Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] it to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May Roberts Rinehart used it to excellent effect in The Circular Staircase . |
| 2 | Only 13% ( 26 ) spoke to their spouse about it , and fewer than 10% mentioned it to another family member or friend . |
| 3 | There should be no attempt to shorten it to newspaper-headline form . |
| 4 | Forest fans gave it to that slag Clough and in the long run they got a bitter reward . |
| 5 | And it was a record that came to be seen and recognised by the local electorate , in particular the newly enfranchised women , not least through the efforts of Labour candidates to exploit it to political advantage . |
| 6 | Bennett , the original owner of a Jaguar car entrusted it to one Searle for some repairs to be carried out . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A distrust of social revolutions was not absent from their considerations , any more than a distrust of traditional religion whose sacred texts committed it to discontinuous change ( ‘ creation ’ ) and interference with the regularity of nature ( ‘ miracles ’ ) . |
| 9 | The wind was tugging at her hair , the setting sun turning it to false and fleeting gold . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Rain reduced it to 37 overs a side and the home team were soon rattling along . |
| 13 | Yachting can survive as a spectator sport , but the participants owe it to future generations not to promote tobacco consumption as part of their lifestyle . |
| 14 | It would be a criminal waste to give it to most women . ’ |
| 15 | Another proof of her social status among the hawkers is her working spot : it is so well located that she if she decides to move she could ‘ sell ’ the right to use it to another vendor . |
| 16 | Only one group use it to any marked degree in navigation . |
| 17 | But Althusser puts it to dramatic use . |
| 18 | Repêchages were in the afternoon with all British boats making it to semi finals . |
| 19 | Now there there is the scheme by the Department of Transport to upgrade it to dual it u as far to Malton and then beyond subsequently . |
| 20 | The Law Lords held that this publication was protected by qualified privilege : the Council had a duty to leap to the General 's defence , and the privilege was not lost by the fact of world-wide publication , because " a man who makes a statement on the floor of the House of Commons makes it to all the world … it was only plain justice to the General that the ambit of contradiction should be spread so wide as , if possible , to meet the false accusation wherever it went . " |
| 21 | It may be that his partner also loves the outdoors but feels a need to limit it to small doses . |
| 22 | It is important to take a wider view of social policy development relating it to economic policy . |
| 23 | The emergence of current cost accounting and of efforts to apply it to public sector organizations has necessitated taking an explicit view of capital maintenance in their accounts . |
| 24 | The US Food and Drug Administration announced earlier this month that it was likely to initiate a ban against farm use of the antibiotic — known as sulfamethazine in the US — because two laboratory studies linked it to thyroid cancer in rats and mice . |
| 25 | By 1961 it was fading : lack of resources kept it to four or six pages when other broadsheets were three or four times as big . |
| 26 | The software needs a lot of work before it 's mature and the current situation puts OSF and DCE vendors in a race to get it to that point before the marketplace grows leery of it . |
| 27 | In the productivity of Lake Vanda phosphorus is a limiting element ( Vincent and Vincent , 1982 ) , because of gravitational losses into the sediment and lack of turbulence to return it to general circulation . |
| 28 | To convert national income into real output per capita , it is necessary to make two adjustments : ( i ) national income must be deflated by an appropriate price index to convert it to real terms ; ( ii ) the figure must then be divided by the population to convert it to per capita terms . |
| 29 | The truth is that it is an exceedingly complex concept ; and nothing but confusion can arise from attempts to reduce it to curt labels and pat slogans . |
| 30 | ‘ Irony ’ is a strategic term that indicates the capacity of poetry to resist or elude our attempts to reduce it to conventional modes of expression . |