Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] it [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is all I shall have to remember him by — you are cruel to treat it with such levity . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The truth in question is hidden , lying concealed beneath appearances ; we must then inquire , since its nature is not open to us , whether it is still possible to know it through some sign and whether we have a criterion by which we may recognize the sign and judge what the thing truly is . ’ |
| 3 | There is no harm in adding , say , 5% to that price as long as you are prepared to reduce it by that amount in negotiation . |
| 4 | Er perhaps it is impossible to answer it in this forum but I think it remains an open question sir . |
| 5 | But I have not seen much evidence that it is really possible to do it on this scale . |
| 6 | With the Sim-Fix it is unnecessary to punch extra fixing points in the slate and the strap is quickly and easily nailed to the batten with three optional fixing points , making it possible to use it with any size of slate . |
| 7 | The one indisputable fact these studies revealed is that the majority of those interviewed were not familiar with the extent of , or damage caused by , corporate crime and amongst the ‘ knowledgeable ’ minority , few were able to define it with any precision . |
| 8 | The training , however high-level , is converted into higher education only when the student is able to form an independent evaluation of what he or she has learned or mastered , is able to put it into some kind of perspective , and is able to see not only its strengths but also its limitations . |
| 9 | Now in order to make a prediction of what say what 's going to happen this year I would have to know the state of the system of the ocean and the atmosphere on January first and in order to do that in an ideal world I would have a tremendous amount of data about the ocean and about the atmosphere and be able to put it into this model but this data , by and large , does n't exist . |
| 10 | But Ministers are unlikely to give it to either group as Mr Major does not want the lottery to be seen as gambling . |
| 11 | The last heart attack had been a big one , and he was n't able to shrug it off this time . |
| 12 | Or are you happy to take it under this umbrella umbrella heading ? |
| 13 | The general public has a tendency to assume that nurses experience a strong desire to care for others , perhaps believing that many feel a true vocation or ‘ divine call ’ to the work , although it is probably less usual to describe it in these terms today . |
| 14 | If the odds were not grossly unfavourable , it should be possible to hold it for several hours . |
| 15 | I 'm pleased to see it on this year 's Congress Agenda . |
| 16 | Because the reliability of a test is so important , it is usual to quantify it in some way . |
| 17 | The quantity of wealth and the range of differences were so great and so new that it was difficult to assimilate it to any picture of how Zuwaya had done things in the past . |
| 18 | This is called parallel computing , and everyone trying to build supercomputers of the future has agreed it will be necessary to use it in some form . |
| 19 | So , to be safe it would be wise to use it at any time flying above 10,000 feet . |