Example sentences of "it [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my gybe , it seemed that by pulling up on the boom I was committing a lot of weight to the back which , although turning the board initially , caused it to lose speed through the turn . |
| 2 | These attract a small moth with a specially curved proboscis that enables it to gather pollen from the yucca stamens . |
| 3 | The NPFL 's advance had enabled it to secure control of the port of Buchanan , 100 km south-east of Monrovia , after fierce fighting on May 23 . |
| 4 | They need not prove that the accused had it with him with the intention of using it to cause injury to the person . |
| 5 | It is to be hoped that NAB 's more open approach will enable it to win consent from the public sector institutions for difficult and unpalatable decisions , though clearly some of its deliberations , concerning the possible closing of institutions for example , will have to be conducted in private . |
| 6 | The purpose of the opening in the south wall of the choir behind the rector 's desk is open to conjecture : is it to give light at the desk , which otherwise would be in deep shadow , or is it a hagioscope ( peephole ) ? |
| 7 | To the extent the seller uses it to manufacture stock for the buyer ahead of any orders he does so at his own risk . |
| 8 | In 1804 , aged 22 , he moved to a clerical post in London but soon left it to study law in the city . |
| 9 | there is no doubt that this is not a publication to be left around the bedroom floor gathering foot prints and Coca-Cola stains , but then similar neither is it to lie moribund on the coffee table or in the display cabinet . |
| 10 | Ad hoc alliances of green organizations take place from time to time , and at the end of 1988 Greenpeace , Friends of the Earth and the World Wide Fund for Nature jointly threw down a ‘ green gauntlet ’ to the government , urging it to turn propaganda about the environment into action . |
| 11 | Compression Laboratories Inc , San Jose , says Bell Atlantic Corp has chosen it to supply technology for the phone company 's video-on-demand trial for up to 400 residential homes : Compression Labs will provide digital video encoders and decoders which convert standard analogue video signals to a compressed digital video format ; terms of the pact were not disclosed . |
| 12 | A Primus is a little camping-stove that you fill with paraffin and you light it at the top and then you pump it to get pressure for the flame . |
| 13 | Nevertheless s32(1) requires the court to draw up a timetable for disposing of the case without delay and s1(2) requires it to have regard to the general principle that any delay is likely to prejudice the child . |
| 14 | We have made provision within Strathclyde 's budget for funds to enable it to undertake development of the A77 . |
| 15 | Manufacturing workers were aware of this situation , and at times of dispute with their employers sometimes attempted to use it to gain support from the landed rate-payers who , correctly , believed that , compared with land , the assets of manufacturers were significantly under-assessed . |
| 16 | They have given each guest a limited-edition Disney sweatshirt and insisted that they wear it to gain entry to the gala performance . |
| 17 | If that right is not set out in the expert clause the agreement of the parties ( and , probably , the agreement of the expert as well ) will be needed for it to become part of the reference . |
| 18 | The developmentalists grabbed it and used it to make distance between the materially rich and poor nations so that very soon ‘ Third World ’ universally connoted poverty , overpopulation , disease , disorder , illiteracy , violent social upheavals and every imaginable human horror . |
| 19 | The idea is that the mind , stimulated by key words or phrases in the text , or by the context , activates a knowledge schema , and uses it to make sense of the discourse . |