Example sentences of "it [prep] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I think most people would feel , we 've been doing it for such a while |
| 2 | We ran it for half a century and left behind a road network , ginger beer and a cricket green in the capital , Corfu Town . |
| 3 | He thus pioneered in this country the discursive , witty , exuberant , and surrealist style of humour he bequeathed to his close friend J. B. Morton [ q.v. ] , who took the column over in 1924 and developed it through half a century into an art form . |
| 4 | And this is a way for to fill up our purse Although we do get it with many a curse And the poem ends : Then hay for the Clothing Trade , it goes on brave ; We scorn for to toyl and moyl , nor yet to starve . |
| 5 | Jane continued her career — if you can dignify it with such a name — on Vogue , where the personnel manager fiercely shot at her the rhetorical question : ‘ You 've got a private income , of course ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , the lawn , if one can grace it with such a title . |
| 7 | I saw a woman preparing it with such a stick as is used for chocolate , and in the same manner . ’ |
| 8 | You do n't get it with half a Jaffa Cake . |
| 9 | Well he does it in such a knack |
| 10 | To be involved professionally in a thing as creative as this is a great privilege and we have a duty to make it in such a way that we can help bring pleasure and a sense of fulfilment to those who are not so fortunate . |
| 11 | The fourth stage involves sifting through the data and evaluating it so as to collate and analyse it in such a way as to provide useful information rather than a mass of unrelated facts or figures . |
| 12 | The only certainty is that those nations that are victorious will write what is later termed ‘ history ’ , and will do it in such a way as to justify their actions . |
| 13 | Hopefully I have learned from past mistakes and now have honed it in such a way that it has become my profession . |
| 14 | Most of the ‘ congregation ’ [ he said it in such a way that it merited being put in inverted commas ] do not know how to behave , when to stand or kneel , how to express their grief . |
| 15 | It was in light of this experience of priests who were barely capable of understanding the Latin Vulgate and Mass , or who juggled with a text and expounded it in such a way as to obscure its original meaning , that Tyndale now decided to translate the New Testament into English ‘ because I had perceived by experience , how that it was impossible to establish the lay-people in any truth , except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother-tongue ’ . |
| 16 | Hopefully I have learned from past mistakes and now have honed it in such a way that it has become my profession . |
| 17 | However , I would argue that it begs the question to phrase it in such a way . |
| 18 | In order to gain acceptance for their interpretation of educational problems , researchers , administrators and politicians usually find it necessary to ‘ explain' the problem ; to pinpoint the processes which appear to have led to it in such a way as to make the remedy appear obvious . |
| 19 | Furthermore , it had to regulate it in such a way as to ensure that it would ‘ contain a suitable proportion of matter calculated to appeal to tastes and interests not generally catered for by Service 1 ( i.e. ITV 1 ) ’ . |
| 20 | They describe it in such a way that it finally appears as it is , that is to say intolerable . " |
| 21 | " Every question asked requires historical information to be applied : the basic need here is for the candidate to select information which is relevant and to organise it in such a way that it is directed towards answering the specific question asked . " |
| 22 | Because they could n't meet c could n't meet what they were previously doing they have altered it in such a way as to make it easy to achieve . |
| 23 | An employment contract not only individualises what is essentially a class relation , but it individualises it in such a way that it expresses the dominance of the employers and their ideological grasp of the apparent relations between individuals . |
| 24 | It appears to be that an agency which has an explicit power or duty to achieve a certain end , ( e.g. good race relations ) , can not exercise it in such a way as to disadvantage a person , unless that person has committed an independent breach of the common law or statute . |
| 25 | Technically , an assault is either the application of force to the person of another , or the threat to apply it in such a way as to cause the other to fear or apprehend that he is about to be subjected to force . |
| 26 | We 've got ta be careful that in er using that sheet , we do n't do it in such a way as to bully and turn off the customer by saying , by the way , you 'd better make sure you 've done this , this , this , this and this , cos I 'm not doing it . |
| 27 | He 'd put it in such a way that she could n't argue . |
| 28 | Suppose now that it lends 90 per cent of that deposit in sterling to a UK resident who spends it in such a way that it is redeposited with the UK bank ; also that the remaining 10 per cent is held by the overseas bank as an interest-bearing sterling deposit with the UK bank . |
| 29 | Although no specific timescale was announced for the duration of the suspension of co-operation , the Mexican government suggested that it would begin an immediate review of the 1978 extradition treaty with a view to modifying it in such a way as to prohibit further abductions . |
| 30 | But we 'll be building it in such a way as lets us add without making a pig 's breakfast of it . |