Example sentences of "[verb] to it [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One indication of current priorities is that Making Belfast Work has less money committed to it in total over four years than is spent on prisons in a single year . |
| 2 | This is an unreal place to be , because if you ca n't talk to other women , yet you believe all women must in the end come to separatism , then either those women have to be born separatist or they have to come to it through isolation , pain and struggle . |
| 3 | In some heating systems the water circulates naturally , ; hot water rising from the boiler and returning to it by force of gravity when it is cooler . |
| 4 | However , the issue of the relationship between classical deterrence and interactionist ‘ labelling ’ clearly needs further attention , and I will be returning to it in Chapter 8 . |
| 5 | A small herd inhabited a reedbed formed by the overflow from a large pool fed by hot springs , leaving its shelter only after dark and returning to it before light . |
| 6 | nineteen thousand three hundred people have objected to it on petition . |
| 7 | Probable sad answer : cling to it as part of Britain 's eccentric genius . |
| 8 | In London , the Charity Organization Society ( COS ) did pioneer work in developing a casework approach to the families who came to it for aid , helping them to solve their problems and help themselves rather than become dependent on charitable funds . |
| 9 | I came to it through climbing , having been active in mountaineering for years . |
| 10 | Union Discount could not establish the existence of a duty of care owed to it in relation to the audit . |
| 11 | but we do n't usually refer to it as Clog 's theory or anything like that . |
| 12 | So unlike indeed that Jaynes ( 1976 ) does not refer to it as consciousness at all . |
| 13 | ( 3 ) A licensing board may consider any application made to it under paragraph ( b ) of subsection ( 2 ) above at any meeting of the board held not earlier than 14 days after the making of the application and shall affirm the provisional grant if the board is satisfied that the premises , if completed in accordance with the plan mentioned in that paragraph , will be and convenient for their purpose and that the said plan does not deviate materially from the site plan and description of the premises lodged under the said subsection ( 2 ) . |
| 14 | With the increase in population from the early nineteenth century , education in this illiberal form was unable to adapt itself " to the needs of the new body of persons who turned to it for help " . |
| 15 | ‘ No , ’ he waved a sheaf of papers in the air , ‘ I 'd better go and see to it in person . ’ |
| 16 | Delaney hesitated , but Nell , used to it in hospital laboratories , pushed on through . |
| 17 | When ‘ neutral ’ is used in this sense I refer to it as by-product neutrality , for here neutrality may well be an accidental by-product of the agent 's action and not its intended outcome . |
| 18 | The dimension of unc is that of voltage , so it is not surprising that many people refer to it as voltage or induced voltage , a usage into which I often lapse myself . |
| 19 | As a whole , in spite of the splendour of much of the singing , this ca n't quite replace present recommendations , particularly those in the historic field , but I am sure it thrilled the audience in the Suntory Hall a year ago and I shall return to it from time to time for its visceral force and its sense of a tension well sustained . |
| 20 | Madam Deputy Speaker I only wanted to make a short intervention er er on this point and I think I will return to it from time to time because it is a perennial , annual problem of every time the minister introduces a a rule and regulation we can understand it 's extremely useful and how can one say that er regulations about fraud are not useful , it 's just the culture of our country has been besieged by these rules and regulations and I 'm surprised that anybody can actually make any profit or do any business simply because of the weight of officialdom and the weight of rules and regulations which prevents them from getting above er the the surface . |
| 21 | Traditionally people — some people — have retreated to it in search of spiritual solace . |
| 22 | But at least , he would console himself , I was n't driven to it by ideology , by politics , religion or prejudice . |
| 23 | For if the category of the individual is to play the central role allotted to it by individualism , it must be the source of a number of social characteristics which demand explanation . |
| 24 | Another , the scaffold-web spider , rigs a whole series of sticky threads from the branches of a bush down to the ground and hauls each one so tight that if an insect , either walking on the ground or flying a little way above it blunders into one of them , the thread breaks and the victim , stuck to it with glue , is hoisted into the air . |
| 25 | They propose a more comprehensive assessment of LFA handicaps on a farm by farm basis with HLCAs linked to it in order to create a more favourable climate for conservation . |
| 26 | The pressures on the CNAA as colleges showed interest in coming to it for validation were of various kinds . |
| 27 | Only a rutted bridle track , where orchids still grow , led to it by way of a dilapidated wooden bridge over a stream ; the oak avenue which once lined the way gradually fell . |
| 28 | He thought that precisely because it was impossible for the human mind to construct an idea of God from its inherent mental resources , such an idea could only be given to it by revelation — in other words directly implanted by God Himself . |
| 29 | ‘ How many people have referred to it as theatre or television of the mind ? |
| 30 | Convocation has the power to discuss and state its opinion on any matter affecting the University , including matters referred to it by Court , Council or Senate and it elects up to nine members of the University Court . |