Example sentences of "[coord] [vb infin] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither lexicographers nor political theorists can or should hope to halt this process of constant revision , although they may legitimately aspire to guide or nudge it in one direction rather than another . |
| 2 | In an age when insurance against all forms of liability is commonplace , it is surely not surprising or unjust if law makes persons who carry on some kinds of hazardous undertakings liable for the harm they do , unless they can excuse or justify it on some recognisable ground . ’ |
| 3 | If you do n't have a ‘ fridge , put the food in the coldest place you can find and eat it within one or two days . |
| 4 | Then , when we are ready , we can reconstitute and display it as new information which human beings can once again understand . |
| 5 | I must go and break it to dear Dimity , and then we must clear up things here , and set off for Thrush Green without delay . ’ |
| 6 | So we had to go back and swap it for seven to eight |
| 7 | The fourth stage involves sifting through the data and evaluating it so as to collate and analyse it in such a way as to provide useful information rather than a mass of unrelated facts or figures . |
| 8 | If you need parent support in the bad times then you need to encourage and reward it in those times when everything is going well . |
| 9 | I could n't stand by and take it from that arrogant old blimp without putting a word in . ’ |
| 10 | The ability to store more food than we could eat at once also meant being able to buy and sell it in real quantity and the merchant cities arose . |
| 11 | To do this , we used experimental criteria to characterise and distinguish it from arachidonic acid , prostaglandin , chollagen , thrombin , or adenosine diphosphate ( see Methods ) . |
| 12 | And we used to stand down and leave it at that . |
| 13 | And you 're supposed to try and link it with bigger groups of children , so if you say you say you 've got primary skills |
| 14 | The privately rented sector is declining fast , marginalized after seventy-five years of rent controls and other restrictions , although the present government seeks to change and revive it through partial deregulation . |
| 15 | okay , do n't take too much , and that is to first make a literal translation and then , to try and put it into idiomatic English . |
| 16 | We 'll try and get it with this . |
| 17 | We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar . |
| 18 | A pledge on which a loan of more than ten shillings had been made would be put up for auction , but its owner could come and redeem it on any day up to that of the sale . |
| 19 | But erm , you know the English , the major author 's list can you try and find it after this . |