Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section by section it was being revised in the commissions and then approved during the general congregations — despite last-minute attempts to modify it to contain an explicit condemnation of communism . |
| 2 | To accept it required a whole sociology of crime . |
| 3 | Strategy Europe , the environmental public affairs group , is looking for an ad agency or marketing consultancy to help it promote an audio cassette entitled ‘ Global Warming — the debate ’ . |
| 4 | 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 Common Open Software Environment desktop toolkit . |
| 5 | The government 's aim has always been to attract foreign investment ; only its tactics have changed as the tiny city-state ( 639 sq km ) matures and looks for more sophisticated investors to help it achieve the longed-for ‘ developed nation ’ status by 2030 . |
| 6 | The Open Software Foundation has tapped Cambridge , Massachusetts-based Integrated Computer Solutions Inc to help it develop the next version of Motif . |
| 7 | To calculate its fictional arm 's length profits , a firm is supposed to assume it pays the same price ( the ‘ transfer price ’ ) for those imported bits that it would have done were it buying them from an unrelated company . |
| 8 | If you are working with a rubber solution glue , you will find it easiest to apply it using a large clean pin or a piece of wire , about 6.75cm ( 2 ½in ) long . |
| 9 | But to avoid it meant a long detour to get into Barn Street , and she was shivering with wet and cold . |
| 10 | Not only must the users of such a system find the data relevant and credible , they must also be motivated to use it to improve the overall performance of their activities . |
| 11 | It thus becomes possible , through writing , to specialise language , to use it to serve a specific function rather than conflating different functions . |
| 12 | As the rough represents the variability around the smoothed line , it is sometimes appropriate to use it to indicate the typical degree of variation around the smoothed curve . |
| 13 | ‘ However after a great deal of consultation with the Historical Monuments Commission and Planning Department , we decided to use it to face the new church , harmonising the old with the new . |
| 14 | The republicans , in other words , were keen to push the civil rights agitation further and to use it to build a radical coalition which would set its sights , eventually , on a united Ireland . |
| 15 | Second , to trigger it requires a repetitive train of reasonably high-frequency pulses : the same number of pulses delivered more slowly is ineffective , so there is a threshold below which LTP can not be induced ; above this threshold , it can be developed gradually or in an all-or-none fashion , depending on the pattern , intensity and frequency of the conditioning train . |
| 16 | It 's why Heggie Group has invested heavily to ensure it stays an approved repairer . |
| 17 | Prime was born in the early 1970s , structured around the PrimOS operating system , which was developed on Honeywell Inc minicomputer hardware under a government contract , which meant that when people on the development team wanted to take it into the commercial world , they were able to buy the operating system for a nominal sum , and developed a new processor optimised to run it to create the 50 Series , the customer base for which will now be subject to a flock of companies wanting to win users over to their open systems . |
| 18 | Because Reality Orientation starts with the world people know , it 's important to keep it looking the same . |
| 19 | Because I 'm on T.V. I have to keep it looking the same and so it 's trimmed every five to six weeks . |
| 20 | Mm , I think it 's been cut and , they have to stretch it to get the actual bits of corn out of the middle of the seed , do n't want the husk . |
| 21 | Even those who thought that spatial perception would stand in for technical ability at age thirteen felt that the match between the specific ability and general intelligence was too close to allow it to generate a specialised educational form . |
| 22 | He struggled to repair the bank 's balance sheet to allow it to take the inevitable write-offs against its $6.7bn third world debt portfolio . |
| 23 | When rumours leaked out that the Welsh Office , rather than grasping this opportunity , were seeking a ‘ derogation ’ to allow it to maintain the present battery of schemes , CPRW asked David Hunt to ‘ introduce a single , comprehensive agri-environmental scheme for the whole of Wales , integrating existing area-based schemes such as ESAs , Tir Cymen , National Park and SSSI management agreements , as well as the extensification and organic farming conversion schemes currently under consideration . |
| 24 | To allow it to maintain the 300 nuclear weapons that it is currently estimated to hold — including 100 tactical weapons — can only provoke and encourage the Arab states ' determination to obtain nuclear arsenals . |
| 25 | Rivals Now he faces a make-or-break season with the Ewood Park club , which has shown that when it comes to cash it has no serious rivals . |
| 26 | I think the other possibility to take Stella 's point is that if there is a change that 's come up because of an audit , where a particular job has been audited and you know that within the next week or so another similar job is being audited , it may make sense to refer it 'til the next meeting , providing you 're not deferring it for a long period of time , to compar the results of the two jobs . |
| 27 | NORTH Korea , suspected of trying to develop nuclear arms , declared yesterday that any attempt to force it to accept a United Nations inspection could lead to war . |
| 28 | On the other hand , it requires a membership large enough to enable it to represent a significant number of credit managers . |
| 29 | Issued 46 years after the war 's end , the apology was seen as part of an on-going process whereby Japan was attempting to improve its relationship with its neighbours in order to enable it to play a diplomatic and political role within the region which was commensurate with its economic power . |
| 30 | The back lane marks the line of the old through road of the area which was then diverted around four right-angle bends to enable it to enter the new market place . |