Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Matisse comes at the end of a tradition of Renaissance illusionism and volumetric painting which is irrevocably shifting into something different and he wants it both ways , just as Giotto wanted it both ways . |
| 3 | He refers to the Kingdom fifty-two times , while Mark uses it nineteen times , Luke forty-four times and John only four . |
| 4 | Ephron picks up Abraham 's ‘ give ’ and uses it three times in his opening offer . |
| 5 | So this is , there 's going to be an X cubed term in here somewhere , and there might be X squared and Xs and anything else , but if it cuts it three places , it 's got three r three roots . |
| 6 | The answer is to send the light down a pipe which guides it round corners . |
| 7 | Make sure he takes it three times a day . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It has a horizontal division across its pupil which effectively gives it four eyes — the two lower halves for seeing underwater , the two upper for doing so in air — and the fish can swim along the surface looking for food above and below it at the same time . |
| 11 | The double X gives it the chance to be red and black , while the Y gives it male characteristics . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But live performance gives it ten times more urgency and energy than the usual hollow rave PA , mimed to the record . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | To illustrate , consider an investor who purchases a 91-day bill 10 days after issue at a rate of discount of 10 per cent and sells it 7 days later at the same rate of discount . |
| 16 | This makes it 100 times worse than the Windscale accident and 1000 times worse than the Three Mile Island accident . |
| 17 | That makes it three pints . |