Example sentences of "[vb base] it [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Having discovered which it is , say it up-to-time at normal speed .
2 Once a Squig has been provoked from its lair the Night Goblins throw nets over it then bash it senseless with large clubs so it can be safely dragged away .
3 Sitting cross legged place a towel behind your neck and hold it taut at each end .
4 Health regulations are subject to change , and you should check with your own doctor prior to departure as to which inoculations the Department of Health consider it necessary for specific areas .
5 ‘ I have n't got the timing right yet — but I get it right about one night in three and it 's worth it . ’
6 But it , I find it useful for large arrangements .
7 Paragraph 4–278 of Archbold , 44th ed. ( 1992 ) is to the same effect , though it must be read in the light of the guidelines , which their Lordships find it unnecessary for present purposes to consider .
8 The EEA contains the deposits of the UK 's gold and convertible foreign currency reserves that are used to intervene in the exchange markets to stabilise the exchange rate of sterling , or to raise it or lower it relative to other currencies .
9 Keep it moist in dry weather .
10 Why not use it today and keep it handy for future checks ?
11 Try it FREE for three months and receive a world map and another gift — all yours to keep .
12 for this reason , there must be query languages available which make it easy for untrained users to use the system .
13 Staff shortages , combined with the patients ' helplessness and their invisibility from the general public ( few visitors come to these wards ) , make it easy for private toileting or modesty to be ignored and emotional lives denied .
14 Carbon is important and deserves to have its own private branch of chemistry , partly because life chemistry is all carbon-chemistry , and partly because those same properties that make carbon-chemistry suitable for life also make it suitable for industrial processes , such as those of the plastics industry .
15 Rue is an example of a common , well-known garden herb , with a long history of use , yet with properties that make it unsuitable for general use by the layman .
16 My love , no longer inhibited by his existence , presented itself with all the understanding required to bring us together again — the gentleness , the words , the small gestures that make it possible for one person to reveal himself to another and two people to share life .
17 make it possible for all pupils to have some testimony to their achievement ;
18 The last of these poses a special problem , since the terms of Lady Barber 's bequest make it impossible for temporary exhibitions to take place within the building .
19 Family and employment pressures make it impossible for many parents to offer help and their feelings and attitudes need careful consideration .
20 Its general secretary , Christine Hancock , said : ‘ The investment in primary health care and the six specialty reviews make it unnecessary for any nurse to lose her job . ’
21 They secured a debate , which led to the adoption on 21 January 1965 of a Resolution noting ‘ with approval the efforts of local authorities to reorganise secondary education on comprehensive lines which will preserve all that is valuable in grammar school education for those children who now receive it and make it available to more children ’ .
22 In order to restrict the circulation of information memoranda , we require recipients of the memorandum to supply us with a letter confirming that they will treat the information contained therein as strictly private and confidential and will not disclose or otherwise make it available to third party .
23 To a large extent technology has eroded much of MI6 's original style of work while modern communications make it difficult for political decisions to remain secret for very long even behind the Iron Curtain .
24 It made no reference to the possibility that schools for the less able might depress expectations and discourage the pupils in them , or make it difficult for such schools to attract an adequate share of available resources .
25 The political leadership of the majority party and therefore the party in government and occupying ministerial office might find it politically expedient to preserve the rules and conventions which make it difficult for other politicians to call the bureaucracy to account .
26 I am afraid that the circumstances of the case — two people who were extremely drunk and who have a very hazy understanding of what went on — make it difficult for any charge to have any validity .
27 The object of clarifying butter is to rid it of water , buttermilk sediment , salt and any foreign matter which ( a ) for purposes of frying cause the butter to blacken and burn , and ( b ) render it susceptible to eventual rancidity .
28 As our Prime Minister is away at such an important summit conference — important for the security of the whole of the western world — does my right hon. Friend think it appropriate at this moment to reaffirm the Government 's commitment to that European pillar , the Western European Union ?
29 I think it convenient in this judgment first to set out the salient facts of the case , as found by the judge , and then to consider the authorities from which must be extracted the principles of law and equity to be applied to the facts .
30 What 's more , when you 've finished with it simply wipe it clean and then fold it flat for easy storage .
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