Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such indemnities , transferring liabilities incurred to third parties , will be particularly useful in cases where a contracting party may incur liability to a person not party to the contract , which therefore can not be excluded by contract : for instance , a manufacturer might require a distributor or retailer to indemnify it against tortious product liability claims by consumers injured by the product . |
| 2 | The non-smokers dislike the perpetual and pungent cloud , but have grown to accept it without serious complaint — it 's the least of their worries . |
| 3 | The problem is to provide it with updated forecast data ’ . |
| 4 | Similar regulations and procedures have delayed both the promotion and dismissal of staff and have hampered the ZBS by failing to provide it with adequate transport when needed at short notice . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , there are many things about the Demoiselles that serve to relate it to other painting of the period and , more particularly , to the contemporary work of Matisse . |
| 6 | Indeed the business was said to have made ‘ the very best of progress ’ and its move to open systems is reckoned to stand it in good stead for the future . |
| 7 | The indication here is that the caged finch has been placed close to the owl in order to provoke it into prolonged alarm calling that will attract others of its kind . |
| 8 | His view of the visible church , for example , was much wider than that of even Whitgift , as he appeared to argue that since Christ had died for all , all men and women — including Roman Catholics — were potentially part of the visible church , and as such should be offered the sacrament of the eucharist , if they were prepared to receive it in good faith . |
| 9 | Antibodies are proteins which , once synthesized by cells of the immune system to counter and inactivate ‘ foreign ’ molecules , enable the body to retain the ‘ memory , for the intruder and hence the capacity rapidly to inactivate it on subsequent invasion . |
| 10 | It has leanings toward Gibson 's Melody Maker/Les Paul Special range , but so slight that you would be hard pushed to detect it without laser-optic assistance . |
| 11 | The kind of non-randomness that can be generated by simple sieving is roughly equivalent to opening a combination lock with one one dial : it is easy to open it by sheer luck . |
| 12 | If an item is coached carefully step by step in the early stages the performers are more likely to remember it for future use . |
| 13 | That had been rather exciting and they were prepared to recount it at considerable length until Narouz intervened and told them to shut up . |
| 14 | Often the polyps withdraw , and the polypary may shrink slightly as the animal expels water from inside the body to replace it with fresh water . |
| 15 | Chicherin ( with benefit of hindsight ) described the challenges which lay ahead as follows : [ Alexander ] was called upon to execute one of the hardest tasks which can confront an autocratic ruler : to completely remodel the enormous state which had been entrusted to his care , to abolish an age-old order founded on slavery , to replace it with civic decency and freedom , to establish justice in a country which had never known the meaning of legality , to redesign the entire administration , to introduce freedom of the press in the context of untrammelled authority , to call new forces to life at every turn and set them on firm legal foundations , to put a repressed and humiliated society on its feet and to give it the chance to flex its muscles . |
| 16 | It was too large for me at that time , but over the next twelve months I must have grown considerably because , with wooden blocks fixed on the pedals , I was able to reach it in comparative comfort . |
| 17 | I did not take any of that seriously , though I would have had to be ice all through to hear it with utter in-difference . |
| 18 | To this end it announced that the electoral commission was to be reconstituted in order to free it from political influence and manipulation . |
| 19 | ‘ The trick is to cover it with black pepper , and when that 's gone , cover it again . ’ |
| 20 | Perhaps if I had allowed myself to be doubtful , I might have understood Mick 's concern about the rules , and his inability to express it without aggressive confrontation . |
| 21 | People who study psychology never seem able to apply it to real life . |
| 22 | The emergence of current cost accounting and of efforts to apply it to public sector organizations has necessitated taking an explicit view of capital maintenance in their accounts . |
| 23 | A large puddle results and drivers swerve into the middle of the road to avoid it with consequent danger to oncoming vehicles and pedestrians . |
| 24 | It has only been met twice this year , the budget is quite small for the amount of work we can continue to do is quite small er it 's quite possible that it would only need to meet once a year in future so it would be sensible to combine it with other non-policy and traffic matters as a working party . |
| 25 | Compare this to how the largest fish move relatively slowly , selecting their food with the discrimination of a gourmet ; the subtle approach , the gaping of the cavernous mouth that does not , at times , close over the food but blows it out to rid it of foreign matter . |
| 26 | Charles decided to play it for light comedy . |
| 27 | Instead of smelting the ore with charcoal in slow processes aided by waterwheels , they needed to do it with cheap coke produced by the rapidly expanding coal-mining industry . |
| 28 | But we 'll have to do it with cold water and the yard broom . ’ |
| 29 | But they could possibly , they surely must be able to do it through natural wastage to some extent . |
| 30 | ‘ They just want to do the job they are paid and trained to do and they want to do it in suitable clothing , ie in uniform . ’ |