Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [prep] [det] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 .
2 This is why although he dares to pose his overwhelming question , he can never be in a position to answer it with more than an assertion and the promise of more totalizations .
3 ‘ The delay has cost £20,000 and we can buy a gold door to replace it for less than that . ’
4 We 're not going to do it at all if the King loses interest too early . ’
5 Yeah it 's like it 's not very good to do it with that because you ca n't
6 I 've g I 've got about a half a dozen sheets of paper scattered all over the place , and I 've decided to do it in this cos then I can just go to here .
7 Why had it never occurred to him to use it for more than carving ?
8 But if it has that civil capability it is all too easy to turn it to less than peaceful purposes .
9 Brazil 's pro-privatisation rhetoric needs to be supported by much further change in policy and practice to turn it into more than a minor curiosity in its history .
10 This particular person had found the shock so great that she had not been able to acknowledge it at all except by taking this evading action .
11 Besides , he 'd never be able to sustain it for more than a minute or two .
12 As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship .
13 As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship .
14 I do n't think there 's any need to check it on that cos we can see the pattern
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