Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [adj] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She reached for the .38 jammed into her waistband , trying to pull it free as Stark grabbed for her throat . |
| 2 | desire is to force it open and fling |
| 3 | Since I find novelists tend to say it better than sociologists , let me quote from one who seems to have anticipated a good deal of what was to come after the period when we had never had it so good : |
| 4 | Yeah , if you add O , you put an O on it to make it plural and A you just put an E on it . |
| 5 | They talked about how to write The Yellow Chair , whether to make it stark and classical by keeping the unities , restricting the action to the terrible days of the battle with Gauguin , or whether to make it episodic and epic , to introduce Theo at least and maybe other figures , even the looming pastor from Nuenen . |
| 6 | Because they are highlighted , so too is the gender specificity of the body and the bodily experience — the constructions of the body that go to make it male or female . |
| 7 | ‘ The remit was to make it brighter and newsier , to appeal to as many employees as possible at all levels , ’ says Jones , the editorial manager . |
| 8 | Lady Thatcher , who has criticised the Prime Minister 's cautious stance on the war , said failure to make it clear that Serb aggression would not be allowed to succeed would lead to more bloodshed in Bosnia and possibly elsewhere . |
| 9 | When justices are advised not to have regard to statements of evidence and to medical reports on that ground they are being deprived of potentially valuable material in these difficult cases and I wish to make it clear that hearsay evidence is available to assist the court in all these cases although its weight will always be a matter for the judgment of the court . |
| 10 | Enough has been said , however , to make it clear that regulation need not necessarily act in the public interest . |
| 11 | Even that piece of teaching was n't enough ; Paul had to use a very rare word , to make it clear that God 's power to answer prayer was n't limited in any way . |
| 12 | This however is designed to make it clear that offer must not be made to those whose shares are subject to a restriction order under Part XV of the Act ; for the situation to which The Stock Exchange rule is directed , companies have to rely on the ‘ as nearly as practicable ’ in section 89 ( 1 ) , and Mutual Life Insurance of N. Y . |
| 13 | Moreover , as we argued earlier , the circumstances of particular schools are such as to make it imperative that LEAs maintain a significant stake in centralized INSET . |
| 14 | Yorke ran free to make it 3–2 before Daley beat Mabbutt and Cundy — a catchweight competition there — to score Villa 's fourth . |
| 15 | The result was that when Bollaert finally made his speech on 10 September it was obvious that , for all the rhetoric and for all the idealization of the French Union , if it was independence that France was offering , it was so heavily circumscribed as to make it obvious that France had , at most , transferred the Jacobin concept of ‘ the nation one and indivisible ’ to a French Union in which she would still be in a commanding position . |
| 16 | The bike was sealed to make it waterproof and tracks were laid down under the water for it . |
| 17 | They had taken out all the drawers to make it lighter and Matthew brought down two of the drawers a few minutes later . |
| 18 | I 'll try to make it brief because Bob has er mentioned this and has pretty well er all party support to , to the savings , er the reduction of two percent in the erm , it 's not quite devastating but following the er drastic restructuring of the , of the department in the last two or three years , is quite significant erm er I , I , and I think that er we must thank the , the director of and , and er volunteering if you like because in 's report erm th , th , these , erm the , the savings . |