Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Stonehenge still has a very special air in spite of the official attempts to destroy the place ; York Minster has it , and Chartres has it to an incredible extent . |
| 3 | ‘ Shut the window , please ’ is said in a situation where the speaker rather expects the hearer to act so as to fulfil a certain sort of wish of his , if he indicates that he has it by an imperative sentence . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She has taken some point made by a friend whom she names — milia and develops it into a full essay . |
| 7 | Measure for Measure takes this basic pattern and develops it in a new direction . |
| 8 | TRIPOS ' extensive experience and expertise in conformational searching , activity prediction , and 3D visualisation places it in a unique position to produce a single system that unites 3D searching , molecular design and analysis with proprietary activity and property prediction techniques into an effective information analysis environment . |
| 9 | Perm lotion breaks down the natural structure of your hair , then a neutraliser resets it into a new shape around a curler . |
| 10 | He holds it through a riveting performance of the Toccata , a sumptuously lyrical adagio ( although perhaps here it has more the air of an andante amabile ) and a gloriously ebullient Fugue . |
| 11 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |
| 12 | This product grabs Windows by the lapels and uses it in a whole new way . |
| 13 | She handles it like a sophisticated traveller unthreatened by a new airport . |
| 14 | While , when Leeds scores a similar ( except better effort ) bollex head ( Coppell ) describes it as a lucky passage of play and not from a great footie team . |
| 15 | On patrol , Constable Keith Raw describes it as a difficult estate to police . |
| 16 | He describes it as a steep overhanging wall , with two hard 12 feet sections . |
| 17 | At present the museum 's director Alessandra Mottola Molfino envisages it as a huge visual archive rather than a collection of objects . |
| 18 | The Terrier man then kills it with a small pistol . |
| 19 | But on second thoughts he erases the remark , and replaces it with a slight smile . |
| 20 | Matt eventually replaces it with an electric violin , deep on echo and reverb , swelling and rolling like a full orchestra , pitching the sombre melodies into the realms of classic film soundtracks . |
| 21 | Mention UK hip hop and he immediately denounces it as a pale imitation of the ‘ real thing ’ . |
| 22 | He fills it with a restless , bristling energy , as if he might clamber out of the frame and into real life . |
| 23 | Above all , it 's a relaxing therapy and she sees it as a major way of helping a runner ‘ warm down ’ . |
| 24 | When Mitchell nabs a Mafia gangster and cop killer the district attorney 's office sees it as a perfect opportunity to exercise the death penalty . |
| 25 | And although Platinum has , like the spreadsheet solution that preceded it , some limitations , he sees it as a good basis for future developments . |
| 26 | HW = Husband sees it as the wife 's decision HJ = Husband sees it as a joint decision HH = Husband sees it as the husband 's decision WW = Wife sees it as the wife 's decision WJ = Wife sees it as a joint decision WH = Wife sees it as the husband 's decision . |
| 27 | HW = Husband sees it as the wife 's decision HJ = Husband sees it as a joint decision HH = Husband sees it as the husband 's decision WW = Wife sees it as the wife 's decision WJ = Wife sees it as a joint decision WH = Wife sees it as the husband 's decision . |
| 28 | Byrne ( 1986 , p. 299 ) sees it as a constitutional change such that ‘ central government , in relation to local government has come to resemble the Big Brother of George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty Four ’ , while Newton and Karran ( 1985 , ch. 8 ) compare it to ‘ Knee-Capping Local Government ’ . |
| 29 | Even the exacting Mary Crawford sees it as a desirable prize , ‘ a park , a real park five miles round , a spacious modern-built house , so well placed and well screened as to deserve to be in any collection of engravings of gentlemen 's seats in the kingdom ’ ; the absence of family portraits does not deter her . |
| 30 | In the situations where the actor does not desire the result , but merely sees it as a foreseeable outcome of his conduct , the House of Lords has said that there is merely evidence from which the tribunal of fact can infer that he intends . |