Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] it to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They are content to leave it to the building society , or they rely on their own judgement . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is even more dangerous to show it to the sitter 's wife ! |
| 15 | Only 40% are likely to pass it to the child . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | It might be prudent to put it to the test . |
| 19 | That 's why we knew it would be good to bring it to a close . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The surface of the brick was still gelid and adhesive , so that he was able to stick it to the side of a drum near the hull , separated from the fuel tanks only by a steel bulkhead . |
| 22 | Technical considerations are being completed , and I hope that we shall be able to put it to the House before long . |
| 23 | Whichever method you select you must be able to justify it to the company in order to recover your expenses . |
| 24 | Once we have landed on Mars we will be able to beam it to the galaxy , he said . |
| 25 | So , a 1,200dpi by 1,200 page printer is currently unlikely to make it to the market and searchers after increased resolution must turn to other technologies such as optics . |
| 26 | Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway A mixed passenger and goods train belonging to the Bishop 's Castle Railway Company ran into a coal train belonging to the Great Western Company as it was passing Stretford Junction , owing to the driver of the passenger train being unable to bring it to a standstill on seeing the signals against him . |
| 27 | If the net encircles , it becomes necessary to fasten it to the top and the bottom of each of the stakes that holds the net erect . |
| 28 | And now he 's running against that plan and under the law , section fifty four over ninety one that er of the ninety act , he is now obliged to refer it to the Secretary of State . |
| 29 | Another problem with the method of Riemann is that it is not practically possible to generalize it to the case for non-colinear collisions . |
| 30 | Get a cloth out of my pack , and be ready to press it to the wound as soon as the bolt comes clear . ’ |