Example sentences of "[v-ing] it to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a related development , President Snegur in his address marking the anniversary of the 1989 legislation making Moldovan ( Romanian ) the official language and returning it to the Latin script , regretted the slow implementation of the legislation . |
| 2 | Applying it to the particular example , already considered , and so that as before . |
| 3 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 4 | There is great potential in the land around the port in Belfast and it is important that , when that land is sold , it is sold to a company capable of developing it to the best advantage of the people of Belfast and Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | But one can ask why Adorno did not investigate the origins of swing before so quickly assimilating it to the prevailing Tin Pan Alley dance-band style . |
| 6 | If any other knife identified by its construction as being suitable for banning comes on the market or enters the country in some way , of course we will readily and rapidly consider adding it to the controlled list . |
| 7 | He fetched cold water in the saucepan , adding it to the hot water . |
| 8 | Simply stretch the material across the back of the unit , fixing it to the wooden frame with wide-headed nails . |
| 9 | Furthermore , even if a surplus of wool was produced , there was perhaps more hope of selling it to the developing cloth industry than of disposing of grain which was not required , as a demand for clothing can be more flexible than one for food when men have additional purchasing power ( 59 ; 62 ) . |
| 10 | Cutting the glass is simply a matter of scoring it to the required size with a glass cutter . |
| 11 | It was claimed earlier that black — in blackbird was not a semantic constituent ; we can now verify the claim by subjecting it to the recurrent contrast test : |
| 12 | The musical show is on at Guildford Civil Hall on Thursday , April 23rd at 2 p.m. and you could win yourself two free seats by colouring in the Mr. Men picture , filling in the form and sending it to The Junior Editor Club , The Herald , 114–115 West Street , Farnham , GU9 7HL , to arrive by Friday of next week . |
| 13 | He had also torn off the copyright mark from the greeting card before sending it to the Italian artisans who made the sculptures . |
| 14 | We weakened the signal in several ways , one of which was by damaging the cells of the polarizing region with high doses of X-rays before grafting it to the anterior margin . |
| 15 | Lift the stencil carefully , and rinse and dry it before moving it to the next position . |
| 16 | Timeless words of great writers are learned by rote , the individual becoming the book and , in turn , teaching it to the next generation . |
| 17 | The tune can , of course , always bear strengthening , and this can be done either by giving it to the two trumpets in unison , and the alto and tenor parts to the tenor trombones , or by giving the alto and tenor parts to the 2nd trumpet and 1st trombone respectively and doubling the tune in the lower octave on the 2nd trombone . |
| 18 | It was quite simply we we were taking the business away from the high street erm glossy type travel agents and giving it to the back street travel agents . |
| 19 | There was the faintest whiff of irony in the fax which Grant Baird , head of Scotland Europa , sent to Highlands & Islands Enterprise on hearing that it had been elevated to Objective One status in the European Community , entitling it to the maximum amount of regional development funds . |
| 20 | We believe that it is educationally wrong to teach a subject in isolation without linking it to the outside world . |
| 21 | Groups come together for a specific reason and this reason should run like a thread through the liturgy as well as linking it to the whole community of the Church . |
| 22 | A few seconds later he was followed by Rocky 's rig , the chains linking it to the ruined gates having been released from its rear axle by Springfield . |
| 23 | But consider how He was heard : certainly not by having the cup taken away , but in being … supported while He drank it ; and in victoriously accomplishing His grand design through drinking it to the very dreg . ’ |
| 24 | I 'm not interested in producing reports and publications out of evaluation studies , I 'm interested in affecting the situation , and affecting it to the mutual satisfaction of the people involved in it . |
| 25 | Those I 'm not interested in producing reports and publications out of evaluation studies , I 'm interested in affecting the situation and affecting it to the mutual satisfaction of the people involved in it , and in fact when we 're when I 'm working with people on an evaluation , or discussing evaluation in general , one of the major items of our discussion always is how can you consult other people , how can you get them involved ? |
| 26 | Not finding anything among the existing styles to which she was exposed , she created her own , dedicating it to the Buddhist nun who had taught her , but naming it after herself . |
| 27 | ‘ We 're thinking of taking it to the European Court of Human Rights ’ , she says . |
| 28 | That way , the same effect can be achieved without taking it to the full depth . |
| 29 | The new matrix is symmetric , since both its i , jth and j , ith elements are unity ; moreover , its determinant is -1 , since in moving the jth row to the ith position unc we cross j — i rows ; but the original ith row is now the i + 1th and so in taking it to the jth position we cross j — i — 1 rows . |
| 30 | From a technical point of view the superiority of nephrite over the stones plentifully available for everyday tools would hardly justify the increased cost of ensuring adequate supplies or the enormously greater cost of shaping it to the correct form . |