Example sentences of "[noun] to it [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An old car which had been driven across in front of the shooting targets was ideal , so we attached fifteen kilos of the explosive to it in different places , fixed up the detonators , trailed fuse wire back several yards and clipped on the incendiary devices which would activate the firing process . |
| 2 | Harold Wilson himself had emphasised publicly that he would ban the export to it of all arms except the minimum necessary for self-defence against foreign aggression . |
| 3 | If you want a conventional light switch to control the new lights , run the sub-circuit cable to a four-terminal junction box first , and connect the new switch cable tin to it before running cable on to the new lights . |
| 4 | Yet once he had started he applied his mind and industry to it with such vigour that he had mastered more books in that short space than any child before or since . |
| 5 | An abstract recently presented by R K Yu et al at the 22nd annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Anaheim , California , indicated no clear association of treatment with monosialoganglioside ( G m 1 ) and the development of antibodies to it in 418 samples from human subjects receiving parenteral gangliosides . |
| 6 | He 's also preparing an interim guide to it for imminent launch . |
| 7 | The Chancellor 's headquarters were then Queen Anne 's Throne Room in what is now the Cabinet Office , and the nearest route to it from 11 Downing Street lay through the connecting doors of number 10 . |
| 8 | There needs to be a facility whereby one is automatically informed that the entry at which one is looking has a cross-reference to it in another part of the dictionary , and whereby one is immediately given a display of this cross reference ( or all of them , if there are several ) if one wants to check it . |
| 9 | If a nursing mother has a normal-sized litter it is possible to add one or two orphaned kittens to it without much difficulty . |
| 10 | Another problem is that if you 're trying to deal with other manufacturers in the way that we do , where we have this extremely close relationship and they are very reliant on our forward forecasts of volume , they feel if you have your own manufacturing plant that you would always give preference to it in bad times and the other suppliers would be the people to suffer if sales declined . |
| 11 | Alexander also did much to augment the common fund for resident canons at Lichfield , reserving pensions to it from several churches appropriated to monastic houses , securing the endowment of Lichfield 's sacristy and of chaplains celebrating masses to the Virgin , and continuing the rebuilding of Lichfield Cathedral begun by his predecessors . |
| 12 | But she took a dislike to it for some reason , she would n't go in it . |
| 13 | The former is a tenancy made by the agreement of the parties on the terms that either may put an end to it at any moment at the shortest notice ; the latter arises where a tenant whose interest has expired continues in possession without the landlord either assenting or dissenting . |
| 14 | It was clearly meant to provide serious training , and d'Hauterive even cherished the vain hope of being able to admit students to it by competitive examination . |
| 15 | There are frequent references to it in Anglo-Saxon writings , and the Greeks and Romans made much use of it ; the Greek army doctor Dioscorides listed it amongst medical herbs , and Pliny also describes it . |
| 16 | Such approaches , of course , were ordinarily difficult to resist , for a house never knew when royal gratitude might be of value to it in some application of its own or in some lawsuit ; a number of larger houses , like Bury St Edmunds in 1303 , even found themselves accommodating more than one royal corrodian ; furthermore , the recipients of these requests ranged far outside the hundred or so houses of which the king was patron . |
| 17 | A group of thirty horsemen had come against Forteviot from the east an hour before , and had tried to set fire to it with burning arrows , and strike down the defenders with slingshot and spears . |