Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN intriguing story has it that Traffic Minister Kenneth Carlisle 's American wife Carla , after attending the Sorbonne , spent three years in France lecturing on poultry . |
| 2 | City talk has it that Pittencrieff , which is rich enough to swallow both Brabant and Aberdeen , is about to bid about £11 million for Aberdeen , valuing it at 22p a share . |
| 3 | One passage , when Edward was a scholar at Battersea Grammar School , sums up the general atmosphere of 61 Shelgate Road , as the poet recalled it twenty years later : |
| 4 | I 'm in fifth gear give it some welly ! |
| 5 | It is not the authors ' intention to give it this gloss . |
| 6 | The singer was following an old tradition of adapting the ceremony to give it contemporary relevance , adding to the festival 's famous ‘ four questions ’ about the meaning of Passover a new and troubling one . |
| 7 | It is also a blatant bid to have it both ways . |
| 8 | Modern technology is now so sophisticated the microprocessor-based design of the teleprinter gives it enormous power and flexibility . |
| 9 | The World Bank in Washington DC has placed an order with Reading , Berkshire-based Racal-Redac ( UK ) Ltd for 154 of its CadStar printed circuit board design packages and 57 advanced MS-DOS routers : the products will be used by participants in India 's Impact programme , set up with the help of the World Bank , to provide the country 's leading educational institutions with electronic design automation tools and other software ; Racal-Redac reckons the deal gives it some 50% of the Indian printed circuit board design software market . |
| 10 | Mannheim 's relationism seemed to his detractors like a hollow promise , an attempt to have it both ways . |
| 11 | However , the future of its messy OSF/1-Ultrix-Open Desktop strategy is so unstable that even its own spokespeople were at a loss to explain it last week — ‘ it 's too early to say , ’ they conceded . |
| 12 | The round-headed silhouette of the Scottish Fold gained it many admirers , although some felt it looked too sad . |
| 13 | that particular word one way I use it one way mum uses it one way and er |
| 14 | panel seeks to make that two million pounds , subject to the appropriate level of grants and borrow approvals and perhaps some assistance from within our own resources and elsewhere being budget , this is a , a firm intention to increase that figure , but we can not say it has been increased yet , to do so will be premature , but that I ask the committee to accept it this morning as a recommendation from the |
| 15 | The allied word ‘ antibiotic , reached the English language when the botanist Marshall Hall used it 10 years later . |
| 16 | Medirace needed a trading vehicle to give it some cashflow to stay in business . |
| 17 | The addition of oboes to a high melodic cello passage gives it great poignancy , and at the same time counteracts the tendency towards thinness of tone which is apt to be somewhat distressing unless the cellos are both first-rate and numerous . |
| 18 | But if you 're religiously inclined , then clearly the universe looks a bit different , because the universe has a creator , and having a creator gives it some kind of meaning . |
| 19 | It 's as the sun hits it this side . |
| 20 | On Saturday , Town made it four wins in a row with a three-two victory at Bournemouth . |
| 21 | After two successive League defeats , Abingdon Town made it third time lucky today with an emphatic three nil win over Horsham here at the Culham Road . |
| 22 | But it 's a full time job keeping it that way . |
| 23 | Business mythology has it that computer firms in Japan are no good at software and will never break the dominance of IBM , the world 's biggest computer company . |
| 24 | I think the committee has already indicated its views but I do n't think that is its views where they may not have entirely coincided with a particular District Health Authority are really part of a dialogue towards consensus rather than any fundamental difference put it that way . |
| 25 | Dell has renegotiated an existing $200m revolving line of credit with a group of nine large banks led by Barclays Bank Plc to give it additional flexibility in using the funds . |
| 26 | She had no need to give it further emphasis , it could not have been clearer . |
| 27 | Bellini is soft to the touch , versatile and easy to wear , it is a blend of 45% Alpaca , 38% Pure Wool , 10% Kid Mohair with 7% man made fibre to give it extra strength and durability . |
| 28 | ‘ Methinks its motion in this hush of nature Gives it dim sympathies with me who live Making it a companionable form , Whose puny flaps and freaks the idling spirit By its own moods interprets , everywhere Echo or mirror seeking of itself , And makes a toy of Thought . |
| 29 | Seems I was right all the same , and if Harry 's got money to spare as he does n't know what to do with , then it 's not for us to deny his right to spend it any whichaway he pleases . |
| 30 | A computer programmer would almost certainly get a computer to do it that way , but I doubt whether the brain does . |