Example sentences of "[verb] it to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the conventions offer an imperfect guide to the subject at hand , it is necessary to look at some of the other types of sources which are generally recognised as being useful in establishing what the law is , and in relating it to specific situations and technical developments . |
| 2 | He 'd then possibly forgotten these dreams or fantasies and then when the stimulus of feeling something on the back of his neck happened to him whilst asleep , suddenly the fantasy came back , all as a piece as it were , and it occurred to me that your dream about driving off viaducts might be caused by being asleep , having one of these falling experiences , then relating it to previous thoughts you 'd had , you know on the freeway or something , oh my God , how awful it would be if I , if I drove off that bend below , do you know what I mean ? |
| 3 | Some of them have posited underlying mechanisms of language change to account for this ; some have been more interested in relating it to social realities , treating language as a sort of cultural key rather than as a self-contained system with its own particular dynamic ; others have seen it as their main task to suggest linguistic reforms that will modify or eliminate offensive usages . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One relatively straightforward approach to this task consists in trying to refine the theory through use — to discover , by applying it to specific problems , whether it can be consistently employed and what explanations it can yield . |
| 6 | The judiciary has the function of interpreting the law and applying it to specific cases . |
| 7 | This involved designing a questionnaire and applying it to quantitative observations of a sample of companies in the same type of industry in each country . |
| 8 | Data General Corp is moving into document imaging and forms management in an effort to move hardware , taking what it learned in the minicomputer business and applying it to current events . |
| 9 | Data General Corp is going into document imaging/forms management to move hardware , taking what it learned in the minicomputer business and applying it to current events . |
| 10 | How many have taken the edge off the phrase at the grass roots by applying it to inappropriate circumstances ? |
| 11 | There were no difficulties in construing the section although difficulties in applying it to particular cases may arise ( p202 ) . |
| 12 | For instance , they discovered how useful honey was in the treatment of wounds and it was thanks to people 's participation that the best ways of applying it to particular kinds of wounds were developed . |
| 13 | Whereas previously each local authority had access to its own business rate revenue , now the central government collected all this revenue and redistributed it to local authorities in proportion to the local population . |
| 14 | Over the years , the economic pressures have grown , partly as a result of government policies which committed it to high levels of spending , and partly because of external factors such as declining terms of trade and smaller than anticipated flows of aid after independence . |
| 15 | In October 1861 he took the matter out of the hands of the old guard and transferred it to keen reformers . |
| 16 | They must keep within the budget , but if they spend less than their limit they can reallocate it to other purposes within the practice . |
| 17 | It is easy to ridicule such an argument by pushing it to absurd limits . |
| 18 | Cos I think that what we will need to do is refer it to General Purposes Committee for and people to go and have a look at it . |
| 19 | Double-vault composting toilet : If people wish to reuse excreta in their gardens or to sell it to local farmers composting toilets can be built as long as users agree to follow strict rules of maintenance . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The brunette gift wrapped a bomb and handed it to grateful squaddies on point duty in Northern Ireland . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Alcohol certainly affects most organs , but only the liver can convert it to other substances and clear it from the body . |
| 25 | It 's simpler to obtain large amounts of it and one hopes that if one finds out something of the mechanism through this enzyme one would be able to apply it to other enzymes dependent upon the same coenzyme . |
| 26 | However , it may also be that if the clause is drawn so widely as to be capable of applying in unreasonable circumstances , or if it purports to exclude a liability which can not be excluded under the Act , the court may find it unreasonable to apply it to other circumstances ( see Walker v Boyle [ 1982 ] 1 All ER 634 ) . |
| 27 | After the courts ' acceptance of the neighbour principle , there was an increasing tendency to apply it to new areas , heralding a major advance in the recovery of damages for economic loss ( e.g. Hedley Byrne & Co . |
| 28 | We will extend compulsory competitive tendering to local authority housing management , and examine how to apply it to white-collar services . |
| 29 | ‘ It is offensive of the company to give an assurance to hourly-paid staff , but not extend it to white-collar workers . ’ |
| 30 | Would , would , would would , but , I mean I 'm quite in favour of people having their genitals mutilated as adults , once they 're over eighteen , they go to hospital and sign a consent form and have it done as long as they pay for it themselves , but to do it to newborn children strikes me as outrageous . |