Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the first year of secondary school , most Caribbean children in areas of reasonably high Caribbean settlement are speaking it to some extent at least . |
| 2 | However , the body of the report was accepted by the Americans , who if they needed any further confirmation were given it in the form of a 72 per cent failure rate among recently qualified army medical officers who had been given a questionnaire on the venereal diseases and their control . |
| 3 | The simplest and cheapest way of photographing a slide or peel is to use it as a photographic negative . |
| 4 | Nowadays , the practice is to pass it through rollers without the outer bran layer , which is then added to the flour at a later stage . |
| 5 | ‘ As soon as they get the ball , their intention is to get it into the box as quickly as possible and to finish with a shot . |
| 6 | That 's all you 've got recorded on the tape is explaining it to everybody what it bloody is . |
| 7 | So that is how Virginia became friends with the witch of Wardle Wood and discovered for herself that the best way of dealing with fear is to face it with brave unselfishness and prove it to be false . |
| 8 | An easier method of installing fabric is to fix it to a frame . |
| 9 | She has since died , and the Society , which emphasises that there is no question of the painting being sold , has decided that the most correct course of action is to put it on permanent loan with the National Gallery , where it will go on display , newly restored , in an exhibition of comparative material this October . |
| 10 | One of the cruellest things people can do to a horse is to keep it by itself without contact with another horse . |
| 11 | This first Report was read by Professor Brian Griffiths , whose duty as Prime Minister 's adviser was to present it to Mrs Thatcher with his comments . |
| 12 | And they were both agreed that the thing to do with the club was to use it for their private purposes . |
| 13 | Curiously , if the cider was sour , the practice was to sweeten it by shaking it with some lead shot before storing it in barrels held together by lead bands . |
| 14 | The intention was to reduce it to that rate which would constrain aggregate demand to grow at a rate which could be met by increases in real output . |
| 15 | The Left in British politics had never had , nor needed to have , any single clear view about the structure of secondary education : the imperative was to provide it for all , and to provide it free . |
| 16 | The alternative was to give it to them in 50 crates . ’ |
| 17 | The ‘ filmic ’ way to shoot a scene is to record it as a series of separate shots taken at different distances and angles . |
| 18 | The definitionalist might seek to save his position by arguing for a general principle of law to the effect that to intend an act is to intend it under a full description and that therefore in all crimes where the actus reus contains not only a conduct element but also circumstances and consequences , mens rea is to be taken as being ‘ coextensive with the actus reus . ’ |
| 19 | Oh , Christ , the cat 's done it outside the tray again … |
| 20 | One of the great pleasures of owning a cat is watching it at play . |
| 21 | The plan is to convert it into the ultimate upmarket hotel and haute cuisine restaurant . |
| 22 | NEXT loop is to restructure it as a REPEAT … |
| 23 | The traditional way to prevent corrosion is to suspend a ‘ sacrificial ’ magnesium anode in the cistern ; the best solution with a corroded cold water cistern is to replace it with a new plastic one . |
| 24 | SOMETHING is severely wrong with our support services if a confused woman feels that the only thing she can do with her newborn child is to leave it on a golf course in freezing conditions . |
| 25 | The better method of solving the question is to split it into , ‘ Who owns the newly created thing ? ’ and ‘ Who is entitled to possession of it ? ’ |
| 26 | He says the origninal plan was to raise it to 12p . |
| 27 | The lady was holding it like that I run up , I go ooh bang and it goes . |
| 28 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 29 | People who do n't have a real understanding of vibe are adopting it as a pose . ’ |
| 30 | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder , in which case Kitchens Of Distinction are using it as a sharp stick . |