Example sentences of "[vb base] it [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A superficially similar case may differ from this one in some subtle matter of detail the relevance of which we will only recognize when we encounter it in the concrete .
2 They honour it in the manner of warring tribes observing a precarious truce , waiting nervously for hostilities to reopen .
3 However , the Cultural Revolution was also presented as an attempt by the party to gain control of the state bureaucracy and even replace it as an organ of implementation .
4 The first step was to remove the sapling and replace it with a system of aluminium braces .
5 In conclusion , I ask is it sensible needlessly to destroy a system which provides the best standard of living for all its citizens on the African continent and replace it with a system which will bring misery in the short-term and has little proof that it will ever attain today 's standard of living in the long term ?
6 An ugly modern extension obscures part of the Godfrey building at present and Moran says his architectural consultants have advised him to apply for permission to remove it and replace it with a gatehouse .
7 I asked , and they said , ‘ Remove the disc and replace it with a piece of bone which we 'll take from your hip . ’
8 Insiders at Westminster reported that the cabinet was poised to scrap the poll tax and replace it with a property tax .
9 Plans exist to log 250,000 hectares of virgin rainforest and replace it with a palm oil plantation , much of which will be worked by migrant labour from Indonesia 's main islands .
10 With capillary fittings you ca n't resolder a leaking joint because the pipe will contain some water , so remove the fitting using a blowtorch to melt the solder , and replace it with a compression joint .
11 There once was a plan to remove it and replace it with a television transmitting tower .
12 Replace it with a plastic one , but make sure you 'll be able to get it through to loft hatch .
13 What you have to do is rip the old keyboard overlay off the Spectrum , remove the membrane and replace it with the PCB which plugs into the normal connectors .
14 Get an overhaul kit for your old pump then replace it in the vehicle .
15 If any flier could steal a Foxbat and fly it to the West , Vologsky could .
16 doing would be to say , would you project engineers er or , or engineers collect the in information on site , provide it to the quantity surveyors so they can check it against the spirit of the contract , and make sure that er what 's proposed to be certified they 're happy with .
17 Its 30 000 facets provide it with a picture rather like a grainy photograph .
18 Its status as written narrative fiction and its function as a means of communication provide it with the wherewithal to participate actively in present-day debates about the future of social institutions .
19 If you thrash a horse it will hurt but if you touch it with a whip it 's a tactile thing which is far less than a horse nudging another one
20 and his screws , touch it with a soldering iron something hot , you know , the head in it , it 'll get warm and sort of sometimes cracks the , separates the rust from the
21 if they 're not in just slip it through the door you ca n't keep
22 Then the Consultant Analyst will put the appropriate colour pellets into a beaker with an oil blend , heat it in a microwave oven , pour it into a split mould , cool it down to harden it , and slip it into a lipstick case .
23 Plenty of time to go quietly upstairs , take the key down from behind the faded watercolour of the lakes of Killarney , and slip it into the lock of her dead mother 's bedroom .
24 Out with the corks of the wine , assuming you have n't done so already , and empty it into a saucepan .
25 If you 're recording , plug it into the desk and the engineer can make anything sound good , so whether you use one pickup , two pickups , one amp , two amps , Marshall , Crate , anything .
26 The first thing you have to do is take the kettle to the tap and turn the tap on , and then take the kettle back from where you got it and plug it into the plug and , wait for the kettle to boil .
27 and click on the informat information that you 've got already on it and whenever you come back home , or not , into work , you plug it into the master and it it boots in
28 Disconnect the mains lead to your PC and plug it into the Expert ; there are two sockets for power leads leaving the UPS , so I checked it out with two PCs .
29 Just plug it in the mains ?
30 We got one for the car , you plug it in the cigarette lighter
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