Example sentences of "it and [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As much conflict is constructive , the goal of a manager is to use it and to allow it to be exorcised . |
| 2 | Depending on the type of paper , you know , ‘ Girton produces a thousand plus waste mountain every week ’ — that kind of line , and in fact even better still is to really get it down to , to humanize it and to translate it as roughly as you need to and into round figures , and use a little journalistic licence and say , you know , ‘ Every person in Girton generates so many tonnes of waste , you know , each . ’ |
| 3 | The Romanian section of Radio Free Europe in Munich was repeatedly the object of attempts by the Romanian secret service to penetrate it and to harm its staff members . |
| 4 | A referendum on Maastricht would give everyone the opportunity both to understand it and to debate its implications themselves . |
| 5 | Divorce is common enough for even young children to be aware of it and to fear you may split up . |
| 6 | We 'll probably take this on paper , so the reason it 's on the agenda is to tell you as a department that we 've had this sent to us , erm we 've got a meeting later this week to actually sit down and analyse it and to put something on paper to send up to command . |
| 7 | But he knew that he was right and , much more , he felt that he was good , that he had been given this chance to act well , that he must take it and to take it would get him off on a new and better path ; while to succumb would be the broad and easy road to hell . |
| 8 | To deal with it and to prevent its persistent effects on children , doctors and nurses need more training to develop their psychological awareness and their counselling skills . |
| 9 | Having read the report , the next morning Aitken telephoned Hugh Fraser , then of course a Conservative MP , to tell him about it , to quote extracts from it and to hear his very firm agreement that the report 's contents should be disclosed as a matter of public interest . |
| 10 | I could have turned a blind eye , but to grab it and to throw it to the hounds I think was absolutely abysmal . |
| 11 | Since there was nothing I could do about what was happening to my body , I decided — not altogether consciously — to ignore it and to interest myself in other , more spiritual matters . |
| 12 | By attempting to create rules for the exercise of power , the people subject to it have some hope of being able to control it and to make it legitimate in their own eyes . |
| 13 | For after 1933 the labour movement internationally was faced with a problem which was to preoccupy it and to change its focus from domestic to international affairs . |
| 14 | The publication by an LEA of a scheme such as Solihull 's is implicitly intended to signal this newly emphasized responsibility to teachers , to persuade them to accept it and to provide them with an agreed agenda for the review . |
| 15 | The successful communicator selects just those features which differ from this schema , enabling the receiver to adjust it and to bring it closer to the individual instance which is being described . |
| 16 | But we need your help , to restore our new home in Norfolk , to equip it and to maintain our team of professional ornithologists . |
| 17 | Oh , you might be careful to plumb that machine in correctly , to use only the right powder in the right quantity , never to overload it and to have it serviced regularly . |
| 18 | For when God freely wills to take on Himself the world 's suffering , He does so in order to absorb it , to transform it and to overcome it by the positive power of His eternal and unchanging love . |
| 19 | The object is to ride on an unusual or distinctive tram , photograph it and to place it in unusual locations where it is not usually to be seen . |