Example sentences of "it [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Some interviewers address candidates by their first names thinking it encourages a relaxed atmosphere . |
| 32 | It operated a large tramway system in North-West London , with over three hundred cars . |
| 33 | D&B says it evaluated a dozen query tools before deciding on Microsoft Access , which proved more user friendly than any of the others , and does n't require SQL programming skills . |
| 34 | To copy a file , save it using a new filename . |
| 35 | SAVE it using a distinctive filename extension such as ‘ . |
| 36 | Or , if the cracker is to be a gift for someone , write the person 's name on it using a metallic pen ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 37 | She yeah , that 's her her nickname , cos she was quite big and she played the nurse in Romeo and Juliet in the season on Stratford on Avon and she did it using a Welsh accent because she thought Shakespeare , having coming from quite near the Welsh Border Country might well have had might well have had a Welsh nurse . |
| 38 | She yeah , that 's her her nickname , cos she was quite big and she played the nurse in Romeo and Juliet in the season on Stratford on Avon and she did it using a Welsh accent because she thought Shakespeare , having coming from quite near the Welsh Border Country might well have had might well have had a Welsh nurse . |
| 39 | If you are working with a rubber solution glue , you will find it easiest to apply it using a large clean pin or a piece of wire , about 6.75cm ( 2 ½in ) long . |
| 40 | You expect it to go a little bit just a tiny bit off |
| 41 | My husband has always maintained that it destroys a young man 's ambition to succeed in life if he is financially indulged too young . |
| 42 | And it has the secondary virtue that it destroys a prevalent type of sceptical move , and does so in a way that explains the attraction of that move . |
| 43 | It engendered a physical response . |
| 44 | Some women have suggested reclaiming cunt , pointing out that the word has connections with cunning ( knowledge , magical power ) , or simply that it denotes a powerful and female area of the body . |
| 45 | Moreover , it denotes a certain lack of confidence in the criminal process to believe that a totally false allegation would not sooner or later be revealed as such . |
| 46 | When used with the bare infinitive , it denotes a direct experiencing of , and so contemporaneity in time with , an occurrence and can often be replaced by see — although it denotes perception in a more abstract way than the latter — or by have in its experiential sense : ( 93 ) Rather surprised to find them break fence at this season . |
| 47 | But how easy is it to spot a cheap imitation ? |
| 48 | The A.832 continues forward , rising as it crosses a bare and uninteresting moorland , any feeling of desolation being relieved by the sight of the Summer Isles and Coigach across the open sea . |
| 49 | it crosses a one way road , you 're coming up right |
| 50 | From the end of the road at Bracorina , a track continues along the lochside to South Tarbet Bay where it crosses a narrow isthmus to Tarbet on Loch Nevis . |
| 51 | A tumbling weir creates the localized conditions of an upland brook wherever it crosses a silty lowland stream . |
| 52 | Annual seablite is another plant of the salt-marshes ; it turns a deep , wine-red colour in autumn and has fleshy , cylindrical leaves that have pointed tips and tapered bases . |
| 53 | Increase heat until it turns a golden caramel . |
| 54 | Make caramel sauce by cooking butter and sugar in a pan until it turns a rich brown colour . |
| 55 | Unlike the ancient hill paintings the abstract pan does n't have any great meaning … the artists just hope it turns a few heads . |
| 56 | They raise questions about the notion that it guarantees a common curricular entitlement in so far as they yield teaching strategies which are applied to children classified as having learning difficulties , but not to others . |
| 57 | It succeeded a plain stone building , roughcast and whitewashed , with room for 500 and a general attendance of 400 . |
| 58 | Well I think as an early potato Stefan , I would chose from Rocket for the earliest , I would grow I think for as well as that I would go for Foremost but if you want a real waxy potato it would still be Arran Pilot cos now whenever you eat it it got a strong taste , whether it 's young or whether it 's old . |
| 59 | I 'm glad to say it got a thorough sort of leathering in the Lords , and so I think it 's rather premature for him to say that by fixing a budget we have belighted the whole police service in Wiltshire , for the next er , eight or whatever number of years he said , I think that certainly is rather premature . |
| 60 | NCR Corp , Sequent Computer Systems Inc and Unisys Corp are all planning to see that May 17 — ‘ Pentium Day ’ — is not totally dominated by the personal computer end of the business : like just about every other Intel Corp customer , these companies are bursting to talk about their high-end Pentium systems , but have been forcibly gagged by Intel from doing so : NCR was luckier than most in that it got a ten minute portion of the huge Intel presentation at Cebit in Hannover last month devoted to its eight-processor Pentium monster , but with the model number carefully removed . |