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

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1 The much-rumoured pact will see Insignia admit it has a license to Windows source code and the right to modify it at the application programming interface level to improve the performance of SoftPC , its Windows-on-Unix package .
2 The much-rumoured pact will see Insignia admit it has a licence to Windows source code and the right to modify it at the application programming interface level to improve the performance of SoftPC , its Windows-under-Unix package .
3 I might have to modify it in the light of circumstances .
4 I hired one and went to try it on a mountain .
5 However , we decided to try it with the food and tucked into some quite outstanding starters , including terrine of foie gras with wild mushrooms and some grilled bites of red mullet with caviar which positively leapt into the mouth .
6 It had meant nothing at first , but then he had thought to try it as an entry code to some of the secret Ping Tiao computer networks he had discovered weeks before but had failed to penetrate .
7 Solly was prepared to try it in the days when Napes Needles was still ‘ a rattling good ‘ un ’ and you took photos of your mates with plates in a Thornton-Pickard Folding ruby camera .
8 The ancient Forest system was in fact cumbrous and inefficient : the attempt to revive it as an instrument of Crown policy was doomed to failure .
9 However , the firm made a mistake in buying up the Laker Holidays label and trying to revive it in an effort to diversify its operating base .
10 De Gaulle wanted the agricultural settlement but was not prepared to accept it at the price of giving in to the other five and the Commission on the issues of resourcing and budgetary control .
11 In my judgment , this draft having been sent to the plaintiffs by Sir Richard Temple , and retained and cashed by them , we ought to draw the conclusion that the plaintiff , who kept and cashed the draft , agreed to accept it on the terms upon which it was sent … .
12 I also advised him that if he were not to accept it on the spot he should defer any decision on it until after he had concluded his coincidental visit to the Province today .
13 It is a reason to accept it as a way of being kind to a friend .
14 Either he can at once accept the anticipatory breach as a repudiation and immediately claim damages or else he can refuse to accept it as a repudiation and wait until there has been actual failure to perform the contract ( as opposed to an anticipatory one ) .
15 The reason is that even when this is a good reason to accept advice it is not a reason to accept it as a piece of advice .
16 Many , however , came to accept it in the context of their hopes for future labour success : capitalist bureaucracy was undesirable , but when labour came to dominate Parliament , the bureaucracy would act in sympathy with the needs and condition of the working class and would no longer be regarded as an alien intrusion .
17 Well that shows us what a dramatist was lost to the English stage when Milton finally decided to write it as an epic and not as a play .
18 tendency if you talk about it you 'd be honest but to write it on a form you 'd be
19 If anybody wanted to tell ( him ) something , they 'd have to write it on a piece of paper … ’
20 I was going to write it on the board for you
21 You will notice that the comments do pay attention to spelling , but that the main purpose of the response is to show the pupil that he has achieved what he set out to do , that is , to write it like a court report , and to include the main information from the story .
22 The show will coincide with an international congress of archaeologists , and it is hoped to tour it to the US , France , Japan and Germany before converting it into permanent museum .
23 Those with turpentine , for instance , flew southwards if they had been trained in a loft with the smell of that compound blowing in from the north , and northwards if they had learned to smell it from the south .
24 MINTO : Ask Paxford , dear : he 'll show you how to work it in the morning .
25 By the early 1930s , it was in the hands of John Henry Lawrence , who continued to work it until the mid-1950s .
26 Still , Brown reckons that NT will initially be more popular on client machines rather than servers , despite the fact that Microsoft is keen to position it as a server offering .
27 It was important , too , that we took time to understand the existing strengths of the Festival , while examining how we should be trying to position it in the future to maximise audiences . ’
28 You may need to adjust it at the centre on long pieces since the ends tend to pull rather tightly to start with .
29 Now , somehow holding a piton with his useless hand , he had to hammer it into the rock with the other .
30 Probably only a minority of these carried the commitment through into adulthood , though as Gilroy writes ( 1987 : 187 ) , " by looking at the broad and diverse use to which the language and symbols of Rastafari have been put , it is possible to conceive it as a movement in which the lines dividing different levels of commitment are necessarily flexible " .
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