Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This includes activities undertaken by individuals to prevent disease or to detect it in an asymptomatic state . |
| 2 | It is difficult to speak of popular religion or to define it in a satisfactory way , because it included an amalgam of magic and superstition , belief and doubt , the pagan and the Christian . |
| 3 | In any event the presumption is rebuttable and will be fairly easily rebutted where a developer needs to retain ownership of the road in order to build it or to dedicate it as a public highway . |
| 4 | Advance comprises five distinct components and a firm has the option either to mix and match certain elements or to use it as a complete package , thereby effectively outsourcing all of its software functions . |
| 5 | Ms. Quant confided to delegates that she often jollied Plunkett ( her husband , entrepreneur Alexander Plunkett-Green ) into helping her dye her pubic hair some fantasy shade , or to trim it to a neat heart shape . |
| 6 | In the early 1970s an organization was established to govern karate on a world scale and to promote it as a new and fascinating sport . |
| 7 | This enabled us to calculate the ratio of cortex to ganglion cells for the region enclosed within the labelled sites and to compare it with the same ratio obtained for the rest of the retina . |
| 8 | Two men climb the rock to check that all has been eaten and to clean it for the next burial . |
| 9 | Essentially , the committee had agreed to disband COMECON altogether , and to replace it with a new body , to be known as the Organization for International Economic Co-operation ( OIEC ) . |
| 10 | There was also controversy over the Commission 's plans to abolish the zero rating of intra-EC exports with effect from January 1993 , and to replace it with a complex system of approximation under which a central clearing house would apportion VAT payments between the countries involved in a transaction . |
| 11 | The aim was , through the conjunction of good quality paper and inks , to eliminate a certain deadness and flatness inherent in the lithographic process and to replace it with a velvety depth and richness of colouring often lacking in English lithography . |
| 12 | It is nothing more nor less than a determined effort by an immensely powerful bureaucracy to silence independent opinion , and to replace it with a censored , frequently biased , and increasingly bland official view of the state of British tennis today . |
| 13 | The government has said nothing about the need to end the fiction of self regulation and to replace it with an efficient and effective and cheaper direct regulation . |
| 14 | The aim here is to look at its political and social repercussions and to set it in the wider context of central-local administrative relations . |
| 15 | This is the time to know how fear works and to tackle it in the right way . |
| 16 | Given the habit of The Times to diagnose working-class violence as a deterioration of the national character , and to equate it with a Southern ‘ hot-blooded ’ temperament , this was an intriguing turnabout on the racial origins of upper-class ruffianism . |
| 17 | It is hoped that readers will feel able to draw on the ideas presented to develop the work further and to apply it to a wider range of contexts . |
| 18 | Very significant was the movement by ecologists towards trophic-dynamic ecology which was developed by Lindeman in a classic paper published in 1942 which built upon earlier conceptual frameworks and treated natural ecosystems on the basis of the capacity of their primary producers ( photosynthetic plants ) to capture part of the incident solar and atmospheric energy , and to incorporate it into the dry organic matter that would subsequently yield it to the grazing and decay food webs . |
| 19 | The Bolsheviks were merciless in their attack on the government for frustrating the movement for self-determination , which they interpreted as the right to secede , to create a new State , and to do it through the direct action of the peoples concerned without awaiting the approval of the central Government . |
| 20 | On present thinking , it would be more logical to treat it as revision and to do it at the later stage . |
| 21 | ‘ I want to fight for the world title and to do it against a fellow Brit would be just great . |
| 22 | A man has a right to take credit for past success and to attribute it to the real cause . |
| 23 | In effect the people working in the industry were to take it over and to run it as an industrial co-operative , organised nationally . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The autocracy undertook to guarantee full civil liberty , to give major legislative powers to the promised assembly ( the State Duma ) , and to base it upon a broad franchise . |
| 26 | It is more important for them to defer their childbearing and to compress it into a short space of time in their married life . |
| 27 | For when God freely wills to take on Himself the world 's suffering , He does so in order to absorb it , to transform it and to overcome it by the positive power of His eternal and unchanging love . |
| 28 | Our aim is to bring together work in these areas , and to direct it towards the specific problem of global warming . |
| 29 | do n't let's , do n't let's try and assume the , all we 're , all we 're trying to do is to gather together the bit that we can put into the pot , and to present it in a logical fashion , to say , if this , then we belief that , and if that , then we believe the other , |
| 30 | Baldwin , with a glowering Churchill beside him and uncertain followers behind him , took the opportunity to pay a notable tribute to the Viceroy and to end it on a curious note , half petulant , half menacing : ‘ I will only add that if ever the day comes when the party which I lead ceases to attract to itself men of the calibre of Edward Wood , then I have finished with my party . ’ |