Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the vicar thinks it does he is mistaken . |
| 2 | Any insect touching it becomes inextricably stuck and very often buried within it as more resin flows around it . |
| 3 | Like the system of militia service it pressed heavily upon the poorer sections of the groups it affected and fell comparatively lightly on the middle classes of the French seaports . |
| 4 | Hewlett-Packard Co 's Canadian Panacom Division thinks it 's got some hot new X-terminal software for Sun , IBM and SCO Open Desktop platforms that will let you run applications from the local client rather than the host . |
| 5 | I am not sure why this quarter was called ‘ Chinese ’ except that perhaps its apartness from the regular secular and religious life of Salamanca made it seem like another country , and a far-off , exotic one at that . |
| 6 | This is the last , and the most dramatic , skin change it makes . |
| 7 | Since the kite has a lift component to enable it to accelerate at certain positions around the hemisphere it also has what is known as an ‘ apparent wind ’ and it is this which sustains the motion within the flight envelope . |
| 8 | The IMF 's satisfaction with Jordan 's continued implementation of economic restructuring programmes led it to approve on July 14 , 1989 , a financial package of 76,600,000 special drawing rights ( approximately US$96,000,000 ) . |
| 9 | The accent made it sound a strange new game . |
| 10 | Chevron 's swift counter-attack came a day after Pennzoil announced it had spent $2.1 billion to build up a nine per cent share stake in Chevron and said it planned to continue investing in the oil giant as a passive shareholder . |
| 11 | Swindon made it count too . |
| 12 | In the 1989 statement on Government expenditure they announced that the Home Office was to receive yet another increase in money to enable it to build two extra prisons , to set up 30 day centres for parole on probation , to recruit 300 more police officers in provincial forces , to employ an additional 1,300 civilians in the police forces and to make the Immigration and Nationality Department more efficient . |
| 13 | A necessary condition of this is that there has been sufficient money to enable it to function ( barely true for instance in Zaire , and parts of Nigeria and Tanzania in the 1980s ) , and that civil strife has been contained , sometimes ruthlessly . |
| 14 | We have made a major contribution to the overall income of pensioners , while all that the Labour party has to offer is inflationary erosion of savings , a failure in home ownership and many other schemes that Labour has offered ; although such proposals make it seem that pensioners are better off , because they are offered with other features , in reality it is a small percentage rise . |
| 15 | The board revealed it had established a sub-committee ‘ to progress the recruitment of a group chief executive from outside the Barclays Group ’ . |
| 16 | We have achieved a better than expected pro-forma combined profit and Stoddard Sekers is now putting in place the strategic plans to enable it to grow strongly both organically and by acquisition ’ . |
| 17 | Capital punishment for murder was abolished in 1969 and repeated attempts to reintroduce it have been defeated by an ever-increasing majority . |
| 18 | Moreover , as with the rank-and-file townsmen , the State 's bureaucratic weakness led it to impose crippling burdens on the leading merchants . |
| 19 | The light shining through her roughly heaped haycock of hair made it blaze so you might have thought you could warm your hands at it . |
| 20 | They have n't been fighting all these years to get rid of communism to see it re-emerge again so you , the confusion continues , as it is in Russia , and then you insinuate the idea that , with the breakdown of social order and so on , you must have a strong man , you must have strong arms and that 's where your Hitlers and your Mussolinis and all these people come through in that little vacuum in between of disorder . |
| 21 | This situation is far more benign than people obsessed with freedom make it sound , because what comes to us by no choice of our own is a gift — a whole world which we could not possibly have made and at which , in spite of all its horrors , we can on the whole only bow our heads in wonder . |
| 22 | Handicapper Ted Kelly admitted it had been a difficult task rating Vintage Crop . |
| 23 | In 1884 the Scottish Amicable Life Assurance Society applied for a Royal Charter or Separate Act of Parliament to enable it to hold property and enjoy the privileges of a corporate body . |
| 24 | The Walrus and Carpenter Restaurant st Church Street , Whitby , is appealing against Scarborough Council 's refusal of permission to enable it to remain open until midnight , an hour longer than current planning permission allows . |
| 25 | Nourish the skin to enable it to rejuvenate . |
| 26 | ‘ The scouts say it looks at first glance as if thousands are leaving . |
| 27 | It can be added to a Windows 3 or OS/2 personal computer enabling it to handle a range of multimedia elements , including high resolution colour graphics , sound and animation . |
| 28 | Section by section it was being revised in the commissions and then approved during the general congregations — despite last-minute attempts to modify it to contain an explicit condemnation of communism . |
| 29 | The contracts typically say that the decision of the expert is to be final and binding , and that is what the courts say it has to be , in the absence of fraud , partiality or mistake . |
| 30 | Mr Middleton is said to have whipped the animal several times to encourage it to climb over . |