Example sentences of "and [to-vb] it [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I want to fight for the world title and to do it against a fellow Brit would be just great . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is more important for them to defer their childbearing and to compress it into a short space of time in their married life . |
| 11 | 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 , |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | The proposal is to mine the lignite and to burn it at a mine-mouth power station , probably near the Crumlin deposit . |