Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter is an account of the process and is an attempt to see it from the family 's perspective . |
| 2 | Any attempt to evade it for the sake of the ‘ purity of the ‘ socialist ideal ’ ’ , 'he warned , would simply lead to a further expansion of the bureaucratic apparatus and to the dictatorship of the producer . |
| 3 | For centuries therefore , statute has placed a limit on the time after which a claimant to an interest in land may bring an action to establish it in the face of the possession of another person holding under a later title … |
| 4 | The place of violence in English labour history has been reconsidered since the earlier historians , notably the Webbs and Hammonds , followed a Fabian predisposition to exclude it from the mainstream of labour action . |
| 5 | He had been foiled in his first attempt to reach it by the arrival of Jos , and ever since it had been impossible to get away unnoticed . |
| 6 | It is not a fixed asset as there is no intention to use it in the business . |
| 7 | It is a fixed asset as there is an intention to use it in the business . |
| 8 | It is a fixed asset as there is an intention to use it in the business . |
| 9 | It is a fixed asset as there is an intention to use it in the business . |
| 10 | It is a fixed asset as there is an intention to use it in the business . |
| 11 | It is a fixed asset as there is an intention to use it in the business . |
| 12 | But the humanities comprise a number of disciplines and subjects , of which English is only one ; the Leavisite attempt to turn it into the Queen of the Sciences never looked like succeeding . |
| 13 | What is more , it is probably utterly unfair to this particular study to oversimplify it in the way shown in figure 6.1 , which is intended solely to relate to the limited area studied . |
| 14 | This land of little more than 2m people and 24m sheep , enclosed between China and Russia in an area three times the size of France , had already appealed for emergency food aid to get it through the winter when the worst snows for 50 years hit three provinces in the south-west . |
| 15 | For the last six months the managers brought into the firm by Robert Maxwell have been trying to strike a deal to wrench it from the quagmire of his estate . |
| 16 | The decision to install it in the museum 's new Henry Cole Wing in 1989 led to its restoration and trip to Japan for the Wright exhibition in 1990 . |
| 17 | In exchange he would exhibit his collection there for fifteen years , keeping the freedom to exhibit it around the world , and buy and sell from it . |
| 18 | The control you have over the video " text " gives you the flexibility to use it in the way that best suits your particular purpose at any particular time . |
| 19 | The owner of an eighteen foot fibre glass shark has won a six year battle to keep it on the roof of his terraced home . |
| 20 | ‘ I think it would be a great pity to send it through the post , ’ he said . |
| 21 | I have not read any new poetry to touch it since the publication of The Everlasting Mercy [ by John masefield ] . ’ |
| 22 | Telford 's warehouses were mostly destroyed by fire in 1970 , but Porters Row survives as an example of his workers ' houses , and locks on what is now the Shropshire Union Canal descend the hillside to link it with the ship canal . |
| 23 | In addition to dealers , other objects of anger were farmers who were thought to be withholding grain from the market and thus creating an " artificial " scarcity ; merchants who attempted to buy up corn to move it from the district in which it had been grown at times when local markets were under-supplied ; and millers who were considered to be either bulk buying and hoarding corn or else charging the poor too much for grinding grain . |
| 24 | Conservationists and locals fear for the future of the island and a trust has been set up to raise money to buy it for the nation . |
| 25 | If only he could get enough room to swing it against the Eye … |
| 26 | 587 , 596 : ‘ it seems to us that in taking the article from the shelf the customer is indeed assuming one of the rights of the owner — the right to move the article from its position on the shelf to carry it to the check-out . ’ |
| 27 | The much-rumoured pact will see Insignia admit it has a license to Windows source code and the right to modify it at the application programming interface level to improve the performance of SoftPC , its Windows-on-Unix package . |
| 28 | The much-rumoured pact will see Insignia admit it has a licence to Windows source code and the right to modify it at the application programming interface level to improve the performance of SoftPC , its Windows-under-Unix package . |
| 29 | We scoff at the pretentious person who buys the Tatler to exhibit it on the coffee table , so why should we not view with less than admiration the newspaper which bribes its readers to buy it for reasons other than its content ? |
| 30 | ‘ No problem is hopeless if you 've got the courage to look it in the face . |