Example sentences of "it [to-vb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I hurried to the Adjutant and he opened it to find an urgent request for a volunteer to serve in Southern Arabia . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Pascoe says that he used it to put an injured dog out of his misery . |
| 7 | When Her Majesty used this coach , a platform , or flat truck was placed ahead of it to give an unobstructed view . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In this book I use it to denote an uncritical obsession with consumption . |
| 10 | Our new kitchen is not ultra-modern because I wanted it to have an old look and homely feel . |
| 11 | And the human species can not be considered to be eternal either , as we know it did not always exist in its present form , nor can we expect it to have an infinite existence . |
| 12 | She only has to wear an outfit once for it to become an instant fashion trend . |
| 13 | They never used it to mean an earthly kingdom in the sense of an area of land which was ruled by God . |
| 14 | At this point , the start of the third trimester , the baby would have a chance of survival outside the womb , although no one was anxious for it to make an early appearance . |