Example sentences of "[vb -s] it to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A solicitor of an undischarged bankrupt who receives after-acquired property on behalf of his client and transfers it to another agent , even with knowledge that that agent has been instructed to sell , is not liable for conversion at the suit of the trustee in bankruptcy , for the solicitor 's act can be described as ministerial within the test laid down by Blackburn J. Unfortunately , as Blackburn J. himself admitted , it is doubtful how far it goes . |
| 2 | We owe it to these people and British Telecom owes it to these people just let them pay for what they use get rid of the standing charge . |
| 3 | Most lenders will advance three times your annual income ( some go to 3.5 times , others limits it to 2.5 ) . |
| 4 | The first person in each team places it on their nose and then passes it to other members of the team without using their hands . |
| 5 | The feminist debate on pornography often , but not always , links it to that of censorship . |
| 6 | A particular , and in representational terms crucial , development of this new activism ( and one which links it to other movements based on class , gender , colour , and so on ) is the de-biologising nature of the disability . |
| 7 | This objectification temporarily reduces it to zero , to the |
| 8 | He reduces it to this petty party political level and then he makes excuses for all the lowest-performing local authorities , which are Labour-controlled , and resists any idea that we should address the teaching methods that have so badly let down children in Newham , Bradford and all the other areas in the bottom 20 , almost all of which are Labour controlled . |
| 9 | at the speed I was doing it keeps it to that , if I 'd of kept it to fifty it would of been a lot more |
| 10 | ‘ A man hears a knock at the door of his country house and opens it to two vicars wearing stockings over their heads . |
| 11 | From then on , she just buys what she wants and charges it to one or other of the parents ’ accounts . |
| 12 | ‘ If one excludes bacon/ham and offal and confines it to red meat plus poultry , then the figures rise to 35pc , still some way short of the 44pc mentioned . ’ |
| 13 | This immediately commends it to traditional publishers who have been in the business of selling paper-based ROMs since Gutenberg first invented printing . |
| 14 | A feature of the grammar translation method ; learning by deduction the student starts with a general truth and applies it to particular cases . |
| 15 | He is not a neutral observer who first learns to define Truth and then applies it to different aspects of life . |
| 16 | This study examines the nature of social and economic change within Edinburgh in this crucial period and relates it to wider developments in Scotland as a whole . |
| 17 | This research completes the analysis of a large quantity of data , collected under a previous ESRC grant , relating to the height , age , occupation and place of birth and residence of approximately 250,000 males born in Britain between 1730 and 1880 and relates it to other historical and contemporary data on height and its correlates . |
| 18 | The Inland Revenue 's Tax Bulletin is helpful in that it gives the Revenue 's view on how it interprets the law and relates it to practical points . |
| 19 | I bet she changes it to twenty one or summat . |
| 20 | If each person who receives the letter sends it to three more people , it will reach the entire Sheffield Hallam electorate within 11 ‘ generations ’ . |
| 21 | He was not yet of an age where polite altruism is practised.among friends , a situation in which one denies oneself comfort and offers it to another . |
| 22 | If she finds a piglet in the way she moves it to one side . |
| 23 | ‘ ( 2 ) A person secures access to any program or data held in a computer if by causing a computer to perform any function he — ( a ) alters or erases the program or data ; ( b ) copies or moves it to any storage medium other than that in which it is held or to a different location in the storage medium in which it is held ; ( c ) uses it ; or ( d ) has it output from the computer in which it is held ( whether by having it displayed or in any other manner ) ; and references to access to a program or data ( and to an intent to secure such access ) shall be read accordingly . |
| 24 | For the past three years Brenda has been learning German at the Open Learning Centre on site and she puts it to good use on frequent trips abroad . |
| 25 | But Althusser puts it to dramatic use . |
| 26 | The employer is building an internal labour market , with a view to retaining the skilled workers , but extends it to all employees , using payment premiums and participative management measures , in the hope of persuading workers to embrace such change as a competitive product market makes necessary . |
| 27 | What it requires to extend it is what Einstein 's work on general relativity gave to the special theory , namely , a generalization of it which extends it to all frames of reference regardless . |
| 28 | The syndicate leader seeks out loan business , structures a suitable loan proposal , sells it to other banks and ensures the loan is serviced according to its contract terms . |
| 29 | But while this ‘ violence ’ is to be expected within the family , it 's not acceptable when your child does it to other children she encounters . |
| 30 | Right it 's a green gas and it 's also what it does it to this paper turns it acid to start with and then takes the colour away it is a bleach . |