Example sentences of "[verb] it [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would n't know it to watch the locals , but seatbelts are compulsory here and it really is advisable to buckle up as some of the mountain roads require skilful manoeuvring ! |
| 2 | At the consecration of every bishop the prognosis for his ministry is taken by laying the Gospels upon his shoulders , and opening it to read the line decreed . |
| 3 | The air waybill is not a full fledged document of title because the consignee does not need it to obtain the goods from the carrier . |
| 4 | BRITISH Aerospace has agreed terms for repaying more than £40m in ‘ sweeteners ’ offered by the Government to encourage it to buy the Rover car company in 1988 , it has been announced . |
| 5 | East Germans expect it to scrap the security police wing while shifting its intelligence work to the interior ministry or a new agency . |
| 6 | The Gift Of Song is being released on June 7 , the start of National Housing Week , and organisers expect it to top the compilation album charts . |
| 7 | To ensure an even finish , place a board over them and tap it to level the cobbles . |
| 8 | In addition , registration operates to protect the security holder by providing him with a certain degree of protection as to the validity and priority of his charge once it is registered ; this in turn benefits the company by enabling it to give the chargee the guarantee of such protection . |
| 9 | For the first time a British government has established a mechanism enabling it to determine the content and purposes of education along broadly similar lines to other Western European democracies . |
| 10 | Missouri Botanical Garden has agreed a debt-for-nature swap with a French bank , enabling it to double the amount of money available for botanical research in Madagascar . |
| 11 | In California , blackberry bushes are kept in some vineyards to provide a secondary host for a parasite , enabling it to survive the winter . |
| 12 | Taking their lead from Marx 's classic account ( 1926 ) of the regime of Louis Bonaparte , writers ( e.g. Miliband 1984 ; Ferner 1983 ) have argued that stalemate between classes or fractions of classes gives the state abnormal freedom of action , loosening the impact of the usual structural constraints and enabling it to prevent the interests of civil society from being expressed . |
| 13 | The evangelist Leighton Ford , who told me this story some years ago , used it to illustrate the fear of many churches of the evangelist coming in and bringing all kinds of disturbing , unsavoury characters into the church . |
| 14 | I personally registered my version of Frombat and used it to create the Transend Menu Program , issued with every Shareware disc , and the Transend Catalogue which only took 3 hours to write . |
| 15 | The older woman pulled out a tray of handguns , and used it to push the glasses and drinks off the bar . |
| 16 | She also used it to put the fires out . |
| 17 | Unfortunately the church was despoiled of its marble wall covering in the fifteenth century when Alberti used it to enrich the Cathedral of Rimini . |
| 18 | But he said Cardow ‘ had come armed with a lethal weapon and used it to penetrate the deceased 's body nine times . ’ |
| 19 | The American biologist Garrett Hardin used it to summarize the message of what may be called ‘ sociobiology ’ or ‘ selfish genery ’ . |
| 20 | The aircraft was sold then to Francisco Sarabia , who used it to break the Mexico City to New York record in 1938 . |
| 21 | Brenner used it to identify the relations between macroeconomic variables and the measures of national health during the economic cycles that took place in the course of several decades . |
| 22 | Perhaps only William Joyce could have taken for his text , as he once did , Edmund Burke 's axiom , ‘ In politics magnanimity is often the truest wisdom ’ — and promptly used it to show the necessity for the extinction of Jewry . |
| 23 | The Christian Democrats used it to win the votes of farmers . |
| 24 | The electorate took a dim view of this practice when the government used it to get the consumption tax through in December . |
| 25 | tried it to remember the script but then I |
| 26 | So late in the second set , she walked across the scoreboard and changed it to show the match going in her favour . |
| 27 | I want it to have the money for the investment that it needs to build the phone service that we require for the 1990s . |
| 28 | Thurso my readers will have heard much about , at the time when his Royal Highness visited it to open the Exhibition there in the autumn of 1876 . |
| 29 | Whilst it may be that the approach favoured by Lord Diplock is more conceptually correct , it would be safer for the drafter to assume that , in the event of challenge to the clause , the court will adopt an interpretation which allows it to subject the clause to scrutiny . |
| 30 | It does this through a special adaptation that allows it to adjust the concentration of its blood . |