Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | If these reports are correct , the idea led him nowhere ; in the end , weakened by the effects of his illness and , some have contended , with his personality affected by attempts to treat it , he lost his grip and abandoned the struggle . |
| 2 | Despite its Irish directors , therefore , the company 's viability and success was determined by the assessments of its Canadian shareholders , and the readiness of Canadian financial institutions to support it . |
| 3 | This double-green is so huge that two men walking seven miles each , up and down , take 1½ hours to mow it . |
| 4 | ‘ The Daleks ’ , however , took the show up into the rarified heights of peak viewing , prompting programme schedulers to see it as a very useful keystone in grabbing audiences for the whole of Saturday evening — which had been Donald Baverstock 's prime intention all along . |
| 5 | It also brought him , via the ILP which he joined in April 1918 , into the Labour party , whose international thinking was considerably shaped by the UDC 's criticisms of the treaty of Versailles ( and French attempts to enforce it ) and even the League of Nations . |
| 6 | Otherwise it is rather like spending several days journeying to a famous tourist site , but when we get there only allowing ourselves 20 minutes to see it . |
| 7 | I went up there from school six times to see it . |
| 8 | Inflation is regarded as a serious macroeconomic problem and governments ( and economists ) around the world spend a great deal of their time , energy and resources in devising and applying policies to combat it . |
| 9 | We have achieved a better than expected pro-forma combined profit and Stoddard Sekers is now putting in place the strategic plans to enable it to grow strongly both organically and by acquisition ’ . |
| 10 | Capital punishment for murder was abolished in 1969 and repeated attempts to reintroduce it have been defeated by an ever-increasing majority . |
| 11 | Historic Scotland listed it as being of international importance , but the National Heritage Memorial Fund decided not to support plans to preserve it . |
| 12 | I 've gone to see my favourite players play — I 'd see them one night and they 'd be phenomenal and I 'd like the show so much that I would go the next night , drive two hours to see it and it would suuuuck ! and that 's just the way it is . ’ |
| 13 | Having resisted repeated attempts to kill it off , the A level looks set to survive the latest upheavals in British education almost unchanged . |
| 14 | Its eyes can discern very small intervals of time ( it can respond to a falling hand in less than one hundredth of a second ) , and our clumsy attempts to kill it must appear ponderously slow , as if filmed in slow motion . |
| 15 | Concern 's been expressed by some parents about the violent nature of the film which is PG rated , allowing children of all ages to see it . |
| 16 | Concern 's been expressed by some parents about the violent nature of the film which is PG rated , allowing children of all ages to see it . |
| 17 | Among their recommendations are : the need for regular reports on implementation of the Fifth Action Programme on the environment ; the rapid establishment of the European Environment Agency ; and early ratification of the Climate Change Convention agreed at UNCED , with the development of national strategies to implement it by the end of 1993 . |
| 18 | Gossip on the IBM UK Ltd grapevine has the company 's Havant disk drive manufacturing operations becoming a separate subsidiary : does this mean that there are plans to float it ? |
| 19 | Section by section it was being revised in the commissions and then approved during the general congregations — despite last-minute attempts to modify it to contain an explicit condemnation of communism . |
| 20 | Since this simple model was unable to explain the kind of uplift observed along rifted margins there were immediate attempts to modify it . |
| 21 | There were plans to revive it and turn it into an Ulster Loyalist pressure group when a leading member , Archibald Whitmore , an ex-member of the Ulster Volunteer Force , announced to influential people at the Bath Club that he planned to develop the BF in Ireland along the same lines as the movement in 1914 . |
| 22 | Typically there is a short anodyne introduction to the economy of the recipient nation , emphasising the need for conservation and the nation 's laudable attempts to meet it . |
| 23 | The newspapers in Europe were seriously claiming the battle was close and that Dukakis could even win enough States to pull it off . |
| 24 | Mr Middleton is said to have whipped the animal several times to encourage it to climb over . |
| 25 | No statutory formula has been found that can make a provision judge-proof , in the sense of inducing the courts to accept it as excluding all opportunity for review , not even providing that a decision ‘ shall not be called in question in any court of law ’ . |
| 26 | But , when she was down in the country , I had a BSkyB dish installed in London and it took her 24 hours to find it . |
| 27 | The first peculiarity is over the crossing , which has a stumpy octagonal tower and pointed roof with , on the inside , a dome built in a style similar to that of Sainte-Croix in Oloron , that is , with the ribs of the vault forming an eight-pointed star ( without artificial lighting you can see almost nothing of this decoration , and the artificial lighting comes expensive at L'Hôpital-Saint-Blaise ; you need ten-franc coins to work it ) . |
| 28 | The Government 's earlier reluctance to put its hand in its pocket had led property experts to accuse it of unwittingly aiding and abetting the IRA 's efforts to disrupt the City . |
| 29 | ‘ Sure I am that until this party was sighted , the Lord Owen had no thought in his mind of any such happening , and no plans to provoke it . |
| 30 | This was at a time when the principle of vaccination had still not been universally accepted , although the Vaccination Act of 1840 had enabled the guardians to provide it for paupers . |