Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm that 's a bit let's make it more awkward . |
| 2 | A suitable satellite in high orbit should do it nicely . |
| 3 | Kleinwort has advised that the buy-out offer looks too cheap , but that in the absence of others shareholders should consider it seriously . |
| 4 | Hoomey must have it wrong , she thought . |
| 5 | Dozens of shops in Oxfordshire are being contacted , but officers say anyone with one of these mixers should have it thoroughly checked before using it again . |
| 6 | But the degree of frustration over IBM 's continued non-performance may make it too late for such half measures , leaving break-up of IBM into more manageable units the only option . |
| 7 | We feigned not to grasp the reference , though Durham City readers may understand it very well . |
| 8 | For an informal agreement to be effective , both parties must regard it as worthwhile to stick to their part of it , even though the agreement may not be legally enforceable . |
| 9 | More particularly , those who owed their careers and their satisfactions to grammar schools , or were headmasters of them , feared that the progressive elimination of those schools might make it more difficult for the maintained sector to compete effectively with the independent schools . |
| 10 | Then the club DJs could change it again , extending it further , overlaying different elements , adjusting the speed , heightening a mood through context . |
| 11 | ‘ Ari could stand it no longer . |
| 12 | Self-delusion could easily once again cloud the judgment of the shadow cabinet and Labour could go it alone at the next election , perhaps with the same misplaced confidence in a ‘ safety first ’ stance that will deliver success if the dangers inherent in new initiatives are avoided and new ideas anathemised . |
| 13 | The programme could make it much easier for geologists to discover deposits of minerals in rocks hidden beneath layers of relatively young sedimentary material . |
| 14 | It thus turns a model which is untestable , since no conceivable data could prove it wrong , into a testable one . |
| 15 | The faster aircraft could make it across without landing , and when they got permission to fly at 10,000 feet , they left . |
| 16 | In 1881 , for example , Lancashire Independent College abolished all preparatory classes as Owens College could do it so much better . |
| 17 | It is not exactly one of the world 's most prosperous economies , although the Opposition used to admire it greatly before it decided to drop its socialist credentials . |
| 18 | More opportunities for individual and small group Work in the infant schools would make it more likely that children will achieve fluency in reading early enough to prevent the rejection of learning which so often accompa-nies failure as children move on into the older primary classes . |
| 19 | Gulliver 's Travels went back to telling fantastic tales , but Swift wrote the book in the same realistic style as Defoe , and took it for granted that his readers would find it quite natural that at the ends of the earth men were just the same as in England — petty , trivial , grasping , and generally unpleasant . |
| 20 | I suppose buying Gazza would make it even less likely that Rocky would get a game ; - ( |
| 21 | ‘ I knew most of the drivers would take it easy so I put in an attack , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Should we tamper with majority rule by giving special voting strength to one economic group , beyond what its numbers would justify , because we fear that straight majority rule would assign it less than its just share ? |
| 23 | When he had dressed himself he went back out of the kitchen door ; no doubt Ellen would latch it again once she heard him go , her vengeance at what life had done to her completed . |
| 24 | Moynihan and his growing body of supporters ridiculed this proposal , and many commentators felt that the administration would find it very difficult to reject Moynihan 's demand for an immediate social security tax cut ( which would benefit all citizens ) whilst pursuing a reduction in capital gains tax which would be of chief benefit to those who were already among the most wealthy . |
| 25 | The next gust of wind would blow it away . |
| 26 | If she knew it , green and uncouth as she was , Pertwee would know it also . |
| 27 | Although intelligence in the horse is an inherited characteristic , our handling of the horse will affect it as much as handling affects different characteristics of temperament . |
| 28 | If change is treated at the large-scale level , teachers , non-teaching staff , governors and parents can not deny the consequences of local financial management : " Pushing management decisions — for instance , about staffing complements and who should be appointed and dismissed — down to the schools will make it extremely important to know what they will do with their new-found power " ( Maclure 1990:9 ) . |
| 29 | And it should be such , drawn so strongly , that your readers will remember it as vividly as anything in any other sort of crime fiction . |
| 30 | The kids will love it here |