Example sentences of "it [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Let's hear it for the Great British Biopic , based on the sort of real-life story which might have leapt straight from the pages of the tabloids , and which in some cases actually did : Ruth Ellis , who shot her feckless lover and paid the ultimate price , in Dance with a Stranger ; Sid Vicious , the smack-addled punk who stabbed his girlfriend in Sid and Nancy ; Joe Orton , the homosexual playwright whose lover battered him to death with a hammer in Prick Up Your Ears ; Josslyn Hay , twenty-second Earl of Errol , who was shot to death in Kenya , in White Mischief ; Christine Keeler , John Profumo and Stephen Ward in Scandal . |
| 3 | Is it for the usual Keynesian reasons , that is , because of periodic changes in aggregate demand and consequent changes in the demand for labour ? |
| 4 | And that 's it for the first six thirty show of this week . |
| 5 | If a child has it for the first ten years hardly anything else matters . |
| 6 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 7 | Our Airbus unloading ( or leading ) 300 souls creates a weekly chaotic scrum ; it 's all worth it for the short onward journey to resort . |
| 8 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 9 | They scarcely left it for the next two weeks , their passion putting her dreams to shame . |
| 10 | There Rowicki created the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra , building it from scratch and directing it for the next five years . |
| 11 | Teesdale District Council turned down an application for the sign on the ground of it contravening the town area local plan but the inspector said it was acceptable and allowed it for the next five years . |
| 12 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 13 | Well , can I propose we try it for the next three meetings , and |
| 14 | Keep it in the quarantine tank , cease medication and keep an eye on it for the next few months . |
| 15 | All junior pupils will be involved in the planting and each of the five school houses will be responsible for a section , taking care of it for the next few years . |
| 16 | I thought about it for the prescribed two days , chanting , ‘ How do I get her to sign the form ? — How do I get her to sign the form ? ’ , then switched on the wireless in the middle of a biblical play about Moses and God 's voice boomed out of the speakers : |
| 17 | I 've managed it for the last four years , have n't I ? ’ |
| 18 | At the beginning of this erm programme he admitted that we had an excellent education service in Oxfordshire , and he 's now , having taken no part in managing it for the last five years , he is now claiming that in fact it 's due to what happened before . |
| 19 | I do n't know exactly how long , but I 've been aware of it for the last eighteen months . |
| 20 | Dozzell said : ‘ I thought about wearing it for the last few minutes , but I did n't think it would go down too well . |
| 21 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 22 | If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years . |
| 23 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |
| 24 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 25 | But we have n't done it for the past eighteen months . |
| 26 | I have read it now from cover to cover — every word of it for the past seven years — since I first got hooked on running . |
| 27 | Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years . |
| 28 | Waxing , a more traditional English technique employed by those unable or unwilling to undertake french polishing , ousted the latter by the 1920s , having run alongside it for the previous forty years . |
| 29 | Its death had been postponed , which had enabled the Hunt Ball Committee to hire it for the triumphant last appearance of a house that had outlived its glamour , and all kind importances . |
| 30 | He saw it as the only realistic long term solution to Selborne 's dilemma . |