Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may take several releases and many months before the company starts to see a return on its investments , so it is essential for an indie to have a relatively solid financial base to see it through the difficult early stages and to sustain the levels of promotion until an act on the label breaks . |
| 2 | But because of its fierce realism and deep antipathy to authority ( whether it comes in the guise of nationalism or Catholicism , ) this culture is likely to resist any attempt to include it in the cosy consensus of Dublin as Europe 's cultural capital . |
| 3 | It should be noted this is a Post Graduate course , and it is not our intention to include it in the main embalming course . |
| 4 | When in the " sick Chicken " case of 1935 the Supreme Court ruled against the act , declaring Federal code-making an unconstitutional interference with the authority of the separate states , Roosevelt made no attempt to revive it in a new form . |
| 5 | The rise of this logical positivism reinforced the Enlightenment belief in science and rationality ( at the very moment that the world was in desperate need of a moral code and a spiritual light to help it through the great crisis — the Depression — of the old machine 's apparent demise ) . |
| 6 | When I arrived on tie scene there appeared to be hundreds of people there , but a civilian — the works and bricks engineer seemed — to be the boss , and even the station commander was happily taking orders from him about filling sandbags and placing them on the Bund to strengthen it against the rising tide . |
| 7 | Henry VIII was horrified by what he understood of Luther 's theology , and , in an attempt to rebut it during the early 1520s , he wrote with the help of a number of court scholars the theological tract The Assertion of the Seven Sacraments , for which he was rewarded by the pope with the title ‘ Defender of the Faith ’ . |
| 8 | How much better it is to remove trees carefully rather than wait for a gale to do it in an uncoordinated way . |
| 9 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 10 | It 's very much the last attempt — not er , not for , from the point of view of negotiating or er , but , but simply a matter of fact , er we need erm we need to move , we need to have additional sources of , sources of income , that er the type of facility that we 're looking to build will give the club to put it on a firm financial footing , and at the same time to give the local people of the City and er the , the surrounding County er tremendous new facilities . |
| 11 | ‘ During the time we had the picture in our possession , in an attempt to keep it off the international art market we consulted the criminal police , and attempted to put the picture on the index of important works of art which can not leave Germany . |
| 12 | Deborah Pender , the head of a distribution company , lodged one of several bids for the complex to save it as a major tourist attraction . |
| 13 | During the Jubilee Year the University has decided to inject some resources into the association to develop it into a larger and more effective body , to enable graduates to keep in touch with the University and each other . |
| 14 | Frenchman Alain Prost has come out of retirement in a bid to steer it to a fourth world title next season . |
| 15 | A first attempt to introduce it in the 1850s failed . |
| 16 | Although everyone was a bit wary of an undeserved Soton equaliser , Beeney mopped up any semblance of an attack , and after good work by Strachan in not letting Benali shepherd the ball out for a goal kick , he dispossessed him , took it past another defender and played it across the goal for Speed to slot it into the bottom left corner . |
| 17 | The cockroach has a similarly high-speed existence and can react to any attempt to crush it in a fiftieth of a second , while our own reaction time is a tenth of a second . |
| 18 | All that was necessary was for the porter to replace it on the wrong nail before going to Compline , and leave her its ineffective twin . |
| 19 | Its death had been postponed , which had enabled the Hunt Ball Committee to hire it for the triumphant last appearance of a house that had outlived its glamour , and all kind importances . |
| 20 | In 1973 the Ladies ' Committee concerned itself with this seat reporting ‘ It was a pity to leave it in the wet even if only there for the time being ’ . |
| 21 | It needs a powerful machine to run it at a reasonable speed but even if you do n't have such a machine you need to know about it as a sign of things to come . |
| 22 | ‘ It would have been a fascinating exercise to auction it on the free market and see how much it got , though ’ , said Maître Binoche . |
| 23 | The Secretary of State has been trying to say that he is a friend of the inspectorate , despite his proposal to cut it to a third of its current size , and he has created pandemonium . |
| 24 | But remember it was your decision to buy it in the first place , nobody else 's , and if it 's you that 's wrong , or you that does n't suit the item , then you probably do n't have any entitlement to an exchange or a refund . |
| 25 | These were considerations that could not be ignored by a Conservative leader , Austen Chamberlain had been toppled in 1922 because he had not withdrawn from an unpopular coalition in time ; and one of the motives for the destruction of the Lloyd George coalition was a desire to replace it by a protectionist government . |
| 26 | Picasso 's dismissal of traditional perspective had been the result of his interest in investigating the nature of solid form and of a desire to express it in a new , more thorough and comprehensive , pictorial way . |
| 27 | The funding money had to be matched pound for pound by other backers ; the people who believed in the paper had to put up £5,000 of their own money between them ; and the paper had to have a controlling group to protect it from an outside takeover which might change the political line . |
| 28 | Her welding torch has been applied to an old mini to turn it into a Pink hippopotamus . |
| 29 | Doctors call this reaction chronic inflammation to distinguish it from the immediate , acute reaction or injury or allergy . |
| 30 | All things considered , however , the film does n't exactly fly so much as hope from one gag to the next , relying on the awe of Brando and affection for the Kellog character to carry it over the many black spots . |