Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Well I 've already said about the bulk transfer Giro , I quite honestly do n't know whether any other option can be given to people , they 've given the option to defer their pension with the Post or their present scheme , transferred it new company scheme or take out er the money and take out a personal pension fund er I suppose there might be a possibility of offering people after a certain number past a certain number of years the opportunity to remain within the fund they 're in but er the contribution and who , who makes a contribution may be a problem , but that 's the only other option I can see .
2 And just to put the icing on the cake he has named it Black Forest Chateau .
3 Donna saw it in the rear-view mirror , convinced and elated that she 'd done it crippling damage .
4 It swells and shrinks , changing its output as it does so ; the official magnitude range is from 0.4 to 0.9 , but over the past decades I have seen it matching Rigel on rare occasions , while it is not often as faint as Aldebaran .
5 and this chappie had a double hip replacement operation , it 's been on the television here and er , he said they started off dancing with Sammy Davis , you know , er what 's it called , Tip Tap Toe or something like that , they , they act Sammy Davis and his , and his parents and then these two chaps I , I mean they had n't made it big time
6 The Germans have made it clear time and again that ‘ in the field of monetary policy the principle of subsidiarity does not apply ’ .
7 He 'd made it clear right form the start just how he regarded her — as a brash and brassy nightclub singer , nothing else .
8 Darlington have made it known Hankin will be on the short-list .
9 It may be that she commissioned the piece under the influence of the Norman history written for her brother Duke Richard II by Dudo of St Quentin , while some have thought it political propaganda intended to influence events after Cnut 's death .
10 Paul Franklin was sound , and Angela Cartwright confessed that she too had long thought it high time Grunte gave up .
11 in the morning , so what nutty nut , I 've got it nutty nut
12 His cockney friends would have called it honest endeavour in a dishonest world .
13 Erm , we 've called it Critical Application Software .
14 Her doctor called it rheumatoid arthritis .
15 The University has many staff whose work of outstanding international merit in many diverse fields has brought it great acclaim .
16 At a time when most companies are consolidating their positions , Spaceway South have found it profitable helping other companies make the most of their available space .
17 Cuckney has never found it difficult switching from the public to the private sector , or vice versa .
18 The war , far from finishing off the machine of modernity , had given it new life .
19 The combined effect of the FSA and the delegation by the Secretary of State of regulatory power to the SIB has given it extensive executive , enforcement and rulemaking powers .
20 Cuba 's proximity to the United States has given it great value for Soviet intelligence , surveillance and communications operations .
21 One obvious problem about the regent 's earlier policy of marrying her daughter to the dauphin is why leading Scottish Protestants like lord James Stewart and John Erskine of Dun had not only accepted this symbolic and political consolidation of the alliance with Catholic France , but had given it positive support , being among those who negotiated it .
22 Now I have n't finished , but I mean I , it really is at the top of my mind , yo , you know it has n't I have n't given it top priority .
23 Moltke , by reinforcing his left wing at the expense of his right , had given it sufficient strength to resist attack but insufficient to mount a crushing counter-attack .
24 They have accorded it blind respect while considering it totally irrelevant to the real world .
25 If there are no questions on the revised estimates Chair , then the , the base budget for ninety three , ninety four are those outlined on the green pages , identified it certain service by service .
26 Not one for the purists , they said … others labelled it soft porn .
27 It did not help matters that about the time Rowell 's rather reluctant jab at some New Zealand rugby habits was being published it occupied space beside reports that the All Blacks had been over-vigorous — and sometimes over-the-top — in their match against New South Wales at Sydney .
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