Example sentences of "[to-vb] it in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might have to modify it in the light of circumstances . |
| 2 | Many , however , came to accept it in the context of their hopes for future labour success : capitalist bureaucracy was undesirable , but when labour came to dominate Parliament , the bureaucracy would act in sympathy with the needs and condition of the working class and would no longer be regarded as an alien intrusion . |
| 3 | MINTO : Ask Paxford , dear : he 'll show you how to work it in the morning . |
| 4 | It was important , too , that we took time to understand the existing strengths of the Festival , while examining how we should be trying to position it in the future to maximise audiences . ’ |
| 5 | It would seem to me that if you 've got to prove a case that there that it is the place of last resort , and that place of last resort has got to be at least five thousand dwellings , you are in a place where there is absolute massive growth of demand , and improbably no one has been able to meet a five year supply of housing land , if you are to meet it in the term , if y if those are the criteria to meeting the terms of th of this sort of plan , and in fact what I would submit is that a new settlement solution is very much a part and parcel of a long term solution , and that 's where essentially the County strategy is quite right in proposing a new settlement in the context of the greenbelt , because also greenbelt is a long term solution . |
| 6 | For centuries therefore , statute has placed a limit on the time after which a claimant to an interest in land may bring an action to establish it in the face of the possession of another person holding under a later title … |
| 7 | When Ford replaced the upright ( and well loved ) Cortina with the rounded ( and alien ) Sierra , it was forced to spend a fortune on advertising and promotion to establish it in the market . |
| 8 | He put it in his own holster and he put the er thumb strap over t to secure it in the holster . |
| 9 | " Why did you expect to find it in the laundry-basket ? " |
| 10 | If there was no shot in or among the human remains , in the cavities of the skull for instance , would it be possible to find it in the soil , among the sand and gravel and pine needles ? |
| 11 | The body shape is the well-known Hamer-adopted version of the double-cutaway Les Paul Special ; widely used as a pleasingly symmetrical guitar body shape , it 's unusual to find it in the context of a bass . |
| 12 | Well , it 's very kind of you , but I 'm sure I 'll be able to find it in the car . |
| 13 | For a fraction of a second , a strange , satanic glitter lit up Lucie 's eyes and his fist clenched and he began to punch it in the air . |
| 14 | Logique du sens causes us to reflect on matters that philosophy has neglected for many centuries : the event ( assimilated in a concept , from which we vainly attempted to extract it in the form of a fact , verifying a proposition , of actual experience , a modality of the subject , of concreteness , the empirical content of history ) ; and the phantasm ( reduced in the name of reality and situated at the extremity , the pathological pole , of a normative sequence : perception-image-memory-illusion ) . |
| 15 | We used to stand it in the window to cool down so that we could get a cool drink — it was April and temperatures were up in the nineties and there was no water on the train . |
| 16 | British patent application 2 098 946 outlines a plan for a kite sail for ships , while 2098950 gives some details of how to launch it in the air . |
| 17 | Luke begins his account of the birth of Jesus by trying to set it in the context of world history . |
| 18 | I agree with what [ the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland president ] said in a recent issue of CA about the importance of non-financial performance measurement , and you 've got to set it in the context that managers and the board ca n't exist on just an analysis of the general ledger . ’ |
| 19 | Perhaps because my own PhD , many years before , had been taken up with working on protein phosphorylation without fully realizing its significance ( Chapter 3 ) the temptation to explore it in the chick proved irresistible . |
| 20 | As a diversion , which would allow time for the passing of the trembling , I reached into my pocket , pulled out the tin of rubbers , and tried to open it in the dark . |
| 21 | They will wish to examine it in ways contemporary users do not need to and to analyze it in the context of other datasets . |
| 22 | Eliot borrowed from it for The Waste Land , thus making it permanently famous ; Pound could not have known of it in 1911 , but if he had then visited the Templars ' cavern-church in Aubeterre he could hardly have failed to remember it in the light of jessie Weston 's argument . |
| 23 | The decision to install it in the museum 's new Henry Cole Wing in 1989 led to its restoration and trip to Japan for the Wright exhibition in 1990 . |
| 24 | The Undo command gives you a second chance when you delete a block of text in error by allowing you to replace it in the document exactly where it came from . |
| 25 | In his room at the hotel , he would find a gun and it was emphasised that , after the shooting , he was to replace it in the room as arrangements had been made to dispose of it . |
| 26 | It is interesting to speculate whether the microfilm information system will come to replace it in the future . |
| 27 | Knowledge of this fact being the result of the finding , the to infinitive is required in order to evoke it in the subsequence of the event of discovering denoted by the main verb . |
| 28 | And George had found her apparently asleep , and had slept uneasily himself , impatient to get the whole matter properly thrashed out , hoping to discuss it in the morning . |
| 29 | Trapped in the revolving world of afternoon TV , this is a man who would have quite happily recorded the LP from the comfort of his bed had they been able to fit it in the studio . |
| 30 | So we need to be looking forward , but we ought to be looking short-term , so the best way to look at objectives , is to look it in the short-term , which is in fact , year one if you like , medium term , years two and three , and long-term , years four and five . |