Example sentences of "it [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You expect it to go a little bit just a tiny bit off |
| 2 | But how easy is it to spot a cheap imitation ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I did not intend it to include a mere error of law . |
| 5 | Meantime process-type industries make up some 60% of the total number of Ross 's manufacturing customers — a figure that is expected to grow in line with the expected 15% to 20% increase in the UK market for process-based systems — and Ross intends it to include an increasing number of large multinational customers . |
| 6 | It now has wholly-owned offices in Paris , Amsterdam , Brussels , Frankfurt , Geneva , Stockholm and Gothenburg , is a shareholder in a well-established US firm and has associate arrangements in the USA and elsewhere , enabling it to sustain an annual growth rate of between 20% and 30% which is now generating annual total fees of up to £5m . |
| 7 | When Neil Kinnock complained that soldiers were forced to leave their guts on Goose Green to show Mrs Thatcher had guts of her own , the Tories used it to mount a massive propaganda campaign against him . |
| 8 | Christie 's expects it to establish a new record price for his work . |
| 9 | Was it to establish a quasi-religious movement , one of such moral earnestness as would in the minds of the Owens among the Owenites exercise a compelling influence for beneficial change , one which would establish first alternative and exemplary societies where amity and reason would prevail , and hence would point inevitably to the creation of a co-operative commonwealth ? |
| 10 | NORTH Korea , suspected of trying to develop nuclear arms , declared yesterday that any attempt to force it to accept a United Nations inspection could lead to war . |
| 11 | The suet crust is rich , but has enough air in it to absorb a generous amount of the dark , meaty gravy . |
| 12 | Section by section it was being revised in the commissions and then approved during the general congregations — despite last-minute attempts to modify it to contain an explicit condemnation of communism . |
| 13 | Normal market practice is for SCP to be issued on a non-interest bearing basis at a discount to its face value , although provision has also been made for it to bear a stated rate of interest . |
| 14 | SPORT 'S role as a major employer and contributor to government coffers has helped it to discover a latent power and a voice of its own , discarding its traditionally apolitical posture in the process . |
| 15 | They made a dazzling bouquet , not without charm , but the bunch which was presented each May Day by Mrs Curdle in person to the doctor was of such gargantuan proportions that Mrs Bailey was hard put to it to find a suitable place for it . |
| 16 | Then it is time for it to find a suitable spot to turn into a chrysalis . |
| 17 | His Wisdom closed transfer system ( CTS ) has gone on the market for £560 and he expects it to find a ready market amongst arable farmers and growers . |
| 18 | You can use it to find a particular place in a text if you know a word used there , or as a way of following up a particular theme , metaphor or symbol . |
| 19 | Myra gave her a gaily wrapped parcel , and Claudia opened it to find a beautiful silk scarf printed with white and pink roses on a jade-green background . |
| 20 | I hurried to the Adjutant and he opened it to find an urgent request for a volunteer to serve in Southern Arabia . |
| 21 | The question is : can they get it to work a second time ? |
| 22 | The aim of the meeting it to provide a wide awareness of the problems industry faces and to illustrate how these can be dealt with positively . |
| 23 | ‘ It looks as if they were interrupted at their meal , ’ he remarked , righting the overturned stool and using it to indicate a soiled trencher and several dusty earthenware mugs on the table . |
| 24 | This is because the increased size and strength of the heart muscle enables it to pump a larger volume of blood into the arteries with each beat . |
| 25 | Carol put her hands on either side of Melanie 's face and tried to twist it to receive a deep throat kiss — her tongue was out and ready . |
| 26 | You can er , use it to highlight a key piece of information , whether that 's in the diary or in the work organiser . |
| 27 | Christian used it to open a small gallery as soon as he left Oxford . |
| 28 | A Vietnamese couple who had to leave their country and fled to the North Yorkshire market town of Kirkbymoorside 14 years ago , are returning to it to open a Chinese takeaway . |
| 29 | It thus becomes possible , through writing , to specialise language , to use it to serve a specific function rather than conflating different functions . |
| 30 | Leave the groove of Primevil as soon as possible and stay within 6 metres of it to reach a poor belay at the foot of a groove in the first tier of the wall above the slab ( about 50m ) . |