Example sentences of "[to-vb] it in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nice complication then arises that to entertain the Copernican system seriously as a potentially true physical description , and subsequently to reject it , could be a more radical position than to accept it in the former sense . |
| 2 | He should understand that ‘ the story of Christ is simply a true myth : a myth working on us in the same way as the others , but with this tremendous difference that it really happened : and one must be content to accept it in the same way . ’ |
| 3 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 4 | Kankoila was one of the founder members of FLING , helping to establish it in the early 1950s . |
| 5 | The Nord-Pas-de-Calais strategy is clearly designed to pull it in the former camp and has a number of existing advantages to draw upon including a good geographical position and relatively low land prices , wages and corporate taxation rates . |
| 6 | He smiled and opened it , surprised to find it in the original Mandarin . |
| 7 | This is the time to know how fear works and to tackle it in the right way . |
| 8 | The aim here is to look at its political and social repercussions and to set it in the wider context of central-local administrative relations . |
| 9 | Somebody purchases alcohol from an off-licence and proceeds to drink it in the open air , usually in a secluded place called a ‘ bushing spot ’ . |
| 10 | What had happened to destroy so utterly the Paradise Restored of Thomas Baskerville , the neat town of Celia Fiennes , the exquisite spot of Charles Deering , to destroy it in the short space of three generations ? |
| 11 | And that er , technology transfer covers submersible pump technology which will be the standard pump line and the Czechs will have a non exclusive erm , li er licence to sell it in the Soviet Union which is a prime market er , and in other areas behind the old iron curtain . |
| 12 | Mark Bright had two excellent chances to steal it in the closing stages but a draw was perhaps fair . |
| 13 | But remember it was your decision to buy it in the first place , nobody else 's , and if it 's you that 's wrong , or you that does n't suit the item , then you probably do n't have any entitlement to an exchange or a refund . |
| 14 | Mr Cinnamond said all the money was ploughed back into the club , except for what it took to pay back those who had put up the finance to buy it in the first place . |
| 15 | The food to which Agnes Diggory led her had been welcome , however , and she had chosen to consume it in the friendly housekeeper 's little pantry next to the kitchen , rather than risk encountering Miss Merchiston once again tonight . |
| 16 | Thomson 's son poured so much money into The Times in the vain effort to modernize it in the late 1970s that no one could blame him for wanting to sell it . |
| 17 | As a result , England now had its own foothold upon France 's northern coast through which trade and armies might enter ; or , as the emperor-elect , Sigismund , was to express it in the next century , a second eye to match the other , Dover , in guarding the straits . |
| 18 | Why bother to do it in the first place ? |
| 19 | and if you wan na do something slightly different then do it in a role play scenario with a manager or a senior adviser and er get their feedback accordingly but I 'd be te I would n't be tempted to do it in the real world . |
| 20 | To do it smoothly , to do it in the right time , you have to be physically very fit . |
| 21 | ‘ Our children had to do it in the Cultural Revolutiion ten years later . |
| 22 | yep , and we developed theo that business here in fact in Suffolk , we were the very first Fire Brigade to , to do it in the seventies , er our own workshops made them erm the units and are now still making them , and the ideas were original ideas on , on , on the equipment and we made about three or four in , in when I retired and I think they made several others now like canteen vans , and erm breathing apparatus , er and so on . |
| 23 | So they do have to put it in the individual enquiry ? |
| 24 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 25 | But even that performance is only sufficient to put it in the middle ranking of the world 's stock markets . |
| 26 | You told me to put it in the safe place . |
| 27 | That 's it you have to put it in the simplest of terms and that is the way that most people would understand it , you know , you come to sixty five or whatever and instead of having three hundred pounds a week you 've got eighty five pounds a week and what are you going to do about it . |
| 28 | As the novelist E. M. Forster was to put it in the Indian summer of the bourgeoisie : ‘ In came the dividends , up went the lofty thoughts . ’ |
| 29 | Well as I say , I 'm going to put it in the big one once a year . |
| 30 | To put it in the broadest possible terms , we can see that intonation makes it easier for a listener to understand what a speaker is trying to convey . |