Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 2 | Three options for Bart 's — keeping it as a smaller specialist hospital ; closing Smithfield site with services moved ; or combined management with the Royal London and London Chest Hospitals . |
| 3 | But the important thing is that the voluntary sector must hijack the trends from the old statism to the new individualism , and steer it into a better way . |
| 4 | a cast iron logical argument you could you could then even phase it over a longer period |
| 5 | Collecting the trowel , she bent down and began stabbing it into the bigger clumps of earth to break them up . |
| 6 | Other patients give a negative skin-prick test but respond positively to an intradermal test ( see p 288 ) , which is more ‘ sensitive ’ because it uses more antigen and places it in a deeper layer of the skin . |
| 7 | This model confirms the importance of the greenhouse gas forcing of the climate , but it suggests that a doubling of greenhouse gas concentration will produce an increase in surface air temperature of 1.6 + 0.3 °C , which places it in the lower range of the generally accepted predictions of temperature increase ( Gilliland and Schneider , 1984 ) . |
| 8 | Although Robert Teeter remained as the nominal head of the Bush campaign , it was generally acknowledged that Baker would use his new post to exercise overall and ultimate responsibility for the campaign and attempt to provide it with a greater degree of coherence . |
| 9 | But even if the note was deleted ( and Ramsey deleted it in a later edition ) , Raven could not have voted for Ramsey with enthusiasm . |
| 10 | A principal sea-side town had become a large and squalid town by the sea ; not only did fashion begin to desert it by the later 1820s , but medical opinion could no longer treat it with the blind enthusiasm of earlier decades . |
| 11 | The aim here is to look at its political and social repercussions and to set it in the wider context of central-local administrative relations . |
| 12 | A competitor like Hewlett-Packard Co , which earlier this year took its own lumps for baiting-and-switching , says the machine is ‘ neither fish nor fowl , ’ describing it as ‘ too severely compromised to be a workstation ’ and dismissing it as no better than a 50MHz 80486 box . |
| 13 | We will have destroyed some of our roots , burnt the family photographs for want of a tiny sum to buy the site compulsorily , block the drains which are drying it out , excavate it with a greater delicacy than the present JCBs can offer and restore it as a regenerating wetland of immense cultural significance . |
| 14 | The two owners were aged 84 and 71 and , after the chewing incident , the RSPCA swapped it for a smaller dog . |
| 15 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 16 | She had the most ghastly pallor , Sabine thought , racing to fetch her jacket from the car and put it under the older woman 's head as a pillow . |
| 17 | They put it on a bigger scale but the entertainment far below ours ! |
| 18 | Cromwell , the head of state in the Republic , encouraged a reorganization of the East India Company , with a new charter which put it on a firmer basis . |
| 19 | No , I 've been and spoken to them again this morning and yesterday , R S C left it there not O S D although it 's O S D's van , so they should 've come out to move it on Friday and the mechanics did n't turn up , then they lost the keys , cos yesterday myself and who was it , Lyn , waited up for the keys cos they were gon na move down put it into a safer spot . |
| 20 | What I 'm , what I 'm saying is if , if you want to really stir people up , bring in a procedure within telling them what you 're doing , and then imple implement it at a later date and people will say , this is not quality . |
| 21 | Social workers should always have as clear a plan as possible for the child , and implement it in a shorter time than normal . |
| 22 | The Director has stated a seemingly modest goal : that someone who is assessed as requiring residential or nursing home care on 1 April should be able to receive it with no greater difficulty than s/he would have experienced on 31 March . |
| 23 | ‘ someone who is assessed as requiring residential or nursing home care on 1 April should be able to receive it with no greater difficulty than s/he would have experienced on 31 March . |
| 24 | To see the aura requires a certain amount of esoteric training ( unless you are a natural sensitive ) , but most people can feel it to a greater or lesser degree . |
| 25 | I always find it a difficult binocular object ; I can just see it with × 20 , but I am not confident that I can identify it with a lower magnification . |
| 26 | Remove a single flush socket to replace it with a larger , surface-mounted double socket . |
| 27 | Incidentally if you have an old RLL or MFM drive it may be a better bet to replace it with a larger IDE drive , they 're usually faster and much more reliable . |
| 28 | Duncan took out his passport and handed it to the older man , who opened it to the relevant page and stamped it with a small stamper he had with him . |
| 29 | So she approaches it in a better frame of mind . |
| 30 | It collects light over its area and concentrates it on a smaller area of retina . |