Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] [noun] to it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) Bring the rear foot to it |
| 2 | He chuckled , and too late she caught the wicked note to it . |
| 3 | The content and implications of this document have been very widely analysed and debated as has the Tanzanian reaction to it , but a few short passages need perhaps to be quoted yet again if only to underline the very fundamental challenges it poses for curriculum planners . |
| 4 | Mad has the right sound to it . |
| 5 | The only difference is that , whereas article 10 of the Convention , in accordance with its avowed purpose , proceeds to state a fundamental right and then to qualify it , we in this country ( where everybody is free to do anything , subject only to the provisions of the law ) proceed rather upon an assumption of freedom of speech , and turn to our law to discover the established exceptions to it . |
| 6 | The only difference is that , whereas article 10 of the Convention , in accordance with its avowed purpose , proceeds to state a fundamental right and then to qualify it , we in this country ( where everybody is free to do anything , subject only to the provisions of the law ) proceed rather upon an assumption of freedom of speech , and turn to our law to discover the established exceptions to it . |
| 7 | The only difference is that , whereas article 10 of the Convention , in accordance with its avowed purpose , proceeds to state a fundamental right and then to qualify it , we in this country ( where everybody is free to do anything , subject only to the provisions of the law ) proceed rather upon an assumption of freedom of speech , and turn to our law to discover the established exceptions to it . |
| 8 | It is a common enough feature of Hebrew poetry to make it worth asking of every parallelistic couplet whether any gain in understanding may result from applying the present concept to it . |
| 9 | Males are generally the more mobile sex socially ; females commonly remain part of the same social unit throughout their lives and their relationships often provide a basic stability to it . |
| 10 | Well I know you 'd love to debate that with me , but we devoted a whole morning to it yesterday so I 'm not going to . |
| 11 | Many of us who represent the valleys would like the same amount of money to be spent on matters other than the bay , which has no God-given right to it . |
| 12 | The story has a familiar ring to it in the sense that women are seldom encouraged to be in top positions at work the world over . |
| 13 | If such a three-pronged assault on the ailing Soviet economy has a familiar ring to it , that is hardly surprising . |
| 14 | The problem has a modern ring to it : how do you balance the necessary provision of aid to those really in need with the risk of supporting malingerers on the parish rates ? |
| 15 | That one has a nice ring to it . |
| 16 | Equally , much conversation has a regular pattern to it . |
| 17 | If Elmer has a right to the inheritance according to a convention of this sort — if he has a right to it according to social conventions about who has power to legislate and how that power is to be exercised and how doubts created by the language are to be settled — then he has a legal right to it , but not otherwise . |
| 18 | Some will think him a spiritual butterfly , some an intellectual too ready to be hoodwinked ; but his searching has a definite progress to it , and the heights and depths encountered in this book make it clear that he is getting somewhere , often against his own will and inclination . |
| 19 | Similarly ‘ seal ’ has a future look to it . |
| 20 | The opposed parties in such disputes , evidently believing that causality has a chain-like character to it , have an impoverished notion of how things actually work . |
| 21 | One may agree that the expression which Firth dismisses as nonsense has a curious ring to it but this seems to be due to the choice of lexis which results in a particularly inconsequential proposition which it is hard to imagine ever figuring in actual use . |
| 22 | Dent 's comment at the time when that Act was still before Parliament as a bill has a curious irony to it , which will become all the more apparent from the discussion which ensues later : |
| 23 | ‘ Stotting ’ has a certain ring to it for the waterfall-collection game . |
| 24 | This has a certain ring to it , but apparently it is not entirely accurate . |
| 25 | The Sargent painting has a lovely crispness to it and is celebratory in his straightforward frankness . |
| 26 | The sea is sea-coloured , the heat has a cold edge to it . |
| 27 | Hiroshima was originally written for the New Yorker magazine , which devoted an entire issue to it in 1946 . |
| 28 | This remark has an enticing obscurity to it , a flavour of ‘ Confucius , he says … ’ ; actually , as with many Chinese proverbs , the point Tarrow is making is a straightforward and simple one , that regionalism as policy resists categorisation and control within a particular administrative subject-area and has tended to develop branch-lines covering a wide range of policy intervention . |
| 29 | This scale has an Eastern flavour to it caused by the fifth , sixth , seventh and eighth degrees . |
| 30 | Nor will it invalidate his right to say , Every body else has an equal Title to it ; and therefore he can not appropriate , he can not inclose , without the Consent of all his Fellow-Commoners , all Mankind . |