Example sentences of "it to a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The Articles also permitted the Board to delegate any of the powers vested in it to a committee and defined ‘ the Board ’ so as to include any committee authorised by the Board to act on its behalf .
2 The microcomputer should have a form of security e.g. by bolting it to a desk if it is to remain in one place all the time , perhaps next to the library catalogue .
3 While writing this article , I have realised that it is actually a very general problem-solving technique , of which there are many other instances in mathematics and science : If you can not do a problem , transform it to a problem that you can do and then transform the answer back to reach the solution to the original problem .
4 Well also just my experience , my own experience with the developments of and the evolution of the policies in Kuwait coming at working at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research , there were many erm studies conducted at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research and the other institute , The Social erm Political Institute , and they were the main of that was the probe through all these policies and through these institutions we have in Kuwait and try to improve it to a standard that the Kuwaiti people and the neighbouring country can benefit from at that .
5 He slowed the car , turning it off the main road down a narrow lane that led to the river before bringing it to a halt and cutting the engine .
6 The work is produced in direct response to a particular scene or constructed still life , and only when finished is consideration given as to whether to present it to a gallery or publisher .
7 Although there was little room to doubt that the government of the United States , with the assistance of the British and German governments , was engaged in the biggest cover-up of modern times , there was no possible way Shaughnessy could prove it to a judge and jury unless the US government opened its files — and thereby virtually incriminated itself .
8 A woman who left her pet greyhound in agony rather than take it to a vet after it broke its leg in a road accident has been banned from keeping dogs for seven years .
9 Never apply it to a document that you know to be false or incorrect .
10 ‘ We felt that we should leave it to a company that specialized in the business and concentrate on adding value to our chemical materials . ’
11 Then turn off the stop tap on the supply to the feed-and-expansion tank , attach a hose to the lowest draincock on the system , and lead it to a gully or drain outside .
12 From September 1974 the Diploma would become a BA with Honours , and students on existing courses or with a DipAD awarded between 1966 and 1974 could convert it to a BA if they wished .
13 The 17th is a par-5 of 500 yards or more , but Tom reduced it to a drive and a sand-iron !
14 Obviously , if your document uses Monotype 's Times New Roman then there 's no earthly point in sending it to a bureau that has n't got the face .
15 And the thing that was said a lot was a Slippery Elm stick , well I still do n't really know what it was but er it was a kind of a s , bark of the Slippery Elms , a Slippery Elm bark or something and they sharpened it to a point and inserted that into the womb you see and it was done , and then of course I heard a lot about gin , sitting in a hot bath with gin .
16 The 1865 Salon did exhibit Manet 's Olympia but quickly moved it to a place that made viewing almost impossible for the public .
17 To achieve more precise control over the response and quantify it , the researchers immobilized the slug by pinning it to a stage and standardizing the tactile stimulus by using a jet of water delivered with a water-pick .
18 In The Possessed , the conspirators have enticed their victim to a dark remote spot where nothing will be seen or heard , and have done the deed and tied two heavy stones to the body so that it is sure to sink , and have carried it to a pond and thrown it in : then , ‘ With extraordinary carelessness ’ they overlook that cap which has no doubt fallen off in the struggle , and which the police will soon find .
19 While there is trouble between Copt and Moslem he can not offer it to a Copt nor a Copt take it . ’
20 She listened to his advice and bought instead a Welsh pony with the vague idea of attaching it to a trap and doing the shopping in it .
21 With busy pomposity Lewis dictated it to a typist and would have gone on and on had he not been diplomatically restrained .
22 And then she said here she was hanging , handing it to a stranger and you know what they said
23 Throughout the evening of 26 May this year , the two dipped their fingers in the oil ten times , each time reducing it to a spot or two .
24 Make this Thinking Day card and send it to a Rainbow or Brownie friend .
25 Having found this macro we want to assign it to an icon but this entails designing an appropriate one .
26 The plaintiffs sought to enforce the clause but Scott J dismissed the action for he found that on its true construction the employment agreement was a contract of employment of the defendant by the two partners , that the dissolution of that partnership within the term of the employment constituted a breach of the contract of employment and brought it to an end and that accordingly the restraint of trade clause ceased thereafter to be binding upon the defendant .
27 This is a project which is currently being pursued by contemporary women artists who , unlike Bridget Riley perhaps , do not believe that art is necessarily free of gender : ‘ in order to discover what is retrievable from the abstract project , we must subject it to an interrogation that is neither submissive nor cynical ’ .
28 As Guthrie foresaw and wrote to me after attending an early performance : I feel confident that Gloriana will survive and be considered a great work … that disastrous miscalculation of opening it to an audience and on an occasion that required an all-star Iolanthe will set it back twenty years .
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