Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had meant nothing at first , but then he had thought to try it as an entry code to some of the secret Ping Tiao computer networks he had discovered weeks before but had failed to penetrate . |
| 2 | The ancient Forest system was in fact cumbrous and inefficient : the attempt to revive it as an instrument of Crown policy was doomed to failure . |
| 3 | However , the firm made a mistake in buying up the Laker Holidays label and trying to revive it in an effort to diversify its operating base . |
| 4 | Well that shows us what a dramatist was lost to the English stage when Milton finally decided to write it as an epic and not as a play . |
| 5 | The headlamp picked out a cat streaking towards a wall , and a child without shoes between the shafts of a wooden cart , straining to pull it into an alleyway , and both images were gone in an instant , drowned in darkness as the bike sped past , the road a triangle of bright water as they rode the glittering breakers of the tramlines and swerved to the kerb of the Commercial Hotel . |
| 6 | Operational deposits make up approximately a fifth of bankers ' balances held at the bank , the remainder being made up of non-interest bearing cash deposits that banks are required to keep at the Bank of England to provide it with an income . |
| 7 | Seen in this gallery context it invites us to view it as an individual 's response to a constructed drama . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm going to exhibit it in an art gallery in Paris soon . ’ |
| 9 | This defect , considered in conjunction with those exposed in earlier pages , ought to disqualify it as an instrument of electoral reform . |
| 10 | In November 1940 the Vichy government abolished the ineffective Commission de Châlons , intending to replace it with an organisation called Le Bureau de Repartition du Vinicole de Champagne , but in April the following year the Germans set up the CIVC . |
| 11 | Where the value of the intangible asset is at an all-time low , it may be possible to sell it to an IOFC operation and realise a capital loss in the selling location . |
| 12 | Should you wish to paint hardwood for the first time , it will be necessary to coat it with an aluminium primer . |
| 13 | You will receive a copy of the report and have the opportunity to discuss it in an interview . |
| 14 | It is easy to have an opinion about a moral issue like capital punishment , but if you were to discuss it in an essay you would usually have to give your reasons . |
| 15 | There he found the greatest novelty of all : a twenty-eight-day dial that showed the phases of the moon — at least , it had been the moon when Nora bought the watch but she had got a miniaturist to overpaint it with an enamel portrait of herself . |
| 16 | Perhaps I would n't want to do it before an audience but then I 've never performed for others . |
| 17 | ‘ But he used to do it in an hour , ’ said his wife impatiently . |
| 18 | But Qaddafi 's promise to abolish the state was not a policy in this sense : it was a promise to change the structure of political activity , and to do it in an area over which sovereigns have more or less complete control . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've known and loved it over the years , and always wanted to put it on an album . |
| 20 | Why did you have to put it on an island ? |
| 21 | It was not until the 1860s that a determined effort was made to expand the police and to use it as an instrument to suppress crime . |
| 22 | In the face of the fundamentalists ' electoral success , the FLN political bureau on June 17 issued a statement rejecting " all attempts to return Islam to the era of charlatanism and myths or to use it as an instrument of demagogy and political opportunism " . |
| 23 | There is also an interesting account of the excavations carried out by Wright which caused Sir Mortimer Wheeler years later to use it as an illustration of how not to carry out an archaeological dig . |
| 24 | I thought then I 'd be able to use it as an airing cupboard but it still did n't work but it 's like you said it 's because it 's got such a good |
| 25 | The idea we are putting to you is to keep a diary of certain of the major aspects of the course and to use it as an aid to reflection and learning . |
| 26 | If a particular human is capable of handling the proper aspects of a gadget , which must include mental knowledge of its place in the Machine of Evolution , then it is possible to use it as an aid , but as there are increasing numbers of gadgets being invented and marketed , so the human brain has no time and space to see these in relation to its own life/thought scale because , upon being born , the human is thrown immediately into a multi-armed and legged wrestling match with levers , wires , buttons and switches and fails to grasp the meaning of it all , being occupied totally in rushing to partially master the use of one before the marketeers rush in faster with 10 new gleaming diversions . |
| 27 | The cost of running SYMAP is low since standard peripherals are used , so it makes sense to use it as an aid to map design before proceeding to a more elaborate plotter mapping package such as GIMMS . |
| 28 | And what this section will do is stand back from the particularity of today ( though continuing to use it as an example ) and ask why economies develop such geographical variation and why their geographies are subject to change . |
| 29 | I mean just read round for fun yo and see if there 's anything that sticks and if you get chance to use it in an exam , do Okay , then it says develop a stock of gems . |
| 30 | Why , he thought , had they been unable to abandon the film , to leave it without an ending , as a memorial to her death ? |