Example sentences of "a [noun] to it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The MMC is not able to initiate investigations itself ; either the DGFT or the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has to refer a case to it . |
| 2 | Daddy was going to rebuild it with his own hands and had already done a bit to it when I was young . |
| 3 | Her voice had a lilt to it as if she were on the verge of laughter . |
| 4 | This thought casts the world in a profoundly different light from common sense in its materialistic moment ; and much of metaphysics can be seen as a response to it . |
| 5 | A conversation is built from pairs of transactions , each pair being a statement or question followed by a response to it . |
| 6 | Why would anyone keep such a letter unless they were still considering a response to it ? |
| 7 | successful in doing these schemes and because resources on we are hard pressed , resources on the ground are thin then when people ring up with these schemes that we get it off the ground they meet this negative sort of answer when they ring in , that 's the only sort of er liaison with themselves and the police and they 're met with that , and their reaction then is down the pub tell their mates do n't ring in cos its a reaction , and that 's the trouble with us being , as it were too successful before , better to be less successful , but we 'd have more staff at the centre like Lincolnshire etc to actually get the difference from when somebody does the odd person does ring in they get a response to it |
| 8 | Once inside the auction room , it 's just a matter of crossing your fingers and hoping somebody takes a fancy to it , too . |
| 9 | ‘ I just took a fancy to it . |
| 10 | ‘ Just in case somebody takes a fancy to it . ’ |
| 11 | There is a statue in the village to the most endearing Pyreneeist of them all , Count Henry Russell , Irish on his father 's side and Gas con on his mother 's , who climbed obsessively and made so many ascents of Vignemale — thirty in all — that in 1889 the authorities granted him a concession to it . |
| 12 | There needs to be a facility whereby one is automatically informed that the entry at which one is looking has a cross-reference to it in another part of the dictionary , and whereby one is immediately given a display of this cross reference ( or all of them , if there are several ) if one wants to check it . |
| 13 | Because Israel did not detonate a weapon prior to 1967 , but currently possesses nuclear weapons , it would be in violation of the treaty if it were a signatory to it and would be legally obliged to destroy its stockpile and to end its nuclear programme . |
| 14 | I do thank Mr for this report , but I would have liked to have seen that the chief executive had been a signatory to it as well . |
| 15 | ‘ When we gave planning permission to the new Chelsea development we attached a condition to it preventing ground-sharing . |
| 16 | He could have wandered unchecked all over north London if he had had a mind to it , but this was supposed to be Bienvida 's party and he and Bienvida were supposed to be there . |
| 17 | Acquisition of foreign technology has usually been an alternative to reform , not a complement to it . |
| 18 | He wore a Paisley dressing-gown which was a reminder of his good taste — not that one was necessary ; the whole room , in fact the whole hotel , was a monument to it . |
| 19 | ‘ While we want to preserve the best of the past , we do not want to build a monument to it . ’ |
| 20 | His Omphalos ( 1858 ) was written in the year before the Origin of Species , so it is not a reply to it ; but it can be seen as a reply in anticipation . |
| 21 | If not , I 'll take a hammer to it . ’ |
| 22 | The book does not ‘ ignore the fossil record altogether ’ , but devotes a chapter to it . |
| 23 | Newer specimens feature Richard Goode 's Sukhoi Su-26MX G-ORBY , where although the registration has been overtaken by events it has much more of a ring to it than G-YELT , for example ! |
| 24 | I think centenary park has quite a ring to it . |
| 25 | A jeer in her voice , she said , ‘ No one can deny it has a ring to it . ’ |
| 26 | You 'd better have a talk to it , then . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's too bad you ca n't put your ego in a box , tie a rock to it and throw it out into the lake , ’ she said sweetly . |
| 28 | Your notes should be the product of historical thought and not simply a prelude to it . |
| 29 | Only he is supposed to have a key to it . ’ |
| 30 | But there 's a postscript to it . |