Example sentences of "it [vb infin] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Neither can it make a specific issue or prohibited steps order so as to require a child to be accommodated by a local authority as this would in effect allow the authority to take the child into care without necessarily satisfying the s31 criteria ( s9(5) ( b ) ) . |
| 3 | Did the population remain more or less static after the dramatic decline in the second half of the fourteenth century , or did it make a rapid recovery from the first wave of epidemics ? |
| 4 | Did it make a big difference . |
| 5 | And did it make a big difference ? |
| 6 | Several people said it was , to be sure it was , and did n't it make a plain man flinch . |
| 7 | ‘ The Labour Party will have to very quickly make up its mind : does it want a Labour Party clearly led by Neil Kinnock , as I do , or one run by Ron Todd ? |
| 8 | Will it remain a rich man 's club , keeping Eastern Europe on the outer perimeter , linked by mere trade agreements , or , one step up , association agreements . |
| 9 | Or should it remain a neutral research instrument , and not become a Weltanschuung of an anti-religious kind ? |
| 10 | Will it comfort a single child ? |
| 11 | Would it enjoy a warm/cool flannel ? |
| 12 | Let it give an extra colour spice dimension to everything you do . |
| 13 | The logic of the Act makes it appear an eccentric indulgence rather than a guarantee of fair procedures . |
| 14 | The new Fowler operation had certainly made use of the sales information , but this did not involve any breach of contract by Mr Fowler and the other former employees , nor did it show an actionable conspiracy . |
| 15 | When you say you want , will it do a forty footer ? |
| 16 | Dentan cites an informant who asked rhetorically ‘ what good does it do an unhappy person to have another person upset ? ’ ( 1968 : 64 ) . |
| 17 | 7. can it provide a powerful motivation for practical outcome leading to a workable way of life ? |
| 18 | Does it provide a new way of paying for welfare in the 1990s ? |
| 19 | On the other , it may bring to light significant features of style which would otherwise have been overlooked , and so lead to further insights ; but only in a limited sense does it provide an objective measurement of style . |
| 20 | Into this arena then a book like Petch 's comes as a tremendous boost to the debate , in that not only does it provide an excellent summary of this area of community care policy ( including Scottish policy ) , but it also goes into the microcosms of eleven supported accommodation projects and looks at how such policy works in practice . |
| 21 | Like WordStar , WordPerfect has drop-down menus , making it look a whole lot friendlier for the uninitiated |
| 22 | Does it follow a biorhythmic pattern ? |
| 23 | ‘ He did it like a decent horse , and is still improving , ’ said Nicholson , whose career is on the crest of a wave at present . |
| 24 | Jess felt it like a physical blow . |
| 25 | I entered one full of nuns , their winged white coifs illuminating the dim interior , making it like a candle-lit church . |
| 26 | Er , a few handlebars and whatever else and , but , but but do n't do it like the British bikers , do it like an American bar , so it can be cleaned and |
| 27 | This says that a member can defend itself , but in no sense does it endorse a prolonged campaign of counter-attack . |
| 28 | Nor does it entail a straightforward shrinking to the nuclear family unit as a consequence of industrialization . |
| 29 | I have to say this , though — whatever it is , he 's never let it become a big issue . |
| 30 | At what point erm did i er did it become an official dispute , how how at the point of becoming an official dispute ? |