Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the dam is turf Ed on the land ward side to give it the appearance of a gently sloping field . |
| 2 | I do n't think he 'll be in any fit condition to do it every morning anyway . |
| 3 | The straps had been painted in Renaissance fold mixed with cadmium red light to give it a warmer , redder appearance . |
| 4 | In your road test of the Peugeot 605 SRdt ( 20 February ) you comment that the only car to give it a run for its money is the Citroen XM . |
| 5 | I 've a good mind to give it a miss . |
| 6 | A finish applied to the fabric to give it a watermarked appearance . |
| 7 | ‘ Clive Griffiths , the Welsh coach , may persuade me to play against France in a few weeks ' time but I have made up my mind to call it a day , ’ he said last night . |
| 8 | But when he had leapt off his horse to approach it the chest had sprouted legs and had gone trotting off into the forest , stopping again a few hundred yards away . |
| 9 | And we have more plans for the future to make it the ultimate private leisure club . |
| 10 | We are committed to it and it is our intention to make it the centre of a big programme of tennis in the city . ’ |
| 11 | The first flowering plant I saw was a familiar one — the purple mountain saxifrage , Saxafraga oppositifolia to give it the scientific name . |
| 12 | Turn off the water , drain down and bale out the cistern to give it a good clean . |
| 13 | It 's both refreshingly basic and gloriously polished , Kim Fowley doing the Mr Sheen production work to give it a massive sound . |
| 14 | It 's both refreshingly basic and gloriously polished , Kim Fowley doing the Mr Sheen production work to give it a massive sound . |
| 15 | Mettwurst is similar to Teewurst but is always made from a mixture of pork and beef , is very smoky and often contains paprika to give it a more spicy flavour . |
| 16 | One compound based on methylene chloride also incorporates ammonium hydroxide to give it a characteristic smell . |
| 17 | Not that he ever mentions it , or that I 've ever asked him , but he 's the type to consider it a sacred duty to have everything in order for every emergency . ’ |
| 18 | This attitude to doubt it a part of our Christian shame today . |
| 19 | Having assessed the responses to that paper , we concluded that the best way forward was to strengthen the 1979 Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act to make it an offence to remove finds from scheduled sites whether or not they were discovered by means of a metal detector . |
| 20 | It is prone to shrinking and should be pre-shrunk during the manufacture to make it a good buy . |
| 21 | Projects include : expanding the Museum to make it a live wartime HQ with ‘ operational briefings ’ being given to visitors ; Bomb aimer 's simulator ; air gunner 's simulator ; intelligence room ; crash recovery room ; building a memorial garden which will be dedicated to Canada ; refurbishing and fitting-out the Great North Road 's most famous landmark , the Grand Old Duke of York 's ‘ Temple ’ , as a memorial chapel to those who died serving in 6 Group . |
| 22 | Fortunately , Tumbleweed are redeemed by the remaining songs : ‘ Carousel ’ which all but abandons their rockist bluster in favour of a gentler , almost poppy sound ; ‘ Stoned ’ , a brilliantly dumb dope-tribute , and ‘ Millenium ’ , which is a little too heavy on masturbatory muso-isms , but manages to retain enough hyperactive charm to make it a success . |
| 23 | Perhaps Stein used bare hammers in the vis-a-vis piano to give it a greater dynamic range so that it could balance the harpsichord at the opposite end . |
| 24 | This has certainly led to a freeing of the body to give it a greater range of movement . |
| 25 | You can lay cold-roll macadam over old concrete , paving or existing macadam to give it a new surface , but it 's difficult to lay over hardcore with an ordinary garden roller — you need to put down two layers and use a hired plate vibrator to get a good result . |
| 26 | Did the postwar development of the welfare state remould capitalism to give it a more human face , or were the changes largely cosmetic ? |
| 27 | Passage of the new measure ( which had already been approved by the Senate in September 1989 ) precipitated an unprecedented constitutional crisis because of King Baudouin 's refusal to give it the royal assent . |
| 28 | The Wedgwood stand was decorated by Pam Griffith of the Barlaston display team to give it an authentic English look . |
| 29 | The other end of the pole was attached to a treadle , which exploited the natural springiness of the pole , tightening the rope to turn the wood one way , then relying on the spring in the pole to turn it the other way as the rope was released . |
| 30 | It is not hyperbole to call it a paralysis of public choice . " |