Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Granted that I have a map of my house in my head , how do I use it to go from A to E ? |
| 2 | While British Standards ( BSi ) sets minimum requirements for the number of facilities for men and women , the provision of public lavatories is the responsibility of local authorities , so it differs from area to area . |
| 3 | In tennis he will ask his students to call out their estimate of the height of the ball above the net as it crosses from side to side , or he will ask them to shout ‘ Bounce ’ each time the ball bounces and ‘ Hit ’ each time it is hit , giving Self 2 a chance to show what a fluent player he really is . |
| 4 | The frontier between France and Spain runs along the estuary of the Bidassoa and then for some little way along the river itself , until it turns at right-angles to the east , leaving the Bidassoa exclusively to Spain . |
| 5 | Dr Obelkevich in a detailed study of rural Lincolnshire has shown that the " religious realm " of the rural poor reached beyond Christianity to " encompass an abundance of pagan magic and superstition " which was integrated with a Christian doctrine itself not left unchanged as it passed from church to cottage . |
| 6 | In 1890 it passed by marriage to Herbert Robertson of Strathloch , the Scottish barony to which his grandson Lawrence lays claim . |
| 7 | In my dreams I was admitting the full implications of my habit of self-denial , that is , that it amounted in effect to life-denial . |
| 8 | Thence it goes via Venice to the great German families , the Welsers and Fuggers , westwards to Antwerp , Amsterdam and , eventually , London . |
| 9 | yeah , but it goes from computer to computer , but summat 's gone wrong ai n't it ? , somewhere along the line , they 've rang the bank themselves maybe he did n't believe your dad or not I do n't know , she got back to him , she says , we 've rang your bank and they were very helpful , they saw it so what you have to do is ring Blackpool , she says as so as soon as Blackpool ring back , she 'll ring |
| 10 | It goes from alpha to omega , beginning Alpha , beta , gamma , delta . |
| 11 | ‘ It goes from side to side , stopping at every landing point so you 'll have a good — and cheap — view of all the buildings along the canal . ’ |
| 12 | But it was a book about hierarchy , and that is why it became of interest to Carolingian bishops , as there is evidence that within a decade it did . |
| 13 | Furthermore it became against regulations to " unramm " a charge of powder which had mis-fired . |
| 14 | In other words , the injury was such that the degree of pain which it produces from day to day throughout the years is at any rate sufficient for experienced medical men to say that the rather drastic operation of arthrodesis would normally be the best thing in the circumstances . |
| 15 | Somewhere out of sight , cicadas filled the air with their high-pitched whirring and , in the distance , a woodpecker shrieked as it swooped from tree to tree in a flash of yellow , green and red . |
| 16 | What I was prepared to believe now , although it changed from day to day , was something frightening and surprising and new . |
| 17 | As it changed from green to amber the current intensified sharply and before he could stop himself Graham instinctively jerked his hand off the pad . |
| 18 | It passes by Largalinny Lough onto the forest lane for a short distance , leaving it to pass through forestry to Lough Fadd . |
| 19 | In 1910 it moved from Mombasa to Nairobi , changed its name to the East African Standard and became a daily . |
| 20 | Meg stood behind him , at his shoulder , holding the two lamps steady above the page , following Ben 's finger as it moved from right to left , up and down the columns of cyphers . |
| 21 | It darted up a tree with breathtaking ease , and the young man watched it leaping from bough to bough , as light and airy as a puff of grey smoke . |
| 22 | The article leads you to wonder about her religious faith , if she has one , and about where it stands in relation to the outlook of the editor of Commentary , author of a book about his ambitions for worldly success : Making it must be the least pious book that has ever been written . |
| 23 | Now the fact that position is not a quality is certainly relevant to one 's awareness of the position of things ; it means that to be aware of a thing 's position it is logically necessary that one should be aware of how it stands in relation to something else . |
| 24 | But it is not relevant to a thing 's having the position it has ; it does not mean , for example , that to have the position it has , a thing must be aware of how it stands in relation to something else . |
| 25 | This calls for an act of the imagination , in foreseeing the ways in which the enquiry is likely to develop , the types of information necessary , the reading ages and levels of attainment of the students in relation to what is currently available , and the weaknesses of the collection as it stands in relation to this analysis . |
| 26 | As a building , it stands in testimony to the skills and industry of those who contributed in so many ways to its design , construction and furnishing . |
| 27 | The theory of communicative action is perhaps the crucial and radical component in Habermas 's work but it is not a discrete theory ; it develops in response to a number of problems both theoretical and empirical raised in a variety of contexts . |
| 28 | In Lesley Hall 's chapter on children 's perception , the emphasis is on visual search and how it develops from infancy to childhood and maturity . |
| 29 | IT LOOKS like farewell to the National Ferret Welfare Association , the Legion of Frontiersmen of the Commonwealth , and the Association of Hand Made Cheeses of Scotland . |
| 30 | Third , the Registrar 's certificate will be given the same effect as regards further particulars as it has with respect to the creation of a charge . |