Example sentences of "to the [noun] [prep] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CPP , which was happy to go along with the election , seems averse to the idea of losing it . |
| 2 | A perceived event then is not in the same relation to the act of perceiving it as an inferred event is to the act of inferring it . |
| 3 | A perceived event then is not in the same relation to the act of perceiving it as an inferred event is to the act of inferring it . |
| 4 | Only in later novels does Brooke-Rose draw out the implications of this parallel ( i.e. the ‘ fictionality ’ or ‘ constructedness ’ of lived experience ) , but by pushing the possibility of psychological and ontological wholeness into ever more distant territory in The Sycamore Tree , she demonstrates a growing scepticism with regard to the possibility of achieving it . |
| 5 | I understand that , and I am grateful to the Minister for pointing it out . |
| 6 | He slowed the car , turning it off the main road down a narrow lane that led to the river before bringing it to a halt and cutting the engine . |
| 7 | NT would not appear on any of the bigger selling RISC processors — Sparc , RS/6000 or HP — for at least a year , probably two , said Michels , due to the difficulties of porting it to big-endian architectures . |
| 8 | Chemists initially make polyacetylene in the cis form , and convert this to the trans by heating it to 200°C in helium . |
| 9 | A generous flap at the top seals with two heavy duty press studs and a tab is attached to the flap for pulling it open . |
| 10 | There , the missing gene will be added to the marrow by infecting it with a genetically altered virus . |
| 11 | This is an attractive argument which seems to provide an easy answer to the problem by disregarding it entirely . |
| 12 | An argument against such flexibility is that the House of Lords itself , in respect of any case that it is seised of , lacks authority to remit the case to the court below directing it to re-open and re-hear the case . |
| 13 | At the Board of Trade , Beveridge , with Llewellyn-Smith , gave considerable thought to the problems of putting it into practice . |
| 14 | That is the difference between switching on and switching off , and switching on is an absolutely essential ingredient to the art of making it happen . |
| 15 | Conventionally , we would expect people to borrow up to the point where the utility gained from the last pound borrowed is just equal to the cost of borrowing it . |
| 16 | The plant can be anchored to the bottom by tying it to a piece of wood , roots or rock . |
| 17 | With the film over the clay , the design is then transferred to the clay by pricking it through with needles or pastry cutters . |
| 18 | ‘ Until now I 'd just … never got around to the process of losing it … ’ |
| 19 | Contrary to what Tony Lumpkin believes , speaking for all those who have been subjected to the drudgery of learning it in school , grammar is not a constraining imposition but a liberating force : it frees us from a dependency on context and the limitations of a purely lexical categorization of reality . |
| 20 | Glasgow District Council decided last month to release its £90,000 grant for 1992-93 to the RSNO after holding it back for almost a year . |
| 21 | If you have fellow students , use the language with them also , recognizing it may not always come out correctly , but it can take away some of the reluctance you may feel in using the language , and adds to the opportunities of using it . |
| 22 | Mister was in the city to prevent and Investors in People award to the chemists for encouraging it 's staff to take vocational training . |
| 23 | Cats do often pause after catching their prey and momentarily release what they imagine is a corpse before settling down to the business of eating it . |
| 24 | Well she wa she 's not looking forward to cake , she 's she 's looking forward to the beauty of seeing it is n't she ? |
| 25 | In using a cognitive approach to the task of interpreting it may be possible to find a base for comparing the language systems . |
| 26 | Now that the legal framework for the rest of the century appears to have been set attention can be given to the task of interpreting it for governors . |
| 27 | ‘ One day , if I write my memoirs — the only thing I shall write well , if ever I put myself to the task of doing it — you will find a place in them , and what a place ! |
| 28 | The country is in such disorder that a successor may be unequal to the task of putting it right . |
| 29 | pull the spent kicking foot right back to the body before setting it down . |
| 30 | She strongly approves of her brother 's attention to his second great house at Chawton , because he is ‘ proving & strengthening his attachment to the place by making it better ’ , even down to a ‘ solicitude ’ for the inadequate dimensions of a pantry door ; for an attention to domestic minutiae , if normally unstated , indicates a concern for other people , at least at one 's own level of society . |