Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier we find little trace of it generally , and so we ought not to be surprised to find it missing from the ordinary Person 's consciousness of time in those days . |
| 2 | Someone has to experience it to know to the full how you feel . |
| 3 | There was too much weight hanging from the wings to let it glide through an awkward bank like that , all the time losing the upthrust from the breeze ; losing it twice , because now it followed the turning plane . |
| 4 | From the 1860s organisations such as the Charity Organisation Society , the Salvation Army , Church and many other philanthropic missions , through their direct intervention in working-class life attempted to mould it to conform to a middle-class norm . |
| 5 | The small piece of plastic or glass fibre protruding at the tail of the board which helps to keep it sailing in a straight line . |
| 6 | Funded initially by the Probation Board and the Belfast Action Team , the cash-starved scheme now requires a further £140,000 injection to keep it going for a full year . |
| 7 | A moving map display made for GA aircraft by the Digital Sky division of U.S. electronics company Thermwood Inc has recently been modified to allow it to interface with the well-known Stormscope WX10A . |
| 8 | The company justified the closure as part as part of a cost-cutting exercise necessary to allow it to compete in the private sector . |
| 9 | It would only be possible to describe these years in such glowing terms , however , if we were to place our curiosity under strict curfew , refusing to allow it to look beyond the frozen images of faded snap-shots or the scratchy surface realities of the official crime statistics . |
| 10 | The second way to underline your punch 's effectiveness is to allow it to strike with a satisfying thud that can not be mistaken . |
| 11 | Secondly , there 's no reason to suppose it happened in a small population . |
| 12 | In the case of the Single Currency , the weak country is forced into similar deflationary policies in order to try to depress its unit costs so as to enable it to compete against the strong countries . |
| 13 | The Izmailovo , which has 5,000 bedrooms is about to undergo a three-year , £20m refurbishment to enable it to compete in the international business and tourism travel market . |
| 14 | The Panel operates outside the financial services legislation in the UK , although some would like to see it brought within the statutory framework . |
| 15 | The kestrel is our most common falcon , but what a delight it is to see it hunting in a natural habitat rather than at the edge of a motorway . |
| 16 | ‘ I have felt for a long time that the only way this issue was going to be resolved was to have it fixed on a political level — that it would n't just fade away . |
| 17 | What the hell did I get it for — to have it sit on the fucking shelf ? |
| 18 | An MP who 's been campaigning for years to have the road improved said tonight that he 'll be pressing the government yet again to have it upgraded to a dual carriageway . |
| 19 | He attempted to have the case thrown out as " frivolous and vexatious " , but failed to have it struck off the High Court list . |
| 20 | In one of the most tantalising promises yet made in the computer industry , Unix System Laboratories Inc is claiming that independent software vendors who port their applications to its Destiny desktop implementation of Unix SVR4 will only have to do so once to have it run on the disparate architectures of Intel Corp , Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc RISC , MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC , Hewlett-Packard Co PA RISC and IBM Corp 's RS/6000 RISC . |
| 21 | Anyway , his standing in society was far too high to have it blackened by the indiscreet infidelities of a wife bored with her husband 's success . |
| 22 | I do n't see a need to have it repeated on a separate bit of paper anywhere else . |
| 23 | Participating members should distribute the Investment Overview direct to foreign prospective purchasers in their countries unless they prefer to have it distributed by the initiating member . |
| 24 | Shaking with terror , Isabel put a hand to the wall in an attempt to hold on to something solid , only to have it scoot across the slimy surface , almost throwing her to the ground . |
| 25 | Variant weapons included the guisarme or fauchard , which persisted in many forms as late as the seventeenth century , and inflicted such horrible wounds that attempts were made to have it banned during the medieval period . |
| 26 | In fact , if glass is prevented from cracking in tension , say by putting it into compression , then it is quite easy to get it to flow like a soft solid ; for instance , glass will behave like putty under the blunt point of a diamond indenter but the shear stresses required to cause flow are well above the normally observed fracture stresses — in common glasses at room temperature usually above 500,000 p.s.i . |
| 27 | This , Corris calls the ‘ North Sea Gas Option ’ after the massive conversion exercise in the 1970s when UK Gas Board had to replace or convert every domestic gas cooker to get it to work with the new fuel . |
| 28 | An attempt by the District Attorney to overturn it resulted in the Supreme Court 's consideration of the case on April 2 . |
| 29 | Whilst the relevance of such information should not be denied , to present it divorced from the Latin American context leads to a seriously distorted picture of Soviet-Latin American relations . |
| 30 | Endill watched Tock make a hole in the wall , holding his hammer with both hands to stop it banging in the wrong place . |