Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] it to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Few make it to the top .
2 Against the urgent advice of Keith , Fraser and other veterans , they decided that the English were afraid to put it to the test ; but they were not .
3 ‘ I doubt if His Grace would ever stand up in a court-room to give evidence on my behalf , but I counted on Magistrate Peck being afraid to put it to the test . ’
4 I really think , although I would not be prepared to put it to the test , that you could go out in the streets of London in your nightdress and nobody would notice .
5 Some ascribed it to a plot by ‘ the men in grey suits ’ ( a catch-phrase often used to describe a fairly ill-defined set of senior party officials , government business managers and elder statesmen ) .
6 She also makes the crucial point that it is wrong to attribute it to the mass of black people , finding it most marked among some intellectual and political leaders , who also obscure the central roles played by lesbians and gays in black communities .
7 If you had £100 000 of savings , would you be prepared to lend it to a friend to buy a house if the friend was going to take 25 years to pay it back ?
8 Where the value of the intangible asset is at an all-time low , it may be possible to sell it to an IOFC operation and realise a capital loss in the selling location .
9 Why is it — perhaps you can enlighten me — why is it , for example , they roast topside of beef in the first place and in the second cook it to the consistency of baked cow-pat ? ’
10 It was impossible to extend it to the front of the Villa without blasting the cliffs and destroying exquisite country , but quite possible to reach the gates at the rear of the park .
11 They are content to leave it to the building society , or they rely on their own judgement .
12 ‘ the concentration on actual or ostensible authority being ‘ given to the husband to act on behalf of the bank ’ may not be a reliable way of applying the test now well established by authority , albeit … that the real question is whether the bank were content to leave it to the husband to obtain the wife 's signature upon the charge .
13 ‘ Again , the concentration on actual or ostensible authority being ‘ given to the husband to act on behalf of the bank ’ may not be a reliable way of applying the test now well established by authority , albeit since this judgment was delivered , that the real question is whether the bank were content to leave it to the husband to obtain the wife 's signature upon the charge .
14 With respect to Lloyd L.J. , when the creditor is content to leave it to the debtor to obtain the surety 's signature in circumstances in which it should have been aware that undue influence might come into play , it is not necessary to establish that the debtor was acting as agent for the bank .
15 The desiderata for a good background at this point were that it must be perceived by the measuring instrument as significantly darker than the subject , it must be cheap and readily available , and it must be easy to mould it to the growth boxes , fix it to the wall , etc .
16 Mathematical experience may be involved incidentally in many of these activities , but the teacher must decide when it is appropriate to bring it to the surface .
17 It is even more dangerous to show it to the sitter 's wife !
18 Half of these make it to the training yards , and not all of them , by a long way , will ever make it to a race track .
19 Still , three guides out of three made it to the col between the two summits , and two out of three to the summit itself , while only one client out of 15 was present .
20 Only 40% are likely to pass it to the child .
21 Ambitious to make it to the top , she divorced her first husband , became one of the country 's leading models and in 1946 had her first screen test with Twentieth Century-Fox .
22 ‘ You were lucky to make it to the lav , ’ observed Lydia , meaning that she was very grateful that Betty had made it to the lav , since one of the rules is that the afflicted person does not mop up her own vomit and Lydia was absolutely no good at doing this .
23 I think it was Michel who said , ‘ It might be cheaper to connect it to a flight simulator ’ .
24 getting increasingly frustrated on the subject of other things , pelican crossings and that I 've been concerned to hear since I 've I 've been requested this question and er it was briefly reported in the Cambridge evening news last night that they they 've had almost continuous telephone calls today complaining erm which shows the public as I thought of my own experience er are very concerned about this and would like to erm first of all bring it to the council 's attention and do regard as serious and ask the chair if there is a proper investigation will be made into the way the council handles this subject .
25 In 1987 at one of the regular meetings of superintendents , I listened as the deputy chief constable talked his way through a potential problem for the increasing numbers of graduates in the service , who ‘ obviously can not all make it to the top ’ .
26 Neil , Andy and Alyson all made it to the semi-final , but only Alyson made it through to the final , where she came fourth and received a medal for her achievement .
27 It might be prudent to put it to the test .
28 I suppose also the that the slang term was confined to the esoteric vocabulary of sailors for a hundred years , until the rise of the boffins in World War II brought it to the attention of the general public .
29 That 's why we knew it would be good to bring it to a close . ’
30 The parents , he was convinced , had perceived nothing of the incident last Thursday , and therefore he was happy to relegate it to the back of his mind , and do nothing further about it .
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