Example sentences of "[verb] it [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , as M. Dupin stresses more than once in his book , all types of genuine Gruyère cheese should be cut into little pieces for cooking , never on any account grated , a procedure which causes it to form sticky masses rather than the long creamy threads which constitute one of its essential characteristics — a characteristic considered especially important when it comes to the soupe au fromage of the eastern French provinces , that same soup which , transmogrified into the onion soup of the Paris all-night bistros , has now found its way into packets labelled la soupe au fromage instantanée . |
| 2 | If a government , using its majority in Parliament , passes appropriate laws empowering it to do specified acts , are its activities thereby rendered legitimate because they are done in accordance with the law , regardless of how oppressive or repugnant those laws might be ? |
| 3 | The tribe of a successful Warlord will tend to grow in size and power , enabling it to fight other tribes or invade the realms of Men . |
| 4 | Within the union , therefore , Scargill 's call was for solidarity , for those with more readily-guaranteed futures to support other miners ' prospects which were less bright , especially so if the NCB could capitalize on splits and other weaknesses within the NUM , thereby enabling it to isolate vulnerable areas . |
| 5 | Sentencing the two men , Judge Richard May said he was bearing in mind that the defendants had n't put the money in their own pockets or used it to support expensive lifestyles . |
| 6 | Its articulated design allows it to negotiate sharp curves and it arrived at Brecon in Spring 1986 after its Indian home line closed the year before . |
| 7 | Independence allows it to try new parts that others may not be able to play . |
| 8 | IDB Communications Group Inc reports that its IDB Worldcom unit , yesterday announced that it had signed a correspondent operating agreement with British Telecommunications Plc which allows it to provide international services to the UK ; IDB is in process of acquiring TRT , which took over the resale of capacity on the British Post Office 's phone network from National Networks Ltd . |
| 9 | We do n't expect it to cause any problems , and we will still be meeting him for talks some time over the next couple of days . ’ |
| 10 | Director of OEM and technology licensing for IBM 's advanced workstations and systems division , Lucian Bifano said ‘ Since the [ PowerPC ] agreement with Motorola and Apple 18 months ago , we speculated on who would be the first to market with a product ; we certainly did not expect it to come four months after our October announcement of the first silicon ’ . |
| 11 | Since founding the chain in 1988 he has expanded it to include 17 concessions in Debenhams department stores and 20 high street shops . |
| 12 | The beauty with a scalable operating system , believes Gregory , is that Ready can take a single technology and adopt it to suit any requirements . |
| 13 | The insecticide is carried in a very penetrating light oil but it is nor fair to expect it to penetrate heavy deposits of dust , dirt and cobwebs before it reaches the timber . |
| 14 | He knows that it is his business to contribute something of his own to this store of experience ; and that he should play his part in moulding it and improving it to meet changing conditions . |
| 15 | She knocked on a second door and opened it to reveal twenty children of about Flora 's age at old-fashioned desks with inkwells sunk into the top right-hand corners of the lids . |
| 16 | You can use it to shoot heavy balls of metal from large guns . |
| 17 | Mobile users can only use it to make outgoing calls , and must be near one of the 8,000-plus Rabbit base stations dotted across the country . |
| 18 | The reason this conclusion is objectionable is because the locution ‘ X has authority to pass laws of kind X ’ indicates in most contexts that X has the authority to issue such laws in order to use it to make such laws . |
| 19 | The ministry source noted several possible scenarios , from the sale of individual divisions of Bull , which would enable it to eliminate unprofitable activities , to the taking on board of new investors , to the complete dismantling of the French computer maker . |
| 20 | Demand for the service is 25pc higher than expected and the company has bought a new aircraft which will enable it to run extra flights . |
| 21 | The PLA won enough seats to give it a two-thirds majority in the 250-member People 's Assembly , which would enable it to make constitutional changes without the support of other parties . |
| 22 | But another charity , The Knights of St Columba , has stepped in to put unsold stock to good use by sending it to help needy families in Poland . |
| 23 | The Adventist Development and Relief Agency ( ADRA ) in conjunction with Si Sa Ket Hospital , have taken a popular local medium — a combination of dance , drama and song called ‘ moh lam ’ — and adapted it to convey educational messages . |
| 24 | The next stage will be to put that ‘ judgemental ability ’ into a computer , teaching it to make intelligent guesses about events on the battlefield . |
| 25 | It was Christmas Eve and , during the interval in Coriolanus that night , he put the bird in the oven , expecting it to take fourteen hours to cook . |
| 26 | Sarcasm does not become you , dear readers , but I will permit it to enter these columns on just this one occasion . |
| 27 | Will he undertake to include the insurance industry in his fight against car crime and encourage it to give financial incentives by way of lower premiums to owners who improve the security of their vehicles ? |
| 28 | By cutting the stems back hard , you will encourage it to produce new shoots from low down . |
| 29 | where we were starting from and I think it would be valuable to do what we started doing and actually to look at this as the baseline and decide how we might amend it to keep common factors in that we can all use , because we need something that has a common denominator level |
| 30 | We 're not doing it to compensate Social Services |