Example sentences of "to the [noun] of [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | At the Board of Trade , Beveridge , with Llewellyn-Smith , gave considerable thought to the problems of putting it into practice . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Until now I 'd just … never got around to the process of losing it … ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | In using a cognitive approach to the task of interpreting it may be possible to find a base for comparing the language systems . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 17 | The country is in such disorder that a successor may be unequal to the task of putting it right . |
| 18 | So we 're l , we 're l , we 're looking at a couple of the options to see , you know , how much will it cost to actually put the money on the policy rather than going to the effort of writing it out , and it 's gon na cost about two hundred thousand pounds just to do that , erm and that , we need , we need to weigh that up with the cost of actually dealing with ten thousand letters to clients , ten thousand enquiries erm I just wondered what your thoughts were on how we should proceed . |
| 19 | He would place two cigarettes in his mouth , light them both , then hand one to the sex-starved spinster , sometimes even going to the length of installing it between her lips . |
| 20 | Today the word ‘ decline ’ is once more on senior ministerial lips and , from outside the Cabinet , Michael Heseltine draws new attention to the urgency of arresting it . |
| 21 | People who use land and invest their labour in it are benefiting society more than those real owners who neglect it to the extent of ignoring it for twelve years or more . |
| 22 | Subsequently he kept watch on Joyce ‘ s National Socialist League , even to the extent of infiltrating it as a member . |
| 23 | The hospital and all that went with it had been such an oasis in the alarming wilderness of doing everything for , and chiefly by , myself ; now it came to the point of leaving it , I was scared . |
| 24 | ‘ I was getting to the point of putting it behind me , but when I conceived everything changed . |