Example sentences of "to [v-ing] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davide was still committed to preferring it to the alternatives , the vendettas , the feuds , the bloody score -these ways were for barbarians , for people like Sicilians , or Neapolitans , people whose own blood was all mixed up with Spaniards ' . |
| 2 | Despite their criticism , peer review is the method most commonly used within the Research Councils for evaluating the scientific contributions of their own staff , in addition to using it for the evaluation of research proposals . |
| 3 | We would ask the Lord Chancellor to look at our contribution closely with a view to adopting it for the judiciary . ’ |
| 4 | You never come near to suspecting it in the North . |
| 5 | Over the years various attempts will have been made to insulate houses like these , but these are unlikely to match modern standards , and it will pay you to check out your existing level of insulation , with a view to improving it for the future . |
| 6 | The emergence of the stream-of-consciousness novel at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries was obviously related to a huge epistemological shift in culture at large , from locating reality in the objective world of actions and things as perceived by common sense , to locating it in the minds of individual thinking subjects , each of whom constructs their own reality , and has difficulty in matching it with the reality constructed by others . |
| 7 | We came very close to doing it at the last election . |
| 8 | especially when it came to humping it into the van the A L O was nowhere to be found . |
| 9 | The answer is to unwind some of the absurdities of the intervention system which mean that far too much money is devoted to financing the depreciation of beef rather than to putting it on the table . |
| 10 | ‘ I look forward to putting it to the test . ’ |
| 11 | If the post is a pivotal one , consideration should even be given to advertising it in the local press and community newspapers . |
| 12 | A lower level route is also a good option for days when you 're not feeling up to making it across the tops . |
| 13 | And diamonds were a man 's best friend when it came to making it with the opposite sex . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's a very rare model , but while I ca n't get fired up to restoring it at the moment , I just can not bring myself to sell it , ’ is Gordon 's dilemma . |