Example sentences of "it [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He contacted E. D. Morel , whose Congo Association had been a model of effective agitation ; Normal Angell , the best known public advocate of pacifism ; and Ramsay MacDonald , who had resigned the leadership of the Labour party when it agreed to vote for the war credits . |
| 2 | However , when the results of the referendum were known , it agreed to participate in the new system . |
| 3 | The EC Commissioner , Sir Leon Brittan , warned that the UK would be damaged and isolated if it failed to participate in the treaty . |
| 4 | It may in perfect good faith have misconstrued the provisions giving it power to act so that it failed to deal with the question remitted to it and decided some question which was not remitted to it . |
| 5 | One rather exciting will home made will I hasten to add I dealt with last year , the lady of some who was not getting on with her husband and I think although I 'm not absolutely sure that the handwriting is that of her sister and we have this form filled in and it mentioned the bank or special savings account and it mentioned the premium bonds and it mentioned everything in the back bedroom and the linen in the linen and the linen cupboard because she 'd brought all this lot and it failed to appoint an executor and it failed to deal with the residuary estate it meant that technically there was a partial intestacy , as there was a partial intestacy the rules applied to that , first person to inherit ? |
| 6 | Subsequently , it failed to build on the extensive Radio One airplay it was given . |
| 7 | We could take it turns to get in the press boxes in the West Stand ! |
| 8 | The government 's announcement this spring that it planned to phase in the seventeen and a half per cent tax over twelve months brought pensioners out onto the streets . |
| 9 | It may also be that such service would be regarded as valid on the ground that it amounted to service on the defendant in accordance with the law of the country in which service is effected . |
| 10 | Was it intended to apply in the circumstances which have arisen ? |
| 11 | The main bar had an alcove with more marble than Lord Elgin could have handled , and , at the northern end of Blackfriars Bridge , it was over-popular with the lunch-time City crowd who thought it daring to venture across the river . |
| 12 | This is partly because , as we have seen , the Court of Appeal showed no inclination to formulate a coherent set of sentencing aims for the guidance of sentencers , and partly because the self-regulatory mechanisms on which it sought to rely in the pursuit of its more limited policy objectives were themselves seriously defective . |
| 13 | It needs to go in the oven really . |
| 14 | It needs to go in the oven really . |
| 15 | Unlike the crab louse , the mite of scabies lays its eggs under the skin surface , and to do this it needs to burrow through the thick outer layer of the shin . |
| 16 | Finally , social services works out what it needs to pay towards the cost of the place . |
| 17 | With a relatively tiny home market , Ericsson is always short of the resources it needs to stay at the leading edge of its chosen industry , where the cost of major development projects is measured in hundreds of millions of dollars , and although it has developed its own TMOS Telecommunications Management and Operations Support software suite — which runs under Unix — it needs the muscle of a company like Hewlett-Packard to exploit the product . |
| 18 | Moderator the counter motion is in section four as it stands to stop in the second line after the word commentary . |
| 19 | It has to respond to the emerging consciousness of the black community , gay people , feminists by marginalising them and delegitimating their claims . |
| 20 | 7.1 Once it is acknowledged that it has to respond to the problem of its employees experiencing violence and aggressive behaviour in the course of their work , it is of vital importance to initiate a formal reporting process . |
| 21 | Which is a shame , because in its proper place — and of course it has to coexist with the need for supportiveness and respect — it is just a game . |
| 22 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 23 | If it means that it has to go on the other side of the road , could we please have that . |
| 24 | Wired purports to be about America not just Belushi , but this is trite stuff about decadence in Tinseltown ; what it has to say about the nation is nugatory , unless you count a depressing scene in which an audience collapses in laughter while the Voice of its Generation ( as Bluto in Animal House ) stuffs a sandwich down his pants . |
| 25 | ‘ Wired purports to be about America not just Belushi , but this is trite stuff about decadence in Tinseltown ; what it has to say about the nation is nugatory . ’ |
| 26 | Indeed , a good strong stock needs to be able to get rid of all it has to push into the scion , without any hindrance . |
| 27 | It has to report to the South West Thames Regional Health Authority by next February and to highlight any necessary action for the chief executive of the London Ambulance Service . |
| 28 | I am saying that , as an organisation , it can not cope with the work it has to do at the present time . |
| 29 | There is another potential drawback ; it has to do with the fluent child 's love of ( or abuse of ) debate . |
| 30 | It has to do with the relationship between individual initiative and conventional constraint , with the limits social conditions put on the freedom of thought and action . |