Example sentences of "it [vb infin] a [adj] " 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 | Indeed , SunSoft Inc is said to have taken VUE 's virtual workspace — though not the icons and bars themselves — and is thought to have hired Motif experts from the Open Software Foundation and elsewhere to help it build a Common Open Software Environment desktop toolkit . |
| 3 | 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 ) ) . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Did it make a big difference . |
| 6 | And did it make a big difference ? |
| 7 | Several people said it was , to be sure it was , and did n't it make a plain man flinch . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Or should it remain a neutral research instrument , and not become a Weltanschuung of an anti-religious kind ? |
| 11 | Will it comfort a single child ? |
| 12 | Would it enjoy a warm/cool flannel ? |
| 13 | Will it give a constant read out through the day ? |
| 14 | When you say you want , will it do a forty footer ? |
| 15 | 7. can it provide a powerful motivation for practical outcome leading to a workable way of life ? |
| 16 | Does it provide a new way of paying for welfare in the 1990s ? |
| 17 | The accent made it sound a strange new game . |
| 18 | Like WordStar , WordPerfect has drop-down menus , making it look a whole lot friendlier for the uninitiated |
| 19 | Does it follow a biorhythmic pattern ? |
| 20 | ‘ He did it like a decent horse , and is still improving , ’ said Nicholson , whose career is on the crest of a wave at present . |
| 21 | Jess felt it like a physical blow . |
| 22 | I entered one full of nuns , their winged white coifs illuminating the dim interior , making it like a candle-lit church . |
| 23 | This says that a member can defend itself , but in no sense does it endorse a prolonged campaign of counter-attack . |
| 24 | Nor does it entail a straightforward shrinking to the nuclear family unit as a consequence of industrialization . |
| 25 | Every child presents this process of transformation to us ; only by that means does it become a moral and social being . |
| 26 | I have to say this , though — whatever it is , he 's never let it become a big issue . |
| 27 | At the moment I 'm training a red-tailed buzzard and only letting it move a few inches — just off my fist and back again . |
| 28 | The interest was a mystery because the fighter looked frightening to me — why would n't it scare a small boy ? |
| 29 | Others saw it as marking a shift in US perceptions of the OAS and a readiness to see it perform a new role in encouraging the closer economic and political integration of the hemisphere , in line with the US " Enterprise for the Americas " free trade policy [ see pp. 37651-52 ; 37914 ] . |
| 30 | ‘ Does it take a long time to do ? ’ said Masklin . |