Example sentences of "to [adj] [noun] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you care for a relative or close friend on a long-term basis and feel unable to return to full-time work it may still be possible to make alternative arrangements in order to work for one or more days or nights a week . |
| 2 | When I went to junior school it was half and half , white and Black kids ; the Black guys were really revered , and lots of the white boys would try to act Black , because they associated it with being hard or cool . |
| 3 | Although the ledger solution , where available , is fine , for many small to medium-sized businesses it 's obviously not the best option within an organisation that is already using a variety of ledgers . |
| 4 | To European eyes it may seem that in summer their cities and beauty spots are overrun by Daughters of the Revolution in trainers and beige macks , but most Americans take their holidays in America . |
| 5 | To mainstream children it offers the opportunity to live with and work alongside children who are triumphing over pain and crippling disability . |
| 6 | In the sense of their access to political power it was not so much a case that women were ‘ returned ’ to the family since they had never really left it to go out to get power — rather they had traditionally exercised power , if at all , by virtue of their familial positions and as the public and private spheres were separated , women were left behind . |
| 7 | When it comes to technical charts it has a combination of graph types and options that make it suitable for analysing scientific as well as business or financial data . |
| 8 | Whatever had brought Berowne again to that vestry it had been a human hand , his or another 's , which had wielded that razor . |
| 9 | But before jumping to that conclusion it is worth pondering whether the weed is more resistant to husbandry practice rather than the herbicide . |
| 10 | To that extent it is a harsh existence , quite unlike that of the artists , musicians and writers with whom he normally mixes . |
| 11 | To that extent it still has value . |
| 12 | If a single phrase of Beethoven 's ninth symphony is sufficiently distinctive and memorable to be abstracted from the context of the whole symphony , and used as the call-sign of a maddeningly intrusive European broadcasting station , then to that extent it deserves to be called one meme . |
| 13 | It is true that in Britain the matter is now regulated by statute and to that extent it has been flushed into the open . |
| 14 | To that extent it strengthened the hand of the Prime Minister in my earlier period . ’ |
| 15 | The signatures of these ‘ partner equivalents ’ would serve to document the individuals ' responsibility for the examination ; to that extent it eliminates for the outside world the element of anonymity currently inherent in the practice of signing audit opinions only in the names of the firms . |
| 16 | Pointing out that the changes are expected to raise £300 million for Government coffers in 1994 , Jonathan Peat , chief economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland , said : ‘ This must mean extra revenue is expected to be gained from North Sea development — and to that extent it must be bad news for the North Sea . ’ |
| 17 | To confuse the issue , however , the VNQDD was apparently conceived ‘ as a vanguard party , an adaptation of the Bolshevik model in Indo-China , and to that extent it reflected the impact of Marxism ’ . |
| 18 | To that extent it might in principle have been acceptable to the Vietminh government : but probably only to the point where , in practice , it was powerless to circumscribe the sovereignty of the Democratic Republic . |
| 19 | To that extent it does not matter in principle whether the individuals are described in a particular society as ‘ upper class ’ , ‘ middle class ’ or ‘ lower class ’ , or whether the society is rural or urban : it is a universal that all individuals in all societies have contacts with other individuals ( even the exceptional case — say , a hermit — has occasional societal contacts or has had them in the past , and ‘ isolates ’ are special cases ) . |
| 20 | To that extent it could well be said , and indeed I do find and hold , that the effectiveness of the first part of the order takes away the substance , as it were , of the whole order . |
| 21 | Er sir to that extent it is the last day of the enquiry . |
| 22 | Whether we have in mind the student teacher , or the art student in the studio , or the student nurse , practical experience necessarily calls for a degree of personal involvement by the student and to that extent it is desirable . |
| 23 | Right , oh yes it 's got a , a lot of discrepancies , but the point is that the discrepancies it has are explicable in terms of what the discrepancies were trying to hide and correct and to that extent it 's a bit like psychoanalysing an individual patient . |
| 24 | It certainly is everything that has been fended off by the ego , so to that extent it , it corresponds more closely to erm to the unconscious . |
| 25 | It 's a graph of average household size in North Yorkshire , and it 's to that extent it 's an attempt to summarize into one figure , the headship rate effect as it affects average household size . |
| 26 | The normalisation technique is not independent of the process of economic integration and to that extent it is not analytically clean . |
| 27 | Every time he got to that corner it 'd be like that , all fucking giving it some of that . |
| 28 | If you use language that 's alien to that environment it does n't mean very much . |
| 29 | Up to that point it was multiple-dig and manual listening only . |
| 30 | So when you get to that point it becomes really tough to communicate , so of course no-one was communicating . |