Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the CEMREL Research Project ( 1972 ) is any indication of what is expected it seems American teachers are looking for a child 's skill at ‘ showing ’ , and , in particular , ‘ showing ’ emotion . |
| 2 | Once the assumptions of the perfect market model are dropped it becomes clear that they have the capacity to safeguard these interests , manifested in a sluggishness of response , if not outright resistance , to changes in what consumers actually want , or might want if they were aware of the full range of possible alternatives . |
| 3 | Even when an expensive filtration plant was finally installed it proved inadequate . |
| 4 | However , on the basis of the limited data available , and in the areas that have been considered it seems probable that substantial and largely unrecognised costs have been incurred . |
| 5 | Wickham had let it become obvious that important parts of his story did not coincide with the version supplied by the only other person on the spot but Tavett maintained that what he said was correct . |
| 6 | But Lewis is shattered it proved impossible to agree terms with new champion Riddick Bowe , who on January 2 will be stripped of the WBC version . |
| 7 | During the year in which the final version was written it became clear that Raskolnikov must be freed absolutely from suicide and blanket boredom and ripostes like the one about family life which issue out from beneath that boredom . |
| 8 | ‘ I have written it using medical terms and layman 's terms in brackets so people will be able to understand it . |
| 9 | Once form is foregrounded it becomes impossible to speak of any other content except form itself . |
| 10 | The UN has said it has strong evidence Iraq is hiding about 100 of the Scud missiles of the type it fired at Israel and Saudi Arabia in the Gulf war , but Iraq denies it . |
| 11 | As well as protecting domestic firms ' market share , the obvious motivation for the Polish government legislation would appear to be its desire to induce Western firms to invest in the local high-tech industry , a policy that has also seen it pursue interventionist policies in the fields of telecommunications and electronic components — all areas for which Poland was earmarked as a specialist under mechanisms instigated by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 12 | Once a decision to adopt a stratified sampling scheme is made it becomes necessary to decide how the n units in the sample should be allocated to strata . |
| 13 | The call of the birds has made it seem good |
| 14 | Even if Maastricht is ratified intact , the past four months have made it seem backward-looking , or even irrelevant . |
| 15 | It was probably the effect of the fog that had made it seem huge at first . |
| 16 | Have you made it look nice ! |
| 17 | In particular , the weakness of the US dollar has made it look cheap on a comparison of purchasing power . |
| 18 | Torvill and Dean have always made it look easy . |
| 19 | I think he 's made it to make sure it did n't mend because he wants the |
| 20 | Whichever method was used it meant long traffic holdups as the creatures went through the streets , their already frightened state heightened by a deal of cruelty on the part of many of the drovers . |
| 21 | No — I 've had it cut short before and I did n't like the way it feels when you wake up in the mornings — really weird . |
| 22 | She 's had it cut short then ? |
| 23 | I am told it made wonderful television . |
| 24 | A child who is continually told it has low status is likely to grow into a low-status adult . |
| 25 | But the team has shown it has potential and we now want to help that talent by bringing in some experienced players . ’ |
| 26 | However , as I have already noted it seems important that this advice is given in a way which does not compromise the adult child 's independence and indeed their status as an adult . |
| 27 | When such a classification is employed it becomes obvious that the majority of work has been directed towards these tertiary activities . |
| 28 | As the votes were counted it became clear that the contest was the closest federal election for 30 years , with both sides claiming to have won a narrow victory . |
| 29 | And if Barbara Coleman had not known it appeared unlikely that Sabine Jourdain had . |
| 30 | ‘ The neural net records all details of a scene — body posture , words , tone of voice , movement — and when the scene is replayed it enhances certain features to make the record less ambiguous . ’ |