Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] it [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among their recommendations are : the need for regular reports on implementation of the Fifth Action Programme on the environment ; the rapid establishment of the European Environment Agency ; and early ratification of the Climate Change Convention agreed at UNCED , with the development of national strategies to implement it by the end of 1993 . |
| 2 | This reconstruction of Rawls ' argument for the doctrine of neutral political concern attempts to found it on the notion of autonomy through the notion of moral self-determination . |
| 3 | Too busy joy-riding in their nice shiny patrol cars to hoof it on the beat . ’ |
| 4 | These are the leather straps you put round the bird 's legs to hold it on the glove that you have to wear when you handle birds of prey . |
| 5 | ITN has recruited American investment bank Lehman Brothers to steer it through the restructuring . |
| 6 | The court refused to allow the claim , holding that the clause ( imposing an exorbitant charge ) was particularly onerous and unusual and the library had not taken all reasonable steps to bring it to the attention of the agency . |
| 7 | Now there are plans to open it to the public and found a museum there . |
| 8 | As well as an excellent display , the Lynx has a much louder speaker and — in the tradition of the Atari 8-bits and Commodore Amiga — a powerful set of chips to help it with the animation needed for superior three-dimensional games . |
| 9 | If this is an improvised one such as a pierced cake tin , without feet to raise it from the plate on which it drains , set it in the top of a basin , mixing bowl , saucepan , wide jar , or any vessel in which it will fit without actually resting on the bottom . |
| 10 | By then southern and eastern England had been extensively ravaged , and £137,000 paid in attempts to rid it of the enemy . |
| 11 | I talk to them about the choices they 've made which led them to offend , and help them to find strategies to avoid it in the future , ’ she explains . |
| 12 | It looks almost like a cluster , and I have known unwary observers to confuse it with the Pleiades . |
| 13 | He took a few steps forward and tripped over a heavy iron grill set over one of the graves to protect it from the resurrectionists who had once supplied Dr Knox 's anatomy classes . |
| 14 | Er , it 's very difficult , yes you all laughed when I asked a question last year from over there to get a capital P in Pearson because you all laughed it took twenty weeks to get it in The Times , do you remember ? |
| 15 | Many men ( but few women ) deny the existence of subtle impediments that make it particularly difficult for women , blacks , Hispanics and even those talented Asians to make it to the top . |
| 16 | Given this continuing policy vacuum on the one hand and the implacable opposition of the judiciary to any attempts to fill it on the other , it is not altogether surprising that few attempts have been made to fashion an overall criminal justice strategy that would bring together sentencing and penal policy . |
| 17 | : ’ Speaking in London almost a year after becoming Chairman of British Coal , Mr. Clarke said — What we are seeing is a sort of energy arms race , with attempts to justify it on the grounds of guaranteeing security , diversity and competition — but in reality , guaranteeing nothing but higher electricity prices , a rapid abandonment of other fuel reserves , and reliance on as yet unproven overseas resources . ' |
| 18 | If the bat 's brain hears an echo from another bat 's cry , and attempts to incorporate it into the picture of the world that it has previously built up , it will make no sense . |
| 19 | As a result , the scheme is now to be permanent and there are plans to extend it to the Appold Street and Moorgate offices . |
| 20 | Mr Anderton said he was disappointed that he could not afford to keep Vaila , adding that various attempts had been made to interest public and environmental agencies to buy it for the enjoyment of the public . |
| 21 | Below in the valley the yellow lights of Hafpor 's truck jiggled up and down with his frantic efforts to ease it through the snow . |
| 22 | But so long as Mary of Guise 's position was upheld by her daughter , no amount of rhetoric could conceal the fact that in attacking the regent they were attacking the queen , and religious sincerity did not get them off the hook of treason ; thus , for example , when they seized the coining-irons of the mint in Edinburgh in July , it was an intelligent enough political and military act , but their efforts to justify it on the grounds that they were serving their country by stopping the regent 's debasement of the coinage rang all too hollow . |
| 23 | Straw Dogs managed to attract enough blood seekers to put it into the black at the box-office , but this disturbing tale of rural atrocities can scarcely have done much for the Cornish tourist industry . |
| 24 | During the early months of 1990 Avril 's response to the growing opposition had included attempts to suppress it through the imposition in January of a " state of siege " , followed by efforts to defuse it through the promise of free elections [ see p. 37182 ] . |
| 25 | Jukes could only parry May 's blockbuster at the foot of the post and the alert Deighan squared the ball back in for Steve Stairs to force it over the line . |
| 26 | A new treatment of volumes required , naturally , the invention or formulation of new techniques to reconcile it with the demands of the flat picture surface . |
| 27 | Once the exams were over I had the whole summer free in front of me and a host of new friends to pass it with the idea made me extremely happy . |
| 28 | Macnaghten J. dealt with the question whether the action is maintainable on the ground of the principle of Foakes v. Beer ( above , p.240 ) , to which I have referred , and he says : ‘ In the present case the jury , by their verdict , have found that on July 6 Mr. Kennard made an offer that if , on the following day , the plaintiff obtained the money and paid it into a bank at Eastbourne with instructions to remit it to the account of Stanley Evans & Co. at the Law Courts branch of the Bank of England , he would not serve the bankruptcy notice . |
| 29 | Only time will tell , but it will require a number of dedicated members to get it off the ground . |
| 30 | What has also developed is a kind of unofficial contest between himself and Warren Beatty which is all about women , i.e. , their famous conquests and their alleged insatiable quests to make it with the world 's most attractive women , or some alluring beauty either may have encountered in a bar or restaurant . |