Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have carried out several privatisations in my time in commercial and industrial departments , and my understanding of the word privatisation is that one takes something currently managed in the public sector and transfers it to the private sector — the last such transfer in which I was engaged involved British Steel . |
| 2 | In particular , he suggests that the educational system has a marked effect on the production and reproduction of scientific knowledge , and criticizes it for the ahistorical way in which it teaches scientific problems , theories , experiments and proofs . |
| 3 | A bridge joins it to the old Lusignan palace . |
| 4 | The planned and formulaic rationality of the Enlightenment , according to the critique , is increasingly marked by the familiar , the conventional and by ‘ sameness ’ : a sameness which need not exclude difference , but contains it within the rational , functional and acceptable forms of its own choosing . |
| 5 | Hirtle 1975 : 37 for examples with realize , agree and understand ) , its meaning places it in the unique position of becoming the equivalent of a verb of perception when it is used in the operative sense . |
| 6 | The exceptional importance of the legislature in the American system is provided for by a constitution that makes Congress the ‘ first ’ branch of government ; endows it with the legislative power ; gives it control over the purse strings ; allows it a considerable role in the making of foreign policy ; and makes senior executive appointments subject to its approval . |
| 7 | You are incorporating humus on which the beneficial bacteria thrive and which both drains the soil of surplus moisture , yet holds it in the right degree . |
| 8 | Simpson still delays taking the kick , now it comes in , he knocks it into the far post , looking for Paul . |
| 9 | Patrick has plenty to say on such subjects , and he says it in the lordly way which does much to furnish the book with its presiding idiom . |
| 10 | Frodo uses it in the Old Forest : |
| 11 | first finds the key of the record found at the beginning of the selected trail and establishes it as the current record . |
| 12 | last finds the key of the record found by the end of the selected trail and establishes it as the current record . |
| 13 | But the fundamental incommensurability of idea and event re-emerges in a precariousness in this narrativization of history where each disturbance in the writing punctuates it with the unassimilable , discontinuous and disjunctive temporality of the event . |
| 14 | The media item can be used again , but only if the Offline Manager re-initialises it and allocates it a new , unique identifier in VMS , then re-introduces it to the Offline System . |
| 15 | The media item can be used again , but only if the Offline Manager re-initialises it and allocates it a new , unique identifier in VMS , then re-introduces it to the offline system . |
| 16 | ( Puts it with large shells of the same type , then replaces it with the tiny ones . ) |
| 17 | It draws magical power from the War Altar and passes it into the Grand Theogonist . |
| 18 | Teachers retain control of registration — keeping the important element of one-to-one contact — and perform it in the usual time , but instead of noting absences on paper , they feed the information directly onto a portable electronic register which then passes it to the central computer . |
| 19 | The landlord collects the charge on the basis of the number of days a person has been resident and passes it to the local authority . |
| 20 | The Dear Report on Handsworth captures this image and links it to the social condition of young blacks : |
| 21 | Commodore 's CDTV also benefits from an association with CD-A but approaches it from the other direction . |
| 22 | Frankie calls it as he sees it about the moral and social decay of contemporary Britain without ever sounding like someone whose grasp of the issues extends no further than memorizing a snappy slogan . |
| 23 | The bank has no plans to put the EDI application back onto the X400 network , because it uses a program developed by Brussels-based systems integrator Acse SA , which collects the information from the X25 mailbox , stores it on magnetic disk , checks it for the Binary Condensed Algorithm code number , and checks it against internal and external data . |
| 24 | Product stability is the stability of the product stored in an inert , impermeable container with which it does not interact and which fully protects it from the ambient atmosphere . |
| 25 | The dog entered regularly in breed classes will need to be thoroughly groomed beforehand , standing still while its owner prepares it for the big event . |
| 26 | This is the second Point that balances the first and safeguards it from the other extreme — being too soft on doubt . |
| 27 | Once the soil has been dug , it should be broken up with a fork , hoe , back of a rake , by hand , with a hand fork , or whatever you find most convenient , until it reaches the stage at which raking it backwards and forwards , and then crossways , reduces it to the fine tilth described . |
| 28 | The hobbyist 's name ‘ Quetzal ’ compares it to the Central American bird of that name almost legendary for its fabulous colours . |
| 29 | The author charts this progress and compares it with the British decision to choose the advanced gas cooled reactor ( AGR ) in 1965 . |
| 30 | It 's not a federated system , it actually , positively talks about moving forward as Professor states it in the economical situation the council is in . |