Example sentences of "of [verb] it to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Cutting the glass is simply a matter of scoring it to the required size with a glass cutter . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | This shows an irony that although Saint Francis gave all he had to the needy , the church is spending its money on building magnificent and expensive structures instead of giving it to the poor . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're thinking of taking it to the European Court of Human Rights ’ , she says . |