Example sentences of "[vb infin] it [to-vb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a bold manifesto and the APB will expect it to receive careful criticism from all interested parties . |
| 2 | Director of OEM and technology licensing for IBM 's advanced workstations and systems division , Lucian Bifano said ‘ Since the [ PowerPC ] agreement with Motorola and Apple 18 months ago , we speculated on who would be the first to market with a product ; we certainly did not expect it to come four months after our October announcement of the first silicon ’ . |
| 3 | You can use it to shoot heavy balls of metal from large guns . |
| 4 | At the Federal level there is an Office of the Co-ordination of Soil and Water Conservation , but it has a tiny staff and its position within the Ministry of Agriculture does not enable it to have much influence on land-use decisions . |
| 5 | The PLA won enough seats to give it a two-thirds majority in the 250-member People 's Assembly , which would enable it to make constitutional changes without the support of other parties . |
| 6 | Sarcasm does not become you , dear readers , but I will permit it to enter these columns on just this one occasion . |
| 7 | By cutting the stems back hard , you will encourage it to produce new shoots from low down . |
| 8 | where we were starting from and I think it would be valuable to do what we started doing and actually to look at this as the baseline and decide how we might amend it to keep common factors in that we can all use , because we need something that has a common denominator level |
| 9 | In January 1990 the government announced that a United States crop substitution aid package worth US$12,000,000 would allow it to eradicate 6,000 hectares of coca plants provided that foreign markets for substitute crops were provided . |
| 10 | Those whose attitudes are negative and who consequently will have a powerful filter , even when they understand a message in the second language , will not allow it to reach that part of the brain responsible for language acquisition . |
| 11 | IBM bought up the technology outright before going public on its agreement with Apple to ensure that no enterprising outfit could subsequently go off and get a licence from Interactive that would allow it to develop compatible versions of PowerOpen , AIX or even Pink . |