Example sentences of "[prep] it [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst the law does not require disclosure of such an interest , as it does with the financial one , it may be prudent to indicate the existence of the interest and , because of it to withdraw from active consideration of the issue . |
| 2 | In the culture in which he specializes the anthropologist is admirably sociological ; but as soon as he steps outside it to engage in comparative studies and generalization he becomes paradoxically culture-bound , unwittingly taking unique cultural forms as universal facts . |
| 3 | Her rent would have certainly been paid in advance and the rent man , whoever he was , would likely be the only one who would come down here , except of course the child 's uncles , and they must have been hard put to it to resort to this hole . |
| 4 | The prerogative order of prohibition , as its name implies , performs the function of ordering a body amenable to it to refrain from illegal action . |
| 5 | You can specify a door to take you directly to another room , and just double click on it to get to another application . |
| 6 | Some learning theories ( differential association was an example ) moved away from the idea of criminals being identifiably different kinds of people : their criminal behaviour was seen as being acquired in much the same way as any other behaviour was acquired ; it did not require any special , predisposing characteristics for it to happen to particular people . |
| 7 | The nest was built whilst the truck was in use , so the bird must have been patiently waiting for it to return after each journey so that it could carry on with nest building . |
| 8 | As there was a tendency for it to rain outside this gift idea was doubly welcome ! |
| 9 | It is widely known that the new repository will run on AIX and OS/2 , but it may surprise many that the thing is also up under OS/400 as well as on Ultrix , HP-UX and Solaris and that IBM has funded development work internally for it to appear on these non-IBM versions . |
| 10 | It is difficult for it to distinguish between one sort of pain and another , when trying to work out what is going wrong . |