Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] it [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | They bought the building two years ago with the intention of turning it into an exhibition space for cultural exchanges between Europe ( mainly France ) and Japan . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , Mr. Pybus , the Minister of Transport , announced in February 1932 , that the London Transport Bill was dead and he had no intention of forcing it on an unwilling House of Commons . |
| 3 | Yes there are far too many overlapping institutions that self regulation has n't worked , it ha has no adequate on the annualt we welcomed 21 effective against fraud by replacing it by an independent statutory statutory based regulator which has the power to strike and strike hard rather than everything er by the the the plethora of regulations we now deal with in the financial er in the financial sector and in the respect of what 's proposed today , you ca n't rely er on auditors to be the effective police force that they 've been required to be by these er regulations . |
| 4 | A perceived event then is not in the same relation to the act of perceiving it as an inferred event is to the act of inferring it . |
| 5 | You know both sides were very happy you know it was up with the company or down with the company you know , and I think certainly the younger lads sort of saw it as an infringement upon their future , you know we 've all got mortgages and the o older men who 'd been working since the quarry started you know were gon na see a drop in their standard of living , so I think you know people were getting a bit upset you know that a n a new fella h a new face had come in , and all of a sudden you know changes were being made that were gon na hurt everybody financially . |
| 6 | ‘ Nothing , but you 're in danger of turning it into an art form . |
| 7 | As Guthrie foresaw and wrote to me after attending an early performance : I feel confident that Gloriana will survive and be considered a great work … that disastrous miscalculation of opening it to an audience and on an occasion that required an all-star Iolanthe will set it back twenty years . |
| 8 | If shaft flexibility is not important dynamically there seems little point in introducing it as an unwanted variable in the swing . |
| 9 | In an effort to keep it in Fort Worth the museum agreed to allow time for a public subscription rather than following the normal procedure of consigning it to an auction house . |
| 10 | A few reporters , shunning the handout , gave an impression that the American press was opposed to the war , and indeed played a large part in bringing it to an end , an impression that journalists have since been content to foster . |
| 11 | An old , glazed porcelain sink can be transformed into a water garden by coating it with an artificial stone mixture . |
| 12 | In this project Kempson and colleagues will work on the development of a parser for Kempson 's model by embedding it within an already established computational environment . |
| 13 | This could even have the elusive and much desired effect of reducing the appeal of smoking as a ‘ grown up ’ activity through reconstructing it as an essentially teenage pursuit . |
| 14 | While one would have liked to have thought that the injustice of B's situation would of itself have been enough to persuade the Court of Appeal to strain to find a way of bringing it to an end , the Convention considerations ought to convince a future court that it has the duty to do so . |
| 15 | Dewey , as is well known , divided knowledge into tens so that he could employ decimal notation ; when a particular subject turned out to have more than nine facets he had to group them together , often at the expense of logic , and if a new facet arrived in-conveniently there was no way of including it at an appropriate place in the hierarchy . |
| 16 | Hermione Lee is admirably judicious about all this , pointing out both that we have a perfect right to say things about a writer that we would not have said in their lifetime , and that ‘ to account for Cather 's fiction by reading it as an encoding of covert , even guilty sexuality is , I think , both patronising and narrow . ’ |
| 17 | The rationale was simple : if arsenic could be made into a better drug by incorporating it into an organic compound , why not mercury ? |