Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For large tensile specimens most test machines use swivelling or gimbal grip mountings to avoid such effects of non-axiality , but when small specimens are used , of a few millimetres in cross-section as is common with polymer tests , axiality may become more difficult to achieve because the mass of the swivelling grip requires considerable stress to rotate or move it into the axial position . |
| 2 | So too has the rise of feminist versions of the nature of parenting , in which , for example , the daily physical care of children has been demystified to lay bare the sheer labour involved , and hence the need to share this burden equally rather than regard it as an unequivocal privilege ( see , for example , Oakley , 1974 ) . |
| 3 | And rather than make it into a viable erm , organization . |
| 4 | The owner of the estate , American John Kluge , agreed in principle to sell the estate to the crown rather than put it on the open market , but he did not consider the resulting offer to be high enough . |
| 5 | The change-over day from one occupancy to the next was on a Saturday , when our admirable Jane Jones arrived to clean and prepare it for the next lot . |
| 6 | Her advice is to try and treat it as a normal meal . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've never had any doubts about my scoring ability but I have still got to go out and do it on a consistent basis . ’ |
| 8 | Efforts to strengthen and improve it in the last decades of the century had only moderate success . |
| 9 | We got him to come and fix it before the first session . |
| 10 | We will have destroyed some of our roots , burnt the family photographs for want of a tiny sum to buy the site compulsorily , block the drains which are drying it out , excavate it with a greater delicacy than the present JCBs can offer and restore it as a regenerating wetland of immense cultural significance . |
| 11 | A joint press release states — ‘ A major new joint initiative from the two world governing bodies has been formulated , promoted by the recognition that bowls needs a marketing arm to properly develop and promote it as a major sport worldwide . |