Example sentences of "[to-vb] it to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Archbishop Bradwardine preached before Edward III after English victories at Crécy and Neville 's Cross in 1346 he claimed that God granted victory to whomever he willed , and he had willed to grant it to the virtuous . |
| 2 | Specially commissioned by The Tea Council , Teapot 2000 has a unique design that allows you to brew it to the exact strength you like , from the first cup to the last . |
| 3 | Historians will seek to understand the late twentieth century in order to relate it to the collective identities and experiences of their own period . |
| 4 | His story had been absorbing and very revealing ; it was difficult to relate it to the other , more menacing side of him . |
| 5 | Because we try to relate it to the real world . |
| 6 | He was very much a social novelist and to appreciate the moral significance of his novels you have to relate it to the actual society that it reflects and often criticises . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's not going to stop the abuse of power , it 's just going to restrict it to the highest level . |
| 8 | When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants . |
| 9 | ‘ After all , even if Jefferson has perfected some magic putter which gives Harley an illegal edge on the greens , he will never be allowed to sell it to the ordinary punter , so there 's no point . |
| 10 | Just as its perspective gathers all that is extended to render it to the individual eye , so its means of representation render all that is depicted into the hands of the individual owner-spectator . |
| 11 | The Romans , imitating the Greeks of Asia Minor and , nearer home , the Etruscans , thought a grid should have precise right angles , and so the rectangle of streets sits awkwardly in the bend of the river and one has to tack this way and that to cross it to the medieval cathedral and the Roman bridge . |
| 12 | There continued , then , to be systematic efforts to standardise examination procedure , to apply it to the whole age group , and to make it more equitable . |
| 13 | Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time . |
| 14 | The way I approach anything is to do it to the best of my ability , whatever . |
| 15 | to it so that you prefer to use it to the other one . |
| 16 | ’ And she meant to use it to the full , though perhaps not in this wasteful way . |
| 17 | Well WE 'RE not … were going to leave it to the strong men … something different too … the first ever weightlifting world cup for the disabled . |
| 18 | To leave it to the transforming imagination . |
| 19 | There is still a feeling , and rightly so , that every firm owes some responsibility to its members and their dependants in this respect and that it is not enough to leave it to the individual partner to make his own arrangements . |
| 20 | They reckon they 've had enough and theywant to leave it to the younger ones.0 |
| 21 | If you want to leave it to the last minute you can also bring your items to the Community Centre on the morning . |
| 22 | But I do n't want to leave it to the last game of the season . |
| 23 | Now you 'll then have to look and see if they tell you to give it to the nearest metre or the nearest maybe the nearest maybe the nearest point one of a metre or three significant figures or three decimal places . |
| 24 | Bobbie asked the Station Master to give it to the old gentleman the next morning . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've decided to give it to the Royal Horticultural Society as an eastern centre . |
| 26 | If you intend varnishing the window , first use wood dye on the filled area to match it to the surrounding timber . |
| 27 | His agent , Giles Gordon of Sheil Land , had reacted to the sight of the manuscript with alarm , but was won around by reading it : ‘ He said that perhaps it should be cut a bit , but that we should aim to keep it to the same kind of scale . ’ |
| 28 | A solid yet agreeable course book with material to commend it to the serious student . |
| 29 | A man has a right to take credit for past success and to attribute it to the real cause . |
| 30 | I say this because if you raise any objections to the contents of the report we may choose not to disclose it to the other side . |