Example sentences of "[verb] it to an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stonehenge still has a very special air in spite of the official attempts to destroy the place ; York Minster has it , and Chartres has it to an incredible extent . |
| 2 | The prosecutor may decide to terminate the case , treat it as délit or , exceptionally , send it to an examining magistrate . |
| 3 | The primary task of monetary policy is to fight inflation , keeping it to an acceptable level . |
| 4 | On appeal by the taxpayers , the Appellate Committee having heard the appeal but before judgment referred it to an enlarged Appellate Committee to determine the question whether the existing exclusionary rule relating to the construction of statutes should be relaxed so as to enable Hansard to be consulted as an aid to construction : — |
| 5 | This has committed it to an inevitable struggle with the Palestinians for control of policy on the Palestine question and , by extension , for control of Jordan itself . |
| 6 | In Sybil he had rejoined his past but he transplanted it to an artistic suburb of London which had been the haunt of legendary highwaymen , was now the roost of exiles and writers and only fifteen minutes from the West End theatre . |
| 7 | I shall ascribe it to an imaginary person whom I shall call the attitudinist . |
| 8 | Let y be the percentage of list votes given to that party , i.e. the votes that will entitle it to an identical percentage of all the seats , constituency and list , in the region . |
| 9 | He likened it to an intermediate era between the collapse of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D. and the re-birth of classicism in the Renaissance ideals of the fifteenth century . |
| 10 | The Bishop took off his mitre and handed it to an adjacent altar-boy . |
| 11 | Jones , now 19 , and living in Holyhead , said Roberts and son , Ian , would hold him upside down , tie his feet with rope or string , and tie it to an overhead pole . |
| 12 | Jones said Roberts and son Ian would hold him upside down , tie his feet with rope or string , and tie it to an overhead pole . |
| 13 | After its discovery in 1873 , the Tongue had found its way into the hands of a treasure-hunter , who had kept quiet about it and sold it to a London dealer , who in turn had sold it to an American collector , who had lent it to an exhibition in Philadelphia in 1922 — which latter appearance had provided the clues , sixty-five years later , for a detective-story-like investigation on the part of Theodore Kemp of the Ashmolean Museum — a man who now lay dead in the mortuary at the Radcliffe Infirmary . |
| 14 | It 's not expensive if you couple it to an off-peak Economy Seven meter . |
| 15 | The Iraqis ' suspicions of his links with Iran , Israel and America ( he was on the CIA 's payroll ) were reinforced when , that year , he said : ‘ If support were strong enough we could control the Kirkuk oilfield and give it to an American company to operate ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The honeybees have taken this basic arrangement and elaborated it to an extreme degree so that they live in colonies of many thousands . |
| 18 | His work in geology was of equal importance , since he developed a technique for viewing slivers of rock directly through a microscope ( by cementing the mineral to a glass plate and grinding it to an extreme thinness ) , thus allowing its structure to be visualized by direct microscopy , rather than through use of reflected light , which revealed only its surface qualities . |
| 19 | He tells it to an Indian friend , and soon ceases to speak the tale in his own language , substituting instead the Indian 's . |
| 20 | Science may be concerned with impersonal forces , religion with personalized gods ; but the very word force carried religious meanings , even for Isaac Newton ( 1642–1727 ) who , in describing the operation of a gravitational force in mathematical terms , also ascribed it to an omnipotent God . |
| 21 | We are now hearing that our outlook is so bad that we had better leave it to an independent central bank to decide the important aspects of our future . |
| 22 | It was now clear that this was because an atom in its ground state has nowhere else to go , unless it can be given the rather large amount of energy necessary to lift it to an excited state with n greater than I. |
| 23 | During pre-trial interrogation Talb told Swedish police that between October and December 1988 he had retrieved a bomb from one of the PFLP-GC 's West German safe houses and passed it to an unnamed person , causing speculation that it could have been identical to the Lockerbie device . |
| 24 | Change it to an open question . |
| 25 | This is apparent from Helby v. Matthews ( see Chapter 17 ) , where someone who was hiring a piano on hire purchase terms , sold it to an innocent purchaser . |
| 26 | After this but before the rogue was traced , the rogue took the car along to a market in Warren Street ( where dealers commonly sold cars ) and he sold it to an innocent purchaser . |
| 27 | He sold it to an American bookseller , who broke up the historic volumes that had survived the hazards of more than six centuries . |
| 28 | If political struggle takes place for specific purposes and anticipated results , here Sartre seems to condemn it to an unending series of detours that will never arrive at their destination . |
| 29 | Use a smooth four-ply yarn and you can attach it to an old test piece for a trial run . |