Example sentences of "[verb] it to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I often have rounds where I keep knocking it to 15 feet and then miss the putts . |
| 32 | Peter founded the navy out of virtually nothing , recruiting officers and sailors in the same way as for the army , and used it to good effect against the Swedes . |
| 33 | First and foremost , Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage . |
| 34 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 35 | May Roberts Rinehart used it to excellent effect in The Circular Staircase . |
| 36 | Nevertheless , there are many things about the Demoiselles that serve to relate it to other painting of the period and , more particularly , to the contemporary work of Matisse . |
| 37 | Although Pepper v. Hart is the initial formulation of the relaxed exclusionary rule , the ambiguities which it contains and the failure to relate it to other aids to statutory construction are perhaps less deserving of a welcome . |
| 38 | Yet he would have spent far less money if he had bought the first house and completely refurnished the kitchen or even changed it to another room . |
| 39 | But last night he had refused even to consider what she had told him , tossing it to one side as though it did n't matter . |
| 40 | It 's if it goes where you want it to that 's hard . |
| 41 | And it depends on what they want if they want it to three decimal places with this |
| 42 | One relatively straightforward approach to this task consists in trying to refine the theory through use — to discover , by applying it to specific problems , whether it can be consistently employed and what explanations it can yield . |
| 43 | The judiciary has the function of interpreting the law and applying it to specific cases . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Ideally , you 'll try to absorb all the information here by applying it to all keys . |
| 46 | Data General Corp is moving into document imaging and forms management in an effort to move hardware , taking what it learned in the minicomputer business and applying it to current events . |
| 47 | Data General Corp is going into document imaging/forms management to move hardware , taking what it learned in the minicomputer business and applying it to current events . |
| 48 | Equally , the consequences of applying it to any old scrap of paper which any party cared to describe as an ‘ Act of Parliament ’ solely for purpose of denying jurisdiction would be absurd . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | How many have taken the edge off the phrase at the grass roots by applying it to inappropriate circumstances ? |
| 51 | He quotes Occam 's razor but never dreams of applying it to most of the controversies he refers to , and , ironically over macroevolution , thinks that some of the recent speculations ‘ must inhibit the penchant for ‘ story-telling ’ and the glib explanation ’ , of the neo-Darwinists . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | There were no difficulties in construing the section although difficulties in applying it to particular cases may arise ( p202 ) . |
| 54 | It belonged to another College , which had let it to one of its fellows . |
| 55 | Whereas previously each local authority had access to its own business rate revenue , now the central government collected all this revenue and redistributed it to local authorities in proportion to the local population . |
| 56 | Over the years , the economic pressures have grown , partly as a result of government policies which committed it to high levels of spending , and partly because of external factors such as declining terms of trade and smaller than anticipated flows of aid after independence . |
| 57 | If you show it to other people it could form part of their records which they may later be obliged to disclose . |
| 58 | Chris Hankins shows you how to set it to best advantage . |
| 59 | With characteristic business acumen , the Swiss spas saw the renaissance of the classical water therapy on the way , beckoning all sections of society , and they have turned it to good account . |
| 60 | I did show it to one of the department and he read it through … |