Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 2 | Greenwich had begun producing a return on the money spent to launch it as an astronomical and nautical centre well before that : in the early eighteenth century French charts were still better than any others , but the table of wind movements , trade winds , and monsoons that Halley published in 1686 was a great help to navigation . |
| 3 | Local education and information campaigns , though well-meaning , have proved of dubious value in prevention terms , although it is sensible to educate local youth workers , school teachers , probation officers and the primary care team to recognize the problem and be able to tackle it in an informed way . |
| 4 | It stigmatises the conduct , which is important if the public is to view it with an appropriate degree of revulsion . |
| 5 | This includes activities undertaken by individuals to prevent disease or to detect it in an asymptomatic state . |
| 6 | The government has said nothing about the need to end the fiction of self regulation and to replace it with an efficient and effective and cheaper direct regulation . |
| 7 | Twenty years later , after including a pledge to abolish the Lords in the 1983 manifesto and dropping it from the 1987 manifesto , the Labour party again committed itself to reform of the Lords : now they planned to replace it with an elected chamber designed more to reflect the diversity of the nation and the regions , but with less legislative power . |
| 8 | In some West Indian islands a yacht arriving without one will be confronted with a customs officer producing a rolled-up flag from his pocket and offering to sell it at an inflated price in an atmosphere of thinly disguised pressure . |
| 9 | You may feed safer watching nature at second hand on the television , and would find it hard to rough it in an uncharted forest . |
| 10 | A sense of loss of identity causes the voyager to project what he or she encounters so as to perceive it as an external phenomenon , and also to introject elements of the familiar world in order to recreate a recognizable context . |
| 11 | This was folded and stored in a paper envelope for nearly a hundred years , and the creases make it very unlikely we shall ever be able to play it on an original machine . |
| 12 | How much better it is to remove trees carefully rather than wait for a gale to do it in an uncoordinated way . |
| 13 | To have run the most glorious run of your life , to have become the first European to break ten seconds , to do it in an Olympic final — and then to be falsely accused of drug-taking by an officialdom that was frantically sniffing out Ben Johnsons like a Salem witchfinder ! |
| 14 | We were persuaded to give the industry a chance to reform its training board , to remodel it as an employer-led body and to alter the basis of levy collection . |
| 15 | For example it was much easier to incorporate provision for credit accumulation and transfer into a new system , when it was being set up , then to superimpose it on an established system . |
| 16 | Erm , I mean I think if we 're wishing to analyse the application , I I think we must consider what it does n't do for the village , and I think there are a number of aspects that have to be considered , erm , first of all as a village , and I 've heard in this very Parish Council that the reputed view made that there is a need for small village accommodation , this development certainly does not provide that , we 've also expressed a view that it would be nice to retain the existing bungalow , because that is small village accommodation , and although it only has a very limited history , again it would be nice to retain it as an integral part of the village . |
| 17 | The funding money had to be matched pound for pound by other backers ; the people who believed in the paper had to put up £5,000 of their own money between them ; and the paper had to have a controlling group to protect it from an outside takeover which might change the political line . |
| 18 | It seems to be looking straight at me , its knuckled legs poised , tense , waiting I know for one false move from me to trigger it into an electrifying spring … straight at me . |
| 19 | The few who , influenced by psychoanalysis and poststructuralism , take a more serious approach to it , tend to address it within an orthodox social cognitivist framework , to treat it as an illustration of larger , more obviously social discursive structure , or to ground it finally in an idealized unconscious subjectivity . |
| 20 | In effect the people working in the industry were to take it over and to run it as an industrial co-operative , organised nationally . |
| 21 | The rugged mountain region between Little Loch Broom and Loch Maree is regarded with affection and apprehension by conservationists and mountaineers alike , their concern being to keep it as an unspoilt wilderness against the growing threat of infiltration by unsympathetic tourists and insensitive planners . |
| 22 | There were plans to turn it into an opencast mine , but now the Forestry Commission , which administers the Forest from its headquarters in Coleford , has withdrawn its permisssion for British Coal to mine there , deciding instead to start re-planting trees . |
| 23 | This was a basic Ford shooting-brake which had had the windows and roof removed to turn it into an open truck . |
| 24 | The decision to turn it into an independent corporation has been welcomed , although the government 's power to veto members less so . |
| 25 | At present , EUP is effectively a University department , and Mr Martin 's task is to transform it into an independent company , albeit one wholly owned by the University . |
| 26 | And there was no way he could be prevailed upon to release it without an embarrassing fracas in front of the judge ! |
| 27 | It was now clear that this was because an atom in its ground state has nowhere else to go , unless it can be given the rather large amount of energy necessary to lift it to an excited state with n greater than I. |
| 28 | Monism , with its rejection of the form-meaning dichotomy , was a tenet of the New Critics , who rejected the idea that a poem conveys a message , preferring to see it as an autonomous verbal artefact . |
| 29 | It does not take too much distortion to see it as an anti-abortion tract . |
| 30 | No but you ca n't really I mean that 's what supposed to have it like an actual proper office . |