Example sentences of "it [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Its 3.5 litre injection V8 engine , with 164 brake horsepower , enables it to reach a maximum speed of 105 mph , with acceleration from 0–60 taking 11.2 seconds . |
| 32 | It is not obvious whether there are any other independent aspects of the syntactic structure which may influence the question whether a minor property qualifies another property or " passes through " it to reach a referential locus ; we may provisionally assume that the nature of the individual lexical items provides the primary constraint on whether a property qualifying another property finds the latter to be permeable or not . |
| 33 | Although languages differ in the extent to which they regularly specify the gender of human referents ( cf. English they and French ils/elles ) , we all readily recognize the distinction and expect it to reflect a genuine aspect of experience . |
| 34 | Recently I used it to stick a plastic-coated wire rack to the inside of a kitchen cupboard door while I checked the position of the rack with the door closed . |
| 35 | They use it to assume a new appearance . |
| 36 | Is it to win a great victory ? |
| 37 | Though it still needed to learn to live with the ways of the new peoples , it had its own mature traditions , and cultural and institutional development , encapsulating much of Roman civilization and fitting it to play a decisive role in shaping the new Germanic societies . |
| 38 | As a mineral , corundum has proved its value to man partly as an abrasive , which allowed it to play a key role in the shaping of jade , and partly because it has contributed two of the most keenly sought after transparent coloured gems , sapphire and ruby . |
| 39 | It massively increased the budget of the Manpower Services Commission , enabling it to play a dominant role in vocational education . |
| 40 | The artefact 's affinity to the unconscious also allows it to play an important role in marking different forms of social reality , and allowing these and the perspectives arising from different social positions to exist concurrently without coming into overt conflict . |
| 41 | Now the moth-balled site is to be revived with extra mirrors — or heliostats , as solar researchers call them — and an energy cycle that will heat molten nitrate salt to 565° C and store it to generate a steady flow of stream for the existing turbo-generators . |
| 42 | If we use the art of repetition and change , this small idea can then grow and help make all the music , or at least enough of it to generate a formal logic , a compelling emotional experience for those who listen . |
| 43 | This pattern is indistinguishable from ‘ fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis ’ described by Davies et al , and like them we found it to portend a bad prognosis . |
| 44 | A program ( issue 44 ) is a file containing a series of instructions for the computer which cause it to do a particular job ( such as behave like a word processor or a flight simulator ) . |
| 45 | However , analysts still expect it to manage a small improvement on 1991 's profits and dividend . |
| 46 | Cos the thing is as well , I might be inclined to get a two anyway , because she wants it to last a little while do n't she ? |
| 47 | It will also enable it to put a common view to the Lord Chancellor about needs for resources and about priorities for some needs . ’ |
| 48 | Pascoe says that he used it to put an injured dog out of his misery . |
| 49 | One can therefore say that the courts retain the power to read statutes in the light of general principles , the only question being whether the particular court will be able to find or invent a general principle that will enable it to give a sensible effect to the statute . |
| 50 | When Her Majesty used this coach , a platform , or flat truck was placed ahead of it to give an unobstructed view . |
| 51 | So we drew a cow on it and signed it to start a new trend . |
| 52 | Engineers can use it to model a wide range of process industry applications ; from complete plant to individual items of equipment . |
| 53 | Is it ideological , is it guilt , is it to fight a political battle , or to make a political statement ? |
| 54 | However , the maker does a good fret job and has included useful features like a compensated saddle , with a ‘ step ’ cut into the bridge behind it to ensure a good break angle for the strings and plenty of room for future saddle-height adjustment . |
| 55 | Smadja argues that knowledge of relations such as these is necessary to both understanding and generation , and he outlines an approach for automatically acquiring such restrictions from a corpus , and then using it to augment an existing lexicon . |
| 56 | This enables it to build a 238-pin ZIF socket , which will house OverDrive Processor technology , into Premmia machines . |
| 57 | The republicans , in other words , were keen to push the civil rights agitation further and to use it to build a radical coalition which would set its sights , eventually , on a united Ireland . |
| 58 | The façade is squat and heavy — the architect deliberately lowered it to allow a frontal view of the octagonal tiborium that surmounts the cupola — but it is difficult not to admire the effort that must have gone into it . |
| 59 | On the other hand , it requires a membership large enough to enable it to represent a significant number of credit managers . |
| 60 | Then General Dynamics used it to demonstrate a ground-based air defense application . |