Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes . |
| 2 | The force knows exactly how much harder it has to pull on the big one to keep it going in the same circle . |
| 3 | The company justified the closure as part as part of a cost-cutting exercise necessary to allow it to compete in the private sector . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As a rule of thumb , moving a nearly new greenhouse will only cost about the same as it would to have it erected in the first place . |
| 6 | I know the time is slipping and I hope to get it done in the next two weeks . |
| 7 | An attempt by the District Attorney to overturn it resulted in the Supreme Court 's consideration of the case on April 2 . |
| 8 | Endill watched Tock make a hole in the wall , holding his hammer with both hands to stop it banging in the wrong place . |
| 9 | Since the downfall of military regimes in South America and elsewhere provide clear evidence that no political structure relying solely on coercion can hope to survive for long , we should not be surprised to find that the most effective form of social control involves attempts not to crush opposition but to stop it arising in the first place : that is , by the control of people 's ideas , rather than of their actions . |
| 10 | Filling the pipe with sand will help to prevent it breaking in the wrong place . |