Example sentences of "it a rule " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make it a rule always to check with the scorekeeper before going on to the area . |
| 2 | I make it a rule to go at least three times . |
| 3 | Early April in the Hebrides can be wild , but we always make it a rule that , if we have decided to go , then we go , regardless of weather conditions . |
| 4 | But their choices remained either in the storeroom or in the window because her father had made it a rule that the window was n't to be cleared until the day before Christmas Eve . |
| 5 | He made it a rule that the work which flowed in during the course of the day had to be dealt with during that day , unless there was a very good reason . ’ |
| 6 | Make it a rule to use good general lighting but to position a standard lamp or table lamp somewhere behind you . |
| 7 | ‘ Actually , I 've always made it a rule never to get drunk before going on stage . |
| 8 | When investigating an alleged miscarriage of justice , I have always made it a rule first to talk to the convicted man 's trial solicitor as he is likely to be the last man his client would wish to con , or would succeed in conning ii he tried . |
| 9 | They made it a rule never to pay , never to bribe , never to threaten to prosecute except in the case of dealers who could sell a young orang for several hundred pounds on the black market . |
| 10 | They made it a rule that she was never to be alone . |
| 11 | Patrick had made it a rule that he was never to be disturbed in the mornings , but that she might bring him urgent interruptions in the afternoon . |
| 12 | In future I must make it a rule never to use those cold , wet , good-for-nothing days for looking at crags . |
| 13 | When I go along , say , to open a fete or spring fayre , I make it a rule not to rush straight away after my little speech . |
| 14 | And however desirable it may be to achieve unanimity , at least on basic values and the general directions to be pursued by a society , it is unwise , in any diverse society , to make it a rule or a requirement . |
| 15 | I made it a rule — which , it is true , he broke from time to time when he had something particularly pressing or intimate to convey — that he should not drop into French while we were together . |
| 16 | ‘ I make it a rule never to mix business with pleasure . |
| 17 | In fact , he made it a rule never to make any friend who could not be useful to him . |
| 18 | Accordingly when a pare of men went underground formerly , they made it a rule , to sleep out a candle , before they set about their work ; that is if their place of work was dry , they would lay themselves down and sleep , as long as a whole candle would continue burning ; and then rise up and work for two or three hours pretty briskly ; after that have a touch pipe , that is rest themselves for half an hour to smoke a pipe of tobacco , and so play and sleep away half their working time : but mining being more expensive than it formerly was , those idle customs are superseded by more labour and industry . |
| 19 | ‘ I make it a rule never to drive at more than forty-five in a built-up area . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Sorry , but I make it a rule never to have working lunches — so bad for the digestion , I find . |