Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] it [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where guidance is required , it is possible to obtain it on points 1 and 2 from the relevant ( many excellent ) texts on contract and commercial law and on point 4 from some of the texts on general drafting . |
| 2 | These quotations hint at a number of important dimensions to policing in Northern Ireland : that policemen and women in the RUC have common-sense conceptualizations of their role , with some defining it in terms of community service ; that they have sets of standardized guide-lines , what Schutz ( 1967 ) calls ‘ recipes ’ , appropriate for the situations they handle ; that they make , and try to maintain , a distinction between work and leisure ; and that they employ various distancing strategies to cope with the demands of their job . |
| 3 | While most people enjoy fiddling with this latter-day Rubik 's cube , some take it to extremes . |
| 4 | Those patients with a good postoperative result ‘ maintained it for many years , gained occupationally and vocationally , were pleased with the results of the operation , and were willing to recommend it to others ’ . |
| 5 | In 1967 the owner of the Manor , Miss Dorothy Higgins , gifted it to the Alford Civic Trust who have since done much to restore it after years of neglect . |
| 6 | It would have been impossible to circle it with police . |
| 7 | The assembly passed it to presbyteries and they in turn passed it on through their billets to ministers who in turn were supposed to pass it to sessions and it was supposed to be discussed at session level and turned down to ordinary congregations . |
| 8 | The Swedes recently came to the conclusion that government should not be involved in waste management at all , since that requires it to police itself . |
| 9 | The premise on which African governments worked was that if capital could not be had on highly concessional terms it was better to accept it on terms more or less defined by the donors . |
| 10 | Poor torn it to bits cor . |
| 11 | If we are to speak meaningfully in terms of membership it is probably better to define it in terms of communicant or active membership . |
| 12 | She says ; They all do it on bikes on the high wire so he wanted to do something different so he went and put shopping baskets on his feet . |
| 13 | But it is much more useful to explain it in terms of interactions between pistons , cylinders and sparking plugs . |
| 14 | Far better to take it in stages , to concentrate purely on the shortest of short-term problems . |
| 15 | I have been unable to see it with binoculars , though keener-eyed observers may be more successful . |
| 16 | Erm the geometry one that we did n't look at , you might be able to spot it in minutes , |
| 17 | The colour is obvious with a telescope , but I confess that I have never been able to detect it with binoculars , even × 20 . |
| 18 | Every object in these paintings is separated from those surrounding it by layers of tactile , visible space which enable the spectator 's eye to reach from one part of the canvas to another , from one object to another , by a series of clearly defined pictorial passages . |
| 19 | Towards the end of his life , assessing the course of events in India , Irwin did write that ‘ Though they might not have been able to put it into words ’ , the British people had realized |
| 20 | In order to facilitate consideration of the national court 's question ( 2 ) it appears advisable to divide it into sections depending on whether it relates to the nationality or the place of residence of the owners and operators ( ‘ operator ’ covers charterers , managers or operators within the meaning of section 14(1) ( c ) of the Act of 1988 ) , or to the place from which the vessel is operated , and hence to reformulate it as follows : |
| 21 | Sometimes he thought that she regarded his affairs with a casual , slightly amused indulgence as if , herself immune to a childish weakness , she was nevertheless indisposed to criticize it in others . |
| 22 | They like their subject , and want nothing more than to be left alone to teach it to groups of pupils who want to learn it . |
| 23 | But this very recent AI work suggests that the bird might be able to perceive the shape of a stickleback despite being unable to represent it in terms of high-level concepts . |
| 24 | How could she have brought herself to think such a thing , let alone put it into words — let alone threaten me ! |
| 25 | It is not fair to have a dog if you are unable to take it for walks — even a small lap dog . |
| 26 | It followed the line of the narrow belt of Purbeck ‘ marble ’ to Peveril , where the Romans first used it for monuments such as the inscribed memorials discovered at Silchester and Colchester . |
| 27 | Having acquired the eastern coast of the Black Sea from the Turks , they found that forts were insufficient to protect it against raids from the interior . |
| 28 | Doubts have been cast on this interpretation , but insufficient evidence is available to reassess it in terms of the more typical two-phase sequence . |
| 29 | Those who invite friends or partners to share their rooms for short or long periods , without first discussing it with co-tenants , are bound to create resentment , let alone increased pressure on shared facilities . |
| 30 | Likewise , Charlie 's old school is not an entity that has the property of old-school-ness ; this is not a property of which English speakers would make frequent use , but it might be possible employ it in cases where something had the characteristic of " being a school in an old way " — perhaps with extensive use of wax tablet and stylus , and possibly a slave or two for the menial work . |