Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [prep] [art] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A bridge joins it to the old Lusignan palace . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She has taken some point made by a friend whom she names — milia and develops it into a full essay . |
| 11 | Measure for Measure takes this basic pattern and develops it in a new direction . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Perm lotion breaks down the natural structure of your hair , then a neutraliser resets it into a new shape around a curler . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Simpson still delays taking the kick , now it comes in , he knocks it into the far post , looking for Paul . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | This product grabs Windows by the lapels and uses it in a whole new way . |
| 22 | Frodo uses it in the Old Forest : |
| 23 | She handles it like a sophisticated traveller unthreatened by a new airport . |
| 24 | first finds the key of the record found at the beginning of the selected trail and establishes it as the current record . |
| 25 | last finds the key of the record found by the end of the selected trail and establishes it as the current record . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | On patrol , Constable Keith Raw describes it as a difficult estate to police . |
| 28 | He describes it as a steep overhanging wall , with two hard 12 feet sections . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | At present the museum 's director Alessandra Mottola Molfino envisages it as a huge visual archive rather than a collection of objects . |