Example sentences of "[det] [to-vb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | was one of the pioneers of embalming and did much to promote it within the Co-operative Funeral Service and was held in high esteem by colleagues for his long standing service to the Institute . |
| 2 | For the non-obese patient over 65 years who needs a sulphonylurea , a short-acting drug like tolbutamide has much to commend it as the elderly are more prone to hypoglycaemia . |
| 3 | Digital telecommunication has much to recommend it over the analogue alternative , and the move away from analogue systems is n't restricted to the mobile networks . |
| 4 | Its positioning accuracy alone ( + or -1mm ) has much to recommend it over the human alternative . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the principle of chisel ploughing has much to recommend it in the right conditions . |
| 6 | He who valued life so much to enter it in the form of a human person must be committed to its survival . |
| 7 | is that that the consultation is a problem the legislation which takes away the requirement for several developments to promote valuable time and be advertised prior to the application so the first most people knew about this application was after this this opportunity prior to that to discuss it with the development before it was submitted . |
| 8 | The Romans , imitating the Greeks of Asia Minor and , nearer home , the Etruscans , thought a grid should have precise right angles , and so the rectangle of streets sits awkwardly in the bend of the river and one has to tack this way and that to cross it to the medieval cathedral and the Roman bridge . |
| 9 | The imposition of this ‘ necessity constraint ’ on holist explanation is enough to separate it from the individualist view that to describe the individual traits which caused a social phenomenon is to explain it . |
| 10 | My view was that it was enough to clear it with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and that she had a war to fight . |
| 11 | The energy transferred from the photon to the electron is more than enough to remove it from the atom . |
| 12 | This is not to deny that it is an intelligent reaction , and that the sense of when to trust the analogy between present and former situations is in some individuals very intelligent indeed , but there is nothing in that to distinguish it from the other insights and hunches by which we instantaneously synthesize similarities and differences too fine and complex to be analysed before a change in the situation obliterates them . |
| 13 | I wanted us both to read it at the same time . ’ |