Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now doubtless to some people this is an everyday situation and so they have no problems in tackling it as a mathematical exercise . |
| 2 | You have to catch it on a certain place |
| 3 | These become almost like rituals as the cat grows older — little routines that reward the animal because they involve it in a social interaction with its owners or their guests . |
| 4 | It has seized and deformed it , in each region twisting it into a latent value-system which , put into an abstract , depersonalized form , has in one place produced the French revolutionary ideal , in another Anglo-Saxon liberalism , elsewhere communism , Muslim fundamentalism , social democracy , Buddhist socialism , and many other secondary forms . |
| 5 | The hermit crab partly avoids this complicated and hazardous process by having a shell-less hinder part and protecting it with a discarded mollusc shell , switching into a new one in a minute or so whenever it has the need . |
| 6 | The wording with which section 2 of the Homicide Act 1957 introduced diminished responsibility is rather unsatisfactory , but judges , counsel , doctors , and juries have approached it with a compassionate pragmatism rather than with the rarefied verbal analysis too frequently encountered in English criminal law . |
| 7 | Saatchi approach : Southeastern Asset Management , which owns 10.2 per cent of Saatchi & Saatchi , said one or more parties had approached it about a possible restructuring of the advertising group . |
| 8 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ You do n't see a carpenter saying he wo n't build a house because he does n't like what 's next door and he 's going to wait until there 's a house with 8.3 rooms and the sun has it at a certain angle and then he 'll pound his nails and he wants billing above the plumber . ’ |
| 10 | A bailor has it against a mere bailee at pleasure even if he never himself had actual possession of the goods and only acquired title by virtue of an illegal but completely executed contract of sale . |
| 11 | More the kind of face-lift marketing men give an old product when launching it with a new package , less a shift of political culture and strategy rooted in the configurations of modern social change . |
| 12 | If it 's not , you can turn the old one upside down and replace it as a temporary measure until you get the right one . |
| 13 | As early as February 1920 Trotsky had put before the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party a plan to end grain requisitioning and replace it with a fixed tax in kind ; also to allow the peasants to sell their surpluses on the ( to be revived ) market . |
| 14 | Labour 's manifesto was also launched and Mr. Kinnock promised to abolish the Community Charge immediately and replace it with a modified version of the old rates system based on ability to pay . |
| 15 | Never leave a chip pan unattended ; better still , replace it with a thermostatically-controlled deep fryer . |
| 16 | Many public librarians therefore prefer to discard a damaged book and replace it with a new copy of the same title or with another book altogether . |
| 17 | Scott Bader are to close their Stratford Road premises in Birmingham and replace it with a new centre backing onto the Merryhill Estate in Brierley Hill . |
| 18 | A PROPOSAL to demolish the bungalow at Wyards Farm , Basingstoke Road , Alton and replace it with a new home has been agreed by district planners . |
| 19 | To upgrade to multiple CPUs and new , faster microprocessors including the 50MHz SuperSparc when it is available in volume , users can pull out the Sparc module and replace it with a new one . |
| 20 | ( including taxes and the cost of accessories ) at the date the damage occurred and such loss or damage is insured under this Policy the Corporation will subject to the consent of the Policyholder and of any other interested party known to the Corporation replace it with a new motor car of the same manufacture and model subject to its being available in which event the Corporation shall become entitled to possession and ownership of the lost or damaged motor car . |
| 21 | Use a screwdriver to separate the washer/jumper unit from the anti-splash device and replace it with a new one . |
| 22 | On April 30 , 1990 , leaders of the PRPB decided to dissolve the party and replace it with a new party to be known as the Union of the Forces of Progress ( UFP ) to contest the legislative elections due in February 1991 . |
| 23 | After the new dpc has been installed it is essential to remove all the old plaster from the affected areas and replace it with a special waterproof plaster developed for the purpose . |
| 24 | Indeed , most forms of agriculture do not so much disturb the natural environment as destroy it and replace it by a manmade artefact . |
| 25 | Having done that , it reaches one leg across to its equivalent on the other side , removes the accumulated pollen from the comb with a stiff brush that sprouts from the end of the leg and transfers it into a deep bowl lying on the outer surface of the opposite thigh . |
| 26 | ‘ Would you know it from a real Poussin ? ’ |
| 27 | We have developed a procedure for quantifying a specific mRNA purifying it with a selected biotinylated oligonucleotide ( sbODN ) and measuring its absorbance by free solution Capillary Electrophoresis ( CE ) . |
| 28 | Realizing this , Franco stepped up his arguments in favour of a slow campaign , justifying it as a political necessity . |
| 29 | He felt he needed to rebuild the relationship — not , of course , to revive it as a total marriage , but to get back to the level of intermittent companionship which seemed to have gone . |
| 30 | When in the " sick Chicken " case of 1935 the Supreme Court ruled against the act , declaring Federal code-making an unconstitutional interference with the authority of the separate states , Roosevelt made no attempt to revive it in a new form . |