Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [to-vb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As soon as they get the ball , their intention is to get it into the box as quickly as possible and to finish with a shot . |
| 2 | The plan is to convert it into the ultimate upmarket hotel and haute cuisine restaurant . |
| 3 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 4 | ‘ Magnus is among the top assets in the XEU portfolio and my job is to keep it in the premier league , ’ he says . |
| 5 | Ideally , gates should be hung on sturdy posts set well into the ground , but where this is impossible , such as against a house wall , the only secure way to fit the post is to screw it to the wall using large expanding bolts , such as Rawlbolts . |
| 6 | Where this is impossible , such as against a house well , where there is often a concrete apron adjacent to the wall , the only secure way to fit the post is to screw it into the wall using large expanding bolts , such as Rawlbolts . |
| 7 | At which , after an ovation , half the audience did depart to hear Michael Heseltine , whose idea of a fringe meeting is to hold it in the Grand Theatre , which is very grand , built 1906 , seats 1,200 , and where Alvin Stardust will head the bill in this year 's pantomime . |
| 8 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 9 | The natural inclination of a new ‘ Couper is to turn it with the fingers , but one quickly learns to run a palm across one side , either up or down , in order to change trim by rolling the black knob . |
| 10 | erm The only way to get through to a diverted phone is to call it through the number it 's diverted to . |
| 11 | The quickest comparison is to liken it to the replacement branches mentioned above , shoot ( a ) in Fig. 5 , for example . |
| 12 | Western countries are overflowing with dangerous waste — and their first thought is to dump it in the Third World . |
| 13 | And perhaps Labour 's greatest ever mistake was to saddle it with the label ‘ poll tax ’ , thereby fixing in the public mind the link between voting and taxation . |
| 14 | Sometimes the only answer is to bring it off the way it went on , layer by layer . |
| 15 | The predominant response to Mannheim 's proposals for the sociology of knowledge in the English-speaking world was to incorporate it into the programme of ‘ scientific ’ , functionalist sociology . |
| 16 | The best way is to decorate it with the materials found in nature , and attempt to soften the overall box shape . |
| 17 | Apart from being awkward , the Arabic version also distorts the information structure of the original by presenting the first element ( ‘ general picture ’ ) as given when the point of the cleft structure is to present it as the new information worth attending to . |
| 18 | The best way to test the quality of porridge is to throw it at the wall . |
| 19 | There was the Cambridge Rapist in his mask with references to ‘ A Hard Day 's Night ’ — the idea was to link it to the death of The Beatles ' manager , Brian Epstein , during a supposed bout of homosexual S&M . |
| 20 | The second way of considering the tending of the fire is to compare it to the feminine ability to create and sustain atmosphere . |
| 21 | Microsoft Corp is now saying that Windows/NT will be announced on May 24 and that the target is to deliver it before the end of the second quarter , although US PC Week does n't expect ships to start until July ; there 's no exact date , says the company , since it will not ship until the product it is spot-on . |
| 22 | Having decided upon a prefabricated pool , the next stage is to get it into the ground . |