Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [to-vb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 To , to make contingency plans to hold it on a day when we do n't need the cooperation of the employers in terms of time off
2 ‘ The Daleks ’ , however , took the show up into the rarified heights of peak viewing , prompting programme schedulers to see it as a very useful keystone in grabbing audiences for the whole of Saturday evening — which had been Donald Baverstock 's prime intention all along .
3 ITN has recruited American investment bank Lehman Brothers to steer it through the restructuring .
4 Straw Dogs managed to attract enough blood seekers to put it into the black at the box-office , but this disturbing tale of rural atrocities can scarcely have done much for the Cornish tourist industry .
5 The same goes for diving in front of a seal pup to protect it from the sealers .
6 You can then either accept the SPR or ask a user with SPR SSR Controller privilege to force it onto a user .
7 According to Smith , the illness was described in the language of the day as a putrid fever with buboes on the face and body , which caused Dr Crawford to compare it to the plague .
8 The bid failed because the estate 's value was considered to be less than the ‘ knockdown price ’ of £10 million at which the Prince had persuaded Mr Kluge to offer it to the nation , with some assessments valuing the estate at between £2 and £7 million .
9 Virgin Atlantic , as the new airline was to be called , would need to become airborne within the next three to four months , to take advantage of the summer traffic and generate the necessary cash reserves to see it through the fallow winter months .
10 The rank is unique to the RUC , and a proposal by Sir Hugh to abolish it in a restructuring package he put to the Police Authority two years ago caused anger within senior members of the force .
11 The existence of such an educational establishment aroused widespread interest amongst the intelligentsia , causing Dr Samuel Johnson to inspect it at the end of his tour of the Hebrides in 1773 .
12 In 1983 BR , which was planning a gradual reduction in its PSO requirement , was asked by the transport minister to reduce it by a quarter within three years .
13 However , Britain struggled elsewhere with Christian Burge , fourth on the boys sailboard , the only other team member to make it into the top half of the fleet .
14 ‘ I asked Sir John to burn it to the ground but Rachel played him like a piece of string around her finger .
15 Alternatively , he could sell a futures contract at the current futures price and , at the end of T years , buy the asset in the cash market to deliver it into the futures market to fulfil the contract .
16 ‘ That legislation has yet to be introduced to Parliament , ’ said Mr Naish adding that delays could give rise to further problems and he had urged Mr Howard to get it onto the statute books as urgently as possible .
17 But , carrying baskets of buffalo dung from the pit by the cattle shed , along the road and down towards the mango tree to put it on the furthest field , my nose was burnt before I 'd walked twenty yards .
18 Its death had been postponed , which had enabled the Hunt Ball Committee to hire it for the triumphant last appearance of a house that had outlived its glamour , and all kind importances .
19 Once a strategy is agreed it is up to the copy writer and art director to turn it into an advertising idea or ideas .
20 Bobbie asked the Station Master to give it to the old gentleman the next morning .
21 An order for contact with a child in care is usually referred to as a s34 contact order to distinguish it from a contact order under s8 of the Act .
22 It is her garden that now absorbs much of C.Z. 's time and it was a logical step for Bowles and photographer Pamela Hanson to use it as a setting for their fashion story ( p 162 ) , highlighting some of the key ideas for the season .
23 Matthew made his excuses , nipped to the loo , produced the goods , packaged the container and summoned a bike messenger to deliver it to the clinic — ‘ at which point , I returned to my presentation , looking more than slightly flushed .
24 But it needs either deep inside knowledge , or real writing skills to take it to a higher plane .
25 It 's being sold with planning permission to turn it into a hundred and twenty bed hotel .
26 Calls for the creation of a workers ' soviet , including a summons by the Bolshevik Vyborg District Committee to form it at the Finland Station in the Vyborg district , became widespread .
27 So get the checkout staff to wrap your plant in a paper or plastic sleeve to protect it from the wind .
28 Matey had gone out , not to return until late at night , leaving Dr Neil 's tea in the larder on a plate carefully positioned under a fine gauze hood to protect it from the ubiquitous flies ; he had said not to leave him supper , for he might visit the local evening market where prepared food of all kinds was on sale , from oysters to whelks ; he was partial to shellfish , he said .
29 The industrial relations problems of the docks in the 1950s and 1960s could , in the eyes of many commentators , be ascribed to the institution of casual working and the ( ultimately successful ) attempts by the trade unions to replace it with a system of regular employment for dock labourers ( see Wilson , 1972 ) .
30 This reconstruction of Rawls ' argument for the doctrine of neutral political concern attempts to found it on the notion of autonomy through the notion of moral self-determination .
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