Example sentences of "it [verb] with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a Washington court could stop the launch today , if it agrees with anti-nuclear activists that the space probe 's plutonium generators are unsafe , writes Mark Champion . |
| 2 | It plays with such ideas , to a Shavian pitch of exaggeration : but it is not a novel of ideas , any more than it is a heartless game . |
| 3 | As we shall see , a gene may increase in frequency not because it increases the fitness of its carrier but because it associates with other genes that do , or even because it is in a sense parasitic on other genes . |
| 4 | This can explain why some dogs dislike an owner of one sex , or children , whom it associates with previous maltreatment . |
| 5 | Curious to think it overlapped with young realists like Amis , Iris Murdoch and John Wain ; still more curious to think that Wain was a pupil of Lewis and a junior member of Thursday evening meetings in his Oxford college . |
| 6 | Unlikely though it may sound it kicks with some ferocity . |
| 7 | Unlikely though it may sound it kicks with some ferocity . |
| 8 | Cunningham said his members are adamant about having input into system software and ensuring that it integrates with other operating environments such as Windows NT , Taligent and OS/2 . |
| 9 | How does it compare with other polities ? |
| 10 | Wh what about er runway lengths , obviously depends on what it 's carrying but er how how does it compare with existing aircraft for that ? |
| 11 | It complied with that request in the time allowed . |
| 12 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of April 25 reported that some government officials and members of the armed forces had welcomed the creation of the Forum , provided that it complied with strict government guidelines on political behaviour . |
| 13 | The spadefoot has , in fact , adopted a flexible strategy that allows it to cope with all eventualities . |
| 14 | In relation to the Special Document , whilst I support the document er , as far as it goes with one exception , and that 's in relation to the unemployed members , but whilst I support it as far as it goes , I do n't believe it goes far enough . |
| 15 | It goes with some people wanting to kick my head in . |
| 16 | Unfortunately they were again delayed by rough terrain , and when they got to the road they found it choked with German armour heading for the front . |
| 17 | He opened the car door and dropped his cigarette end on to the concreted surface where it glowed with vulgar ruddiness on the silver sharpness of the frost till he ground it under his foot as he stepped out . |
| 18 | Maladministration took its toll , and fifteen years later it amalgamated with another Hull organisation , the Hull Seamen 's Mutual Association ( 1881 ) to form the Hull Seamen and Marine Firemen 's Mutual Association led by that self same staid and stable personality J.B.Butcher who continued to lead the union until his retirement in 1912 . |
| 19 | It may be sufficient to remark that when the instrument was demonstrated to an assembly of interested parties in Oxford it met with great approval . |
| 20 | However , this was not the main argument used by the Government during the debate on the Bill in Parliament , where it met with determined opposition . |
| 21 | It met with some success , and on 19 June 1890 the Kensington Burial Board discussed the possibility of the Guardians of the Poor using such wicker baskets for pauper burials , but the Board of Guardians declined owing to their cost . |
| 22 | But the work also had to contend with three apses , and here it met with less success : in the apse to Orpheus 's right the panel is a poor fit , and throws out the meeting of the guilloche border of the main design with the north-western abutement . |
| 23 | But the real skill in producing it lies with one man , ‘ Sniffer In Chief ’ Frank Newlands . |
| 24 | It bristled with hand-stitched leather , walnut fascia and electronic instruments . |
| 25 | It bounced with dignified consideration over the bumps and hollows . |
| 26 | Although on average it cropped up only once an hour , there appeared to be semantic restrictions on the type of verb with which it occurred ; in the majority of cases it occurred with dynamic verbs of activity , the most frequent being do , make , finish , write . |
| 27 | These are too common to be the result of incapacity , and they are furthermore reinforced by the unpredictable but frequent use of the other devices of sound : alliteration in ‘ light laid ’ , ‘ shining shield ’ , ‘ ward all wounds ’ , etc. , alliterative assonance in ‘ sails of silver ’ , ‘ Night of Naught ’ , ‘ sight … he sought ’ and ‘ boat it bore with biting breath ’ . |
| 28 | Then there was always the harvest home dance , and then the school , that was the only place we had to dance in that day and they had it decorated with various kinds of the the the c corn dollies and erm |
| 29 | It starts with private capital of around DM150,000 ( £53,500 ; $93,200 ) and further funds will have to be raised to reach the goal of a DM0.5 million ( £178,500 ; $310,700 ) annual budget . |
| 30 | It starts with private capital of around DM150,000 ( £53,500 ; $93,200 ) and further funds will have to be raised to reach the goal of a DM0.5 million ( £178,500 ; $310,700 ) annual budget for projects . |