Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITISH Aerospace has agreed terms for repaying more than £40m in ‘ sweeteners ’ offered by the Government to encourage it to buy the Rover car company in 1988 , it has been announced . |
| 2 | The announcement that British Aerospace has agreed terms for repaying more than £40m in ‘ sweeteners ’ offered by the Government to encourage it buy the Rover car company in 1988 took the wind out of BAe , which lost 4p to 321p . |
| 3 | You say a word , the children find it ; first team to find it gets a point . |
| 4 | Let me just point out to you that last year if you remember they asked you to describe the the passage where Jesus is crucified , that 's 1521 to 31 and I guess they wo n't do that again this year , but they 're likely to pick on a significant passage , significant section then you 're asked to relate it relate the passage at the end of Mark 's Gospel where Jesus is crucified . |
| 5 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 6 | The accumulation on the ridges and swells is aided by the presence there of seaweed or flotsam , which tends to hinder the flow of the tide and to cause it to deposit the material it is carrying . |
| 7 | In its report , the pollution inspectorate said it had received 80,000 responses — 77 per cent of which opposed approval of the plant — but found " no points of substance " to cause it to reconsider the terms of its draft licence for the plant . |
| 8 | It is better not to colour it to match the bones , as the natural while clearly shows future workers what is false . |
| 9 | As part of its drive to improve its efficiency and make itself ready for the private sector should the Government decide to privatise it following the review of the nuclear industry next year , Scottish Nuclear recently appointed Charterhouse , the merchant bank , as its adviser . |
| 10 | Munich , Bavaria-based Spea Software AG has rallied the Glenwood Capital venture capital company to help it to acquire the assets of the Video Seven graphics board subsidiary of LSI Logic Corp , on undisclosed terms . |
| 11 | Indeed , SunSoft Inc is said to have taken VUE 's virtual workspace — though not the icons and bars themselves — and is thought to have hired Motif experts from the Open Software Foundation and elsewhere to help it build a COSE desktop toolkit . |
| 12 | For the first time in a decade a Conservative government has resorted to direct tax increases to help it bridge the gap between its spending and its revenues . |
| 13 | If the offer is likely to be contested then the offeror will not be able to use the target 's board as a barometer to help it set the price . |
| 14 | Rather than going it alone , 3Com Corp , San Jose has picked Cascade Communications Corp to help it enter the Frame Relay market . |
| 15 | Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH , operator of the D2 digital cellular network in Germany , has secured an eight-year $700m credit facility to help it fund the planning , establishment and operation of the mobile phone network , which has some 200,000 customers at present . |
| 16 | Hewlett-Packard Co is amongst Unix vendors Microsoft Corp has approached to help it develop a Unix version of Microsoft Mail : Microsoft expects Mail could be running under Open Look and Motif by year-end , though observers are sceptical given that a promised OS/2 Presentation Manager version has yet to appear . |
| 17 | However , due to the limited capacities of the Committee it was recommended that the group should concentrate on running the centre more effectively for the time being and to engage management consultants to help it develop the capacity to run more complicated projects . |
| 18 | R.S. used Hill and Knowlton to research the five counties and to help it produce the relocation documentation . |
| 19 | Given this information as used in the treatment of errors , there are indications that it may also be effective to apply it to aid the reduction of the list of candidate strings in word positions where no error has been detected . |
| 20 | But perhaps more fittingly it might commemorate the slaves that died to win it form the Earth . |
| 21 | VOLUNTEERS who sang to a sick dolphin for 36 hours to calm it returned the mammal to the sea at Gwithian , Cornwall , yesterday . |
| 22 | So important that it merited the expenditure of much care and effort — if you are propounding the importance of quality , then you have to do it using a quality method ! |
| 23 | I thought you were going to put it facing the front . |
| 24 | I wish to use it to reinforce the message of the forthcoming Earth Summit — that we must develop our part of the world in a more sustainable way . |
| 25 | If you buy the Relate 2000 you will only be able to use it to see the person you are calling if they are using a compatible model . |
| 26 | Thus , whatever the layman might mean by the term ‘ competition ’ , the equilibrium theorist came to use it to connote a market in which each participant is too weak to effect any change in price . |
| 27 | The best way to discover what HGW is like is to use it to create a presentation . |
| 28 | First he sought to use it to spread the gospel of trade unionism elsewhere in the north-east and eventually persuaded it to establish branches at Middlesbrough , Hartlepool , Seaham Harbour and in North and South Shields . |
| 29 | Staff , learning of some intimate aspect of a prisoner 's life , perhaps from seeing a file or overhearing a chaplain or social worker discuss confidential information , would be expected to use it to put the prisoner down . |
| 30 | He asked why he had continued to use it to destroy the character of a witness after being warned that it was confidential . |