Example sentences of "[prep] it [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year ago Japan held an international meeting on aid for Mongolia , which produced pledges amounting to some $120m in credits and aid , some of it emergency assistance to keep Mongolia 's lights on ( literally ) . |
| 2 | It is as if the creation of a regulatory bureaucracy carries with it implicit powers to achieve agency goals . |
| 3 | On the one hand are those adult educators who see in it exciting possibilities to extend the concept of adult learning , making it more relevant to the issues and problems facing ‘ disadvantaged ’ groups , helping them to participate more effectively in society , gaining more recognition and resources , removing gross inequalities and injustices . |
| 4 | Dealers who exhibit generally agree that the fair is successful commercially , has improved its standard in recent years , and look to it this year to test the general market for antiques and collectibles . |
| 5 | Remoteness is still the keynote of this region , but a Charlton reiving party would be hard put to it these days to work up a good gallop along the upper reaches of the North Tyne River . |
| 6 | Think of the difference it makes when you can look at programmes like that in the classroom on a video player : you can stop the programme at any point , you can go back and look at something again , you can choose to break it up into as many short sections as you want to and you can come back to it another day to refresh students ' memories . |
| 7 | You may set that as a target to try and work at it this way to overcome that or to do it better . |
| 8 | He fires at it three times to try and open it , but without success . |