Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wants to see it a family home once again . ’ |
| 2 | There can be little doubt that the survey since its modern inception has had a major impact on social research , and any history of social research has to award it a salient place . |
| 3 | Because he 's got this new system , he wants to use it a bit . |
| 4 | The arts minister , Jordi Sole Tura , wants to give it the ornate edifice that currently houses the ministry of agriculture . |
| 5 | I understand that the Prime Minister wants to call it the opt-in clause . |
| 6 | Now I think that 's better than nothing , but I think one has to take it a stage further than that and say that erm the concepts and the processes in science do build logically one upon the other , in a coherent and meaningful way , and that 's important for teachers to appreciate what that meaningful sequence is and that , you know , the lucky dip idea is , as I have said , better than nothing , but it 's so much inferior to the notion that teachers should be aware that there is a progression in science and that they can teach children progressively from a very early age onwards and build meaningful knowledge upon meaningful knowledge . |
| 7 | Now I think that 's better than nothing , but I think one has to take it a stage further than that and say that erm the concepts and the processes in science do build logically one upon the other , in a coherent and meaningful way , and that 's important for teachers to appreciate what that meaningful sequence is and that , you know , the lucky dip idea is , as I have said , better than nothing , but it 's so much inferior to the notion that teachers should be aware that there is a progression in science and that they can teach children progressively from a very early age onwards and build meaningful knowledge upon meaningful knowledge . |
| 8 | The National Association of the Self-employed and Small Businesses wants to make it a criminal offence to issue cheques that are returned unpaid because no funds are available in the drawer 's account . |
| 9 | ‘ Nobody who spends £500 on a jacket wants to discard it the following year , ’ he believes , insisting that no Armani design dates before it dies of old age . |
| 10 | Mr Veazey , 52 , plans to rename it The New Belmont Club and introduce social club type cabaret . |
| 11 | Vosper Hovermarine prefers to call it a surface effect ship . |
| 12 | Though he prefers to call it the Hospice Coast to Coast , ramblers have already nicknamed the route Clapperton 's Way . |
| 13 | This will be the first museum of contemporary art in the former DDR and the director-designate , Klaus Werner intends to make it a showcase of international art . |
| 14 | The way in which they sell their credit tends to make it a prominent and a more or less permanent part of the budget of their customers — that is , of generally poorer people , particularly in the North . |
| 15 | But on other occasions , to use a phrase of Nietzsche , ‘ a thought comes when ‘ it ’ wants , not when I want ’ , explodes and opens out too fast in in too complex ramifications to be disciplined , takes bold analogical leaps in defiance of logical rigour ; the problem on which it centres is obscure , defining itself in the process of being solved , and as he struggles to formulate it the thought is running in another direction , yet he yields to the flow out of a vague intimation that it will circle back ; for the final effort to force the argument into a coherent and publicly testable form — the only assurance even for himself that he is illumined and not deluded — he waits until the time comes to complete it on paper . |
| 16 | And as for being fair , well , no one else ever seems to find it a problem . ’ |
| 17 | She seems to find it a slightly amusing object . |
| 18 | Since a day return to Ribblehead may be something of a unilateral occasion , the collection aims to give it a proper station in life . |
| 19 | The hon. Member for Derby , North ( Mr. Knight ) seems to consider it a matter of amusement . |
| 20 | He recognizes that it might be regarded in a pejorative sense as indicating a readiness to compromise and to accept something inferior , but he uses the term , nevertheless , for the want of a better word and tries to give it a different connotation . |
| 21 | GLASS giant Pilkington continues to find it a hard grind . |
| 22 | Chapman says : ‘ I often wonder what will become of Forest when Brian Clough decides to call it a day . |
| 23 | The Wild Mammals ( Protection ) Bill seeks to make it a criminal offence to inflict cruelty on any wild animal and , in particular , to outlaw all hunting with dogs and the use of all snares . |
| 24 | ‘ If the EC decides to make it a vulnerable zone under the directive the Department of Agriculture will be required to do something about it , ’ he said . |
| 25 | It all goes to make it a very busy place . |