Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The history of attempts to control and regulate corporate crimes does not give much cause for optimism , and indeed the idea of it reduces radicals to knowing laughter . |
| 2 | The department co-operates with Oxford Brookes University in teaching a new Master 's course in Historic Conservation ; the course is modular in form , and part of it entitles students to a certificate awarded by the department . |
| 3 | That was all he could say for quite a time ; but when he had recovered his confidence he said a lot more , all of it expressing gratitude to Sheila for her quick thinking and great pluck and shame for his own and Chuck 's roughness with her earlier . |
| 4 | The moon , the mountains , the man — himself — standing there in the darkness : none of it made sense to him . |
| 5 | Most of it happened thanks to tireless negotiations with opera houses , TV crews and recording companies in the west , but it has not so far turned out to be anything like a pact with the devil . |
| 6 | The EOC reports that it was apparent that the Society 's mobility requirement and a candidate 's ability to comply with it gave rise to both direct and indirect discrimination . |
| 7 | Fortunately , the German spirit that found expression in the Reformation , and with it gave rise to the first German music , has never yet fully lost itself in the dominant Alexandrianism . |
| 8 | The most frequently quoted definition of non-natural user is that given by the Judicial Committee in Rickards v. Lothian , ‘ It must be some special use bringing with it increased danger to others and must not merely be the ordinary use of the land or such a use as is proper for the general benefit of the community . ’ |
| 9 | Ray Floyd , having dumped his ball in it to help Faldo to the second of his titles , would not deem it so . |
| 10 | In addition , trouble threatened from the mercurial figure of Winston Churchill , who had resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in January 1931 in protest at Baldwin 's acceptance of eventual self-government for India , an issue which threatened to be an explosive one for the Conservative party , since it allied Churchill to the fourth source of discontent : the Diehard element , also strongly represented amongst the grass roots of the party . |
| 11 | It is not for the circumstance to give rise to something or other , but for it to give rise to just the effect . |
| 12 | I hold another creed , which no one ever taught me and which I seldom mention , but in which I delight and to which I cling , for it extends hope to all , it makes eternity a rest a mighty home , not a terror and an abyss . |
| 13 | Elections to the 450-seat National Assembly were postponed following the Assembly 's decision on July 5 to extend its five-year mandate by a further year , in order to provide more time for it to study improvements to the one-party state . |
| 14 | If you are thinking about it talking person to person remember the guy on the building site remember the woman who 's pregnant and trying to sell insurance and getting him to he should have been securing his family welfare and so on . |
| 15 | In the nations around it marked admission to adult status in the tribe . |