Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the CEMREL Research Project ( 1972 ) is any indication of what is expected it seems American teachers are looking for a child 's skill at ‘ showing ’ , and , in particular , ‘ showing ’ emotion . |
| 2 | ‘ I have written it using medical terms and layman 's terms in brackets so people will be able to understand it . |
| 3 | Since founding the chain in 1988 he has expanded it to include 17 concessions in Debenhams department stores and 20 high street shops . |
| 4 | Perhaps the court would have accepted it had that stipulation been explicit . |
| 5 | Some anthropologists would counter these examples by arguing that there actually are class-like phenomena in such states ( Terray , 1975 ) , by pointing out the difference in access to the means of production between elders and juniors and men and women , but even if this argument is accepted it gives little support to the general theory in that such ‘ class ’ differences also occur in clearly stateless societies . |
| 6 | The UN has said it has strong evidence Iraq is hiding about 100 of the Scud missiles of the type it fired at Israel and Saudi Arabia in the Gulf war , but Iraq denies it . |
| 7 | I 've seen it done last week , . |
| 8 | That Act One marriage scene — I do n't think I 've ever seen it played that way before , as a comedy number . ’ |
| 9 | It seems that this change is based on advice received from the Royal Society of Chemistry , though it has not been applied in the latest issue of Chemistry in Britain , neither can I recollect having seen it mention any possibility of change . |
| 10 | He was elsewhere on the course at the time , but since then he has seen it replayed many times on film . |
| 11 | Yes it might I 've seen it spelt both ways . |
| 12 | Thus a crack two microns deep has twice the surface energy of a crack one micron deep but as we have seen it releases four times as much strain energy . |
| 13 | Dexter had seen it happen many times before : the moment when a human being slips from conversation into confession , the moment when what seemed like a universal desire to atone for wickedness overwhelmed the conflicting wish for self-preservation . |
| 14 | He always did it for a while and then just let it ride to see what happened , but all of a sudden ( it 's amazing — I 've seen it happen several times ) he gets out of bed one morning and says , ‘ Right , I 'm going to do something about it — it 's not moving fast enough for me ’ . |
| 15 | As well as protecting domestic firms ' market share , the obvious motivation for the Polish government legislation would appear to be its desire to induce Western firms to invest in the local high-tech industry , a policy that has also seen it pursue interventionist policies in the fields of telecommunications and electronic components — all areas for which Poland was earmarked as a specialist under mechanisms instigated by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 16 | The case for loans has been most strongly argued by a group at the London School of Economics whose main criticism of an entirely grant-based approach is that it favours better-off families , and as it is currently operated it leaves many students in poverty . |
| 17 | The frequency of such bids has made it seem that stockmarket valuations are arbitrary , that bidders are stealing money from somebody else rather than creating wealth , and that American and British managers spend too much time shuffling assets and too little investing ( that is , building factories ) for the future . |
| 18 | Have n't you thought it costs three pound bloody sixty a prescription ? |
| 19 | Whichever method was used it meant long traffic holdups as the creatures went through the streets , their already frightened state heightened by a deal of cruelty on the part of many of the drovers . |
| 20 | My final point , is that , and we have had it raised this morning , erm from er I think it was consultants on behalf of the C P R E that there was sufficient capacity within Greater York , and they referred to a table in their and their submission . |
| 21 | It would have been more helpful , perhaps , to have had it put another way , for example , that humans are the only mammalian group where the rhythms of the female are systematically overridden by the male . |
| 22 | I am told it made wonderful television . |
| 23 | A child who is continually told it has low status is likely to grow into a low-status adult . |
| 24 | The USA told the Philippine government on Sept. 24 that if agreement was not reached it wanted four years to withdraw its forces from Subic Bay . |
| 25 | DEC has found it has another piece of technology to throw on the COSE heap . |
| 26 | DEC has found it has another piece of technology to throw on the COSE heap . |
| 27 | ‘ The neural net records all details of a scene — body posture , words , tone of voice , movement — and when the scene is replayed it enhances certain features to make the record less ambiguous . ’ |
| 28 | At the thought that I could ever have imagined it had any value . |
| 29 | I 've never heard it described that way before but there you go er |
| 30 | In Manchester the handover has allowed it to offload heavy costs such as bridge maintenance , while in Sheffield the running of the tram system into British Midland 's station has turned it into a major transport terminus , which includes buses . |