Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farmers still dilute a concentrated formulation to apply it in 200 litres or more of water per hectare . |
| 2 | So what would we do to both sides of the equation what would we do to that side to turn it into opposite instead of opposite divided by a hundred and twenty . |
| 3 | And it was a record that came to be seen and recognised by the local electorate , in particular the newly enfranchised women , not least through the efforts of Labour candidates to exploit it to political advantage . |
| 4 | Certainly , there would need to be sound reasons to pursue it under such circumstances . |
| 5 | Q I have layered , shoulder-length permed hair and it has taken me some time to grow it to this length . |
| 6 | When we have a £6 million food and drink deficit , it is no use reducing Scottish production to replace it with cheap imports form eastern Europe . |
| 7 | The Cup and League Double had eluded the most ambitious clubs ever since Aston Villa became the second club to achieve it in 1897 , in a less competitive era . |
| 8 | Not only do we need to strengthen up the entire body to keep it in good working order but there are certain areas that need extra exercise to give the area more definition ; areas that accumulate unwanted flab . |
| 9 | Under Pressure , officially opened yesterday in Chelmsford , is aimed at all those who feel they have just too much flab to fight it in public , but perhaps the biggest difference between this gym and any other is the fact that physically disabled people are made especially welcome . |
| 10 | Pitt began by converting John Chapman 's reputed Manor House — which he bought when the Court of Chancery ordered the Dampier family to sell it in 1823 — into a hotel , clearing the ground in the direction of Peveril Point . |
| 11 | Carrots and meat and good stuff , and then they used to put a little flour to thicken it like this do you see , with a big spoon like that . |
| 12 | The basic structure ( roof , walls , floors , loft , doors and windows ) needs constant attention to keep it in good repair ; and essential household services ( electrics , plumbing , heating and drains ) need regular servicing in the same way as your car . |
| 13 | Held , allowing the appeal , that it was a requirement of all leases and tenancy agreements that the term created was of certain duration ; that the lease purportedly created under the memorandum of agreement , being for an uncertain period , was void and the land was held on a yearly tenancy created by virtue of the tenant 's possession and payment of yearly rent , on such terms of the memorandum of agreement as were consistent with a yearly tenancy ; and that , accordingly , since the term preventing the landlord from determining the tenancy until the land was required for road widening purposes was inconsistent with the right of either party under a yearly tenancy to determine it on six months ' notice , the plaintiffs ' tenancy had been lawfully determined ( post , pp. 283B–C , F–G , 284G–H , 285E–F , 286E–F , H — 287B , G–H ) . |
| 14 | Information acquired by an employee which becomes part of his general skills and stock of knowledge is not the subject of an obligation of confidentiality although during the term of the employment it may be a breach of the employee 's duty of good faith to disclose it to third parties . |
| 15 | Should you find , on receipt of your policy , that it fails to meet your requirements in any way , you have a legal right to cancel it within 14 days without payment . |
| 16 | Ali himself has acknowledged this : ‘ I started boxing because I thought this was the fastest way for a black person to make it in this country ’ ( quoted by Torres , 1971 , p.83 ) . |
| 17 | Hence the fact that his fellow economists , who regarded it as mistaken , were at great pains to refute it on theoretical grounds . |
| 18 | The duty is to provide the necessary plant and equipment and take reasonable care to maintain it in proper condition . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's a good idea to mix it with citric acid , ’ he said . |
| 20 | The growing nationalism of his schemes needed only the more autarchic economic plan and the authoritarian nature of political control to turn it into fully-fledged fascism . |
| 21 | People paid 25 roubles to have it for one night . |
| 22 | As a result , any attempt to explicate the theme of the sequence is bound to run into peculiar difficulties , although there have been various attempts to interpret it in Christian , symbolist or political terms . |
| 23 | The highest summit in the world — accorded the status by British surveyors in the 1850s — Everest has been the crowning target for the world 's mountaineers since the first attempt to climb it in 1921 . |
| 24 | Rugs employing this scheme are becoming increasingly rare and , although it may still be found on some workshop items , the only group to use it with any regularity are the Abadeh weavers of south central Persia , India and Pakistan make a few rugs in this design . |
| 25 | Can I say that we are now organising quite tightly the business of street collections , and I think if committee are minded to reduce the number of collections that we allow , we should decide that before we come to this meeting , because I think it 's very difficult in practical terms to do it at this stage , and therefore I would suggest that we do agree twenty-one , not withstanding what Graham said , we can take on board some of what he said , and maybe the month before we are asked to take this decision , we have an item on the agenda where we discuss the principle before we get down to the practicalities . |
| 26 | ‘ An American , Harry Hebner , was the first man to use it in major competition when he won a gold medal in the 1912 Olympics , and I was the first British title holder . |
| 27 | After the courts ' acceptance of the neighbour principle , there was an increasing tendency to apply it to new areas , heralding a major advance in the recovery of damages for economic loss ( e.g. Hedley Byrne & Co . |
| 28 | But a more historic example has recently emerged from a conservation programme to preserve it in first class static display condition for many years to come , this is Mk 1 Z2033/G–ASTL of the Skyfame Collection owned by the Imperial War Museum ( IWM ) and part of the collection of the historic aircraft at Duxford . |
| 29 | I can not promise a debate on it next week , but perhaps he will find his own opportunities to discuss it in greater detail . |
| 30 | have managers been made adequately aware of the potential of the system and given help to use it for strategic and management control decision making ? |