Example sentences of "it [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please help us preserve it for the future generations . |
| 2 | This is quite a steady climb but well worth it for the superb views . |
| 3 | In this respect , the French government is right to have made the Minister of Culture also Minister of Education ( although whether they have done it for the right reasons , and with the right man is another matter ) . |
| 4 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 5 | Before the new names can go in the pot , the ones that have remained in it for the two years have to come out so , after a brief introduction by the chairman of the trustees and the vicar , the three keyholders leave the room to go next door to the church where the chest is kept . |
| 6 | The Federal Assembly on May 2 voted in favour of abolishing the death penalty and replacing it for the relevant offences with life imprisonment . |
| 7 | His primary task in the short term would be to mobilize it for the regional elections in March . |
| 8 | ‘ … I 'll do it for the Young Farmers sometime . ’ |
| 9 | One man who took early retirement at 61 thought , at the time , that the advantage of early retirement was ‘ The fact that there are so many young people out of work and I thought I 'd done a lifetime 's work and might as well leave it for the young ones . ’ |
| 10 | He wrote it for the young men who were dying in the war , but the words may offer a little comfort . |
| 11 | And life 's too short to miss out on the chance of it for the wrong kinds of reasons . ’ |
| 12 | It would be a mistake to assume that all participants in the revolt were involved in it for the same reasons . |
| 13 | Sunderland wanted £4,000 and their manager , Bob Kyle , said it would be worth it for the twenty goals Buchan was bound to score in his first season at Highbury . |
| 14 | when they 've got to do the road or something they want somebody to do it for the three weeks or |
| 15 | Nevertheless , though the currents of genuine popular opinion are now even more difficult to evaluate than they had been earlier , given the intensified persecution from 1942 onwards of even relatively trivial ‘ offences ’ of criticizing the regime or ‘ subverting ’ the wartime ordinances , every sign points towards the growth in this period of a ‘ silent majority ’ increasingly critical of the Nazi regime — even if the criticism was often only obliquely expressed — and ready to blame it for the mounting miseries of the war . |
| 16 | It makes a firmer fabric than an every needle rib , makes a double jacquard pattern shorter and truer to the actual pattern and , also , you can use it for the plain rows instead of the ‘ striper ’ card if you like the texture . |
| 17 | Use it for the darker colours ; the permanency of the pigments is not affected by the minerals in the water . |
| 18 | It was a new Fender Strat , bought from a shop on Shaftsbury Avenue in February ‘ 62 , and yes , I wish I still had it , but only to sell it for the large sums they fetch now ! |
| 19 | Reverse it for the bottom lashes — look up in to the mirror about your forehead . |
| 20 | The theory being propounded here sees the global system as primarily a capitalist global system and the main forces in it as the transnational corporations , transnational capitalist classes and the culture-ideology of consumerism . |
| 21 | And the judge tried effectively to ‘ settle ’ the matter by dealing with it through the ordinary channels of taxation . |
| 22 | They do it through the Social Services , erm they do it through the various schools erm they will probably give some places to the media so that they can run competitions which would encompass all the youngsters . |
| 23 | Boiled cabbage almost taste it through the dusty diamonds of glass . |
| 24 | I 'm doing it through the four years of the course . |
| 25 | no certificate of any kind has been received , even though every reasonable effort has been made to obtain it through the competent authorities of the State addressed . |
| 26 | We have raised it through the United Nations , and we see the United Nations as the primary focus for encouraging a much wider group of countries to sign the treaty and abide by it . |
| 27 | I 'll never make it through the three weeks in one piece ! ’ |
| 28 | They do it through the Social Services , erm they do it through the various schools erm they will probably give some places to the media so that they can run competitions which would encompass all the youngsters . |
| 29 | Her husband might want justice , but he wanted it through the proper channels . |
| 30 | And while the rewards in terms of job satisfaction have not reached the dizzy heights of the 1980s , Mr Wilson stresses : ‘ You have to have a thick skin and be prepared to stick with it through the bad times as well as the good . ’ |