Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] it to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a technical point of view the superiority of nephrite over the stones plentifully available for everyday tools would hardly justify the increased cost of ensuring adequate supplies or the enormously greater cost of shaping it to the correct form . |
| 2 | Cutting the glass is simply a matter of scoring it to the required size with a glass cutter . |
| 3 | Furthermore , even if a surplus of wool was produced , there was perhaps more hope of selling it to the developing cloth industry than of disposing of grain which was not required , as a demand for clothing can be more flexible than one for food when men have additional purchasing power ( 59 ; 62 ) . |
| 4 | This shows an irony that although Saint Francis gave all he had to the needy , the church is spending its money on building magnificent and expensive structures instead of giving it to the poor . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're thinking of taking it to the European Court of Human Rights ’ , she says . |
| 6 | The instructor smiled as he went to each man in turn and pulled out two full arm lengths of cord from their parachutes before attaching it to the static line . |
| 7 | We weakened the signal in several ways , one of which was by damaging the cells of the polarizing region with high doses of X-rays before grafting it to the anterior margin . |
| 8 | He had also torn off the copyright mark from the greeting card before sending it to the Italian artisans who made the sculptures . |
| 9 | I prod it with a fork and brown it on the fire before introducing it to the thick slice of toast . |
| 10 | When the propeller is on you open and close your throttle to check it works before setting it to the correct position . |
| 11 | But consider how He was heard : certainly not by having the cup taken away , but in being … supported while He drank it ; and in victoriously accomplishing His grand design through drinking it to the very dreg . ’ |
| 12 | We believe that it is educationally wrong to teach a subject in isolation without linking it to the outside world . |
| 13 | That way , the same effect can be achieved without taking it to the full depth . |
| 14 | He had worked out her vulnerability and was intent on exploiting it to the full . |
| 15 | In cases where the person in breach agrees the facts and the disciplinary action suggested by the executive , the executive itself may deal with a disciplinary matter without referring it to the full Panel . |
| 16 | It was claimed earlier that black — in blackbird was not a semantic constituent ; we can now verify the claim by subjecting it to the recurrent contrast test : |
| 17 | But indirectly the growing public awareness of science and its potential shaped the professionals ' world by exposing it to the rough and tumble of political life . |