Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [adj] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reality strikes home when the learner arrives on the ward to find it overcrowded with beds , chairs , trolleys and even patients . |
| 2 | Instead , the definition of democracy itself has been revised , adapted , narrowed and diluted to render it compatible with the persisting belief in the necessity or the virtue of rule by elites , with an equally persistent mistrust of " the masses " and , perhaps most important of all , to render it compatible with the existing political systems of the Western world which call themselves " democracies " . |
| 3 | Instead , the definition of democracy itself has been revised , adapted , narrowed and diluted to render it compatible with the persisting belief in the necessity or the virtue of rule by elites , with an equally persistent mistrust of " the masses " and , perhaps most important of all , to render it compatible with the existing political systems of the Western world which call themselves " democracies " . |
| 4 | Hayek thus seems open to the criticism that he skews his account of moral and social development in order to render it harmonious with his ideological preference for a particular conception of liberty . |
| 5 | ‘ I was going to discuss it first with Juliet . |
| 6 | It seems that the warehouse workers decided to blast it loose with dynamite . |
| 7 | Then when he was entertaining one of his friends he could n't get his stove to burn right and he had to keep it alight with matchboxes and cheese straws . |
| 8 | Now that her ankle was better she should really go back and chase up on the calls Steve should have made in Palma so that it was all tied up when he got back but she did n't want to spoil it all with Fernando . |
| 9 | He 'd had to pound it flat with his shoe before he 'd been able to get it to close again . |
| 10 | In the winter we used to have it hot with Yorkshire pudding . |
| 11 | A Barry Lavety goal earned both points against Ayr United and enabled the Paisley club to make it tighter with the three clubs above them all dropping a point each . |
| 12 | After Paul Barry struck probably the goal of the game from distance to make it 14-2 with almost half of the match left , 15-year-old former youth team player Founds stepped into the limelight with three goals and six assists . |
| 13 | Although you will be writing a story in which a murder , or more than one murder , is the key happening , you have got to make it compatible with the humour with which you intend to infuse the whole . |
| 14 | In the end , it turned out to be the Newtonian theory of gravity that had to be modified to make it compatible with the invariance properties of the Maxwell theory . |
| 15 | One of the problems facing physicists who sought to apply general relativity to these newly discovered or hypothetical objects was to make it compatible with quantum mechanics . |
| 16 | Even in situations where there is a published list covering the requirements of the type of library or the subject area to be indexed , this list is likely to require adjustment in order to make it compatible with local requirements . |
| 17 | Your mother used to make it hot with this sauce . ’ |
| 18 | can you ever control the service charge component to make it level with inflation as opposed to the management charges ? |
| 19 | Sloppy play by Spurs let Regis release Yorke to make it 3–2 with a shot across Walker . |
| 20 | Modern critical editions sometimes also make changes which go against authorial intentions ; Keynes 's Oxford edition of Blake 's poems , for example , changes Blake 's invented punctuation system to make it fit with standard rules of punctuation . |
| 21 | Had the attention of the court been drawn to Article 119 of the EEC Treaty and the judgment of the European Court of Justice in Case 43/75 Defrenne v. Sabena ( 1976 ) ICR 547 , I have no doubt that , consistently with statements made by Lord Denning in previous cases , they would have construed section 6(4) so as not to make it inconsistent with Article 119 . ’ |
| 22 | The popular saying that ‘ Finding is keeping ’ is a dangerous half-truth , which needs a good deal of expansion and qualification to make it square with the law . |