Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] it [art] " in BNC.

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1 And the massive Independent Television outside broadcast unit ensemble helped to make it a busy day at Horsted Keynes with the Bluebell already geared up that day for the official launch of the Southern Q1 they have restored on behalf of the National Railway Museum .
2 I mean I think shrinking the broadsheet width has spoilt it a lot .
3 The American golf historian Herb Warren Wind has called it the greatest bunker shot in all championship play .
4 There can be little doubt that the survey since its modern inception has had a major impact on social research , and any history of social research has to award it a salient place .
5 ( Unless the home club decide to make it an all ticket match of course ) ?
6 Following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union in that year [ see p. 34460 ] , the North-Rhine Westphalia administration refused to give it the necessary licence to operate [ see also p. 34444 ] .
7 The city council planned to call it the ‘ Queen Elizabeth Bridge ’ but the more assertive Protestants wanted a memorial to Lord Carson .
8 Birmingham 's lively musical scene has won it the title ‘ UK City of Music 1992 ’ in the Arts Council 's Arts 2000 scheme linking a different city or region with a particular art form each year to the year 2000 .
9 Birmingham 's lively and varied musical scene has won it the title ‘ UK City of Music 1992 . ’
10 Genoa boasted a powerful ancient landed nobility whose surplus wealth helped to give it the capital for its commercial enterprises ; but it also needed to import food and raw materials from elsewhere , and enjoyed a powerful economic motive for becoming a centre of commerce .
11 The sheer scale of the service sector has made it the focus for attack by the proponents of the de-industrialisation thesis .
12 The ‘ Roman style ’ was not , of course , created by the Council of Trent though the Council did give it a partial façade of quasi-homophonic simplicity .
13 He said the Vincennes ' aggressive attitude had got it a reputation as a ‘ robocruiser ’
14 ‘ The High Council had kept it a secret .
15 A reason why a number of companies that have adopted some form of matrix management have declared it a failure is to be found in inadequate preparation and briefing of those involved .
16 The Government 's invited bids to save the Vulcan , but no one 's come up with the money needed to give it the necessary overhaul .
17 Job cuts are almost certain to follow and a former Dowty director has called it the worst day of his life .
18 However plausible this suggestion , empirical investigation has lent it no support .
19 The French press noted that the Mauritanian government 's pro-Iraqi alignment during the Gulf war had lost it the financial support of certain Gulf states , leaving it more dependent on French aid .
20 Rub through a hair sieve and use a very little vegetable greening to make it a pretty colour .
21 Henry and Dolphin agreed to give it a whirl but Ali did n't want to be tied to a permanent set-up , which we understood , so we asked Bruce Foxton to join and he was desperate enough to accept ! ’
22 Thousands of travellers are expected at the event , even though a court has refused it a music licence .
23 The frequent manifestation of a melancholy figure at Covent Garden Underground Station has earned it the unwanted title of the most haunted station on the London Transport system .
24 ‘ Nobody who spends £500 on a jacket wants to discard it the following year , ’ he believes , insisting that no Armani design dates before it dies of old age .
25 In this case , cerebral development has denied it the automatic response while defective social development has denied it the opportunity of learning the skill it lacks .
26 In this case , cerebral development has denied it the automatic response while defective social development has denied it the opportunity of learning the skill it lacks .
27 The way in which they sell their credit tends to make it a prominent and a more or less permanent part of the budget of their customers — that is , of generally poorer people , particularly in the North .
28 By 1990 the museum 's concentration on twentieth-century art had made it an anomaly in the collection and the decision was made to deaccession the picture , valued at $10 million .
29 That was my first impression of a city whose disastrous birth rate has made it the largest in the world , a vast expanse of concentrated housing broken only by open spaces of baked earth where the wind-blown dust swirled , and far away to port the snow-capped volcanic hulks of Popocatépetl and Iztaccihuatl towering huge through the burnt brown atmosphere .
30 This has been the practice in many countries internationally , but our sudden realisation of its effectiveness in creating bilingualism has made it the major discovery in language acquisition .
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