Example sentences of "it [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She yeah , that 's her her nickname , cos she was quite big and she played the nurse in Romeo and Juliet in the season on Stratford on Avon and she did it using a Welsh accent because she thought Shakespeare , having coming from quite near the Welsh Border Country might well have had might well have had a Welsh nurse . |
| 32 | You expect it to go a little bit just a tiny bit off |
| 33 | My husband has always maintained that it destroys a young man 's ambition to succeed in life if he is financially indulged too young . |
| 34 | And it has the secondary virtue that it destroys a prevalent type of sceptical move , and does so in a way that explains the attraction of that move . |
| 35 | It engendered a physical response . |
| 36 | Moreover , it denotes a certain lack of confidence in the criminal process to believe that a totally false allegation would not sooner or later be revealed as such . |
| 37 | But how easy is it to spot a cheap imitation ? |
| 38 | From the end of the road at Bracorina , a track continues along the lochside to South Tarbet Bay where it crosses a narrow isthmus to Tarbet on Loch Nevis . |
| 39 | A tumbling weir creates the localized conditions of an upland brook wherever it crosses a silty lowland stream . |
| 40 | Increase heat until it turns a golden caramel . |
| 41 | It succeeded a plain stone building , roughcast and whitewashed , with room for 500 and a general attendance of 400 . |
| 42 | Well I think as an early potato Stefan , I would chose from Rocket for the earliest , I would grow I think for as well as that I would go for Foremost but if you want a real waxy potato it would still be Arran Pilot cos now whenever you eat it it got a strong taste , whether it 's young or whether it 's old . |
| 43 | I 'm glad to say it got a thorough sort of leathering in the Lords , and so I think it 's rather premature for him to say that by fixing a budget we have belighted the whole police service in Wiltshire , for the next er , eight or whatever number of years he said , I think that certainly is rather premature . |
| 44 | But at the end I thought it got a little bit too silly . |
| 45 | The church began in 1974 under the leadership of Roger Forster and grew to a congregation of 250 by 1980 , since which time it experienced a rapid growth to a 1985 membership of over 1000 people meeting in fifteen different congregations and by 1990 this growth reached over 1700 adult members , not including children , meeting in thirty-three different congregations . |
| 46 | It revealed a sorry state of affairs in schools which could be attributed to the cuts in educational spending — something that proved embarrassing to the government of the day . |
| 47 | It revealed a chief executive who lacked a clear sense of direction , who compromised too early and too readily , and was insufficiently determined in pursuit of his objectives . |
| 48 | It revealed a relative lack of interest in such studies and that ‘ the tendency to ignore the problems of everyday life is symptomatic of the general malaise of our times … |
| 49 | Thus , when the Board of Education issues its official Suggestions for Teachers handbook in 1910 it transmitted a clear message : ‘ … the high function of the teacher is to prepare the child for the life of the good citizen , to create and foster the aptitude for work and for the intelligent use of leisure , and to develop those features of character which are most readily influenced by school life , such as loyalty to comrades , loyalty to institutions , unselfishness and an orderly and disciplined habit of mind . ’ |
| 50 | Meanwhile , belatedly in keeping with its stand on law and order , it tabled a new clause that disallows , in computing taxable income , expenses which themselves constitute the commission of a criminal offence . |
| 51 | IBM Corp has finally confirmed the elusive story that gained a little currency about a month ago that it planned a massive borrowing spree ( CI No 2,151 ) . |
| 52 | Posteriorly it emits a recurrent nerve which extends along the mid-dorsal line of the oesophagus and , passing just beneath the brain , expands a short distance behind the latter into a hypocerebral gang/ion . |
| 53 | Furthermore , in 1648 it passed a restrictive Blasphemy Act , which threatened those convicted of denying the central tenets of Christianity with death , and those dissenting from orthodox Calvinist theology with imprisonment . |
| 54 | The Ethiopian Parliament was so exasperated that it passed a unanimous resolution in 1968 begging Emperor Hailé Sellassié not to visit Italy until the monument 's return . |
| 55 | If , on the other hand , it records a genuine act by Cnut , Lyfing 's complaint about the uselessness of existing charters may well be an allusion to the activities of those same officials . |
| 56 | Forecasting nil growth in the market this year , the company said it expected a slight upturn in the final quarter of 1993 but its total truck sales would not exceed last year 's 32,000 . |
| 57 | Set up in 1985 mainly to service the supermarket sector , Elm 's emphasis on technical innovation , product quality and customer service helped it build a strong customer base and penetrate international markets . |
| 58 | And as he mulls over his reasons for behaving as he has and for writing and publishing this record , the footnote status of ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ causes it to embrace a wide range of familiar themes . |
| 59 | Because it goes a good deal wider , I will not myself be supporting it . |
| 60 | Besides this , it goes a long way to account for their toughness , as we shall see in Chapter 9 . |