Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] it to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cross spirituality will ensure that you and I are never tempted to follow fashions and fads in church life which , attractive though they may seem , ignore the cross or push it to one side . |
| 2 | Double-vault composting toilet : If people wish to reuse excreta in their gardens or to sell it to local farmers composting toilets can be built as long as users agree to follow strict rules of maintenance . |
| 3 | In seeking to be innovative and adventurous , church musicians will need to be careful not to abandon the traditional repertoire or to relegate it to second place . |
| 4 | Alternatively , the exporter could seek a loan against it or negotiate it to another party in settlement of a domestic trade debt . |
| 5 | You can also , at the touch of a button , double the width and/or length of the pattern , mirror image it or convert it to double jacquard . |
| 6 | ‘ ( 2 ) A person secures access to any program or data held in a computer if by causing a computer to perform any function he — ( a ) alters or erases the program or data ; ( b ) copies or moves it to any storage medium other than that in which it is held or to a different location in the storage medium in which it is held ; ( c ) uses it ; or ( d ) has it output from the computer in which it is held ( whether by having it displayed or in any other manner ) ; and references to access to a program or data ( and to an intent to secure such access ) shall be read accordingly . |
| 7 | Consequently , many customers are banning smoking or restricting it to certain areas of the office or canteen , yet it is perfectly feasible to banish the smoke without banning smoking , by installing the latest electrostatic air filters . |
| 8 | After such training a given element will , when the stimulus is applied , be the target both of external input and of internal input by way of the associative links that connect it to other elements . |
| 9 | Where it is not supported , the reason is often , as suggested by Rundquist ( 1980 , 1983 ) , because the spending patterns are already set by the geography of demands ( one would not expect large spending on subsidies for cotton farmers in New Hampshire , for example ) and the goal of the pork barrellers is rather to get plenty of money for the programme than to direct it to certain areas rather than others . |
| 10 | Higher profits indicate a more favourable return on capital , which may encourage companies to reinvest any surplus rather than devote it to alternative uses . |
| 11 | So perhaps another note for Mr Patten 's no doubt very full in-tray is to look again at the decision to close down the body responsible for developing Milton Keynes , and start a new government initiative to encourage more new settlements throughout the region , rather than leaving it to private consortia to chance their arms through a development control system which seems unable to accommodate new initiatives in planning . |
| 12 | He proposed a theory in which the germ plasm was totally isolated from the adult body that transmits it to future generations . |
| 13 | Mervyn Wilson gives a good service to his cricket clients and it is hoped that he was able to put his money where his mouth is and lay this price to all that wanted it to reasonable limits . |
| 14 | You should bottle that particular speech and sell it to clean-air groups . ’ |
| 15 | Lord Hailsham , however , used twentieth century reasoning and applied it to nineteenth century cases . |
| 16 | That is why we are committed to provide the opportunity afforded by trust status and to grant it to those health care units that seek it , where they can show that they will use the freedoms that that status involves . |
| 17 | Write your answer on a postcard and send it to Good Food Competition , TODAY Features , 1 Virginia Street , London E1 9BS , to arrive by Monday November 9 . |
| 18 | Write your answers on the back of a postcard or envelope no bigger than 5in × 6in — please include your boot size , the size of jacket , fleece or T-shirt you 'd like , and your size for waterproof pants — and send it to Outdoor Action Adidas Competition , . |
| 19 | Data General Corp is moving into document imaging and forms management in an effort to move hardware , taking what it learned in the minicomputer business and applying it to current events . |
| 20 | Data General Corp is going into document imaging/forms management to move hardware , taking what it learned in the minicomputer business and applying it to current events . |
| 21 | This involved designing a questionnaire and applying it to quantitative observations of a sample of companies in the same type of industry in each country . |
| 22 | The judiciary has the function of interpreting the law and applying it to specific cases . |
| 23 | First and foremost , Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage . |
| 24 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 25 | Peter founded the navy out of virtually nothing , recruiting officers and sailors in the same way as for the army , and used it to good effect against the Swedes . |
| 26 | Hollins , a cotton broker who was ignorant of the fraud , bought it from B and resold it to another person , receiving only broker 's commission . |
| 27 | A solicitor of an undischarged bankrupt who receives after-acquired property on behalf of his client and transfers it to another agent , even with knowledge that that agent has been instructed to sell , is not liable for conversion at the suit of the trustee in bankruptcy , for the solicitor 's act can be described as ministerial within the test laid down by Blackburn J. Unfortunately , as Blackburn J. himself admitted , it is doubtful how far it goes . |
| 28 | I must go and break it to dear Dimity , and then we must clear up things here , and set off for Thrush Green without delay . ’ |
| 29 | Whereas previously each local authority had access to its own business rate revenue , now the central government collected all this revenue and redistributed it to local authorities in proportion to the local population . |
| 30 | In October 1861 he took the matter out of the hands of the old guard and transferred it to keen reformers . |