Example sentences of "[verb] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like its author , this is a book which insists you forgive it every one of its manifest faults simply because it presumes to be no other than it is . |
| 2 | erm and it 's malleable , you can hammer it , you can hammer it into shapes and panel beat it a car or bits of lead you could dress it , you can tap it with a . |
| 3 | And if racing round the world was n't enough , these half million pound yachts will be tackling it the wrong way — against the winds and currents , to commemorate the first time it was done 21 years ago by British sailor Chay Blyth . |
| 4 | Because Times is a fairly heavy face , that is , it looks very dark when there 's a lot of it on the page , we 'll lighten it a little by having more space between the lines so the leading or inter-line spacing will be set to 11pt . |
| 5 | This view , if it could be adequately defended , would successfully stave off individualism by denying it a significant part in social explanation ; but to establish the point is far from easy . |
| 6 | Cable & Wireless Plc says it does not accept those claims made against it by its local partners in Digitel Telecommunications Philippines Inc ( CI No 2,171 ) and will defend against the allegations : ‘ We have received no official notification of this claim and we do not accept the validity of the allegations as we understand them from the press , and would expect to defend our position robustly , ’ it said ; Reuter reports from Manila that the local Cable & Wireless office says that it advised the company last September that it could not invest further in the country until a court case involving another local affiliate , Eastern Telecommunications Philippines Inc , was resolved — Eastern is locked in a legal battle with Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co and appealing a Supreme Court order denying it the right to operate an international gateway ; an industry source said Digitel is tapping another major local partner and British Telecommunications Plc as new shareholders in the company . |
| 7 | But what , precisely , is the theoretical basis for denying it the honorific title of " democracy " ? |
| 8 | We 've won it a couple of times have n't we ? |
| 9 | Since the competition took on its present format in 1989 , Slough had won it every year . |
| 10 | Birmingham 's lively musical scene has won it the title ‘ UK City of Music 1992 ’ in the Arts Council 's Arts 2000 scheme linking a different city or region with a particular art form each year to the year 2000 . |
| 11 | Its flower-decked balconies have won it the ‘ Britain in Bloom ’ award . |
| 12 | Birmingham 's lively and varied musical scene has won it the title ‘ UK City of Music 1992 . ’ |
| 13 | When the Z variables were included in the equation , Merrick called it a test of conditional ‘ causality ’ , while if the current values of X ( and Z ) were included in the equation , Merrick termed it a test of instantaneous ‘ causality ’ . |
| 14 | Has it a dimensional or polar bias ? |
| 15 | ‘ No thanks , I 'll come straight out with it : rumour has it a black 's taking over here . ’ |
| 16 | Has it a long publishing history ( many impressions ) ? |
| 17 | Has it a policy to enable the naval shipyards to diversify into merchant ship building ? |
| 18 | Has it a that as ? |
| 19 | And er ha has it a county ? |
| 20 | THE reader who lives in a council house and believes her rent is subsidising home-buyers has it the wrong way round . |
| 21 | Rumour has it The Orb play a different set every night . |
| 22 | To do this , Mascot uses Dynamic Data Exchange links , which extracts data directly from the accounting system and transfers it a spreadsheet , such as Microsoft Corp 's Excel . |
| 23 | If an almanac editor gets ten per cent of his predictions right in a given year , he counts it a success . |
| 24 | He remembereth that we are but dust , the days of man are but grass for he flourishes as a flower of the field , for as soon as the wind goes over it , it is gone and the thereof shall know it no more . |
| 25 | Though he did not know it the San Antonio had turned tail and was even now on her way back to Spain , ‘ bearing a cargo of falsehood against Magellan ’ . |
| 26 | Well I do n't know it the way you two do the work it looks so fine that I did n't think I could see it properly . |
| 27 | He jerked it a couple of times , and somewhere inside the cavernous depths a bell jangled loudly . |
| 28 | And there 's another possibility — that the Indians were actually following the argument between the Jesuits and understanding it a lot better than we thought . |
| 29 | ‘ Now to see if it was a real fire , ’ he said with a grin , opening it a fraction . |
| 30 | CAPENHURST 'S safety record which last year won it a certificate of merit from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has earned it a second award this year . |