Example sentences of "[v-ing] it to [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The fact that the First Directive was formally concerned only with restrictions on foreign exchange transactions did not prevent the court , in Brugnoni v. Cassa di Risparmio di Genova e Imperia ( Case 157/85 ) [ 1986 ] E.C.R. 2013 , 2030 , para. 22 , from applying it to any kind of obstacles constituting a ‘ hindrance ’ to the widest liberalisation of those capital movements which the First Directive sought to liberalise in full . |
| 3 | For instance , they discovered how useful honey was in the treatment of wounds and it was thanks to people 's participation that the best ways of applying it to particular kinds of wounds were developed . |
| 4 | Even whilst developing the modern immaterialist notion of consciousness , the eighteenth-century empiricists and others were attacking the dignity of intellect and assimilating it to sensory activity by treating thoughts as mere images . |
| 5 | The historical process of transforming the world , making it a better place , recovering a pre-lapsarian global Eden in its pristine simplicity , will end up with people selling it to each other by the dollar , pound or yen . |
| 6 | By the first year of secondary school , most Caribbean children in areas of reasonably high Caribbean settlement are speaking it to some extent at least . |
| 7 | In an attempt to rid the game of endless scrums , pushover tries etc. , the NZRFU has proposed to do away with the five-metre scrum by moving it to 10 metres from the goal line . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , not only are legal firms unable to maximise the amount of extra business they can sell through cross-fertilisation of other specialised services , they are losing it to other providers of information and advice . |
| 9 | Air traffic has doubled in the last 10 years so that Singapore is now served by 57 airlines , linking it to 110 cities in 54 countries . |
| 10 | And I sha n't be making the mistake of attributing it to any charms of mine , either . |
| 11 | The following year , however , it was revived with the aim of extending it to other neighbourhoods of the city . |
| 12 | the different principle of reducing the scope of capital punishment to the minimum necessary for that preservation of law and order , and confining it to those forms of murder for which it is not only a particularly necessary , but is also believed to be a particularly effective , deterrent . |
| 13 | It is well worth covering your design with some glass and then carefully putting it to one side for a while before returning to it later . |
| 14 | Nuclear energy has become an important tool for plant breeders and Russian horticultural researchers have been putting it to good use in their iris-breeding programmes . |
| 15 | Having created the luxury 4 × 4 niche , it has no intention of relinquishing it to recent pretenders in the form of the revised Shogun , G-Wagen and Land Cruiser . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I put down sodium chlorate and poisoned everything , reducing it to two acres of brown earth . ’ |