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

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1 The WS286 was a nice machine that served me until September last year when , sadly , I had to replace it to make more room on my desk .
2 The Namibian government has turned to South Africa to help it prevent illegal fishing in its territorial waters .
3 The insecticide is carried in a very penetrating light oil but it is nor fair to expect it to penetrate heavy deposits of dust , dirt and cobwebs before it reaches the timber .
4 It would be quite another to imagine it sanctioning full-blooded mergers between the likes of BAe and GEC , which is what Professor Smith 's script implies .
5 I wanted to do it to help other people in this position .
6 What the company has also been at pains to do it allow local input into its products .
7 Emeryville , California-based Sybase Inc is also getting in on the act , saying that it has licensed IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture and plans to use it to support distributed unit of work access between IBM databases , and Sybase SQL Server and Open Client and Open Server applications .
8 Emeryville , California-based Sybase Inc has licensed IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture and plans to use it to support distributed unit of work access between IBM databases , and Sybase SQL Server and Open Client and Open Server applications systems pay $150,000 for full distribution rights .
9 On Aug. 16 , as a shipment of UN relief arrived for the first time in the southern port of Kismayo , a local militia which had been hired to protect it stole 600 tonnes of food and fuel .
10 Basically , there are three categories that will be offered : ( 1 ) There will be a basic valuation , which is not a survey at all , but merely to assist the mortgage company to ensure it has adequate security for its loan .
11 mm , just I just rub it down and to keep it moving another salt for a week or two in it , the icy roads , bound to put salt down are n't they ?
12 Whilst boards of directors may delegate the day to day conduct of an offer to individual directors or committees of directors , the board as a whole must ensure that proper arrangements are in place to enable it to monitor that conduct in order that each director may fulfil that responsibility .
13 But it is hard to see it making much headway against the ideology that now pervades academic institutions .
14 ‘ The police seem to think it happened some time after midnight last night . ’
15 By a notice of appeal dated 20 May 1992 the health authority appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the court had no jurisdiction to grant a mandatory injunction requiring a health authority to cause specified medical treatment to be given , alternatively , no jurisdiction to order it to cause such treatment to be given against the professional judgment of its servants or agents ; ( 2 ) the judge had erred in holding that he was not bound by the decision in In re J. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 33 to hold that there was no such jurisdiction ; ( 3 ) there had been no material before the court to justify the judge granting a mandatory interlocutory injunction since ( a ) there was no evidence that the health authority owed J. any enforceable duty to provide the ordered treatment , or that such treatment would be in his best interests ; ( b ) there was uncontradicted evidence before the court that the treatment ordered would be painful and ineffective to give J. a prospect of long term survival and ( c ) there was no material establishing that there was a reasonable or any prospect of a final order being granted in the terms of the interlocutory order ; ( 4 ) if the court had jurisdiction to make the order the judge erred in the exercise of his discretion in that ( a ) he had failed to give sufficient weight to the uncontradicted medical evidence or to the undesirability of seeking to force a doctor to act against his professional judgment and/or requiring the employer of the doctor to do so , ( b ) he had failed to consider that the order was capable of interfering with the health authority 's duty to care for other patients , and ( c ) by its terms the order was too imprecise to enable the health authority to be able to ascertain how it should be complied with .
16 FORMER Ulster Secretary Peter Brooke is being urged to and ask a TV channel to admit it broadcast unfounded allegations about the RUC .
17 I love the songs they write for me and I try to make it look that way in the style in which I deliver it , ’ she added modestly .
18 The prevalence of the idea of the Second World War as a ‘ good war ’ in Anglo-American culture makes it very hard to appreciate that those who tried to prevent it had good reasons for doing so .
19 ‘ I have here a petition and I want you all to sign it to show those men in power that the women and children of this country think that slavery is wicked and wrong ! ’
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