Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The male three-spined stickleback stakes a territory out and defends it from other males . |
| 2 | When the staff at Bloomfield criticize the Profitboss for cancelling a visit three times running , he accepts it as constructive advice . |
| 3 | Her hair changes from dark green in the water to bright gold when she emerges , and she dresses it with fine jewelled ornaments from her underwater palace . |
| 4 | and they 've got it in but it wants it at different times does n't it ? |
| 5 | Sherfey ( 1970 ) points out that femininity may not be a transhistorical absolute ; but her certainty that it exists now endows it with contemporary universality . |
| 6 | Another instance of disrespect involving the refusal of verse concerns Hotspur , reading the letter from a fellow rebel who has had cold feet — the letter is in prose , and Hotspur interrupts it with angry comments in prose , an unusual effect in Shakespeare — and then being confronted with his wife . |
| 7 | Every woman is connected to that lineage , whether or not she furthers it through physical reproduction . |
| 8 | Jackie Out of Soho reviews it in short exclamation-marked bursts |
| 9 | Nice chap and he teaches creative writing in Glasgow , used to be a teacher then a teacher trainer and then I think took early retirement and he does this but made the point that he simply uses it for extra income for pleasure and interest as opposed I suppose to a way of writing you know so |
| 10 | The first creates a CLI command file that lists the line to a file and then calls the second procedure which cleans it up and uses it as redirected input before exiting . |
| 11 | She complements it with vocal caricatures of the monstrous and a keening she calls a ‘ vengeful mourning cry ’ . |
| 12 | Rita is a lively observer of her world , and describes it with vivid insight . |
| 13 | Rapport , the community newspaper , describes it as wanton damage and wilful vandalism . |
| 14 | Tim Albery 's production takes this weird eighteenth-century fantasy of nobles , bourgeois , and servants , all of whom finally settle for marrying their own class , and instils it with Fuselian surrealism . |
| 15 | Suppose that an infant who has hired a horse injures it by careless riding . |
| 16 | ‘ Acid rain can be abatted by taking the sulphur from power station flue gases , using the Wellman-Lord process , which extracts it as sulphuric acid . |
| 17 | It is the unique experience of rail travellers on the Gotthard to glimpse the same , unmistakable baroque-domed village church three times in a few minutes as the train passes it at different levels above and below . |
| 18 | The first person in each team places it on their nose and then passes it to other members of the team without using their hands . |
| 19 | In consequence , that aspect of it which links it with previous practice has diminished almost at times to the point of disappearance . |
| 20 | A particular , and in representational terms crucial , development of this new activism ( and one which links it to other movements based on class , gender , colour , and so on ) is the de-biologising nature of the disability . |
| 21 | When a central bank buys a surplus of foreign currency it exchanges it for domestic currency , here Deutschmarks . |
| 22 | His slightly pedantic manner is n't perhaps quite what 's wanted for the part , but he has studied it closely , sings it with unfailing musicality , as regards intonation , note values , dynamics and phrasing , and in Ac ; t 3 catches most of Tristan 's desperation and longing . |
| 23 | The bank has no plans to put the EDI application back onto the X400 network , because it uses a program developed by Brussels-based systems integrator Acse SA , which collects the information from the X25 mailbox , stores it on magnetic disk , checks it for the Binary Condensed Algorithm code number , and checks it against internal and external data . |
| 24 | Others are more subtle , if not downright clever , like the frog-hopper or spittle-bug that , instead of spitting back the sap it does n't want — like greenfly — uses it to surround itself in a frothy mass that hides and protects it from predatory birds and also prevents the soft-skinned body from drying out . |
| 25 | The body has a defence system that protects it against outside invaders . |
| 26 | In beauty products , DNA holds moisture in the skin , protects it against UV rays and improves the appearance of scar tissue . |
| 27 | The bank has no plans to put the EDI application back onto the X400 network , because it uses a program developed by Brussels-based systems integrator Acse SA , which collects the information from the X25 mailbox , stores it on magnetic disk , checks it for the Binary Condensed Algorithm code number , and checks it against internal and external data . |
| 28 | The ability to make long-range plans is at a premium in early middle game , and the machine 's low level of ability in this department usually gets it into terrible trouble . |
| 29 | She divides it into great scoopfuls and fills a cornflake bowl for each of us . |
| 30 | For example , a classificatory system imposed on the material divides it into abstract categories ( e.g. into a chronology on the basis of definable periods ; or into a typology , or system of sorting on the basis of formal likeness and difference ) . |