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

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1 One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature .
2 Local education and information campaigns , though well-meaning , have proved of dubious value in prevention terms , although it is sensible to educate local youth workers , school teachers , probation officers and the primary care team to recognize the problem and be able to tackle it in an informed way .
3 It stigmatises the conduct , which is important if the public is to view it with an appropriate degree of revulsion .
4 This includes activities undertaken by individuals to prevent disease or to detect it in an asymptomatic state .
5 Twenty years later , after including a pledge to abolish the Lords in the 1983 manifesto and dropping it from the 1987 manifesto , the Labour party again committed itself to reform of the Lords : now they planned to replace it with an elected chamber designed more to reflect the diversity of the nation and the regions , but with less legislative power .
6 In some West Indian islands a yacht arriving without one will be confronted with a customs officer producing a rolled-up flag from his pocket and offering to sell it at an inflated price in an atmosphere of thinly disguised pressure .
7 You may feed safer watching nature at second hand on the television , and would find it hard to rough it in an uncharted forest .
8 A sense of loss of identity causes the voyager to project what he or she encounters so as to perceive it as an external phenomenon , and also to introject elements of the familiar world in order to recreate a recognizable context .
9 This was folded and stored in a paper envelope for nearly a hundred years , and the creases make it very unlikely we shall ever be able to play it on an original machine .
10 How much better it is to remove trees carefully rather than wait for a gale to do it in an uncoordinated way .
11 To have run the most glorious run of your life , to have become the first European to break ten seconds , to do it in an Olympic final — and then to be falsely accused of drug-taking by an officialdom that was frantically sniffing out Ben Johnsons like a Salem witchfinder !
12 We were persuaded to give the industry a chance to reform its training board , to remodel it as an employer-led body and to alter the basis of levy collection .
13 For example it was much easier to incorporate provision for credit accumulation and transfer into a new system , when it was being set up , then to superimpose it on an established system .
14 Erm , I mean I think if we 're wishing to analyse the application , I I think we must consider what it does n't do for the village , and I think there are a number of aspects that have to be considered , erm , first of all as a village , and I 've heard in this very Parish Council that the reputed view made that there is a need for small village accommodation , this development certainly does not provide that , we 've also expressed a view that it would be nice to retain the existing bungalow , because that is small village accommodation , and although it only has a very limited history , again it would be nice to retain it as an integral part of the village .
15 The funding money had to be matched pound for pound by other backers ; the people who believed in the paper had to put up £5,000 of their own money between them ; and the paper had to have a controlling group to protect it from an outside takeover which might change the political line .
16 It seems to be looking straight at me , its knuckled legs poised , tense , waiting I know for one false move from me to trigger it into an electrifying spring … straight at me .
17 The rugged mountain region between Little Loch Broom and Loch Maree is regarded with affection and apprehension by conservationists and mountaineers alike , their concern being to keep it as an unspoilt wilderness against the growing threat of infiltration by unsympathetic tourists and insensitive planners .
18 There were plans to turn it into an opencast mine , but now the Forestry Commission , which administers the Forest from its headquarters in Coleford , has withdrawn its permisssion for British Coal to mine there , deciding instead to start re-planting trees .
19 This was a basic Ford shooting-brake which had had the windows and roof removed to turn it into an open truck .
20 The decision to turn it into an independent corporation has been welcomed , although the government 's power to veto members less so .
21 At present , EUP is effectively a University department , and Mr Martin 's task is to transform it into an independent company , albeit one wholly owned by the University .
22 And there was no way he could be prevailed upon to release it without an embarrassing fracas in front of the judge !
23 It was now clear that this was because an atom in its ground state has nowhere else to go , unless it can be given the rather large amount of energy necessary to lift it to an excited state with n greater than I.
24 It does not take too much distortion to see it as an anti-abortion tract .
25 In some schools , most pupils use spoken Standard English as their native dialect ; in others , most have to learn it as an additional language .
26 As budgeting is an integral part of any business plan , it is usually preferable both to express the plan and to review it on an annual basis that coincides with the firm 's accounting year .
27 ‘ T is already in a state of uproar , ready for that ambitious husband of hers to pluck it like an over-ripe plum , rotting and falling from the tree , and — ’
28 The new version of the bus , which meets the IEEE 1596–1992 interconnect standard , will be jointly designed by the two companies , and will be manufactured and marketed by LSI Logic , which plans to offer it as an ASIC core through its CoreWare Division .
29 Thus the Church offered opportunities to the ambitious as well as to the devout , although it would be a mistake to regard it as an egalitarian institution .
30 If political struggle takes place for specific purposes and anticipated results , here Sartre seems to condemn it to an unending series of detours that will never arrive at their destination .
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