Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is not the authors ' intention to give it this gloss .
2 The singer was following an old tradition of adapting the ceremony to give it contemporary relevance , adding to the festival 's famous ‘ four questions ’ about the meaning of Passover a new and troubling one .
3 It is also a blatant bid to have it both ways .
4 Mannheim 's relationism seemed to his detractors like a hollow promise , an attempt to have it both ways .
5 However , the future of its messy OSF/1-Ultrix-Open Desktop strategy is so unstable that even its own spokespeople were at a loss to explain it last week — ‘ it 's too early to say , ’ they conceded .
6 panel seeks to make that two million pounds , subject to the appropriate level of grants and borrow approvals and perhaps some assistance from within our own resources and elsewhere being budget , this is a , a firm intention to increase that figure , but we can not say it has been increased yet , to do so will be premature , but that I ask the committee to accept it this morning as a recommendation from the
7 Medirace needed a trading vehicle to give it some cashflow to stay in business .
8 The final stage was to roll her hair with Tech Ni Pli velcro rollers to give it extra fullness and shape .
9 The shaft needed to come through two bearings to give it that stability .
10 Dell has renegotiated an existing $200m revolving line of credit with a group of nine large banks led by Barclays Bank Plc to give it additional flexibility in using the funds .
11 She had no need to give it further emphasis , it could not have been clearer .
12 Bellini is soft to the touch , versatile and easy to wear , it is a blend of 45% Alpaca , 38% Pure Wool , 10% Kid Mohair with 7% man made fibre to give it extra strength and durability .
13 Seems I was right all the same , and if Harry 's got money to spare as he does n't know what to do with , then it 's not for us to deny his right to spend it any whichaway he pleases .
14 A computer programmer would almost certainly get a computer to do it that way , but I doubt whether the brain does .
15 I thought it was marvellous opportunity to do it that way , each subject held in a bay and in strictly chronological order .
16 A foal requires about one pint of colostrum to give it sufficient antibiotics to help fight neonatal infections .
17 To summarise , the problem was to build a machine that could examine enough positions in three minutes to give it some protection against the clumsiness of its evaluation functions .
18 It is to help the child develop sufficient self-discipline to save it future heartache .
19 In recent years there has been an improvement in the standard and a number of top athletes have appeared at the event to earn it some respectability .
20 Nevertheless , enough weight had been given by several sources to make it worthwhile checking .
21 CLIVE ALLEN sank Birmingham with a double strike to make it five goals in seven days as West Ham triumphed 3–1 at Upton Park .
22 A body needs at least two people to carry it any distance from a car , and it 's not easily disguised .
23 The meat from their Old Spots is succulent , free-range and in such demand that the Russells have enough orders to sell it four times over .
24 They are training people to do it that way , to batter people down . ’
25 They might have been refused by mainstream publishers or alternatively , and this is the more likely , they are making a positive choice to do it this way , since self-publication means that the writers can determine exactly what goes into their printed work .
26 The Government must now seek ways of strengthening the Union to ensure it continuing vitality , while showing appropriate sensitivity to the nationalistic sentiments stirred up by this election .
27 She had no idea what she wanted , but it was n't a licence to have it both ways .
28 There was to be full-blooded abolition of RPM and legislation to achieve it that session' .
29 PORTADOWN blitzed Ballymena to make it seven wins in seven games — and did n't play particularly well .
30 It rolled into a hollow and it took me half an hour to get it one yard back onto the road .
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