Example sentences of "it [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the infinitive evokes the effect , to represent it as a mere result produced on the patient implies representing it as coming after the operation of producing this effect ( = the making ) , whence the use of to express the before/after relationship between the two events . |
| 2 | Positive form can be introduced into any polygon or polyhedron by regarding it as a closed skin subjected to internal expansion . |
| 3 | ‘ PDAG passed a motion opposing the Government 's decision to abolish it as a democratic forum involved in education and the transfer its work to Government quangos , ’ said society education spokesman , Ffred Ffransis . |
| 4 | Kaplan explains that the primary impetus to his project was the sense that modern interpretations of the Adagietto have strayed from the composer 's intentions with regard to what he calls ‘ the current fashion of treating it as a sombre movement played at a funereal pace . ’ |
| 5 | It is of course difficult to ‘ police ’ this objection , and there is a certain ambivalence in the attitude of some countries ; recognising the usefulness of postal service , they welcome it as a supplementary method designed to back up the ‘ official ’ service effected in other ways , but are unhappy to see the postal channel treated as appropriate or sufficient in itself . |
| 6 | So strong was this hankering for the Gothic and everything that went with it that many of them refused even to look at nature first-hand , but looked at it through a special lens called a Claude-glass , Claude being a French painter of the Gothic who designed his glass especially for looking at ancient ruins and alpine chasms . |
| 7 | 1001 Ways to Save the Planet deserves to experience the irony of being consumed in vast quantities — and it 's interesting that Penguin has been willing to launch it towards a mass readership sheathed in a determinedly dowdy recycled cover . |
| 8 | Yes , it 's not , they 've turned it into a total university trained job erm , people have n't given award . |
| 9 | And when you 've sorted , selected and decided which information you need for which purpose — a partial summary of the file , a form , letter or an invoice ; anything really — you put it into a standardized layout called a ‘ report ’ . |
| 10 | Anyway , they unloaded the sculpture with reverence , popped it into a transparent showcase filled with the right gases , made a number of loud noises expressing awe and admiration , and wheeled it away without having noticed a thing . |
| 11 | To counteract such baneful influence , they should be removed from it into an educational programme designed to instil a proper sense of their place in society , of the duties attached to it and of the importance of attending to the teachings of the established Church . |
| 12 | It was heavy to get on board singlehanded , but I 'd worked out a good method of lifting it with a spare halliard fitted with a simple purchase . |
| 13 | He erased all the existing data and replaced it with a single line written in capital letters : TO BE TERMINATED AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF JAMEL MOBUTO . |
| 14 | Twenty years later , after including a pledge to abolish the Lords in the 1983 manifesto and dropping it from the 1987 manifesto , the Labour party again committed itself to reform of the Lords : now they planned to replace it with an elected chamber designed more to reflect the diversity of the nation and the regions , but with less legislative power . |
| 15 | The aim , therefore , is to choose the import restriction that would be consistent with the tariff-induced outcome , i.e. the strategic outcome , and compare it with the actual quota imposed by the UK government . |
| 16 | Opportunities are provided to appraise academic theory and integrate it with the practical skills required of graduates in professional situations . |
| 17 | So , although this perspective still has much to teach us , we shall subsequently be combining it with the broader explanations offered by later urban social theorists . |
| 18 | Although providing a degree of flexibility to cope with ground settlement , this type of joint tended to leak and a cement filling was added to it with the whole pipe laid on a bed of concrete carried up the sides . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In accordance with powers made available to it under the new Constitution enacted in July 1991 [ see p. 38332 ] , the government issued a decree on April 23 placing the entire country under a state of emergency for four days to combat a serious energy shortage . |
| 21 | Accordingly , we wrap it up in a little computer procedure , label it DEVELOPMENT , and prepare to embed it in a larger program labelled EVOLUTION . |
| 22 | A lot has been said already in the English-speaking world about poststructuralism and politics , much of it in the accusatory mode voiced from the opposing class-based verities of ‘ tradition ’ or ‘ History ’ . |
| 23 | To take advantage of this important Plan all you have to do is complete the enclosed application form , and return it in the reply-paid envelope provided . |
| 24 | To take advantage of this important Plan all you have to do is complete the enclosed Application Form and return it in the reply-paid envelope provided , or if you prefer , ring 0752 600400 for immediate cover . |
| 25 | To join , just complete the simple Enrolment Form enclosed and return it in the pre-paid envelope provided . |
| 26 | So I used a large plastic storage box , and filled it with rooted but loose watercress and placed it in the main pool fed by the return flow from a gravity-fed filter . |
| 27 | For the sake of clarity , and since its fate is fundamental to what happened later , I have tried to omit my interruptions and the questions which demanded answers , and reduce it to a simple account based on the facts that Alec Reid told me . |
| 28 | In a lecture which he delivered before completing the poem , he had described the " unity " of " English letters of the past " and related it to a recognizable entity called European literature " . |
| 29 | There 's at least one track from all eight albums , and two tracks are from a live album , so I gave it to a wonderful guy called Jonathan Downs from the Fan Club , who knows an awful lot that I 'd forgotten myself , or never even knew ! |
| 30 | Without speaking , Massingham took the next turning to the left and drove toward– it down a narrow road bordered on each side by a terrace of small houses . |