Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] it [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a person wishes to give up his physical integrity in certain circumstances , or to risk it for the sake of sport or excitement , should the criminal law allow the consent to negative what would otherwise be a crime ? |
| 2 | The right thing is for the two counties to get together and to make a joint decision and , if necessary , to have a public inquiry or to leave it to the Minister to call the scheme in if he is not satisfied . |
| 3 | As long as people find the Christian story good there is reason to believe in it , or to believe it with the exception of some of the more minor matters such as virgin birth or the creation stories which they have had to decide are untrue ( or only symbolically true ) . |
| 4 | Plant in late spring , and clip in mid-spring if required to be grown formally as edging , or to keep it within the space available . |
| 5 | Even in making oneself more aware in preparation for a choice , it will be enough that one can identify which would be the relatively stronger inclination in the fullest attainable awareness ; there will be no need to experience it in its full intensity or to prolong it after the choice . |
| 6 | For example , a disabled plaintiff may require a motor car equipped with special devices to enable him to get in and out of it or to control it on the road . |
| 7 | ‘ If you are still not satisfied after that you can threaten to issue a court summons or to take it to the ombudsman . ’ |
| 8 | Some may choose to neglect their health or to trade it for the freedom to do other things , as does the business executive who opts for a stressful way of life in pursuit of material success . |
| 9 | She wanted to find the solution to the mystery on her own and to flourish it beneath the noses of those who had doubted her ability — or her right — to do so . |
| 10 | His aims are thus established from the outset both to record the evidence he has gathered and to evaluate it for the purposes of determining the truth . |
| 11 | They will wish to examine it in ways contemporary users do not need to and to analyze it in the context of other datasets . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Watch out for copyright laws ; no studio will copy a track from a record without written permission from the Record Co , and to play it on the day you may need a licence from the Performing Rights Society . |
| 14 | It is convenient to limit considered choice to humans , assuming a definition of ‘ consider ’ which requires the operation of verbal or other symbols , and to use it as the criterion for distinguishing the deliberate from the spontaneous . |
| 15 | So we 're definitely agreed that we ask the Town Clerk to make those two contacts and to put it on the agenda for the Planning Committee ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It must be possible to receive this material in the format agreed with ICC and to read it into the system without delay . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You will probably be relieved to hear that you 're not expected to memorize that table and to regurgitate it in the exam . |
| 20 | At this point you should elicit related forms ; for example , the plurals of nouns in Arabic are not predictable , so it is useful to elicit the plural of every new noun learnt and to add it to the dictionary entry for that word . |
| 21 | But to take some fact that a novelist has written of and to add it to the mishmash at the back of your mind and then to reproduce it as part of the web you eventually weave : this is the process of creation . |
| 22 | To help clear anxiety and to get it into the open , to put on record and share responsibility . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | To wrench the earth from the sublunar region and to place it among the planets was to violate the entire cosmos . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Its inhabitants liked to call it the Woldopolis and to regard it as the hub of life in that part of the East Riding . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is then argued , that , this being so , there is no consideration for the agreement at all , and that it is an agreement for a voluntary gift on certain conditions ; but , looking at the agreement , we find , not a mere proviso , but an express agreement by the plaintiff to pay £1 towards a certain ground-rent , which apparently has been for the first time apportioned , and to pay it to the defendant , who is , I presume , liable to the whole ground-rent . |
| 29 | The greater the external control , the greater will be the tendency of the internals to centralize power , to standardize and to formalize it within the organization . |
| 30 | He was in a position to adjust his price to maximise potential gain for the firm , and to minimise it for the client . |