Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since foxes are basically nocturnal animals it takes a great deal of time and patience to shoot a fox , and also a good shot at close range . |
| 2 | There is determination to maintain strong links with other countries through a thriving International Office and as a result it plays a leading and responsible role in the global community . |
| 3 | In the spring it has a near miraculous effect on snow accumulations . |
| 4 | Through the provision of information and practical training opportunities it encourages a positive and practical approach to environmental issues . |
| 5 | It was indeed hierarchical : both in theory and practice it made a great difference where a man was born . |
| 6 | In theory an excise on home production of tobacco could have produced the same revenue as a tax on imports but in practice it took a strong and efficient government to levy an excise , while almost any government could find private businessmen who would pay a lump sum of cash in return for the right to collect the official rates of customs duties at a port . |
| 7 | Together with the popular demonology associated in the public mind with these strange monsters called computers it produced a sudden upsurge of anxiety . |
| 8 | Needless to say , being a Finnish car it had a left-hand drive . |
| 9 | Successful living in Los Angeles requires controlling the environment , whereas in Bali it requires a total surrender . |
| 10 | This might appear exorbitant , and indeed as a symbolic castration of the Oedipus complex it represents a partial subversion of Lacanian theory . |
| 11 | When attacking , it protrudes its long snout , and as it pushes it against the flesh of its enemy it fires a small , venom-carrying harpoon — a hollow dart formed from a tooth — that can kill a human being within a few hours . |
| 12 | But in any reference to useful labour it occupies a significant place as a village where the medieval open field system of farming has survived in some degree . |
| 13 | After food is put into the mouth it takes a few minutes ( usually around five ) even to start having any physical effect in satisfying the hungry body . |
| 14 | Even in daylight it had a sombre , suspicious air as if it wished to slink back from the adjoining houses . |
| 15 | It acquired and developed the original photocopier technology and in its heyday it had a virtual monopoly and made huge profits . |
| 16 | But Prokofiev 's opera owes just as much of its enthralling power to the brilliance of its orchestral writing , and in Edward Downes it has a superlative master of the composer 's idiomatic style . |
| 17 | In the provinces it took a little time before London fashions were adopted . |
| 18 | In rural areas it assumes a greater significance , comprising , in 1971 , 24 per cent of the total housing stock compared with 21 per cent nationally , although this proportion is falling quite rapidly everywhere . |
| 19 | He shook it and in one second it became a shiny top hat . |
| 20 | Despite the vulgar character of such poetry it conceals a genuine sadness . |
| 21 | Because of the translucent water and the high , rocky , almost petrified appearance of the cave 's formation it added a mysterious uniqueness to the beautiful strains of the music . |
| 22 | The stone they used to build Aberdeen may be built for endurance rather than seduction , but when it catches the sun it offers a lively spirit as well as a safe haven . |
| 23 | In February it launched a skinless , marinated product called Light and Crispy . |
| 24 | But in Washington it caused a nasty row . |
| 25 | On the Columbia Plateau in Washington it transformed a dendritic preglacial drainage pattern into the amazing plexus of the Channeled Scabland … |
| 26 | For a considerable distance it is now followed by a main road ( A422 and B4525 ) , but near Culworth it becomes a narrow lane , running through almost deserted country , past Adstone Lodge and Foxley to Cold Higham . |
| 27 | As it moved south it took a wide variety of other forms from Kurdish to Hindi . |
| 28 | As it moved south it took a wide variety of other forms from Kurdish to Hindi . |
| 29 | But since passion does not come in bottles it seems a vain hope . |
| 30 | Two major Jacobite risings , and the plotting which took place on other occasions , were enough to put a considerable number of gentlemen in danger and , indeed , so long as the Jacobite cause retained a substantial following in Scotland it had a further effect upon politics , for the unwillingness of many gentlemen of Jacobite sentiments to take the oaths to Government further limited an already small electorate . |