Example sentences of "of [v-ing] it to [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is it not the time when all those who have an interest in our industry should sit down and discuss our future together and try to get back to the situation where the industry controls and governs itself instead of allowing it to be manipulated by those who purchase our product ? ’ he asked about 200 delegates . |
| 2 | Private letters are like a conversation overheard , often more revealing than an autobiography , or than a diary which may have been written with more than half an intention of allowing it to be published . |
| 3 | And we began the long process of actually sort of causing it to be reborn . |
| 4 | It seemed nothing could stop him , but there was still that chance of losing it to be overcome , and sure enough it came . |
| 5 | Examples would be the abandonment in the later eighteenth century of figured bass and of optional parts in favour of completely written-out orchestral scores ; and the writing out of vocal ornamentation by Rossini , followed by other nineteenth-century Italian opera composers , instead of leaving it to be improvised — though this did not necessarily mean that singers followed their instructions ! |