Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had meant nothing at first , but then he had thought to try it as an entry code to some of the secret Ping Tiao computer networks he had discovered weeks before but had failed to penetrate . |
| 2 | The ancient Forest system was in fact cumbrous and inefficient : the attempt to revive it as an instrument of Crown policy was doomed to failure . |
| 3 | However , the firm made a mistake in buying up the Laker Holidays label and trying to revive it in an effort to diversify its operating base . |
| 4 | There are a number of major problems with this interpretation of events , however , which makes it difficult to accept it as an entirely adequate explanation . |
| 5 | Well that shows us what a dramatist was lost to the English stage when Milton finally decided to write it as an epic and not as a play . |
| 6 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 7 | The headlamp picked out a cat streaking towards a wall , and a child without shoes between the shafts of a wooden cart , straining to pull it into an alleyway , and both images were gone in an instant , drowned in darkness as the bike sped past , the road a triangle of bright water as they rode the glittering breakers of the tramlines and swerved to the kerb of the Commercial Hotel . |
| 8 | Operational deposits make up approximately a fifth of bankers ' balances held at the bank , the remainder being made up of non-interest bearing cash deposits that banks are required to keep at the Bank of England to provide it with an income . |
| 9 | Greenwich had begun producing a return on the money spent to launch it as an astronomical and nautical centre well before that : in the early eighteenth century French charts were still better than any others , but the table of wind movements , trade winds , and monsoons that Halley published in 1686 was a great help to navigation . |
| 10 | Local education and information campaigns , though well-meaning , have proved of dubious value in prevention terms , although it is sensible to educate local youth workers , school teachers , probation officers and the primary care team to recognize the problem and be able to tackle it in an informed way . |
| 11 | Seen in this gallery context it invites us to view it as an individual 's response to a constructed drama . |
| 12 | It stigmatises the conduct , which is important if the public is to view it with an appropriate degree of revulsion . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm going to exhibit it in an art gallery in Paris soon . ’ |
| 14 | This includes activities undertaken by individuals to prevent disease or to detect it in an asymptomatic state . |
| 15 | This defect , considered in conjunction with those exposed in earlier pages , ought to disqualify it as an instrument of electoral reform . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In November 1940 the Vichy government abolished the ineffective Commission de Châlons , intending to replace it with an organisation called Le Bureau de Repartition du Vinicole de Champagne , but in April the following year the Germans set up the CIVC . |
| 18 | Demands to abandon an existing shibboleth in order to replace it with an even older one . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In some West Indian islands a yacht arriving without one will be confronted with a customs officer producing a rolled-up flag from his pocket and offering to sell it at an inflated price in an atmosphere of thinly disguised pressure . |
| 21 | Where the value of the intangible asset is at an all-time low , it may be possible to sell it to an IOFC operation and realise a capital loss in the selling location . |
| 22 | You may feed safer watching nature at second hand on the television , and would find it hard to rough it in an uncharted forest . |
| 23 | Should you wish to paint hardwood for the first time , it will be necessary to coat it with an aluminium primer . |
| 24 | It is easy to have an opinion about a moral issue like capital punishment , but if you were to discuss it in an essay you would usually have to give your reasons . |
| 25 | You will receive a copy of the report and have the opportunity to discuss it in an interview . |
| 26 | A sense of loss of identity causes the voyager to project what he or she encounters so as to perceive it as an external phenomenon , and also to introject elements of the familiar world in order to recreate a recognizable context . |
| 27 | There he found the greatest novelty of all : a twenty-eight-day dial that showed the phases of the moon — at least , it had been the moon when Nora bought the watch but she had got a miniaturist to overpaint it with an enamel portrait of herself . |
| 28 | This was folded and stored in a paper envelope for nearly a hundred years , and the creases make it very unlikely we shall ever be able to play it on an original machine . |
| 29 | Perhaps I would n't want to do it before an audience but then I 've never performed for others . |
| 30 | But Qaddafi 's promise to abolish the state was not a policy in this sense : it was a promise to change the structure of political activity , and to do it in an area over which sovereigns have more or less complete control . |