Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] it [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirdly , the Act clearly adopts as the test of danger either ‘ the greater risk of harm ’ or ‘ the risk of greater harm ’ : an elephant may not in fact be very likely to get out of control and do damage , but if it does so , its bulk gives it a great capacity for harm . |
| 2 | Additionally , training and riding a horse teaches it a whole range of new habits in relation to its work and us . |
| 3 | The GXA Gaintec S3 graphics accelerator card makes it a good Windows workhorse . |
| 4 | The central location of the Plough makes it the ideal venue for both business and pleasure . |
| 5 | Brown ‘ boiled-up cow ’ type glue is holding the all-solid construction together remarkably well , and the high action makes it the perfect instrument for playing bottleneck and slide blues . |
| 6 | The Sports Council says it the best means of acquiring all-round fitness . |
| 7 | No-one would believe they had a recession on in Japan when they have time and resources to devote to dreaming up and creating things like this : Toshiba Corp has just launched a line of word processors with sound effects — ‘ to introduce an element of fun in the workplace ’ according to Reuter — they bark when you write ‘ dog ’ , moo when you write ‘ cow ’ and make the sound of pouring when you write ‘ beer ’ , and if you recall a text file word-by-word at reading speed , they repeat these and 26 other pre-programmed noises , from sleigh bells to sirens , as the words come up — and it no doubt laughs like a drain when your boss sends it an electronic message telling you you 're fired for being a disruptive influence . |
| 8 | If the rat does not run when given some signal ( such as a light coming on ) , the experimenter gives it an electric shock . |
| 9 | There is more than a hint of classical Greece in the architecture , and the blue river seen through the sand-coloured columns gives it a Mediterranean freshness . |
| 10 | Tony tries and with his eyes watering declares it a good noggin . |
| 11 | Those canny souls that know how often these things fall at the last hurdle can stop holding their breath and relax over Tadpole Technology Plc 's deal to do a Power RISC-based notebook for IBM Corp : IBM has paid £325,000 for 500,000 new Tadpole shares at what is now the bargain issue price of 65p , which at last week 's price of 224 pence gives it an instant paper profit of £795,000 ; it also gets warrants for 2.22m more shares at the same price to take it to 12.9% . |
| 12 | The Act makes it an absolute offence for a shopkeeper to sell cigarettes or any other tobacco product to young people . |
| 13 | Sunday 's dynamic , no-nonsense , no-holds barred mood makes it a go-ahead time . |
| 14 | Mercury is a small planet , which combined with its small angular separation from the Sun makes it a difficult planet to observe . |
| 15 | This loneliness makes it an ideal home for the red kite — a rare and nervous bird . |
| 16 | Anyone fancying a repeat of Hazy Days on the Far East Buttress might be interested to know that current opinion gives it a serious E5 6b grading . |
| 17 | They say BA already dominates at Heathrow and the takeover gives it a big foothold at Gatwick as well . |
| 18 | the shop sells it the same price as the |
| 19 | Made from crushed walnut shells the finer texture and super sheer translucent character of Corn Silk makes it the ideal base for your make-up . |
| 20 | Although situated near an industrial area , its location on the banks of the Tennant Canal makes it a tranquil and memorable site . |
| 21 | This book should help , and the lively and accessible text written by the curators makes it an interesting read . |
| 22 | The speed of access combined with precision of access to any part of the disc makes it an important development for educational users of video . |
| 23 | What makes it , what makes them improve so , the team makes it the same does n't it ? |
| 24 | A petition can not be heard until at least fourteen days have elapsed since the petition was served on the debtor and the supervisor of a voluntary arrangement ( r 6.18(1) ) unless it appears that the debtor has absconded or the court thinks it a proper case for an expedited hearing , or the debtor consents ( r 6.18(2) ) . |
| 25 | THE reader who lives in a council house and believes her rent is subsidising home-buyers has it the wrong way round . |
| 26 | Nikolaus Pevsner gives it a whole page in his Buildings of England series , which is praise indeed . |
| 27 | Hegel articulates a philosophical structure of the appropriation of the other as a form of knowledge which uncannily simulates the project of nineteenth-century imperialism ; the construction of knowledges which all operate through forms of expropriation and incorporation of the other mimics it a conceptual level the geographical and economic absorption of the non-European world by the West . |
| 28 | The discovery that he will have to master house-training as well as overcome serious temperament problems makes it a difficult task . |
| 29 | Unix , meanwhile , derives its greatest unequivocal advantage from kernel robustness , where its maturity earns it a high degree of reliability . |
| 30 | But this organisation makes it a permanent pleasure for blind and partially sighted people . ’ |