Example sentences of "to it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I see one that looks like it 's growing good , I might give it some extra feed and talk to it a bit . ’ |
| 2 | Sections comprise approximately twenty policemen and women , made up mostly of regular constables , but each has attached to it a number of full-time reservists . |
| 3 | The main argument for the legitimacy of any authority is that in subjecting himself to it a person is more likely to act successfully for the reasons which apply to him than if he does not subject himself to its authority . |
| 4 | But their flaw — — and this is particularly true of Bruce — is that they telescope the development of the Northern Ireland civil rights movement and retrospectively ascribe to it a coherence and a level of strategic thinking which it never had . |
| 5 | It has close to it a park that provides pasture for a large herd of deer and wild goats . |
| 6 | There are probably many situations where you as a manager have become so used to a task or a situation that it is no longer easy to bring to it a vigorous or fresh approach . |
| 7 | In The Silmarillion Tolkien played through once more the drama of ‘ paradise lost ’ ; but he added to it a hint of ‘ paradise well lost ’ ( for many of the elves preferred Middle-earth even to immortal life , like Arwen ) ; and through the story there runs a delight in mutability , as languages change and treasures pass from hand to hand ; the deepest fable is of beauty forged , stolen , and lost forever in recovery . |
| 8 | Beside them was a five-drawer metal filing cabinet , and next to it a small glass-fronted bookcase . |
| 9 | That the calf is afraid of death , let alone its fleeing it as the greatest of evils , seems misleadingly to ascribe to it a self-conscious grasp of death and evil , possible only of beings capable of language . |
| 10 | The pottery was as late as any in Roman Britain and even included one sherd thought to be ‘ Romano-Saxon ’ since it had impressed on to it a Saxon type of stamp ; however , the vessel was wheel-turned and clearly of Romano-British manufacture . |
| 11 | But if Jesus of Nazareth is not thought to be unique , and the Christian story is just a myth , why , one must ask , should one who is a feminist choose to take up this particular myth when it is so male , and has central to it a male person who is held to be unique ? |
| 12 | The terrible truth dawns with one further discovery — a huge poster for ‘ Night Scented Stock ’ pierced through with a huge , wooden mast and next to it a giant , half-open matchbox . |
| 13 | ‘ acceptance of the proposition that the member state in which a company seeks to establish itself may freely apply to it a different treatment solely by reason of the fact that its registered office is situated in another member state would thus deprive article 58 of all meaning . |
| 14 | The approach I am going to adopt now applies to the present section only and acknowledges the fact that a superconductor is not an " ordinary " magnetic material ; it can not be described by a " magnetic " constant , by assigning to it a certain value for |
| 15 | On the column next to it a Greek tourist , visiting the temple over 2,000 years ago , carved the figure of Paris as a huntsman , a compliment to her beauty . |
| 16 | She shook Alexei 's hand , held on to it a little , savouring the cool texture . |
| 17 | a licensee ) and brings on to it a dangerous thing is liable for its escape . |
| 18 | ‘ He said he would buy me a hat and I told him we 'd wait until they got the new 'uns in ; but when we come to it a week or two later he would n't spend his money . |
| 19 | Some of them brought to it a breadth of experience of teaching to which we could not lay claim . |
| 20 | Dunning and colleagues conclude that authors like Clarke are guilty of romanticising working-class history , ‘ attributing to it a degree of family , inter-age-group and neighbourhood solidarity it has probably never possessed ’ ( ibid.:237 ) . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) For the purposes of this section : ( a ) " special road " and " special road authority " have the same meanings as in the Roads ( Scotland ) Act 1984 and ( b ) " class I " means class 1 in Schedule 3 to the Act , as varied from time to time by any order under section 8 of that Act , but , if that Schedule is amended by such an order so as to add to it a further class of traffic , the order may adapt the reference in this section to traffic of class 1 so as to take account of the additional class . |
| 22 | The creation of a class of Dollar Preference Shares would give the Company the power , not available to it a present , to raise preference share capital in the United States . |
| 23 | My further example of the stylistics of self-reference , from the writings of Michael Riffaterre , is a more recent instance of deviation-theory , but assigns to it a more restricted role than the Prague School did within the literary text . |
| 24 | An open door opposite gave a glimpse of rows of barrels , and next to it a short flight of wooden stairs led to another door above the store-room . |
| 25 | ‘ There 's a printer 's under the Red Sign and next to it a tavern , the Golden Turk . |
| 26 | I believe there 's a road leading to it a short distance beyond the Mohaka River bridge . ’ |
| 27 | You seem to reinhabit a popular form , the family album , and bring to it a militant anarchy it would n't appear to possess . |
| 28 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 29 | By comparison with the highly organized and elaborately structured ego , Freud characterized the id as chaotic , even though in practice he attributed to it a definite and distinguishable shape . |
| 30 | Essentially , all the invention consisted of was an overhead vacuum cleaner which moved back and forth between the textile machines and which had attached to it a long vertical tube , reaching almost to the floor . |