Example sentences of "it [to-vb] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not all transmitters excite the post synaptic membrane , some inhibit it so that it is more difficult for it to carry an impulse . |
| 2 | This was not welcomed by all the students , some of whom left the College after the secretary 's dismissal , causing it to issue an advertisement calling on clients not to employ them as farriers . |
| 3 | The head of the government 's Relief and Rehabilitation Commission , Yilma Kasaye , announced on March 1 that Ethiopia was seeking monthly assistance of $14,000,000 to enable it to mount an airlift to Asmara from the port of Asab . |
| 4 | John Wesley and his close associate John Berridge ( 1716–93 ) , the Rector of Everton , had both been addicted to this practice ; both had used it to obtain an answer at a particular time to the knotty question whether to get married . |
| 5 | The purpose of this statement is to give sufficient information to the Computer Group for it to provide an outline design for the New OED computer system . |
| 6 | Better than that , the Power Launcher itself has a timed event facility , which means that you can set it to open an application at a given time — so that file you promised to send to a colleague via modem by ten o'clock on Thursday can be sent automatically , even if you 've taken the day off sick ( assuming the cleaner has n't switched your PC off , of course ! ) |
| 7 | Far from studying it to create an effect , she ignored it . |
| 8 | Verity wiggled her bottom , plonked it back down , calmly braked and shifted up to fifth , dawdling along behind the green Parceline truck while she waited for it to overtake an Esso tanker . |
| 9 | how important or desirable is it to use an accountant ? |
| 10 | Only if it means ‘ Because it is presenting a larger appearance ’ is it to give an answer , one which happens to be wrong . |
| 11 | ‘ We wanted it to give an impression of America in the 1950s and '60s . ’ |
| 12 | Believing this to be the case , Roshanara stole the Imperial seal and used it to forge an order that proclaimed Aurangzeb 's nine-year-old youngest son to be the next Emperor in preference to the rightful heir . |
| 13 | We estimate that 150000 men aged 60 to 74 would be required in an evaluative trial for it to have an 80% chance of showing a 20% reduction in mortality over the ensuing 10 years , significant at the 5% level . |
| 14 | ‘ We have n't shown the cornflower blue yet and I particularly wanted it to have an airing . |
| 15 | It does not seem to be necessary for an ad to be at all well remembered for it to have an effect . |
| 16 | Allowing it to become an executive toy of yet another millionaire would drive the final nail in the coffin of the Government 's green credentials — both at home and abroad . ’ |
| 17 | A WARTIME shell blew off a man 's hand as he was cleaning it to make an umbrella stand . |
| 18 | South Africa-based Transatlantic already holds a majority stake in CapCo but the deal will allow it to make an application to list its shares on the London Stock Exchange . |