Example sentences of "it [prep] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is primarily organised along the lines of the current OPCS scheme , but it would also be possible to use it for coding to KOS or CODOT . |
| 2 | Growing sugar and preparing it for shipping to London was harder work than growing and curing tobacco , and a much larger labour force was needed for the process of harvesting the cane and crushing it which had to be done in a very short period of time . |
| 3 | For example , pupils with reading problems ( including dyslexic pupils ) should not be deprived of literature , but should have the opportunity of experiencing it through listening to others reading aloud , whether live or recorded , and through seeing plays and films , as well as through reading suitably simplified versions . |
| 4 | ‘ Tell me , what was it like going to medical school ? ’ |
| 5 | The next question was invariably , ‘ What was it with regard to ? ’ |
| 6 | Jaques ( the ‘ Glacier investigations ’ ) found that even a well-defined role in the organisation posed problems for the person expected to fill it with regard to the exercise of authority . |
| 7 | The pastoralist who can control his aggression with regard to his animals has in his childhood first had to learn how to do it with regard to his excremental activities and the parental authority-figures who insisted . |
| 8 | When , when a we were discussing it with said to me oh you do n't believe in , he meant ah and I . |
| 9 | Last week , Virgin said it was ready to settle if BA dropped a clause forbidding it from referring to the matter in future . |
| 10 | Part of the reasoning behind the move was the search for an effective policy to contain the violence within Ireland and prevent it from spreading to Britain . |
| 11 | In particular , surplus countries often neutralized an inflow of gold by preventing it from adding to the domestic money supply . |
| 12 | He argues that most of the world 's production of the gas could be pumped into the oceans , thereby preventing it from contributing to global warming . |
| 13 | BARRY GOODWIN looks at the most probable causes of fish deaths in some of this year 's new ones and suggests ways to prevent it from happening to you . |
| 14 | Much of it is below sea level and only innumerable drainage ditches prevent it from reverting to its natural state . |
| 15 | For instance , the whole of the letter A could be keyboarded from OED , and then the whole of the Supplement 's A section could be merged into it before proceeding to B , and so on . |
| 16 | Not half as much as I am of you ! thought Henry , as he ran his eyes down the rest of the manuscript ( she must have written it before going to sleep ) . |
| 17 | As soon as he had any money he spent it on going to Central America or Thailand by the cheapest possible means to look at some new underground . |
| 18 | ‘ So here the plaintiffs left everything to the defendant 's husband ; … and they must take the consequences of his having obtained it without explaining to her or her understanding what she was signing . |
| 19 | But of course , the danger on the other side of the coin , if you simply rely on that , is that you actually begin to loose focus , or you begin to ignore it without meaning to , inadvertently . |
| 20 | This is the wrong side , they must have rewound it without meaning to . |
| 21 | Mrs. Dow always kept my copy under the counter and would produce it without having to be asked for it whenever I called . |
| 22 | And this is a way of doing it without having to , you know , log-in to er a specific tradition , but to invoke , sort of a wider , more general principles . |
| 23 | I think that it is n't a general skill it at needs to be commented on , I think that it needs to commented on I think that it ought to be commented on in the comment box . |
| 24 | They argue , somewhat surprisingly , that it is a mistake to meet it by trying to ‘ upgrade the imagined simulation in hopes of finally winning Searle 's concession that at last its states have achieved intrinsic intentionality ’ . |
| 25 | Mozart , knowing that his father would be devastated by the news , sought to prepare him as gently as possible for it by writing to him that she was gravely ill and at the same time writing to their close friend , Bullinger , telling him the whole story , in the hope that Bullinger could support and comfort his father and sister when he finally broke the news to them , which he was intending to do in a second letter to his father . |
| 26 | Rather than selecting the particular class of political events as the stuff of history , and then seeking to explain it by appealing to the play of national and personal interest , the Annales school advocates eclectic research into such diverse topics as economics , populations , social institutions , technologies and climate , designed to contribute to a complete picture of social life . |
| 27 | Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him . |
| 28 | But we see here how Jesus , apart from anything else , deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people . |
| 29 | However , its brain was minuscule and Hercules managed to trap it by pretending to be an army and getting the animal confused and tangled in foliage . |
| 30 | As far as I understand from the gossip there 's nothing 'll come out of it by goin' to the polis ; it 's got to come from Parliament . |