Example sentences of "it [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a further speech in August 1987 he complained that there had been a tendency both in the USSR and outside it to see the socialist construction of the 1930s as no more than a series of mistakes . |
| 2 | But she did n't need to see it to sense the burning anger that poured from his eyes as he looked up at her . |
| 3 | Listening , she opened it to greet the sandy-haired man who rose to his feet from behind the desk . |
| 4 | The first is a highly fortuitous and austere way : namely that the compound might have the same effect — the transfer of some particular kind of information — sufficiently often and sufficiently advantageously for there to be some selective advantage in its coming standardly to possess that significance : that is , for it to acquire the biological function of transmitting just that kind of information . |
| 5 | The study 's thesis was that Attlee built on the Whitehall machine constructed in the Second World War and used it to implement the Labour Party 's reform programme . |
| 6 | Given the establishment of this joint working party , it would appear both reasonable and sensible for the APB 's Going Concern Task Force to work with it to establish the necessary guidance on what disclosures should be made , and then to incorporate it . |
| 7 | Step one , then , in intelligent persuasion is to acknowledge the status of your ‘ audience ’ through targeting what you say and how you say it to meet the specific needs of the individuals involved : the ‘ What 's in it for you ? ’ factor . |
| 8 | Now he looked up , and Lachlan was hard put to it to meet the bitter glare . |
| 9 | A well-documented response to the threat of take-over is for the company to increase its capitalisation by itself becoming a predator or otherwise absorbing additional businesses to enable it to obtain the relative security that comes with increased size . |
| 10 | One of the earliest detailed discussions of how the artefacts of the period might be dated was provided by Åberg ( 1926 , pp. 149–58 ) , although typically there is no consideration of what such chronology could be used for beyond using it to relate the archaeological data to an historical narrative : |
| 11 | Copy the supplied template configuration file into the root directory for the new LIFESPAN Process , and edit it to contain the correct information . |
| 12 | Well that 's right , yes , and the other thing as well , I should n't really be telling you this , , because it 's bad news for us but , if you in fact write a long , rambling press release , what you will find is that the journalist will almost , almost certainly go three-quarters of the way down it to find the real story which is hidden in there , and occasionally that real story is purposely hidden down in there , and you know you look at any council minutes , and the real story is always , inevitably hidden down there , because it 's the bit that somebody does n't want people to know about , and so journalists are naturally trained to go down the bit to find out what 's it about . |
| 13 | In this section the facility of the Laplace transformation technique will be demonstrated by applying it to find the transient response in a few illustrative cases . |
| 14 | it To provide the Right Phrase to Describe it |
| 15 | He said that a solid body moving through a fluid medium such as air was in fact propelled by the air , which was cleft by the moving body and then rejoined behind it to provide the forward drive , for there could be no such thing as a vacuum , that is , mere nothingness . |
| 16 | As the rough represents the variability around the smoothed line , it is sometimes appropriate to use it to indicate the typical degree of variation around the smoothed curve . |
| 17 | What we have done is to keep unc but use it to eliminate the leading elements of unc and so on , reducing the number of rows by 1 at each step . |
| 18 | He wanted it to replace the official versions in the liturgy . |
| 19 | Is it to set the general atmosphere and mood as Stravinsky did for The Firebird Mysterious sounds of the wind whispering in the trees , the soaring flight of a bird and the heavy tread of an unseen foot are still a wonderful introduction to this magic tale . |
| 20 | I want it to reflect the living area in the 1990s |
| 21 | If the trial is successful the Hong Kong government will extend it to cover the entire colony . |
| 22 | You do n't want it to cover the old hole ! |
| 23 | He was n't doing it to advance the Allied cause . |
| 24 | Many anglers are hailing it as the most significant advance in fishing tackle during the past 20 years and Dave Chilton , the man who has popularised its use , believes that the line , made from the world 's strongest man-made fibre ( Lancia uses it to strengthen the internal bodywork of its cars ) , may revolutionise all branches of the sport . |
| 25 | For B&O , form has long been as important as function , allowing it to avoid the open-sandwich school of Danish design . |
| 26 | Now the European Institute of Technology — an industrial organisation founded by IBM Europe , AT&T , Enichem , Montedison and Philips — has asked it to handle the intellectual property rights for the scientific projects it supports in European institutions . |
| 27 | The surname , from her first husband , had been Polish , but she had adapted it to fit the modern age . |
| 28 | Cut the bad stuff out and er put the new timber in and shape it to fit the existing door casing , architrave and |
| 29 | There was , in particular , a renewed surge of spending on state schools , part of it to finance the rapid completion of the comprehensive secondary education system now being finished under the aegis of Shirley Williams , a right-wing member of the government but also a critic of private schooling . |
| 30 | Like an archaeologist who digs up a tiny shard in the desert and from it extrapolates a whole civilisation , so Simon Charsley lifts an inconsequential marzipan confection and uses it to illuminate the shifting sands of Western civilisation . |