Example sentences of "[prep] it is [to-vb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The burning is an illusion , and the only way to get rid of it is to face it and absorb it . |
| 2 | The bad one leads them into temptation and they believe that the only way that they can get rid of it is to drag it close to danger . |
| 3 | I mean , you have a kid , a little baby boy , and the best you can do with it is to name it John ? |
| 4 | If , for example , a shy child has been very quiet in what is supposed to be a television interview , a positive way of dealing with it is to acknowledge it as something that has happened within the dramatic fiction : " Most of us would get very nervous being interviewed for TV ; I know I would . |
| 5 | His ignorance of what she feels about his ‘ human kindness ’ — she rejects any ‘ compunctious visiting of nature ’ ( 44 ) — makes him a victim , or accomplice , who has to be instructed in hypocrisy : One of Shakespeare 's problems in having to develop an evil conspiracy in the absence of any vocal moral commentary on it is to make it judge or condemn itself . |
| 6 | Cos you know one of the people says that the best place for it is to lob it in the arboretum lake . |