Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ford , however , has made it clear that it wants ultimate majority control of Jaguar — something which the company 's board , led by chairman Sir John Egan , is resisting fiercely . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's unproven technology , and Microsoft has not made it clear that it wants it as a server ’ . |
| 3 | Since then the firm has managed to bring the amount of zinc in the effluent down to about 20 p.p.m. , but the agency has made it clear that it has to go below that . |
| 4 | The Commission has made it clear that it has no proposals for guide prices on coal contracts or for Community subsidies for coal production . |
| 5 | Yet The Stock Exchange , while strongly supporting the Cadbury initiative , has made it plain that it does not intend to require compliance with the code as a listing requirement . |
| 6 | The British Shippers ’ Council has made it plain that it welcomes foreign competition as a means to lower rates of freight . |
| 7 | He could see it steaming where it coated the rim and the long-handled wooden spoon . |
| 8 | The other horse may even be a young stallion , and be large and overplayful , yet the foal finds it irresistible because it looks like mother ! |
| 9 | I find it painful because it wastes a lot of effort . |
| 10 | I mean if somebody says I used to People finding grating people might say , Oh I find it grating but it does n't really mean anything does it ? |
| 11 | I find it unpleasant and it gives me an allergy so I 'd rather you did n't from my point of view . |
| 12 | But if one starts from the spontaneous inclination itself , the question arises whether it makes sense to call it egoistic before it has been chosen in terms of the agent 's own standards for the beneficial . |
| 13 | It can , however , make it impossible if it does not attack the problem with sufficient energy and insight . |
| 14 | It can , however , make it impossible if it does not attack the problem with sufficient energy and insight . |
| 15 | In advocating the creation of the new offence , the Government made it plain that it did not wish to promote legislation too similar in this respect to the discredited ‘ sus ’ laws . |
| 16 | However , the Shetland Islands Council made it clear that it had no intention of grasping the nettle itself , and taking any decision . |
| 17 | Although the offer was not completely rejected by the Palestinian side , they made it clear that it fell short of Palestinian aspirations for a legislative council to take over control of the occupied territories from Israel [ see p. 38837 for Palestinian self-government proposal tabled at the fourth round of talks ] . |
| 18 | Statements by the Iranian government made it clear that it saw ECO as the basis for a future Islamic common market which might ultimately embrace some 300 million people — a quarter of all Muslims — and rival the European Communities in importance . |
| 19 | Vietnam , supporting the SOC position , rejected the disarming of government forces , and made it clear that it envisaged an SNC with a largely symbolic function rather than real authority . |
| 20 | Although statistics on dietary fibre intake were not recorded until 1919 , the Royal College of Physicians thinks it probable that it has halved in Britain since the middle of the last century . |
| 21 | The ITC guidelines make it clear that it does n't see ‘ sanitised ’ violence as innocuous and Ferman expresses greater concern about Lethal Weapon 2 than Reservoir Dogs . |
| 22 | Heads who are asked where that combination took its origin in their individual histories make it clear that it did not come from training . |
| 23 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 24 | In another change of tack — there was a time when OS/2 was the whole future as far as the company was concerned , Microsoft Corp is switching its signals and is now making it clear that it expects MS-DOS users to prepare to switch to Windows NT . |
| 25 | So you dye it yellow and then you dye it blue and it goes that green . |
| 26 | This , it is proposed , should be reformulated so as to replace the expression ‘ merchantable quality ’ with ‘ acceptable quality ’ and to make it clear that it covers the fitness of the goods for all their common purposes , their safety , durability , freedom from minor defects and appearance and finish . |
| 27 | I can not claim to have read it all but it seems massively comprehensive , and certainly useful for libraries . |