Example sentences of "[to-vb] it to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The show will coincide with an international congress of archaeologists , and it is hoped to tour it to the US , France , Japan and Germany before converting it into permanent museum . |
| 2 | Pipe some icing down one short side of the hutch door and use to secure it to the hutch . |
| 3 | ‘ Sounds fine , but , well , even if Montgomery manages to raise this bomber , if he manages to cut a hole in the fuselage without blowing us all to kingdom come , if he manages to extract the atom bomb and if he manages to secure it to the Angelina 's cradle , what happens if the thing detonates before he reaches the Kásos Strait ? ’ |
| 4 | Only 40% are likely to pass it to the child . |
| 5 | Once dolphins locate a school of fish , they spread out , some individuals diving down to the school of prey to herd it to the surface by swimming around and under the fish in an ever-tightening formation . |
| 6 | During the past ten years considerable attempts have been made in education to develop understanding of the management of change and , in particular , to relate it to the curriculum needs of institutions ( Wilcox , 1978 ; Rudduck , 1981 ; Oldroyd et al , 1984 ; Easen , 1985 ; Hughes et al , 1985 ; DES , 1985c ) . |
| 7 | I have cast this account in the past tense in order to relate it to the developments of the late 1960s , although I know that much of this shape and many of these assumptions have survived . |
| 8 | ‘ The first impulse of every critic of postmodernism ’ , Ihab Hassan recently suggested , ‘ is still to relate it to the semanteme it contains : namely , modernism ’ ( Hassan 1987a : 214 ) . |
| 9 | The parents , he was convinced , had perceived nothing of the incident last Thursday , and therefore he was happy to relegate it to the back of his mind , and do nothing further about it . |
| 10 | We readily accept the need for digging the soil to open it to the air , for good drainage and manuring , for the elimination of weed competition and for the provision of nutrients for our plants . |
| 11 | We found that ministers had solemnly undertaken not only to repair The Grange , but also to open it to the public . |
| 12 | Now there are plans to open it to the public and found a museum there . |
| 13 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 14 | Two claw weights at the back of the knitting will help to grip it to the ribber . |
| 15 | He decided to sell it to the Americans who had bought the triptych . |
| 16 | ‘ When our family shareholders decided the time had come to sell the company , they offered to sell it to the management team if we could match the price a trade bidder could pay . |
| 17 | In August 1915 the receiver , Mr Coombes , decided he could no longer continue in charge of the club and offered to sell it to the Leeds Northern [ Rugby ] Union Club at Headingley , who were interested . |
| 18 | So the bet is that the prime minister now has two years — with luck , much calmer than the past one — to start putting a programme into law , followed by another year to sell it to the people in the run-up to re-election . |
| 19 | The surface of the brick was still gelid and adhesive , so that he was able to stick it to the side of a drum near the hull , separated from the fuel tanks only by a steel bulkhead . |
| 20 | The cement was freezing before we were able to apply it to the bricks . |
| 21 | As Giles Worsley explains in Architectural Drawings of the Regency Period , the term ‘ Regency ’ is technically understood to cover the period from 1811 to George III 's death in 1820 , but in matters concerning architecture , decoration and furniture , it is more appropriate to apply it to the years from 1790 to 1837 with the accession of Queen Victoria . |
| 22 | Much the better practice is first to state the rule of law and then to apply it to the facts . |
| 23 | Get a cloth out of my pack , and be ready to press it to the wound as soon as the bolt comes clear . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It is bad enough doing that to the uninitiated , but to do it to the Secretary of State is really beyond the pale — it 's quite pathetic . ’ |
| 25 | It 's sad , you know ’ — she turned about and looked at Peggy ‘ It is sad when a mother outshines a daughter , and aims to do it to the extent of trying to fascinate her son-in-law . |
| 26 | Well , children can be allowed to express their anxieties verbally and to learn perhaps from the adults ' modelling around them that to talk about these things in moderation is perfectly acceptable erm but not to do it to the extent or to allow children to perhaps watch the news coverage to the extent that they become over excited and are not able to contain their own feelings of anxiety about loss and damage and death and separation from parents and significant adults . |
| 27 | I 've only got to do it to the end of today so , I do n't think I 'm going to use twenty do you ? |
| 28 | Do I have to do it to the end ? |
| 29 | Sorry I was going to go down to get an authorization from Age Concern , I missed the first bit , but erm if resources are allowed for this work , would it not be better to aim them at priority areas , and not wards , I mean , in other words , to put it to the areas that needed most . |
| 30 | All , from Davout down to the humblest ranker , were eager to put it to the test . |