Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Watts , currently the president of Tangent , will head up the new venture , which will use ISDN technology , allowing for electronic software distribution and simultaneous voice , data and image computer conferencing , all areas on which Unilinx has it long range sights . |
| 2 | Why has it funny number ? |
| 3 | ‘ Awright theaa mee ol chinah , ows it gowen den … |
| 4 | Particular services are examined by two writers closely involved with implementation : Nick Raynsford looks it recent developments in policies on housing , and David Mallen considers how education might effectively be used as a key instrument of social improvement . |
| 5 | There is , however , one little car which has been around for almost 33 years , is enjoying a revival in popularity and still holds it second-hand value well . |
| 6 | Mills gets it clear Chettle chasing hard concedes the throw . |
| 7 | The answer is to send the light down a pipe which guides it round corners . |
| 8 | She calls it corrective training . |
| 9 | Alone in my cabin , then I got comfortable , put all troublesome thoughts out of my mind , and switched on the vid to one of the best of what the vid expressively calls it Everlasting Serials . |
| 10 | More generally , Arrow ( 1984 ) calls it hidden information or hidden knowledge — the principal does not know all that the agent knows . |
| 11 | Bristol calls it Red Baron after Snoopy 's nemesis in the Peanuts comic strip . |
| 12 | In this form , it then remains , and when the rains return , it instinctively remembers it watery home and there lays its eggs , for the cycle to be repeated . |
| 13 | One player says he 's only had his cycle this term and finds it very diifficult and he falls off a lot and hurts himself . |
| 14 | Sir Michael , now 88 , adds that the performance is very appropriate and he wishes it great success . |
| 15 | Section 4(1) of the Police Act 1964 states that it is the duty of every police authority to secure the maintenance of an adequate and efficient police force for the area and gives it certain responsibilities in relation to the establishment , buildings and equipment . |
| 16 | The addition of oboes to a high melodic cello passage gives it great poignancy , and at the same time counteracts the tendency towards thinness of tone which is apt to be somewhat distressing unless the cellos are both first-rate and numerous . |
| 17 | It must therefore be acquired and taught in a way which gives it general significance . |
| 18 | In the end , the only character who lifts the play from the ruck and gives it lasting interest is the virtuoso himself . |
| 19 | The double X gives it the chance to be red and black , while the Y gives it male characteristics . |
| 20 | ACT FINANCIAL EXPLAINS HOW OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING GIVES IT UNRIVALLED MOMENTUM |
| 21 | Softboard has a spongy texture , which gives it good sound and thermal insulation properties . |
| 22 | The type of guest for which a hotel caters gives it special characteristics and atmosphere : for example , some hotels are family-type hotels with a fair proportion of residential guests , while others are commercial hotels usually catering for commercial travellers continually in transit . |
| 23 | If the process of taking evidence abroad is to serve its purpose , the evidence must be in a form which makes it admissible and gives it proper weight in the proceedings for which it was prepared , and this requires the authorities of the country in which the evidence is to be taken to show considerable flexibility in allowing , and it may be operating , modes of procedure which are quite unfamiliar . |
| 24 | Unlike the spinal column of any other mammal , it has a network of interlocking protrusions from its vertebrae that gives it enormous strength and resistance to crushing . |
| 25 | Modern technology is now so sophisticated the microprocessor-based design of the teleprinter gives it enormous power and flexibility . |
| 26 | As the boat is reversing steadily , Grant gives it full throttle forward . |
| 27 | Fronting the object , on the other hand , foregrounds it and gives it local prominence ( cf. A great deal of publicity was received in China and A great deal of publicity the book received in China ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Methinks its motion in this hush of nature Gives it dim sympathies with me who live Making it a companionable form , Whose puny flaps and freaks the idling spirit By its own moods interprets , everywhere Echo or mirror seeking of itself , And makes a toy of Thought . |
| 29 | It will be void if that fact makes it impossible right from the outset to carry out the contract . |
| 30 | ‘ Absolutely , warts and all ; that 's what makes it good fun . |