Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The rationale was simple : if arsenic could be made into a better drug by incorporating it into an organic compound , why not mercury ? |
| 32 | I found it in an unexpected place . |
| 33 | Shape the dough into a round loaf , place it on an oiled baking sheet and cover again with a large polythene bag . |
| 34 | Guinness Mahon , a British merchant bank 65%-owned by Bank of Yokohama , gave warning that bad debts will plunge it into an after-tax loss of £35m ( $67m ) for the six months to March 31st . |
| 35 | In Sybil he had rejoined his past but he transplanted it to an artistic suburb of London which had been the haunt of legendary highwaymen , was now the roost of exiles and writers and only fifteen minutes from the West End theatre . |
| 36 | Greenwich had begun producing a return on the money spent to launch it as an astronomical and nautical centre well before that : in the early eighteenth century French charts were still better than any others , but the table of wind movements , trade winds , and monsoons that Halley published in 1686 was a great help to navigation . |
| 37 | Local education and information campaigns , though well-meaning , have proved of dubious value in prevention terms , although it is sensible to educate local youth workers , school teachers , probation officers and the primary care team to recognize the problem and be able to tackle it in an informed way . |
| 38 | Photographs show it as an expanding , immensely complex gas-cloud , and in its centre there is a pulsar , one of the few to have been identified optically . |
| 39 | If we were to refer to the light , we would not associate it with an individual object . |
| 40 | It stigmatises the conduct , which is important if the public is to view it with an appropriate degree of revulsion . |
| 41 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 42 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 43 | Yes there are far too many overlapping institutions that self regulation has n't worked , it ha has no adequate on the annualt we welcomed 21 effective against fraud by replacing it by an independent statutory statutory based regulator which has the power to strike and strike hard rather than everything er by the the the plethora of regulations we now deal with in the financial er in the financial sector and in the respect of what 's proposed today , you ca n't rely er on auditors to be the effective police force that they 've been required to be by these er regulations . |
| 44 | It had a very ill-fated start in that some of the original ideas of establishing it as an independent agency with a trading fund were thwarted at the last moment . |
| 45 | A back pass from player-manager Hoddle seemed to catch Hammond by surprise and the goalkeeper hit the ball straight to the feet of Posh 's Tony Adcock , who put it into an empty net . |
| 46 | Fujitsu , which in 1990 abandoned plans for a top-end Sparc in favour of variants for embedded applications after deciding that the high-end market would be too small , says it will support future Sparc technology and work toward developing it as an industry-standard architecture . |
| 47 | Fujitsu , which in 1990 abandoned plans for a top-end Sparc in favour of variants for embedded applications after deciding that the high-end market would be too small , says it will support future Sparc technology and work toward developing it as an industry-standard architecture . |
| 48 | Imagine it as an ever-increasing overdraft . |
| 49 | It defined Spanish patriotism , endowing it with an enduring myth . |
| 50 | There was a terrible rage in him , she could feel it like an electric charge in the room . |
| 51 | This includes activities undertaken by individuals to prevent disease or to detect it in an asymptomatic state . |
| 52 | Ingarden is keen to emphasize that the delight evoked by such positive culminations is not the essential component of aesthetic experience but a by-product of the activity of discovery , of experiencing an achieved harmony and valuing it in an emotional , contemplative way . |
| 53 | I shall ascribe it to an imaginary person whom I shall call the attitudinist . |
| 54 | he does n't do that , I cut it with an electric cutter . |
| 55 | I made it a condition that I 'd only do it with an American choreographer , and my assistant is American , too . ’ |
| 56 | I knew that I must live , must embody , this way-of-seeing — not merely hold it as an interesting idea . |
| 57 | It is well written and interestingly , Warner is publishing it as an original B format and its gimmick to bring it above the rest is to give it a dust jacket . |
| 58 | The government has said nothing about the need to end the fiction of self regulation and to replace it with an efficient and effective and cheaper direct regulation . |
| 59 | Twenty years later , after including a pledge to abolish the Lords in the 1983 manifesto and dropping it from the 1987 manifesto , the Labour party again committed itself to reform of the Lords : now they planned to replace it with an elected chamber designed more to reflect the diversity of the nation and the regions , but with less legislative power . |
| 60 | In some West Indian islands a yacht arriving without one will be confronted with a customs officer producing a rolled-up flag from his pocket and offering to sell it at an inflated price in an atmosphere of thinly disguised pressure . |