Example sentences of "it [adj] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This dimension of Lacan also finds a precedent in Freud : ‘ the programme of becoming happy , which the pleasure principle imposes on us , can not be fulfilled ; yet we must not — indeed , we can not — give up our efforts to bring it nearer to fulfilment by some means or other , ( xii.271 ) . |
| 2 | This view was qualified by other officers of the company who said in some instances Informix could provide backing for startup firms , such as those which may have developed important technology but were unable to productise it due to lack of funds . |
| 3 | Is it due to intimidation by the record companies ? |
| 4 | He took his job very seriously and made me rewrite the book to make it understandable to nonscientists like himself . |
| 5 | Such an omission was not peculiar to this particular school , I realise , nor is it peculiar to schools of its particular type . |
| 6 | Leigh had made it clear to Olivier during this time of her mental illness that she no longer loved him , and Olivier was well aware that his wife wanted to be with Finchie . |
| 7 | We try to make it clear to people in Hong Kong and to the Government of China that the main component in our relationship with the People 's Republic of China must be Hong Kong and carrying the 1984 agreement to success . |
| 8 | ( 4 ) To overcome legal difficulties which would otherwise be encountered as a result of the bidder offering consideration securities to overseas shareholders because foreign securities laws forbid such an offer document being posted to shareholders in the relevant jurisdiction , or permit it subject to compliance with onerous filing or other obligations ( see para 2.4.10 below ) . |
| 9 | Of course , if such a procedure were adopted by the House it would be better to have it subject to agreement between the usual channels than merely on the diktat of the Government . |
| 10 | Sent it all to Viv with all the details , broke all the reference |
| 11 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 12 | None the less , its heavy dependence on exports of minerals , especially gold and diamonds ( which make up about 80 per cent of export earnings ) , make it vulnerable to fluctuations in the world market , and to sanctions imposed by some members of the international community . |
| 13 | In a hard-hitting statement at the end of a recent workshop on ‘ Communication and Prophecy ’ , held in Harare , Zimbabwe , women from nine African countries called on the Church in Africa to ‘ re-examine its leadership structures and strategies that have made it vulnerable to manipulation by government ’ . |
| 14 | As Dr David Owen says in his book Our NHS , by exploiting and accentuating the apparent weaknesses in the system , the media is at risk of endangering the survival of the whole service by making it unattractive to recruits of the right calibre and commitment : |
| 15 | In essence , anyone linked to the system could store information and make it available to others with suitable terminals . |
| 16 | Through collecting up-to-the-minute information on what is selling and what is n't , and then making it available to suppliers via EDI , it becomes possible to achieve a stock replenishment process that is highly responsive to customer demand . |
| 17 | They also remove the carbon and make it available to plants as carbon dioxide . |
| 18 | Is it fair to pupils in allowing equality of opportunity to all who might benefit from what is offered ? |
| 19 | But its uniqueness , its disturbing habit of making immediate and concrete things which are best revered from a distance has laid it open to charges of ‘ magic ’ or ‘ blasphemy ’ or ‘ sacrilege ’ or ‘ obscenity ’ . |
| 20 | Cressey ( 1962 ) himself saw that the lack of specificity on the actual process of learning was a problem with the theory , but pointed out that Sutherland had left it open to clarification in the light of future developments in learning theory . |
| 21 | What superlatives , comparatives and ordinals do is to pick some entity out of its extraction set by giving a property which identifies it relative to membership in that set . |
| 22 | Moreover , failure on the part of an undertaking being investigated to produce relevant documents to the Commission can render it liable to fines on a daily basis . |