Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hired one and went to try it on a mountain . |
| 2 | It is a reason to accept it as a way of being kind to a friend . |
| 3 | Either he can at once accept the anticipatory breach as a repudiation and immediately claim damages or else he can refuse to accept it as a repudiation and wait until there has been actual failure to perform the contract ( as opposed to an anticipatory one ) . |
| 4 | The reason is that even when this is a good reason to accept advice it is not a reason to accept it as a piece of advice . |
| 5 | tendency if you talk about it you 'd be honest but to write it on a form you 'd be |
| 6 | If anybody wanted to tell ( him ) something , they 'd have to write it on a piece of paper … ’ |
| 7 | You will notice that the comments do pay attention to spelling , but that the main purpose of the response is to show the pupil that he has achieved what he set out to do , that is , to write it like a court report , and to include the main information from the story . |
| 8 | Still , Brown reckons that NT will initially be more popular on client machines rather than servers , despite the fact that Microsoft is keen to position it as a server offering . |
| 9 | Probably only a minority of these carried the commitment through into adulthood , though as Gilroy writes ( 1987 : 187 ) , " by looking at the broad and diverse use to which the language and symbols of Rastafari have been put , it is possible to conceive it as a movement in which the lines dividing different levels of commitment are necessarily flexible " . |
| 10 | Having anticipated this , Maria was able to meet it with a degree of control . |
| 11 | Unusual coat colours and patterns can arise spontaneously by genetic mutation anywhere in the world , and breeders in different regions might quite coincidentally seize upon a colour mutation and henceforward seek to establish it as a mark of their breed . |
| 12 | Any chariot may have an additional giant wolf to pull it at a cost of +4 points . |
| 13 | Indeed , the identification of meaning with the material form of language ( words , sentences , speech ) is a precondition of ordinary language use ; to use language is to trust it as a tool that expresses meaning . |
| 14 | It is likely to come about only as a consequence of a general election yielding a majority for no single party thus putting a minority party favouring change in a strong position to secure it as a price for joining or supporting another minority party in government . |
| 15 | In that case Engineering and Chemicals Supplies Limited ( ECS ) , a small producer of organic peroxides , alleged that the UK subsidiary of Akzo , a large Dutch multinational company , had abused its dominant position in the relevant market by implementing a policy of selective and below cost price-cutting designed to damage ECS 's business and to exclude it as a competitor from the specialised sub-market in the flour additives sector in the UK and the Republic of Ireland . |
| 16 | Besides making crude available under various arrangements to enable Iraq to meet contractual commitments to deliver in the Gulf , Riyadh entered into arrangements with Iraq to provide it with a means of moving its southern oil to the Red Sea . |
| 17 | The salesperson 's task is to provide it in a manner which does not antagonise the buyer and , yet , is convincing . |
| 18 | They try to hide it in a wardrobe , but it will not fit . |
| 19 | The English clerk would work doubly hard , either to resolve the problem or carefully to hide it behind a tissue of half-truths . |
| 20 | I had one repaired for Susannah , it had been left to her by an aunt and she had managed to smash it against a post or something and broke the shank and knocked out one of the erm , stones , so on and so forth , and eh , together with some repairs on a charm bracelet I had to pay thirty seven pounds for the whole jolly lot . |
| 21 | Do remember , though , that if you do n't know the spelling of the beginning of a word , it is extremely difficult to find it in a dictionary . |
| 22 | But instead of filtering food from huge quantities of water they have to extract it from a mass of indigestible vegetable matter . |
| 23 | you 're got to stand it in a dish in water . |
| 24 | You 've got to prick your eggs and you 've got to stand it in a dish of water . . |
| 25 | The staff of the new paper decided to launch It with a party . |
| 26 | To define the literary text as a structure is to view it as a set of Saussurean signs ( or as a single sign , as Mukařovský ( 1970 : 69ff. ) suggested ) , in which both signifiers and signifieds are governed by a single complex system of relationships . |
| 27 | As a learner from experience you could decide to view it as a learning opportunity and start to experiment with different ways of running the meeting . |
| 28 | Some of them seemed to view it as a sort of health cure . |
| 29 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 March 1991 the defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the donee of the power of appointment , the defendant 's mother , Mrs. Mary Steed , did not know that she had been appointed attorney by the defendant and accordingly could not have known that she had any power to deal with his property when she executed the transfer of 4 September 1979 , and that in those circumstances the plea of non est factum ought to have succeeded on the judge 's finding that the donee was tricked into signing the transfer ; ( 2 ) the judge having rightly concluded that the transaction as affected was not a sale , save possibly at such a gross undervalue as to vitiate it as a sale , should therefore have held that the transfer was void and ineffective ; ( 3 ) the judge having rightly concluded that he retained a discretion to rectify the charges register against the registered holder , notwithstanding , as he found , that ( i ) the title of the mortgagors , Mr. and Mrs. Hammond , was merely voidable and not void , and ( ii ) that the registered holders of the charge were bona fide mortgagees for value without notice of the facts giving rise to voidability , then wrongly exercised his discretion to refuse to rectify since the considerations in favour of rectification could hardly have been stronger and his refusal to exercise his discretion was tantamount to denying the effective existence of such discretion , as if it was not exercised on the facts of this case it could never , or virtually never , be exercised at all ; and that , in the premises , the judge had erred in law in placing excessive reliance upon ( i ) and ( ii ) above to the exclusion of the other considerations which favoured rectification . |
| 30 | If any greater certainty could be given then it could be done only by an unacceptable narrowing of the duty to restrict it to a part of the auditors responsibilities and we 're also concerned that to do so could have potentially wide ranging implications for the scope of auditor 's functions more generally . |