Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] it [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In examining , for example , the influence of X on Y , it has to be considered whether shifts to a given value of X from either direction have the same consequences for Y. Does it matter , that is , whether X has increased or decreased to reach its present level , or whether the relationship is asymmetrical in that different values of X do not have a uniform effect on Y ? |
| 2 | On July 27 , 1989 , the Pakistani Minister of State for Finance , Ehsanul Haq Piracha , opening the third session of the Nepal-Pakistan Joint Economic Commission in Kathmandu , assured Nepal of support to help it overcome problems resulting from the trade blockade with India . |
| 3 | The rate of change makes it shudder on the branches of the trees where it stands to attention in its sterile , tightly packed commercial rows . |
| 4 | The light shining through her roughly heaped haycock of hair made it blaze so you might have thought you could warm your hands at it . |
| 5 | They have n't been fighting all these years to get rid of communism to see it re-emerge again so you , the confusion continues , as it is in Russia , and then you insinuate the idea that , with the breakdown of social order and so on , you must have a strong man , you must have strong arms and that 's where your Hitlers and your Mussolinis and all these people come through in that little vacuum in between of disorder . |
| 6 | Only when restricted by the sharp lines of formality does it seem at rest . |
| 7 | So once you get towards , take a clock in , make sure you pace yourself , and say at the end of that just put in a sort of sentence to make it look as if it 's been finished off Erm , what I usually do when I do an exam is I spend the first five minutes actually looking at the questions because initially you look for the ones that you 've revised and you see but there may be others there , there 're you can do in a slightly different way than the way that they first appear and that might help you quite a bit , although there are no trick questions in this . |
| 8 | I am not sure why this quarter was called ‘ Chinese ’ except that perhaps its apartness from the regular secular and religious life of Salamanca made it seem like another country , and a far-off , exotic one at that . |
| 9 | What kind of existence does it have ? |
| 10 | For example , a reduction in the cost of grinding and polishing plate glass was made possible by the float process , but it took a long time and a great deal of money to make it work . |
| 11 | I think in the case of share portfolios , you need a lot of money to make it work properly . |
| 12 | What kind of circulation did it have ? |
| 13 | Once the opponent has landed fully , the hook will require a lot of force to make it work , and a foot sweep may then be the more appropriate technique to apply . |
| 14 | What sort of effect did it have on you that kind of directness ? |
| 15 | The common claim made for classical secular literature in response to the analytical question cui parte philosophiae supponitur ? , " to what branch of philosophy does it pertain ? " , is ethice supponitur , " it pertains to ethics " , and the reason : " because it treats of human behaviour " . |
| 16 | This loss of influence made it fear the nationalists more . |
| 17 | You need only contrast it with cricket , a complex game over- burdened by social attitudes and codes , and dependent upon specific items of equipment to make it work , to understand how accessible football must have seemed . |
| 18 | As a chairman , I did n't have to worry about finding a particular part to put in a piece of kit to make it work . |
| 19 | She told the council 's cemeteries and crematorium consultative committee she was a regular visitor and the items being placed in the chapel of remembrance made it look like a shop display . |
| 20 | One such poem is by Wordsworth , where he repeats the old legend that if anyone approaches the Isle of Man to do it harm , a mist springs up and hides the Island . |
| 21 | All it needed was a bit of tumbleweed to make it seem more deserted than it really was and I used to just fight against that dissatisfaction . |
| 22 | Richard Kerr is consultant neurosurgeon there , Richard tell me a bit about this , what , what sort of things does it allow you to do now that you could n't do in , in the past ? |
| 23 | Of course the response which is likely to be made to such objections is that God works with human beings , so that only when human society has reached a certain stage of development does it become appropriate to ordain women . |
| 24 | Fromentin and Gerome see the soil of the South as colourless , and a lot of people see it like that . |
| 25 | What can science and the public learn about scientific procedures from this ; what ethical issues are raised ; what murky aspects of science does it expose ? |
| 26 | However the evidence suggests ( see pages 75–6 ) that it is more likely that this decision was reached at a later date , when the force of events made it seem imperative . |
| 27 | There 's always been a ‘ missing link ’ in pickup sound , the gap between the traditional Gibson-style humbucker — loads of power and warmth , but often too thick and blurry for rhythm work — and the classic Fender single coil , which has all the bite and clarity you could want but needs the hands of Hendrix to make it sing . |
| 28 | Children who were presented with a nonsense syllable alongside more and less in a variety of contexts made it contrast with more and less by adding or subtracting much smaller amounts ; by adding or subtracting everything ; by introducing some quite different manipulation ( stirring , flicking , rolling , tossing up and down , mixing both piles together ) , and so on . |
| 29 | Why have we as Christians let it get this far ? |
| 30 | Tiny protein structures protrude — like flagellae to help it move and pili to attach itself to surfaces . |