Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] it [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If , for example , the landlord is entitled to enter the demised property in order to carry out substantial improvements or to reconstruct it the tenant may be able to defeat a claim to determine his tenancy on the ground of demolition and reconstruction ( Heath v Drown [ 1973 ] AC 498 ) .
2 It is an indication that your weight is too far forward and to avoid it the feet should be positioned further back and more weight should be placed on the back foot .
3 Giving parents a measure of choice would , it was argued , be more likely to secure their involvement in the school and in their child 's schooling : ‘ They are more likely to support a school they have freely chosen and to give it the loyalty which is so essential if their children are to do the same . ’
4 Chicherin ( with benefit of hindsight ) described the challenges which lay ahead as follows : [ Alexander ] was called upon to execute one of the hardest tasks which can confront an autocratic ruler : to completely remodel the enormous state which had been entrusted to his care , to abolish an age-old order founded on slavery , to replace it with civic decency and freedom , to establish justice in a country which had never known the meaning of legality , to redesign the entire administration , to introduce freedom of the press in the context of untrammelled authority , to call new forces to life at every turn and set them on firm legal foundations , to put a repressed and humiliated society on its feet and to give it the chance to flex its muscles .
5 Although historical events have conspired to seal Russian Formalism off from other intellectual developments in the twentieth century and to give it the character of an isolated and localized phenomenon , it does nevertheless have connections with a variety of more recent theoretical movements .
6 Despite this fact , the Principality itself is still reluctant fully to recognize the importance of the Polytechnic 's contribution to advanced vocational education and to accord it the status it merits .
7 Intense competition made the Double impossible , he said , and to achieve it a club would need a League lead of at least eight points by the semi-final .
8 Emor was a lot of things , but to call it a game was doing it an injustice .
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