Example sentences of "[vb -s] it the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rumour has it The Orb play a different set every night . |
| 2 | He holds it the way elderly Greeks hold worry beads , a certain anxiety about the dwindling supplies of life remaining , kept at bay by this endless fiddling . |
| 3 | Keith Richardson says it the game showed a lot of encouragement for the cherry and whites … if anything Gloucester had the edge … and with a little more luck it could have gone their way … confidence is not quite there and Gloucester have to turn their pressure into points … |
| 4 | The city itself needs no introduction for its beauty , theatres , galleries and restaurants , pubs and annual Festivals , which assures it the reputation of a truly international city . |
| 5 | He regrets it the moment he says it . |
| 6 | Winston calls it the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare , you know — although we have no riffraff , naturally . |
| 7 | My friend and colleague Sandy Frey has correctly recognised this as a fundamental process for the cube , and for other mathematical groups , and he calls it the Principle of Partial Inverses ; a piece moved by P is restored by P — 1 , provided nothing else has moved it in between . |
| 8 | He calls it the Defenestration of Ramsey Everett . |
| 9 | Hewlett-Packard Co has now introduced its most powerful VMEbus board-level computer yet , and calls it the HP 9000 Model 742i . |
| 10 | These things always come along as a bit of an afterthought because they are never going to make as much money as the workstation version , but Hewlett-Packard Co has now introduced its most powerful VMEbus board-level computer yet , and calls it the HP 9000 Model 742i . |
| 11 | Cawthorne calls it the Exhilarator . |
| 12 | He denies that there is a single professional-managerial class ( or as he calls it the service class ) , but instead he sees it as being split in two . |
| 13 | Lee will rap on about this feeling of unison — he calls it the pulse — a mystical experience that arrives when the La 's all hit that special groove at the exact time . |
| 14 | Although it can take a panoply of four-dimensional shapes , Dr Tipler prefers it to be a single point ; in the manner of the 20th-century Catholic evolutionist and mystic , Teilhard de Chardin , he calls it the omega point . |
| 15 | Sovereignty over the strategically important peninsula of Gibraltar was granted under the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht to the United Kingdom , which accords it the status of a Crown Colony ; UK sovereignty is disputed by Spain . |
| 16 | First it denies it the right to impose certain obligations , denies that some laws if enacted will be binding . |
| 17 | This gives it the versatility of a Strat or Les Paul and with the power of the untapped HFS pickups it really is the best of both worlds . |
| 18 | The federal civil service is the only part of Canadian society which remotely approaches the bilingual and bicultural ideal : this isolates it from real life in Canada and gives it the tendency , like the Prussian army , to believe that it is the sole repository of national values . |
| 19 | This ability of homoeopathy to go back into a patient 's medical history gives it the edge over orthodox drugs which only mask the problem . |
| 20 | Toughened glass is glass which has been heat treated to make it four to five times stronger than normal glass , but which gives it the characteristic that , should it break , it does so in harmless tiny fragments rather than the dangerous slivers associated with normal glass . |
| 21 | The double X gives it the chance to be red and black , while the Y gives it male characteristics . |
| 22 | And it is this regular aerobic routine that speeds up the body by increasing its metabolic rate and gives it the ability to shed those extra pounds . |
| 23 | This gives it the ability to read and analyse difficult forms such as facsimile copies and folded or smudged paper , and to learn . |
| 24 | This gives it the feel of a heavy craft knife or pencil , making fine texturing easier on the elbow . |
| 25 | There 's some really horrible strippers — which gives it the feel of a really grim hen party or stag night . |
| 26 | The company says the deal gives it the opportunity to distribute financial information to clients ' branch offices by using their own hardware and networks . |
| 27 | Its habit of growing in dense tufts gives it the appearance of grass growing under water . |
| 28 | Physics is interesting in having connotations of both : as a physical science , its discoveries ( and the skills it gives to its graduates ) have obvious uses for industry ; while its status as a ‘ pure ’ rather than an ‘ applied ’ science gives it the appearance of being removed from the uses to which it may be put . |
| 29 | It 's the mountain water that gives it the taste . |
| 30 | What gives it the illusion of immediacy and modernity is the sense of movement and vitality , and the spontaneity of the individual craft workers . |