Example sentences of "[to-vb] it to the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Because we try to relate it to the real world . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not going to stop the abuse of power , it 's just going to restrict it to the highest level . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | To leave it to the transforming imagination . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If you want to leave it to the last minute you can also bring your items to the Community Centre on the morning . |
| 14 | But I do n't want to leave it to the last game of the season . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Bobbie asked the Station Master to give it to the old gentleman the next morning . |
| 17 | If you intend varnishing the window , first use wood dye on the filled area to match it to the surrounding timber . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | A solid yet agreeable course book with material to commend it to the serious student . |
| 20 | A man has a right to take credit for past success and to attribute it to the real cause . |
| 21 | I say this because if you raise any objections to the contents of the report we may choose not to disclose it to the other side . |
| 22 | The deal caused sufficient outcry to force Greiner to refer it to the anti-corruption Commission . |
| 23 | Gina forced him to staple it to the living-room wall behind the settee and opposite the television . |
| 24 | Now as I understand it the minister 's position is that he be bound to refer that matter to the partner responsible for audit and that partner er would then be put on notice that er he ought to report it to the relevant authority . |
| 25 | The second way of considering the tending of the fire is to compare it to the feminine ability to create and sustain atmosphere . |
| 26 | For example , if a trade is wrongly allocated , it may be necessary to transfer it to the correct account . |
| 27 | And then she put had some warm water and er she had to have it to the proper consistency and then she 'd have a a bucket of water w standing by her side with a a jug . |
| 28 | Upon wiping away the icy incrustation from the face , the countenance was immediately recollected ; but , the frame appearing lifeless , assistance was procured to convey it to the first house upon the skirts of the village , when , a pulsation being observed , every possible means was instantly adopted to promote his recovery . |
| 29 | Finding s okay so there was a little bit of it was a little bit awkward to get it to the nearest degree there . |
| 30 | But the Prince was determined to get it to the finishing line . |