Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 The LC layer is used as a shutter , blocking light or transmitting it onto a screen .
2 The purchaser of a completed development , for example a factory , who intends to use the development for his or her own trade purposes or lease it to a person using it for trade purposes may be able to claim capital allowances .
3 Half bury the log or timber in soil in a part of the garden where it will stay damp , or put it on a shaded window-sill in a plastic container ( ice-cream carton ) .
4 ‘ Appropriates ’ is generally proved by a witness stating that the accused picked the property up or put it in a shopping bag or a pocket .
5 Or put it in a left-luggage compartment somewhere . ’
6 Put in a bowl or put it in a plastic
7 Thus to assert " Some living creatures are men " , or to phrase it in a " canonical " form , " For some x , x is both a living creature and a man " , is equivalent to the denial that the inference from the proposition of the form " x is a living creature " to the proposition of the form " x is not a man " is valid .
8 I had heard something about it once or seen it on a map , but I could remember nothing definite .
9 Persons of inferior degree rarely owned more than a single parcel , irrespective of whether they lived on it themselves or let it to a tenant .
10 Men of genius — Dante , Leonardo , Milton , Blake , Turner , Wagner , for example — have attempted to punch holes in the box or to replace it by a stack of boxes .
11 This operation may be put in two-address form by placing the editing pattern in the destination string ( where it will be overwritten ) , or inserting it as a string of " micro-operations " in the instruction stream .
12 Syphon it off , or remove it with a power filter if available .
13 It is difficult to speak of popular religion or to define it in a satisfactory way , because it included an amalgam of magic and superstition , belief and doubt , the pagan and the Christian .
14 ‘ One man wrote or told it in a book ( the Bible ) , another in a picture . ’
15 When you 've finished faffing around with the fonts , you can choose to either axe your disastrous experiment , or install it as a TrueType font itself .
16 It came as something of a shock to the Poles to realise that the Kaszubians saw no difference between selling their land to a Pole or selling it to a German .
17 Tip it into a food processor or mash it with a fork in a bowl , then return to the freezer .
18 But you chose to switch on the news that day , or to hear it from a friend ; and you chose to have certain thoughts in response to that news .
19 This does not mean changing the character of the river , or turning it into a canal .
20 You can either perform the story live or record it on a cassette-recorder .
21 Post a notice as large as is allowed , with coloured lettering , or mount it on a jazzy or tartan paper .
22 Either they dispute the sceptic 's right to assert the conclusion , or to assert it as a conclusion ; or they suggest directly that the conclusion can not be true , and that hence they are excused from considering any suggested reason for believing it .
23 The holder can not cash the cheque , but only pay it in to a bank account , or savings bank , or assign it to a third party .
24 In any event the presumption is rebuttable and will be fairly easily rebutted where a developer needs to retain ownership of the road in order to build it or to dedicate it as a public highway .
25 Diluting it and mixing in it into slurry lagoons or spreading it at a low rate on grassland was a method used in the past , but even that may not be possible now .
26 Such theories , he remarks , ‘ are not centrally concerned with literature ; indeed , they may marginalize or abandon it as a category ’ , and he instances their source in such fields as philosophy , psychology , sociology , anthropology , linguistics .
27 Advance comprises five distinct components and a firm has the option either to mix and match certain elements or to use it as a complete package , thereby effectively outsourcing all of its software functions .
28 The seller must be someone who is hiring the vehicle under a hire purchase agreement or buying it under a conditional sale agreement .
29 The 1964 Act , then , gives protection to a bona fide private purchaser who buys a motor vehicle unaware that the seller is hiring or buying it under a hire purchase or conditional sale agreement .
30 To refer the case back to the same solicitor who has reported that the case can not now be won , or refer it to a different lawyer ?
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