Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you can soften your water then it will be easy enough to acidify it using peat filtration ; if you do n't soften your water then the dissolved salts will buffer it back to neutral/alkaline as fast as you try to acidify it . |
| 2 | If you can soften your water then it will be easy enough to acidify it using peat filtration ; if you do n't soften your water then the dissolved salts will buffer it back to neutral/alkaline as fast as you try to acidify it . |
| 3 | After a demonstration of this bit of electronic wizardry called Aladin Pro , I was surprised to discover it used Professor Bühlmann 's tables as its basis and , as well as an instruction manual , it also came with a set of Bühlmann tables . |
| 4 | If your dog shows signs of behaving in this fashion then you will need to train it to ignore people who come close to the car . |
| 5 | So no longer do we have to struggle with Computer Co-ordination Section when the phone rings and we rush to answer it grabbing pen and paper . |
| 6 | By a notice of appeal dated 6 September 1991 the solicitors appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) under section 6(2) of the Act of 1986 the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of section 3 of the Act to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell and ( b ) under section 61(1) of the Act the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of any rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell ; ( 2 ) the court had no jurisdiction under sections 6(2) and 61(1) to award claims for compensation for loss against persons knowingly concerned in such contraventions in contrast to sections 6(3) to ( 7 ) and sections 61(3) to ( 7 ) ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) the power of the court under section 6(2) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention to take such steps as the court might direct for restoring the parties to the transaction to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into and ( b ) the power of the court under section 61(1) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention of the rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to take such steps as the court might direct to remedy it included power to make a financial award against such person directing payment by that person to individual investors of sums equivalent to the amounts paid by such investors pursuant to the said transaction , neither subsection empowering the court to order restitution by the repayment of moneys outside the possession or control of the person concerned ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law ( a ) in his construction of sections 6(2) and 61(1) in failing to have regard to the principle ‘ generalibus specialia derogant , ’ in particular in holding that there could exist within each of sections 6 and 61 two parallel powers to order financial redress at the suit of the plaintiff , one derived from sections 6(3) and 6(4) and sections 61(3) and 61(4) respectively , which was subject to the limitations set out in those and subsequent subsections , and the other derived from section 6(2) and section 61(1) , which was subject to no such limitations ; ( b ) in rejecting the submission that sections 6 and 61 were essentially procedural and did not create new substantive legal rights and remedies ; and ( c ) in failing to have regard to the fact that the orders sought under paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim required payment to the plaintiff or alternatively into court of moneys recovered thereunder from the solicitors despite the absence of any provisions for such orders in the Act , his dismissal of the summons being inconsistent with his finding that there was no provision in sections 6(2) or 61(1) directing payment into court and that any order under the sections would have to direct repayment of the sum paid to each individual investor who had made the original payment . |
| 7 | We 'd have to cross it to get water . ’ |
| 8 | The US House of Representatives approved on March 10 a US$4,100 million emergency spending bill containing US$650 million in aid for Israel to help it meet expenses caused by the Gulf war . |
| 9 | Cray Research Inc. in Minnesota , which has traditionally asked university scientists in the United States to help it to develop software , hopes to work with European scientists to develop specific software . |
| 10 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc is seeking a manufacturing partner to help it raise output of its Am486 chips next year . |
| 11 | It was also agreed at the summit that Peru should receive US$40,000,000 in aid from the other four Pact members to help it regain access to international credit lines . |
| 12 | In the meantime , a leading US food manufacturer is pressing for an exclusive deal with Staley to help it challenge rivals which already product diet cakes and desserts based on Simpless and other formulations . |
| 13 | On July 27 , 1989 , the Pakistani Minister of State for Finance , Ehsanul Haq Piracha , opening the third session of the Nepal-Pakistan Joint Economic Commission in Kathmandu , assured Nepal of support to help it overcome problems resulting from the trade blockade with India . |
| 14 | The USA released US$54,000,000 in aid to Nicaragua on Dec. 3 to assist the country 's economic stabilization and to help it to normalize relations with international financial institu-tions . |
| 15 | It would be sitting at the pictures if I could have the money to do it fill time . |
| 16 | The police did not prove any intent on the part of the possessor to use it to cause injury . |
| 17 | The last person to use it saw sparks fly . |
| 18 | We have been able to use it to take clients away for short term holiday respite breaks which have proved very successful . |
| 19 | Manufacturing workers were aware of this situation , and at times of dispute with their employers sometimes attempted to use it to gain support from the landed rate-payers who , correctly , believed that , compared with land , the assets of manufacturers were significantly under-assessed . |
| 20 | In 1987 the bank raised £700m in a rights issue , only to use it to make provisions of £1.02bn against sovereign debt , a move that pushed the Midland into its first ever loss . |
| 21 | The accused 's intention had to be considered to determine whether he wished to use it to inflict injury . |
| 22 | This is an undoubted problem , but to use it to preclude registration of a charge of shares in a subsidiary is to make the best the enemy of the better . |
| 23 | Do you need to use it to keep corals ( hard and soft ) , tubeworms , anemones , and the like alive ? |
| 24 | The editor of Les Colonies , however , seized on this statement , and in an editorial in the very last issue his paper was ever to publish , tried to use it to encourage people to stay in St Pierre . |
| 25 | Because he wanted to use it to locate carp and pike he was getting some fiery abuse . |
| 26 | For these women , regular 2 in 1 's often add to the problem , over-conditioning the hair to leave it looking lank and lifeless or stripping the hair of its natural oils , leaving it dry and brittle . |
| 27 | Between 1984 and 1988 Ford 's share of the European new car market fell from 13 per cent to 11.5 per cent , to leave it trailing Fiat , Volkswagen and Peugeot . |
| 28 | I put a big crust on the hook , dip it for a couple of seconds at the edge of the river to give it casting weight , and then swing it into the current . |
| 29 | To give it increased speed , but with better stability and fuel consumption . |
| 30 | As the Lord Chief Justice , Lord Taylor , commented in the 1992 Dimbleby lecture , British ratification of the convention obliges the Government in the end to accept it , but the refusal to incorporate it means acceptance occurs only after a decision in Strasbourg , much delay and eventual humiliation . |