Example sentences of "and it [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was too mortifying for words , and it intensified the vulnerable feeling she 'd been experiencing around Guy Sterne . |
| 2 | The disc is Volume 3 of the Lindsay/ASV series ‘ The Bohemians ’ and it continues the outstanding success of the first two . |
| 3 | There 's no money in them and it takes the right machinery to cut them up . |
| 4 | Doing Ophelia on stage before taking up the BBC contract meant that I went there with a little track record — I 'd been blooded , if you like , and it made the whole thing a lot better . |
| 5 | The risk of an even greater concentration of power , and the attendant risk of its mis-use , was recognised after the Second World War and it meant the pre-war attempts of active buying out were never resumed . |
| 6 | However , its stance was no cruder than most war movies made during wartime ; and it remains the only major Hollywood film about Vietnam to be made while the war was being waged . |
| 7 | Its scale surpassed all other iron and glass structures at that time and it remains the finest example of a curvilinear wrought-iron and glass conservatory . |
| 8 | In the U.S.A. , a new rocket for space exploration , called ‘ Little Joe ’ was launched in May 1964 , and it became the first in a series under the name of ‘ Apollo ’ . |
| 9 | Nineteenth-century legislation swept away the fictions upon which trover was based and it became the modern action for conversion , though no change was made in the substance of the law . |
| 10 | Versions of the recently introduced song God Save Great George Our King were now heard on all sides ; a little later the text was finalised and it became the national anthem . |
| 11 | It is the model developed by Nordhaus ( 1975 ) and it adopted the then current views of the shape of the Phillips curves . |
| 12 | In one move , there was a new generation and it adopted the generic term of ‘ Hawaiian ’ . |
| 13 | Well I think you 've heard some of it already in your programme , but in the afternoon session which was extremely interesting , the City Council and Oxford University and the Vale of White Horse District Council and West Oxfordshire District Council have jointly financed some major research for independent research bodies and that research was put forward yesterday , this afternoon rather , to the Panel , and it concerned the economic order , social order and what should come next and so on and so forth , and those academically research papers , not politically prejudiced papers , showed that there would be a loss of 6,150 jobs if these plans went ahead , with an estimated loss to the Oxford economy of between 8 and 17 million pounds a year . |
| 14 | ‘ Here I Am ’ is published with the authority of the Conference of Bishops of England and Wales and it presents the essential teaching of our Catholic faith . |
| 15 | The latter 's called Imbuya , it comes from Brazil and it combines the rich orangey-brown colour of Brazilian rosewood with the kind of wildly complex grain pattern you sometimes see in American walnut . |
| 16 | Go down to the bottom and it does the same to go to the top . |
| 17 | and it does the last thing you 've done times the |
| 18 | Then someone dragged me along to learn meditation , which I found did most of the things advertised for it — you feel more focused and it reduces the interminable mental chatter that stops you getting to sleep at night . |
| 19 | The actual reasons for the popularity ( albeit relatively short-lived ) of the high-rise phase are many : it was architecturally fashionable ; it may have suited municipal prestige ; it answered immediate problems of increasing density as the big cities ran out of building land within their own boundaries ; and it met the spurious argument about saving agricultural land ( mounted by the farming lobby and the Conservative-dominated shire counties ) . |
| 20 | Sadly it was sooner , and it spoiled the whole party . |
| 21 | This constituted the formal , operational information produced by the organisation , and it underpinned the subsequent R&D , manufacturing and marketing activity for the next decade . |
| 22 | Youth was not a fundamental problem , but lack of ability was ; and it drove the focal point of French politics away from the king to the dominant and rival forces of the Guises and the queen mother Catherine . |
| 23 | When you pull this out and it goes the next time start it turn it over , rewind it to the front . |
| 24 | This apoptosis is dependent on c-Myc expression ; its extent is proportional to the level of intracellular c-Myc protein , and it requires the same regions of the c-Myc protein as are required for co-transformation and autosuppression . |
| 25 | The former method requires some effort , but it makes the case more realistic when it comes to cross-examination , and it enables the preliminary proceedings , including the interviewing of witnesses and briefing of counsel , to be done by student ‘ solicitors . ’ |
| 26 | Well , if a brick layer lays bricks why does n't a plumbers lay plums and it said the little boy to his mother . |
| 27 | Erm , I 've been thinking that I ca n't chair this meeting and take the notes and things when it becomes , and if it , the fund comes through and it becomes the audio description project as opposed to this group , and you know we will be widening out a little bit , I wonder if we should actually have a chairman type person . |
| 28 | Having just completed long negotiations with the various provider units in the area , the authority is now keen to ensure contracts are honoured and it gets the best value healthcare available . |
| 29 | This was a politico-literary piece , and it brought the following response , dated 5 may 1936 . |
| 30 | It perceives the full complexity of the protection task , encroaching as it does on private family territory with an uncertain knowledge base and poor predictive instruments ; and it deplores the hostile climate in which such delicate work must be carried through . |