Example sentences of "to it [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I found was the Women 's Movement and I dedicated myself completely to it at all levels from forming advice groups , demonstrating to reclaim the streets etc . |
| 2 | It probably sums up the case and we can discuss it and perhaps add to it at that time . |
| 3 | Very little built on to it at that stage . |
| 4 | What happens further to small mammal bone before it is buried and fossilized depends in part on what happened to it at earlier stages in the transition from living animal to fossil ( Fig. 1.2 ) . |
| 5 | The former is a tenancy made by the agreement of the parties on the terms that either may put an end to it at any moment at the shortest notice ; the latter arises where a tenant whose interest has expired continues in possession without the landlord either assenting or dissenting . |
| 6 | Their excellent long-distance vision spots something suspicious and they fly to it at high speed . |
| 7 | Remember that it is far better to get down and then to run into obstruction than to stall on to it at flying speed . |
| 8 | It is not that racism vanishes — in fact it intensifies and violence increases , but most children start to face up to it at this point , and their ‘ inferiority ’ usually clears away . |
| 9 | It is difficult , I think , to overestimate the potential significance of this approach , and we will return to it at several points in this book . |
| 10 | Tirpitz lies at the bottom of the local fjord , and every year the local diving club goes down to it on New Year 's Day to retrieve a handful of bits guaranteed to fuel the old fires for another year . |
| 11 | Under the terms of the truce and the modifications agreed to it on 27 June , the siege of Quimperlé would be lifted , Duke John would withdraw his army from Brittany , Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte would be handed over to papal mediators who would deliver it to the King of France when the truce expired , and the English would receive 40,000 francs in compensation . |
| 12 | In a way they were right but , thankfully , I was never hanged though I was close to it on many occasions . |
| 13 | For Coldingham ( c ) turn left inland on tarmacked track between café and lifeguard hut and follow road ( signposted path runs parallel to it on right-hand side for a distance to avoid road-walking ) . |
| 14 | The forward ceptors had been showing a bright little disc that was the planet Fraxilly , steadily enlarging as we crept near to it on planetary drive . |
| 15 | The latter items , of course , like meanings , are subject to identity ; i.e. a non-meaning qua topic of discourse is necessarily such that it must be possible to refer to it on different occasions with the phrase " the same A " , where A is a descriptive expression of some sort . |
| 16 | I listened to it with great interest , and er , I thought again that the County Council was lead role was modestly but quite accurately described in that , fairly lengthy er , interview . |
| 17 | Julia listened to it with professional interest , expecting the usual Nazi defence of obedience to superior orders . |
| 18 | The co-operation of these voices might be seen as the very essence of critical commentary : to interpret the text while refering to it with varying levels of precision . |
| 19 | Yet once he had started he applied his mind and industry to it with such vigour that he had mastered more books in that short space than any child before or since . |
| 20 | At the other end of the scale , a small and humble task can sometimes be given ritual status by attending to it with real attention and care . |
| 21 | A group of thirty horsemen had come against Forteviot from the east an hour before , and had tried to set fire to it with burning arrows , and strike down the defenders with slingshot and spears . |
| 22 | These may take a bit of finding — although an electronic stud detector will help — but once the batten has been secured , the kitchen cupboard ( or whatever ) can be secured to it with normal woodscrews . |
| 23 | It 's the oldest lyrical theme in the world and David Gedge adheres to it with laudable steadfastness . |
| 24 | Conversely the under-confident person may be hesitant to predict danger or to react to it with sufficient purpose or determination . |
| 25 | The administration was always discomposed by evidence of Masai unfaithfulness , reacting to it with pained surprise if not outright disbelief . |
| 26 | There 's a process getting the kids used to it with dummy running so that the picture you get is a realistic one . |
| 27 | It was always the other way round , and when he found overnight fame , he clung to it with both hands and worried sometimes that it would go away again . |
| 28 | No one could have been better suited for the role , nor taken to it with more enthusiasm . |
| 29 | I shall look forward to it with ssspecial pleasure . ’ |
| 30 | On the latter point the King felt the same confidence , although less reluctantly , and reacted to it with some lack of consideration by more or less commanding Baldwin not to leave the country for his annual expedition to Aix . |