Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [prep] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most important things to learn regarding conflict is to accept it as one of the normal challenges of life . |
| 2 | Still the local commander attempted to retake it by one of those spontaneous counter-attacks , but Pétain now intervened , crying hold , enough . |
| 3 | Anyway , Nigel , who loved trout , used to drain the millpond from time to time to rid it of some of the accumulated silt and then just pick them up . |
| 4 | Ah we us , we used to do it at some of the erm |
| 5 | like that , no one knew , I was driving the car and I recorded everything that was in the car all night no one knew until the end of the night , I got the tape home , I go this is gon na be interesting I had to do it on one of my tapes though |
| 6 | Well I thought the idea was to put it on one of the original walls though . |
| 7 | I had to use it for one of Andy |
| 8 | You were n't planning to use it for any of your own guests , were you ? ’ |
| 9 | Travis was quick to deny it with one of his charming smiles . |
| 10 | Now we 're going to share it with all of you . ’ |
| 11 | Oh half of them have n't turned up we 're only going to share it between five of us . |
| 12 | Efforts are now being made to reduce it to two-thirds of its level now by 1985 . |
| 13 | This chapter has been concerned to sketch in the general background to the reign of Mary Queen of Scots , and to clear it of some of the misconceptions about Scottish kingship which have tended to confuse the issues . |
| 14 | Then the first jeep , war surplus , came into the dale and it was cut down to turn it into more of a wagon . |
| 15 | Yes means a time for us to be together , us and only us in a place that is beautiful and special and quiet and does n't know just how amazing a love is about to transform it into one of those Indian summer memories that make deaf old ladies grin knowingly , when you think they are dead in a deckchair on the sea front . |
| 16 | Then to implement a circuit specified in occam it will be sufficient to transform it to one of these implementable subsets of occam . |
| 17 | I intended to sub-contract it to one of my former students , a very , very skilful young man who had been with us on a fee-paying course for one year and then gone off and worked in a local workshop for another 18 months . |
| 18 | British merchant banks had failed to see the enormous unfulfilled potential in Habitat and tended to regard it as one of those here-today , gone-tomorrow phenomena . |
| 19 | A BANK accused a man of using his hole-in-the-wall cash card to defraud it of hundreds of pounds — even though he did not know his personal number . |
| 20 | It would be impertinent to say that to N C V er , to I B M , but it might be appropriate to say it to some of the less enlightened firms , or , should John be taking a similar line , in other words , how interventionist would you like either government or N C V O speaking on behalf of the vol voluntary sector to be , in pressing the business sector to have an overall and agreed strategy rather than the individual and enlightened strategy you put forward . |
| 21 | This particular eel ( I think ) has much to endear it to those of us that keep some of the more serious ‘ oddballs ’ . |
| 22 | The symbol for the standard deviation of the population is σ to distinguish it from that of the sample , s . |
| 23 | The symbol for the standard deviation of the population is ta ; to distinguish it from that of the sample , s . |
| 24 | I was about to throw it at one of the maids as she passed beneath me with a tray of glasses , but just then Claire came out of the reception room . |
| 25 | ‘ But when it was finished , they refused to show it on any of their ships . |