Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] it to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tribe living near the shore might wonder at this evidence of sorting or arrangement in the world , and might develop a myth to account for it , perhaps attributing it to a Great Spirit in the sky with a tidy mind and a sense of order . |
| 2 | They suspected that it might work by inserting its own genes — and in particular the ‘ promotor ’ DNA that activates them — next to an innocent cellular proto-oncogene , thus stirring it to an unnatural and cancer-causing level of activity . |
| 3 | With Hindess and Hirst criticism of Althusser 's theory of history shifted to the problematic of the relation of the concept ( increasingly assimilated to representation ) to the real , thus reducing it to a question of epistemology . |
| 4 | So I think th th that the one thing which is good I think , is a possibility of re-opening it up , and possibly using it to a fuller extent , which might actually give it er , er , new lease of life . |
| 5 | It had fallen to him to inherit not a heaven-born dynasty in an earthly paradise , but the staggering debt of correctly bringing it to an end . |