistoric world . |
| 29 | Though the 440 and 880 personal communicators are twice the price of the Newton — the 440 comes in at $2,000 to $2,800 , the 880 at $3,000 to $3,300 — Eo reckons its use of AT&T 's Hobbit RISC and telecommunications technology give it an important technical edge . |
| 30 | The most vociferously opposed union maintains that all the problems could be solved were the government to remove the PTT from the financial tutelage of the finance ministry and give it an independent budget . |