Example sentences of "[to-vb] it to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specially commissioned by The Tea Council , Teapot 2000 has a unique design that allows you to brew it to the exact strength you like , from the first cup to the last . |
| 2 | Historians will seek to understand the late twentieth century in order to relate it to the collective identities and experiences of their own period . |
| 3 | Because we try to relate it to the real world . |
| 4 | He was very much a social novelist and to appreciate the moral significance of his novels you have to relate it to the actual society that it reflects and often criticises . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's not going to stop the abuse of power , it 's just going to restrict it to the highest level . |
| 6 | In those circumstances the only option open to a government , determined to return Rover to the private sector , was to sell it to a British company which was not involved in the car industry . |
| 7 | When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants . |
| 8 | ‘ After all , even if Jefferson has perfected some magic putter which gives Harley an illegal edge on the greens , he will never be allowed to sell it to the ordinary punter , so there 's no point . |
| 9 | Just as its perspective gathers all that is extended to render it to the individual eye , so its means of representation render all that is depicted into the hands of the individual owner-spectator . |
| 10 | The Romans , imitating the Greeks of Asia Minor and , nearer home , the Etruscans , thought a grid should have precise right angles , and so the rectangle of streets sits awkwardly in the bend of the river and one has to tack this way and that to cross it to the medieval cathedral and the Roman bridge . |
| 11 | It is hoped that readers will feel able to draw on the ideas presented to develop the work further and to apply it to a wider range of contexts . |
| 12 | There continued , then , to be systematic efforts to standardise examination procedure , to apply it to the whole age group , and to make it more equitable . |
| 13 | Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time . |
| 14 | It measured up to precisely what he felt himself and he decided to put it to a higher power . |
| 15 | Elfyn Llwyd , Plaid Cymru MP for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy , protested : ‘ To leave it to a mayoral fund is pathetic . ’ |
| 16 | To leave it to a free vote of the House might be taken as an indication that the Government had not made up its mind and would be an invitation to the House of Lords to delete from the Bill the clause abolishing the death penalty . |
| 17 | Well WE 'RE not … were going to leave it to the strong men … something different too … the first ever weightlifting world cup for the disabled . |
| 18 | To leave it to the transforming imagination . |
| 19 | There is still a feeling , and rightly so , that every firm owes some responsibility to its members and their dependants in this respect and that it is not enough to leave it to the individual partner to make his own arrangements . |
| 20 | If you want to leave it to the last minute you can also bring your items to the Community Centre on the morning . |
| 21 | But I do n't want to leave it to the last game of the season . |
| 22 | Now you 'll then have to look and see if they tell you to give it to the nearest metre or the nearest maybe the nearest maybe the nearest point one of a metre or three significant figures or three decimal places . |
| 23 | Bobbie asked the Station Master to give it to the old gentleman the next morning . |
| 24 | As an example of what is meant by ‘ assignment ’ , we might say that a botanist who discovers an unusual plant will try to assign it to a known species ; if this is found impossible , it will be decided that a new species has been discovered , and that future examples of this plant will be assigned to this new species . |
| 25 | Ms. Quant confided to delegates that she often jollied Plunkett ( her husband , entrepreneur Alexander Plunkett-Green ) into helping her dye her pubic hair some fantasy shade , or to trim it to a neat heart shape . |
| 26 | Perhaps it is not possible to reduce it to a single definition , but for the purpose of this passage I will concentrate on the individual learner . |
| 27 | If you intend varnishing the window , first use wood dye on the filled area to match it to the surrounding timber . |
| 28 | Technical yeah the technical people but you have to ensure do n't you that with with your audience that you understand who they are but if you do n't then you have to keep it to a common denominator . |
| 29 | His agent , Giles Gordon of Sheil Land , had reacted to the sight of the manuscript with alarm , but was won around by reading it : ‘ He said that perhaps it should be cut a bit , but that we should aim to keep it to the same kind of scale . ’ |
| 30 | A solid yet agreeable course book with material to commend it to the serious student . |