Example sentences of "it [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More likely used it to saw a hole through a pound coin . |
| 2 | As well using the message on literature sent to people outside the region , it will also be used within it to spearhead a drive for increased quality of service . |
| 3 | " Ownership " is a word of many meanings , but in the present context we can take it to signify a title to a subject matter … |
| 4 | Lindsey stared at the cardiograph , willing it to monitor a response . |
| 5 | Better , far better , for it to remain a dream . |
| 6 | This would enable Hongkong Bank to avoid paying a packet for goodwill and for it to remain a Hongkong bank while Midland remained British . |
| 7 | I ca n't say I have come across anyone who expects it to remain a dwarf , but many seem to think that 5–6″ is it — possibly because it is rare to see larger specimens in a retail outlet . |
| 8 | To take this initiative and extend it to include a range of interests which they can use , whether or not they are employed in the future , might help them to be on a more equal footing with their peers who have not been in public care . |
| 9 | Other workshops have been held to evaluate the achievements of the study , and to draw lessons from it to enable a move towards further action on specific issues such as mineral leasing , and strip mining . |
| 10 | But the remains of the entrée had enough atropine in it to kill a couple of horses . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And even if you could get a harness on it , how could you get it to pull a cart ? ’ |
| 12 | Maxim tried a roundhouse kick that missed , turning with it to launch a back kick that dropped one of them . |
| 13 | We produced an attractive new leaflet and used it to launch a recruitment campaign . |
| 14 | How easy is it to catch a fox ? |
| 15 | And this issue he had been hard put to it to find a couple of intelligent letters for the correspondence page ; sometimes it seemed that every crackbrain in north-east Norfolk read the PANUP newsletter but that no one else did . |
| 16 | ‘ On the other hand , if you 're a character actress you 're allowed much more freedom to question the role you 've been given , and to go more deeply into it to find a means of playing the part . |
| 17 | It illustrates the pyramiding effect of interbank lending which means that no single customer or bank can be sure of where credit , i.e. deposits loaned , it extends will end up ( Shell 's deposit was loaned by Barclays to Lloyds and the latter used it to grant a loan to BP ) . |
| 18 | If the DEA had used it to provide a cover identity for somebody in Egypt , it could hardly admit that in open court or explain how it had come by the certificate in the first place . |
| 19 | Now we use it to write a file ( E.CLI again ) that we can use as redirected input . |
| 20 | I I think the the the point I would I wish to make is that in whilst er its multi role capability would have enabled it to replace a number of roles and possibly a number of er aircraft and er as Mr Evans said earlier , that 's still being looked at . |
| 21 | Alvarez was fully aware of the ‘ bad news ’ part of the equation-the muon 's brief life which only allowed it to catalyse a handful of fusions before it perished . |
| 22 | An extract from his booklet , printed in The Observer on 2 June 1991 , caused it to receive a record mailing from readers , many of whom supported his " boo-ing " of all religious leaders as so many cackling geese . |
| 23 | It is often more fun to taste a wine 's potential than wait years for it to reach a maturity that may not be so splendid after all . |
| 24 | The glacier beyond was dirty and torturous , but we trekked down it to reach a sandspill outfall . |
| 25 | Indeed , it may even be possible to argue that certain types of reservation of title clause are caught by s3 , in so far as they purport to allow the seller to retain title until certain conditions are fulfilled , and therefore permit it to render a performance substantially different from that reasonably expected of it , or no performance at all . |
| 26 | The best way to discover what HGW is like is to use it to create a presentation . |
| 27 | To achieve this Lazarsfeld borrowed a notion from mathematics and logic , that of the variable , and used it to create a way of thinking about social science in both its theoretical and empirical aspects . |
| 28 | Probably you do not care enough for it to create a liking and a need , which we shall never be able to satisfy nevertheless , avoid it unless principle and pleasure and interest all advise it . |
| 29 | Spread all the remaining green royal icing over the cake drum around the stable , and stipple it to create a grass effect by placing the flat side of a palette knife on to the icing and drawing it upwards in little strokes . |
| 30 | How much is it to hire a video camera for us all ? |