Example sentences of "to it [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR . |
| 2 | A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR . |
| 3 | A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR . |
| 4 | A piece of rope was tied to it but the knot was difficult to undo and , after fiddling with it for what felt like hours , he still could n't pry it loose . |
| 5 | There is no real resistance to it but the management effort of getting to grips with its content and the various implications may be unpalatable . |
| 6 | Intangible movable property includes a charge on the book debts of the company or those assigned to it but the Act contains no definition of what constitutes a book debt . |
| 7 | In an implicit reminder that 380,000 Soviet troops were still stationed on East German soil , he said : ‘ We firmly declared that we will see to it that no harm comes to the GDR . ’ |
| 8 | Evolution must surely have seen to it that a good proportion of our thoughts are true of the world , and so in some simple sense the mind must perform computations which record the world and direct our behaviour appropriately . |
| 9 | Exasperated with all this pussy-footing , and knowing of Mountbatten 's wishes that what he had said should be known , I saw to it that a transcript of the Suez programme reached my friend Bernard Levin at The Times , and he published the core of it in two long articles . |
| 10 | Eventually the Irish party was forced to return to Westminster to see to it that the appropriate denominational interests in England were strengthened and to show the Irish political leadership 's compliance with the similarly organized Irish system ( Miller 1973 : 77–85 ) . |
| 11 | It is also much easier to create a market situation which will see to it that the value goes up . ’ |
| 12 | He had done well that day — almost performed miracles — having located Mrs McLaren 's Scottish relations ; persuaded a most excellent and locally well-known lady to come at short notice and be in the house to stay with her ; and had seen to it that the house itself was tidied , and cleaned ready , and supplied with food . |
| 13 | The constable/warden had to see to it that the castle was properly stocked with provisions and munitions of war , and to pay the garrison . |
| 14 | Some brilliant goals from both sides had seen to it that the score was 2-all by the eightieth minute of the match . |
| 15 | But how can natural selection see to it that the two pathways are not mixed , and that cooperating groups of compatible genes emerge ? |
| 16 | The portiere barked some instructions at the boy and made Sandison to understand that Aldo would see to it that the letter got posted . |
| 17 | In addition , he saw to it that the players had decent changing-rooms , and ‘ expert and scientific training methods ’ to ‘ preserve and lengthen their careers ’ ( Examiner ) . |
| 18 | There is something decidedly odd about objecting to it that the mere psychological fact that one alternative is more pleasant than another can not by itself be a reason for choosing it . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , the students of Paris saw to it that the French President had to beat an undignified and premature retreat from Bucharest . |
| 20 | Surely it must be something else , something basic , inherent in a person 's character or , rather , most people 's characters , which saw to it that the world went round . |
| 21 | And every night , before Swan arrived , he saw to it that the curtains were drawn back and the window was open wide so that the great white bird could come gliding right into the room and land on the floor beside his bed . |
| 22 | ‘ STEPHEN STREET 'S music has a crispness to it that The Smiths never managed . |
| 23 | Tretyakov Director Yuriy Korolev confirmed the idea of construction with him , and now Yeltsin has effectively seen to it that the project is carried out . |
| 24 | The housewives and small restaurateurs who rely upon the professional skill of charcutiers and pâtissiers for a part of their supplies see to it that the pâtés and sausages , the little salads for hors-d'oeuvre , the galantines and terrines and fish quenelles , the hams and tongues and pies , pastries and fruit flans , the petits fours and the croissants maintain high standards of freshness and excellence , and that any popular regional speciality of the district continues to be cooked with the right and proper traditional ingredients , even if the methods have been speeded up by the introduction of modern machinery . |
| 25 | Bluebird , which was rented by a group of nurses from the Waterloo Hospital , had been at the ready , and when the birth was imminent they 'd seen to it that the ambulance arrived promptly . |
| 26 | See to it that the resolve does not expire with my departure . ’ |
| 27 | He asks what the minimum necessary physical conditions are , what is the minimum amount of design work that a very lazy Creator would have to do , in order to see to it that the universe and , later , elephants and other complex things , would one day come into existence . |
| 28 | With the plaintiff 's cooperation and the assistance of care , they have seen to it that the plaintiff was not to be institutionalised and that she was to be brought back into a loving home and encouraged to be the thinking , intelligent and lively person she still is . |
| 29 | Now you will get up and make yourself presentable — I 'll see to it that the wardrobe shall provide you with clothes that will fit tolerably — and you will come to supper at my table and take your place among your peers , and behave yourself like a man and a Talvace , instead of a sick and thwarted girl . ’ |
| 30 | I made a gesture that had more breeziness and gay abandon to it than a freezer full of fellators . |