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

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1 One complication that we see raised with Samson Agonistes , is that a text 's success in fulfilling the conditions of its chosen genre , in this case classical tragedy , may help to render it unsuccessful in terms of the way it was originally envisaged as intervening aethestically in its contemporary history .
2 Of course , if such a procedure were adopted by the House it would be better to have it subject to agreement between the usual channels than merely on the diktat of the Government .
3 This view was qualified by other officers of the company who said in some instances Informix could provide backing for startup firms , such as those which may have developed important technology but were unable to productise it due to lack of funds .
4 That would appear to make it worthwhile for science to be a little more lenient with the serious UFO researchers and their data .
5 They were happy enough when Leroy May ran in to make it 1-0 against Darlington on saturday but that was it .
6 He took his job very seriously and made me rewrite the book to make it understandable to nonscientists like himself .
7 The hearing was held in Dumbarton instead of Campbeltown to make it easier for relatives from England to attend .
8 The Young Minds Information Service was launched last week , aiming to make it easier for families with troubled children or adolescents to gain access to counselling and other professional help .
9 We also need a base further north to make it easier for people in that region to get to us .
10 All the book needs to make it worthy of recommendation as an introduction to this enjoyable branch of mathematics is a health warning like the one on the tobacco advertisements : ‘ Reading this book can damage your understanding of physical reality ’ .
11 We try to make it clear to people in Hong Kong and to the Government of China that the main component in our relationship with the People 's Republic of China must be Hong Kong and carrying the 1984 agreement to success .
12 This dimension of Lacan also finds a precedent in Freud : ‘ the programme of becoming happy , which the pleasure principle imposes on us , can not be fulfilled ; yet we must not — indeed , we can not — give up our efforts to bring it nearer to fulfilment by some means or other , ( xii.271 ) .
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