Example sentences of "it [to-vb] [noun] " 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 | So alien was it to see Mary Joe playing that way that I suspect she was injured and an android had been substituted , and wrongly programmed . |
| 4 | You do n't want it to go flat . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | But the scales down Fenna 's tail grew gradually smaller and smaller , the darker shades of his back and the paler shades of his underside blending together , and at the very tip , small as a child 's thumb , they were minute and a shade that , when she tried to match it to paint sample cards was usually called eau de nil . |
| 7 | It is to be hoped that recent changes within the SDA ( notably its drift towards self-help , business-orientated projects ) will not allow it to lose sight of wider goals in Scotland , where extensive areas of economic decline and outright poverty can still be identified . |
| 8 | Yet too much concentration on the military angle could , in the end , lead the UN astray , causing it to lose sight of what it is trying to do . |
| 9 | The company 's lawyers contended during a trial in state court that Basinger , 39 , whose credits include Batman and My Stepmother Is an Alien , had caused it to lose $5-10 million . |
| 10 | In my gybe , it seemed that by pulling up on the boom I was committing a lot of weight to the back which , although turning the board initially , caused it to lose speed through the turn . |
| 11 | It would hardly have been possible for it to support beauty and extravagance and pleasure at the expense of mere survival , but it did at least hint that such a view could be held , and its mere admission of this possibility was to Clara profoundly satisfying . |
| 12 | Colin bought the cordite and used it to light fires with . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ We used it to heal sword cuts in the Holy Land , ’ he said . |
| 15 | All you do is string a conker and , by using it to hit opponents ’ conkers , see how many other conkers you can break . |
| 16 | Despite clashing with my dole day , I had no hesitation in forgoing it to attend Ken Mentle 's funeral . |
| 17 | The Shippers Club is a vital communications link for the airline , helping it to monitor requirements such as the spread of capacity geographically . |
| 18 | Whilst the press must not overstep the bounds set , inter alia , for the ‘ protection of the reputation of others ’ , it is nevertheless incumbent on it to impart information and ideas on political issues just as on those in other areas of public interest . |
| 19 | The group relief position between the various members of the vendor group , including Target , needs to be considered by both Newco and the vendor , because it will have a bearing on : ( a ) what the parties to the buy-out agree should be paid by Target for group relief to be surrendered to it by other members of the vendor group or , conversely , what payment Target should receive for losses and other group relief items which are available for surrender from Target to other members of the vendor group ; ( b ) whether adjustments need to be made to inter-company loan accounts ; for example if it has been assumed that in the accounting period of Target in which the buy-out occurs it will achieve a certain level of profitability which will enable it to claim group relief from other group companies and that those other companies will accordingly be able to write off £x of inter-company debt due to Target , the fact that Target leaves the vendor group , say , half-way through that accounting period , will prima facie reduce the amount of group relief it can claim to half of £x ; furthermore Newco may not be willing to pay as much as half of £x out of Target unless this represents a discount on the amount of corporation tax Target would otherwise have to pay on such profits ; additionally , the notional disposals which Target makes under s179 TCGA when it leaves the group may either increase its profits ( if a gain arises ) or decrease them ( if a loss arises ) ; ( c ) what the parties agree in terms of indemnity cover for Newco for tax charges crystallising in Target ; for example , the vendor goup may agree to surrender sufficient group relief to Target free of charge to preclude any charge to corporation tax arising from the operation of s179 when Target leaves the group . |
| 20 | What is it to claim authority or to accept that someone has authority over one ? |
| 21 | But you could use it to combat office harassment ( do I hear you say ‘ Chance would be a fine thing ? ’ ) . |
| 22 | After the unsuccessful talks on June 12 [ see above ] , Markovic addressed the Slovenian Assembly , urging it to remain part of Yugoslavia . |
| 23 | He has also been warned not to increase VAT or extend it to include children 's clothes , domestic fuel , books and newspapers . |
| 24 | But the commission wants it to include recipes for worker participation , an idea tried in the rejected Vredeling proposal of the early 1980s . |
| 25 | 3 Support The right of support and protection for the benefit of the Premises as is now enjoyed from all other parts of the Centre It is suggested that this right strengthens the landlord 's covenant for quiet enjoyment , and the only question is as to whether to extend it to include 'shelter " , but this is probably unnecessary . |
| 26 | If the amount notified is wrong , a simple call to the bank asking it to suspend collection is all that is required to ensure that no money is transferred . |
| 27 | James Hunt , QC , for the defence , put it to nurse Geeson that Allitt had told her after Liam suffered his first attack but she had forgotten . |
| 28 | Similarly , Anala ( 1974 ) found no correlation between H. lapillus shell length and the time taken for it to penetrate mussel or barnacle shells . |
| 29 | I will accept that you are designing it to enable humanity to select and rear a future generation that is peaceful and creative rather than aggressive and destructive , that your personal motives are good . |
| 30 | Venners , the ‘ Son of Fred ’ to quote the title of his autobiography , came from a council estate in Dagenham or Corned Beef City as he and his street-pals irreverently called it to taste fame , fortune and hero-worship . |