Example sentences of "[verb] it [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Step one , then , in intelligent persuasion is to acknowledge the status of your ‘ audience ’ through targeting what you say and how you say it to meet the specific needs of the individuals involved : the ‘ What 's in it for you ? ’ factor . |
| 2 | They were laid on a table before the canopied throne and an Act of Parliament became law only when the King , or his Commissioners , took up the Sceptre and used it to touch the relevant document . |
| 3 | The study 's thesis was that Attlee built on the Whitehall machine constructed in the Second World War and used it to implement the Labour Party 's reform programme . |
| 4 | He used it to describe the new age of Western history which , according to Toynbee , began in the 1870s with the simultaneous globalization of Western culture and the re-empowerment of non-Western states . |
| 5 | I want it to reflect the living area in the 1990s |
| 6 | In this section the facility of the Laplace transformation technique will be demonstrated by applying it to find the transient response in a few illustrative cases . |
| 7 | The Dictionary had reached its sixth edition and Miller was working on the seventh , revising it to incorporate the Linnaean system of classification . |
| 8 | Like an archaeologist who digs up a tiny shard in the desert and from it extrapolates a whole civilisation , so Simon Charsley lifts an inconsequential marzipan confection and uses it to illuminate the shifting sands of Western civilisation . |
| 9 | Many anglers are hailing it as the most significant advance in fishing tackle during the past 20 years and Dave Chilton , the man who has popularised its use , believes that the line , made from the world 's strongest man-made fibre ( Lancia uses it to strengthen the internal bodywork of its cars ) , may revolutionise all branches of the sport . |
| 10 | Amalgamemnon takes the pejorative term ‘ redundancy ’ and uses it to fight the very exclusion it designates . |
| 11 | During the impact the right side and top of the instrument panel was twisted upwards and to the left , causing it to strike the left-hand side of the straining bar beneath the canopy to the left of the pilot 's head as well as impacting on the right side of the pilot 's face , resulting in minor injuries . |
| 12 | A sander will be required to remove excess filler and shape it to match the existing timber . |
| 13 | A sander will be required to remove excess filler and shape it to match the existing timber . |
| 14 | Cut the bad stuff out and er put the new timber in and shape it to fit the existing door casing , architrave and |
| 15 | He swivelled it to check the outside wall . |
| 16 | You must first create a DC , update it to add the relevant details and then , finally , submit it for assessment by other affected users . |
| 17 | The Schneiderei 's six-member managing committee of writers , musicians and visual artists ( Margaret Bozionek , Heinz Conrads , Jutta Rinas , Ingrid Roscheck , Manos Tsangaris and Thomas Witzmann ) abhor the description ‘ alternative ’ , but the collective 's soft-sell policy by which works are sold to further the gallery 's own activities rather than for profit has helped it to weather the uneasy times faced by traditional commercial galleries . |
| 18 | Listening , she opened it to greet the sandy-haired man who rose to his feet from behind the desk . |
| 19 | And it tends to be used in terms of the tolerances that we 've got on our drawings the word quality which has been amplified into the arena where we may actually use it to describe the whole management of the operation , not the management of the , or the second part of the tolerance of the specification . |
| 20 | Those who are inclined towards reform reversal , place much more weight on the way the long dominance of the Conservative LDP party allowed it to pack the Supreme Court with its own nominees , so that the independence of the Judiciary is a myth . |
| 21 | Not only must the users of such a system find the data relevant and credible , they must also be motivated to use it to improve the overall performance of their activities . |
| 22 | As the rough represents the variability around the smoothed line , it is sometimes appropriate to use it to indicate the typical degree of variation around the smoothed curve . |
| 23 | ‘ However after a great deal of consultation with the Historical Monuments Commission and Planning Department , we decided to use it to face the new church , harmonising the old with the new . |
| 24 | Granada Group Plc 's third party maintenance provider , Granada Computer Services , believes its new React Centre and reorganised customer services operation will enable it to take the big manufacturers head on . |
| 25 | So comparing alternatives which are alike save in the form of organisation , we see that the theoretical expectation that superior motivation , the plus-factor available to the co-operative form , should enable it to out-produce the conventional form is borne out in practice . |
| 26 | The proposals were reported to have offered the MNR a privileged status , allowing it to start political activities within Mozambique as soon as a ceasefire had been concluded , but requiring it to recognize the Mozambican Constitution . |
| 27 | Then you gently and gradually work the new feather on , positioning it to match the original plumage as best you can . |
| 28 | If a reversed code is detected , the system can automatically invert it to produce the right result . |
| 29 | Prime was born in the early 1970s , structured around the PrimOS operating system , which was developed on Honeywell Inc minicomputer hardware under a government contract , which meant that when people on the development team wanted to take it into the commercial world , they were able to buy the operating system for a nominal sum , and developed a new processor optimised to run it to create the 50 Series , the customer base for which will now be subject to a flock of companies wanting to win users over to their open systems . |
| 30 | The surname , from her first husband , had been Polish , but she had adapted it to fit the modern age . |