Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average man may perhaps think it an exaggeration but I do assure you that this is factually so and nights are not now so dark that I can not be completely aware of what is happening around me before , during and after the nets have been set . |
| 2 | It is hoped to have another polo match here next year and perhaps make it an annual event . |
| 3 | The lawful carrying of something like a car jack which is used to cause injury on the spur of the moment does not necessarily make it an offensive weapon ( R. v. |
| 4 | Wherever it was , Roe apparently considered it an obstacle to his plans , and he indicated his intention of writing to Wilson offering that man a share , in consideration of relinquishing his rights and transferring these to the Macclesfield company . |
| 5 | It may be full of microbes and rotting vegetation , but these are natural and organic and only give it an attractive flavour . |
| 6 | A vet who wishes to examine a cat may approach it in this way before , for instance , holding it down to give it an injection . |
| 7 | Certainly ‘ Scarlet Ribbons ’ was one he used to sing to her ; here Sinead tremulously gives it an elegiac quality with tin whistle and uileann pipes and painful memories nearly overwhelm her halfway through . |
| 8 | Blacks need to realise that affirmative action can not solve their most serious problems , whites need to remember that affirmative action does not make it an advantage to be born black . |
| 9 | She mentions Chodorow 's socialization theory of the transfer of concerns with care and responsibility from mothers to daughters , but she does not make it an integral part of her own account . |
| 10 | you do is hang it over on the clothes line , stand back a few inches , just give it an even spray , |
| 11 | Yeah slow give it an hour and a half in a slow oven . |
| 12 | Someone who did not know about the Müller-Lyer illusion being an illusion might well say , ‘ AB is shorter than BC ’ ( if the appearance was not misleading in this way we would not call it an ‘ illusion ’ ) . |
| 13 | However , if they do not find it an attractive business or one that they are successful at , they are likely to be asked to leave . |
| 14 | The peculiar verisimilitude of the novel 's representation of reality , and the peculiarly hypnotic spell the novel casts upon its readers , have always made it an object of some suspicion , both morally and aesthetically . |
| 15 | Its magnitude is given as 6.6 , but I have always found it an elusive binocular object . |
| 16 | ‘ You could hardly call it an operation — ten minutes on the table and a local anaesthetic , ’ Richard replied . |
| 17 | John McFall , MP for Dumbarton and Labour Scottish affairs spokesman on crime , presented a private member 's bill yesterday to make it an offence to carry an article with a blade or point in a public place . |
| 18 | The separation of the legal system from direct political control , and its apparent operation in a dispassionate rational — legal mode also make it an aspect of the fragmentation of the state which requires the most explanation . |
| 19 | That sort of centrality does not automatically make it an easy issue for national politicians , though . |
| 20 | The National Curriculum Council 's own guidance : A Curriculum for All ( NCC 1989a ) , not only presents the National Curriculum as a common entitlement , but also gives it an ideological pedigree . |
| 21 | But he also gives it an edge and an urgency that turn it into much more than an abstract cafe debate . |
| 22 | When she first arrived in Bristol Moggach lived at Badock Hall , then the only mixed hall of residence , which also gave it an aura of excitement . |
| 23 | The third aspect of Part II is that section 10 now makes it an offence for a trader to supply consumer goods which fail to comply with a general safety requirement . |
| 24 | The turboprop has also undergone a maturing process that now makes it an easy engine to work on and spectacularly reliable . |
| 25 | ‘ There 's something I 'd like to tell you , ’ he began slowly , ‘ That is , if you would n't think it an intrusion . ’ |
| 26 | One would like to think that she even found it an advantage to be an ASROG , and that Miss B. and Miss T. , who could take it in their stride , had prepared her to enjoy it . |
| 27 | Not stolen , we have n't moved it an inch . |
| 28 | In such cases melatonin might be some sort of ‘ darkness indicator ’ and some have even called it an ‘ internal time-cue ’ . |
| 29 | It will arrive on a single floppy , without an installation program — you 'll have to install it manually ( creating a group and maybe assigning it an icon ) . |
| 30 | She shooed it off , vindictively giving it an urge to become a great landscape painter in place of its rope obsession . |