Example sentences of "[noun] it [vb -s] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | East and South restores the balance of exhibitions in terms of gender , the type of work it displays , the cities it takes place in and the opportunities it offers to artists . |
| 2 | If the foreigner made that transfer in the past before he became ordinarily resident here the clause would not apply to him because in its opening words it refers to individuals ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | Prime would repay most if not all of the $570m it owes to Shearson Lehman Brothers following the buyout , by swapping equity for debt and with proceeds from a new senior debt offering . |
| 4 | Dickens Data Systems Inc has picked up Data General Corp 's Clariion storage system to distribute for the IBM RS/6000 servers it resells to US VARs . |
| 5 | He believes a key to the projects ' success lies in the continuity it brings to children 's lives . |
| 6 | However , it is also informed by more rigorous approaches to language — those of generative linguistics and formal semantics — and this greater leaning towards formalism can be seen both in its treatment of integration and construction , and in the attention it pays to aspects of language processing such as parsing . |
| 7 | Miracle Squares I think there 's a lot of thought gone into it you know , it ca n't be easy to re er to , to just dream up a game erm , I like the one about you go to the last supper and the waiter spills soup on your trousers , the waiter , ha tell you else about the Marx brothers an'all , the waiter is er the king of Snowdonia and it 's Groucho Marx , the , they 've got this massive hall , and er these big steps leading down into it you know and as , as they 're coming in there 's somebody at the top and Ann says who 's , who 's walking in and they walk down the stairs you know and Mr and Mrs and the king has you know and he says oh the king Snowdonia is about to arrive , he should be here any minute now , he should be here dead on this time you know , he gets these big fanfare trumpets up da , da , da , da , the king of Snowdonia , and there 's nothing and all of a sudden it flashes to Groucho Marx and then he 's in bed with |
| 8 | Over the last thirty years advertising , that most powerful publicity weapon , has discovered how lucrative it can be to add a " new dimension " to the service it offers to clients . |
| 9 | That is why the British Tourist Association launched its ‘ Winning Words ’ initiative , to encourage the tourism industry to improve the service it offers to non-English speaking guests . |
| 10 | ‘ What do you see beyond the mask it presents to visitors ? ’ |
| 11 | Users value the network for the access it gives to computer and information resources on campus but perhaps even more so for the gateway it provides to JANET , the network linking hundreds of institutions and thousands of computers in the UK . |
| 12 | It is in this sense , and by the high price it attaches to capital , that high interest rates have been inflationary . |
| 13 | R Hydræ , in the field with Gamma , is a Mira variable ; as it can rise to the fourth magnitude it can be a binocular object , and is very red , though at minimum it falls to magnitude 11 . |
| 14 | At minimum it falls to magnitude 10.5 . |
| 15 | Even Mira is within range for only a month or two out of its total period of 331 days ; at minimum it sinks to magnitude 10 , so that it is lost even with a small telescope . |
| 16 | In the case of deaf people it relates to BSL . |
| 17 | Users value the network for the access it gives to computer and information resources on campus but perhaps even more so for the gateway it provides to JANET , the network linking hundreds of institutions and thousands of computers in the UK . |
| 18 | It doubled the number of passengers it carries to 1.65m . |
| 19 | A school which is trying to establish an ethos of healthy living has to take care that the message it gives to pupils are reflected in the school generally . |
| 20 | bags it belongs to Jim really , I just acquired it Martin I think your comic 's here somewhere , or did I there you are , remember to take it home with you please , good boy |
| 21 | I 've er a comment which I think in part it relates to Miss 's observation . |
| 22 | As Street on Torts puts it , the basis of this authority and the defence it affords to torts such as false imprisonment ‘ is the need to maintain order in the particular organisation responsible for the training of the child ’ ; parental wishes would merely be factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a punishment was reasonable . |
| 23 | my Lord , this is a problem which erm your Lordship 's had submissions from both parties and of course it goes to specialist separates , first of all one identifies , one takes one and strikes out the defending clauses within the agreements that infringe article eighty five on then applies the , the test of severance to see whether the residual agreements remain or stand , but we certainly have not depleted that the entire arrangement avoid but we pleaded the restrictions are avoid , my Lord er and that 's important because it could lead to consequence and we 're pleading it that and if for example er power in the erm standard form agency agreement was rendered void because it was an unlawful restriction , it does n't mean to say that erm an agent er a name might not of instructed an agent to write business , what we 're saying is they may not have instructed him to write all of the business that he did in fact did er write for example L M X spiral and , now if , if a particular defendant can say well have I been well you know proper position that I would of been and the restrictions not been in place I would of instructed the agent to do precisely what he did , then of course he has no defence , that 's a que that 's a point , if he says well erm I , the facts suggest and established that I would never , ever have allowed the agents to underwr to write L M X spiral business and , and the only reason he was able to do that was because of the restrictions then he can escape liability for that part of the business underwritten |
| 24 | One could ask , therefore , what role is ascribed in Formalist theory to the author , on whom biographical criticism had been based ; what had become of the reality which mimetic and historically orientated theories had placed at the centre of their concerns ; and finally what function it gives to thought , which had been the focus of philosophically biased criticisms . |
| 25 | It is not an acceptable long-term rate , because of the damage it does to industry and homeowners . |
| 26 | Next Wednesday and Thursday it moves to Staxton before going on to Sherburn . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , when one examines the actual design of a Regency Gothic house , like Pocock 's ‘ Mansion in the Castle Style ’ ( Fig. 17 ) , one can see how very little relation it has to Disraeli 's aspirations . |
| 28 | IF the BBC wants to secure its future the first thing it should do is cut down on the huge fees it pays to presenters . |
| 29 | This is quite capable , offering a variety of display resolutions with the 1Mb of video RAM it has to hand , but it 's no speed demon . |
| 30 | These additions it attributes to Childebert and to Chlothar . |