Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [to-vb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There they would force Khomeini to negotiate a deal and to broadcast it to the people . |
| 2 | The usual practice in most offices is for a post-clerk or secretary to open all the incoming mail and to place it in the in-tray of the appropriate recipient . |
| 3 | He forgot to decouple their carriage and to attach it to the Masham train as intended . |
| 4 | It is much better to have one review and to have it at the beginning of the Parliament , and that is exactly what we shall do . |
| 5 | Its inhabitants liked to call it the Woldopolis and to regard it as the hub of life in that part of the East Riding . |
| 6 | On present thinking , it would be more logical to treat it as revision and to do it at the later stage . |
| 7 | To help clear anxiety and to get it into the open , to put on record and share responsibility . |
| 8 | A full understanding of poetry requires that both principles are seen to be at work , for to analyze the laws of poetry without taking account of those of ordinary language would be to overlook the specifically verbal nature of poetry and to transform it from the domain of language to that of music . |
| 9 | I welcome this opportunity to congratulate the Government on the Gracious Speech and on their proposal to abolish the community charge and to replace it with the council tax . |
| 10 | But two years of severe drought in the region have prompted suggestions to give the project a higher priority and to build it over the next two years rather than the next 14 , as originally planned . |
| 11 | XRD is able to identify the metal sulphide used to make the niello and to distinguish it from the metal and from the oxide , chloride and carbonate corrosion products which contaminate the sample . |
| 12 | Since the earliest days of their conversion to Christianity , Greek Christians had been involved in a creative effort to baptise their glorious past and to wed it to the originally semitic Christian experience . |
| 13 | He has begun to remove teacher training from the colleges which have served us so ill in the past and to put it in the hands of the best schools . |
| 14 | A man has a right to take credit for past success and to attribute it to the real cause . |
| 15 | It is not so much a failure of one or other particular party , it is a failure of our culture to recognize the significance and importance of science and to elevate it within the nation more continuously and more substantially than governments of either party have chosen to do during the past 25 years . |
| 16 | To wrench the earth from the sublunar region and to place it among the planets was to violate the entire cosmos . |
| 17 | You will probably be relieved to hear that you 're not expected to memorize that table and to regurgitate it in the exam . |