Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The generally massive expansion in financial services , the ‘ Big Bang ’ , the LDDC 's location close to the City , £400 million of public-sector support in the first five years of existence and its extensive powers to acquire land , all placed it in an exceptionally favourable situation . |
| 2 | Frame Technology also seems to be rapidly building on its growing acceptance with Next , Hewlett-Packard and Hell-Xenotron all adopting it as an OEM product . |
| 3 | I made it a condition that I 'd only do it with an American choreographer , and my assistant is American , too . ’ |
| 4 | I knew that I must live , must embody , this way-of-seeing — not merely hold it as an interesting idea . |
| 5 | Temple was sincere in his desire to preserve native society from too sudden change : he enjoyed its idiosyncrasies , respected its vitality , and greatly loved it as an unkempt garden in which the product of a more ordered civilization might find repose . |
| 6 | We are now hearing that our outlook is so bad that we had better leave it to an independent central bank to decide the important aspects of our future . |
| 7 | ‘ I only offer it as an example of the Catholic guilt complex , ’ said William , looking hurt . |
| 8 | ‘ But they obviously see it as an important matter of principle , so I ought not to stand in their way . ’ |
| 9 | Matt eventually replaces it with an electric violin , deep on echo and reverb , swelling and rolling like a full orchestra , pitching the sombre melodies into the realms of classic film soundtracks . |
| 10 | How many voted to put , smack the Conservatives , and do n't worry about politics I 'm just using it as an example , in the face . |
| 11 | Erm but if this trend continues , I can see them shooting down the activities side of this this place and just using it as an advice centre . |
| 12 | The Apache is better than most in this respect but I would nevertheless regard it as an excellent-four seater with the fifth seat reserved for occasions when no baggage is being carried . |
| 13 | Just place it in an envelope and send it to the FREEPOST address provided . |
| 14 | Had n't she finally made it as an integrated human being without the help of her father ? |
| 15 | If we were to refer to the light , we would not associate it with an individual object . |
| 16 | Erm but the converse is true , that er er er a British national can go and work in all of those countries , so instead of seeing it as a threat , I mean one can easily see it as an opportunity . |
| 17 | The Queen Alien was built in two versions , a full-size mechanical one also using two stuntmen inside , and a quarter-sized puppet , operated mechanically , since Cameron , who had accepted stop-motion for the Terminator 's final stage , did not like it for an organic creature . |
| 18 | He 'd much sooner keep it in an old pair of tights . ’ |
| 19 | It is a powerful alkaloidal poison , but the Zande do not see it as an ordinary poison but as an autonomous mystical power capable of issuing decisions which are taken very seriously indeed . |
| 20 | There is also a particular difficulty with care for the unemployed ; not only is the research team unable to use return to work as an end point , but the patient also does not have it as an objective and he has therefore nothing to aim at . |
| 21 | Please do not take it as an example that you may all leap to your feed to make your bids . |
| 22 | They suspected that it might work by inserting its own genes — and in particular the ‘ promotor ’ DNA that activates them — next to an innocent cellular proto-oncogene , thus stirring it to an unnatural and cancer-causing level of activity . |
| 23 | You can also recover all SMP paid in previous months in the same tax year if you have not recovered it in an earlier month . |
| 24 | After a few years , the conclusion was reached that the experiment had not worked as it had been expected to , and cuts in educational spending soon brought it to an end . |
| 25 | You add the wine , and mix it with the eggs and cheese , pour the mixture into a flameproof casserole and put it to cook immediately , but you do not leave it for an instant : you stir ceaselessly until you have a homogenous cream , and you serve it sizzling in the recipient in which it has cooked . " |
| 26 | Long before this time wooden huts were made in these areas , by primitive peoples , which had domed structures built over square forms supported by means of planks set across the angles of the square thus making it into an octagon . |
| 27 | A reporter , a correspondent , who sends in such a story does not get it from an official news-agency but from gossip — no doubt checked , reliable and trustworthy , simply marked by its lack of official confirmation . |
| 28 | It can not be partly certain because the tenant can determine it at any time and partly uncertain because the landlord can not determine it for an uncertain period . |
| 29 | In effect , since socialisation is present as part of all social relationships , whether the parties to the relationship are aware of it or not , it is clear that it is a much more subtle , complex and pervasive process than it might at first appear and that we can only properly understand it as an aspect of all human activity . |
| 30 | I say this not because any holder of judicial office should ever regard it as an affront to be overruled by an appellate court but merely to emphasise that as a practical matter the chances are that the visitor probably will get it right . |