Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Namibian government has turned to South Africa to help it prevent illegal fishing in its territorial waters . |
| 2 | SunPro , Sun Microsystems Inc 's software development operation , is bringing in Russian software expertise to help it develop compiler-level products which will improve the performance of applications running on Sparc RISC-based systems . |
| 3 | Well Mike used to do it like that |
| 4 | What the company has also been at pains to do it allow local input into its products . |
| 5 | All the people that I 've seen trying to do it have all my sympathy , because I know what they 've been going through . |
| 6 | There was a moment of sudden realisation that we 'd spent four months raising this cash and we were not going to let it go that easily . |
| 7 | He says , well , it 's your job not to let it go wrong , I said , I did n't let it go wrong . |
| 8 | It 's a sophisticated kind of machine and , like a machine , you ca n't afford to let it get rusty or it 'll seize up . ’ |
| 9 | It is regrettable that there is pressure on Europe 's farmers to take agricultural land out of production , even to let it lie fallow . |
| 10 | We would like to see it encompass these and other elements so as to allow every farmer in Wales an opportunity to volunteer a package of agri-environmental commitments drawn from a broad menu of approved activities , as the basis for a negotiated , long term , grant-aid agreement . ’ |
| 11 | And Alfred P Sloan , who pioneered decentralization at General Motors in the early 1920s , lived to see it become international corporate practice by the time he published his best-selling memoirs in 1964 . |
| 12 | I needed my own fairy-tale — my own legend — and to see it come true . |
| 13 | Carnelian must know special runes to inscribe around the eye-screen and arcane litanies to incant , to make it serve this two-way purpose , which perhaps had been the true purpose of the device in the first place … |
| 14 | Identify what you want it to do , learn how to make it do that , ignore everything else . |
| 15 | First he sketched an arabesque design on the dress in white to make it appear décolleté , then he covered her dress with magnificent , multi-coloured flowers and finally sprayed his design with fixative . |
| 16 | The shape of this 30ft by 45ft design seemed to make it appear wider and not all features could be seen at first glance . |
| 17 | A statement may be made in writing , orally or even by contract , for example , by making the goods tell a lie about themselves as in the case where the seller patched up a crack in the barrel of a cannon so as to make it appear unfractured , Horsfall v. Thomas ( 1862 ) . |
| 18 | So I think they 're right to be suspicious , and it 's right for those people who feel they have a role it 's up to them to make it appear interesting and to show them the relevance . |
| 19 | Instead of trying to break up the real shape of the animal , it attempts to make it appear flatter than it is . |
| 20 | As it happens , the bass part has been designed so that the result is relatively consonant and relaxed , but it would have been equally easy ( as we have shown above ) to make it contribute more dissonance and tension : |
| 21 | To make it sit still , sit up and oblige , because it is smaller than you and you can compel it , is unkind . |
| 22 | Wanting someone , like he wanted Kelly Connor , was no novelty to Jack — hardly a day passed when it did n't happen to him — but a quick telephone call and a Suzi or a Debra , one of his sexual Samaritans , would be there to make it feel better . |
| 23 | ‘ Do you think God would give me the vision and no way to make it come true ? |
| 24 | I mean if you belong to a church you do something to make it look tidy do n't you ? |
| 25 | ‘ I 've got quite a lot of hair but it 's fine so , to make it look good , I need to spend a great deal of effort on it . |
| 26 | I staggered back , partly to make it look good on the off chance there was somebody watching and partly because letting go of the winch had put me off balance . |
| 27 | miles away , off campus , you know , they have n't got to make it look good |
| 28 | And when the pair went to a recent wedding , Sir Charles spray-painted an old gran 's hat for Lady Jeannie to make it look new . |
| 29 | The trick apparently is to make it look ordinary without it actually being so . |
| 30 | I love the songs they write for me and I try to make it look that way in the style in which I deliver it , ’ she added modestly . |