Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In case there are any reading this who have still not seen the vision , allow me to spell it out in moral advice : If you attend zoos and circuses — find other entertainment ; if you are engaged in intensive ‘ livestock ’ farming — throw away the systems of close confinement ; if you are engaged in animal experimentation — find alternatives ; and if you still eat meat — give it up . |
| 2 | We believe it would be a cynical interpretation of sustainable development to pass it on to future generations to solve . |
| 3 | We believe it would be a cynical interpretation of sustainable development to pass it on to future generations to solve . |
| 4 | But soon the colleges came to grips with Little Shop of Horrors as a topic for campus debate the world over , and they decided that Corman was telling them that he was not trying to hide the fact that it was a cheaply made film — this was the one he shot in two days — but he was n't trying to pass it off as serious movie-making either . |
| 5 | Well er if it 's a messy one , the first thing to do with it , is to split it up into little bits . |
| 6 | Even if they do , they tend to cordon it off from other feminist issues . |
| 7 | As it had in 1945 , 1964 and 1974 , Labour would inherit the mess the Tories had left behind , he said , but , this time , with an historic mission to clean it up for good . |
| 8 | King Edward bent to pick it up amid suggestive laughter , declaring ‘ shame on him who thinks evil of it ’ , and prophesying that he would make it the most sought-after badge of honour in Britain . |
| 9 | In this case it may be by asking the child to pick up a toy , being ignored , then compelling him or her to pick it up by physical guidance then putting the child out of the room and leaving him when the inevitable tantrum occurs . |
| 10 | In the thirtieth minute , Gary Weaving scored what looked like a perfectly good goal , only for the linesman to rule it out for offside , to everyone 's dismay . |
| 11 | The fact that IUD users are up to nine times more likely than non-users to contract a sterilising infection is enough to rule it out for large numbers of women , despite it 's reliability as a contraceptive device — if they are aware of the dangers , that is . |
| 12 | ‘ Hence the need to ship it in under maximum security , I presume ? |
| 13 | But then , having thrown away the chance of greater equality , women gradually proceeded to win it back by devious ways until by 1960 there had been a stealthy but profound erosion of male dominance with hardly a male being yet aware of it . |
| 14 | She had heard dark mutterings about him but after a few minutes of talking with him she was ready to put it down to common envy . |
| 15 | The Arrow Impossibility Theorem suggests that it may be futile to attempt to build it up from reasonable democratic assumptions ( see chapter 4 ) . |
| 16 | In future , she would not go looking for love , or trying to manufacture it out of other lesser emotions , but she still believed it would find her one day . |
| 17 | Where training is provided by humanities computing or computing science departments , there are pressures to dress it up in formal scientific terms so as to legitimize it in the eyes of the surrounding scientific community . |
| 18 | THE fact that Mickey Mouse did not turn up in London for the announcement of Eurodisney 's share price , preferring to battle it out with anti-Disney demonstrators in Paris , shows where the focus of the Europe-wide issue is . |
| 19 | The senders of it must have had misgivings as to whether he would obey as they appear to have decided to back it up with physical intimidation . |
| 20 | got to break it down into little steps and do a bit at a time |
| 21 | Straw : Some is already converted as farmyard manure ; and attempts have been made to break it down in other ways to make a compost base . |
| 22 | Thinking is a capacity to refer at will , whose nature is made more mysterious if we try to chop it up into mental episodes with particular epistemic content or causal power . |
| 23 | We 'll just have to rub it in with Deep Heat . |
| 24 | He pointed to the university 's successful three-year programme to steer it out of serious financial problems without compulsory redundancies . |
| 25 | We will establish a new Urban Regeneration Agency to pull together our efforts to clear up and develop derelict land , helping to bring it back into commercial use and provide new opportunities for local people . |
| 26 | Eat slightly less and exercise a little more ; aim to bring it back to normal within a week or two . |
| 27 | The aircraft has been on the airshow circuit for a number of years and now needs a lot of tender loving care to bring it back to pristine condition again . |
| 28 | So if you 'd like to bring it down to mumsy sleep . |