Example sentences of "it [to-vb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can also use it to report incidents of sexual or racial harassment . |
| 2 | Analysts predict it to report profits of £41 million in 1991 , compared with £63 million in 1990 . |
| 3 | In the light of our results , we believe that the best clinical approach for an acute diagnosis of a Barrett 's oesophagus is the combination of endoscopic and manometric studies ; but how accurate is it to compare distances measured by manometry from distances measured by endoscopy ? |
| 4 | Colin bought the cordite and used it to light fires with . |
| 5 | The physician Paracelsus ( 1490 — 1541 ) saw it as a ‘ magnetic ’ influence enabling people who possessed it to heal others , ‘ as perfume emanates from a lily ’ . |
| 6 | All you do is string a conker and , by using it to hit opponents ’ conkers , see how many other conkers you can break . |
| 7 | The Shippers Club is a vital communications link for the airline , helping it to monitor requirements such as the spread of capacity geographically . |
| 8 | He has also been warned not to increase VAT or extend it to include children 's clothes , domestic fuel , books and newspapers . |
| 9 | But the commission wants it to include recipes for worker participation , an idea tried in the rejected Vredeling proposal of the early 1980s . |
| 10 | First he sought to use it to spread the gospel of trade unionism elsewhere in the north-east and eventually persuaded it to establish branches at Middlesbrough , Hartlepool , Seaham Harbour and in North and South Shields . |
| 11 | Ordinary people regularly broke the rules and resorted to bribery if they could get away with it to obtain essentials or medical care , but then their corruption was a sign of independence asserted against the system , whereas Manescu 's was typical of a deep inner decay of the system . |
| 12 | The Government was claiming it was entitled to intervene under an EC directive which allowed it to impose restrictions on ‘ retransmissions ’ of broadcasts from other member states . |
| 13 | A document will be ‘ contractual ’ if a reasonable person in the position of the prospective buyer would expect it to contain terms affecting his rights and liabilities . |
| 14 | It would take a teacher a great deal of time to prepare such graphs manually but more importantly the software allows pupils to manipulate it to discover aspects of pond life for themselves . |
| 15 | How common is it to find churches which encourage a person to be open and honest about his doubting ? |
| 16 | How common is it to find Christians who have thought through the problem of doubt as a whole , rather than thinking through doubt piecemeal ? |
| 17 | An Oslo court has decided to begin public debt negotiations for Norsk Data A/S at the request of the company 's board : Norsk Data has found it difficult to reach an out-of-court refinancing settlement with creditors that would enable it to secure funds to provide a 25% cash payout to unsecured creditors . |
| 18 | In particular its authority should be recognized to the extent necessary to enable it to secure goals , which individuals have reason to secure , for which social co-ordination is necessary or helpful , and where this is the most promising way of achieving them . |
| 19 | Informix looks to OpenODB to enable it to provide customers with an easy evolution to object-oriented technology that enables them to use data already stored in the Informix-OnLine database . |
| 20 | Is it to provide herbs for use , such as flavouring herbs , medicinal herbs , or household and insecticidal herbs ? |
| 21 | The form most frequently found is the barn with lean-tos built against it to provide cow-houses , stables or cart-shed . |
| 22 | The archbishop was offering Wolfgang his former post as konzertmeister , together with that of court organist , at a substantially increased salary of 500 florins a year , plus the opportunity of leave whenever he needed it to write operas elsewhere . |
| 23 | I do typically , however , have a need to describe it to total strangers . |
| 24 | During 1991 , in consultation with Pat Twite , the decision was taken to change the direction of the award and use it to encourage museums and other organisations to strive for improvements in their respective fields and to align the award with the good works of the BAPC . |
| 25 | Although I have earlier granted it to simplify matters ( p. 21 ) , premiss ( 1 ) is not nearly so firm as an objector might like . |
| 26 | ‘ At the end of the day all of us are in it to sell records . |
| 27 | Anyway , TWA is not an attractive partner because big debts are forcing it to sell assets too . |
| 28 | From my trouser pocket I take a handkerchief , and I use it to clean fingerprints off the gun . |
| 29 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that notwithstanding the wording of section 8(2) of the Finance Act 1986 W. Plc. was not a member of the self-regulating organisation Lautro for the purposes of the Act and had no right of appeal to Lautro under the provisions of Lautro 's 1988 Rules ; that Lautro had a duty to act fairly not only to its members but , in appropriate circumstances , to those appointed representatives on which , in accordance with its rules , an intervention notice was to be served ; but that , in determining whether those affected by an intervention notice should be permitted to make representations before the notice was served , Lautro had to balance their interests against the interests of investors pending a full inquiry ; and that , having decided to serve the notice as a matter of urgency , Lautro should not be burdened with the necessity to decide whether time permitted it to receive representations before it served the notice ( post , pp. 575C–G , 576A–C , 577C–D , 579E — 580A , D — 581B , 582E ) . |
| 30 | This month its old-guard steering committee decided a better constitution would include annual meetings by the assembly , and powers for it to initiate laws and to veto bills from the legislature . |