Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The award was introduced to encourage companies to formalize environmental reporting and link it to annual financial reports . |
| 2 | Whereas previously each local authority had access to its own business rate revenue , now the central government collected all this revenue and redistributed it to local authorities in proportion to the local population . |
| 3 | The International Herald Tribune of April 28 reported that the US government had for more than two years had evidence that Iraq had diverted food purchased under a US$5,500 million aid programme and exchanged it for Soviet-made arms in Jordan , Turkey and the Soviet Union , including nuclear technology according to a confidential US document dated Oct. 13 , 1989 . |
| 4 | Suspected Sendero guerrillas threw dynamite into his car and sprayed it with machine-gun fire . |
| 5 | It 's a good idea to keep a press cuttings album and leave it on permanent display in the staff room or school reception area . |
| 6 | Many non-Western cultures use a type of music , not used in the West , which has symbolic meaning to the members of the culture ; an attempt should be made to understand this symbolism and turn it to positive selling advantage . |
| 7 | The authors who began to write about rape and related it to male power , male supremacy and male sexuality , questioned what they saw to be the essentialist constructions of female sexuality which continued to predominate within the age of sexual revolution . |
| 8 | In October 1861 he took the matter out of the hands of the old guard and transferred it to keen reformers . |
| 9 | An enemy unit may charge a Squig Hopper and fight it in hand-to-hand combat exactly as if it were a normal cavalry model . |
| 10 | I take that multiplier and divide it into separate periods of one , three and twelve respectively . |
| 11 | The Inland Revenue 's Tax Bulletin is helpful in that it gives the Revenue 's view on how it interprets the law and relates it to practical points . |
| 12 | The judiciary has the function of interpreting the law and applying it to specific cases . |
| 13 | Now you can take any icon and use it for other Window programs including your own ! |
| 14 | This is for the future but we propose to move quickly to integrate income tax and National Insurance into Broad Income Tax : treat all savings equally with regard to tax liability ; pay all pensioners a decent level of pension adequate for subsistence , restoring the link between pensions and earnings ; increasing child benefit and indexing it in future years . |
| 15 | Suspend a cage from a strong hook in the ceiling and fill it with potted plants , preferably the trailing kind . |
| 16 | Matthew had made his fire plan and cleared it with chief officer of the Wellingham fire brigade . |
| 17 | Some of the tragic child-abuse cases publicly investigated in the 1970s and 1980s highlighted the need for schools both to record information about possible child abuse and to share it with other agencies . |
| 18 | The Capitulary of Thionville in 805 , for instance , forbids usury , the kind of usury which involved buying cheap corn in quantity and selling it at excessive profit in times of scarcity . |
| 19 | To retain the support of the landowners , the regime continued throughout the 1950s to channel state funds into the agricultural sector and to support it with protectionist policies which merely sustained inefficiency and low productivity . |
| 20 | Eastern Stearman are able to completely rebuild a basic airframe , fit new wings , a re-lifed engine and finish it to individual specification and colour scheme . |
| 21 | Charnos have taken the microfibre story and turned it into different leg looks — shiny , matt and suede — using the softer , finer handle and textures now available , the products can achieve that smoother than silk feel . |
| 22 | It was also rumoured that Lloyd George might advocate protectionist policies and Baldwin make have called the general election and fought it on protectionist policies in order to undermine any such move by Lloyd George . |
| 23 | Selecting the optimum building and obtaining it on satisfactory terms are matters of great importance where institutional finance is involved . |
| 24 | ‘ So your zeide says , ’ agreed Bertha Cohen as she spread the hake , thoroughly washed and cleaned , on a wooden board and cut it into thick pieces which she liberally sprinkled with salt . |
| 25 | The simplest form of analogy is to change the historical setting for the event , for instance , attempting to place The Good Samaritan in a contemporary setting , or doing the reverse of this — taking some contemporary problem such as racism and setting it in past times , in a context between , say , the Jews and the Samaritans or the Greeks and the Romans . |
| 26 | The antiracism I am criticizing trivializes the struggle against racism and isolates it from other political antagonisms — from the contradiction between capital and labour , from the battle between men and women . |
| 27 | In relation to such decisions , therefore , certiorari really does quash the decision and deprive it of legal effect . |
| 28 | The gallery has its lighter side to arouse the interests of children — the ‘ smellerama ’ to test their sense of smell and relate it to certain types of food , the ‘ food pyramid ’ to test their ability to build a healthy diet , and an ‘ aerobicycle ’ which will demonstrate the amount of exertion required to burn off a given number of calories . |
| 29 | Even if one discounts this problem , there is the question as to whether the tradition of authority and concern with social discipline is sufficient in itself to define Conservatism and to distinguish it from other ideologies . |
| 30 | Put the shingle in one bucket and fill it with cold water . |