Example sentences of "by [verb] it to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commission 's role was to ensure that land allocated for development was in fact developed , by channelling it to those who would develop it . |
| 2 | Geometrical demonstrations which prove something to be true of all triangles do not do so by proving it to be true of an abstract triangle to which all triangles correspond . |
| 3 | It could prove to be a good roll of the dice , for Mr Hughes has also written a book on the mathematics of five-dice games and devised special packaging to exploit the game 's addictiveness by allowing it to be played while it is hanging from the supermarket shelf . |
| 4 | Also added to StreetTalk is the Advanced Object facility , which makes it easier to locate and identify network objects — such as users , resources , applications lists etc — by allowing it to be identified by name , and having an unlimited number of attributes associated with it . |
| 5 | While LIFESPAN RDBI is running the error log file may be accessed by typing it to the screen . |
| 6 | Unfortunately it may conceivably cause liver disease if taken over a long period , and this is to be tested by administering it to pigs . |
| 7 | Lawyers acquire a smattering of technical jargon and by using it to each other create the impression that they have a full comprehension of the subject . |
| 8 | Durability , comfort , less fatigue and increased ball control are some of the reasons why it has become a Grand Slam surface , and why En Tout Cas decided to endorse its stated policy of choice and availability of surfaces , by bringing it to the UK . |
| 9 | The following day he would underline all three by driving it to Hurstdown Abbey . |
| 10 | But Maxfield and Harrison took the principle further by applying it to acoustic and mechanical parts , so that there would be little waste of power from ‘ mismatching ’ at any point along the sound 's journey . |
| 11 | Ideally , you 'll try to absorb all the information here by applying it to all keys . |
| 12 | One relatively straightforward approach to this task consists in trying to refine the theory through use — to discover , by applying it to specific problems , whether it can be consistently employed and what explanations it can yield . |
| 13 | How many have taken the edge off the phrase at the grass roots by applying it to inappropriate circumstances ? |
| 14 | However , the approach to such analysis will now be set out and the method illustrated by applying it to a trivial case for which the solution is already known from section 4.4 . |
| 15 | At first it might appear simple to unravel a particular doubt by relating it to one of the seven broad categories , but first appearances are deceptive . |
| 16 | This involves trying to grasp Marx 's concept not solely by referring to previous conceptions of ideology but by relating it to his analysis of the mode of production . |
| 17 | And if you 're leaving the boat at moorings , do n't forget to either take the engine home with you , LOCKED in the boot of your car , or secure it by chaining it to the mast or inside the cabin . |
| 18 | It is easy to ridicule such an argument by pushing it to absurd limits . |
| 19 | The passengers had n't over-enjoyed their sojourn in the station , it appeared , as they had been fallen upon by the flock of pressmen who had taken Xanthe back again to the brink of hysteria , and had asked Mercer whether it was n't unwise to flaunt the privilege of wealth in his private car , and had n't he invited trouble by adding it to the train ? |
| 20 | Feminist psychologists usually interpret the value of socially-oriented study in a traditional way , by assimilating it to psychology 's scientific project . |
| 21 | The painter Jean-Baptiste Chardin shatters our ‘ knowledge ’ of the world by presenting it to us in a new way , as if we were children and his bowl of fruit stood just above our eye-level . |
| 22 | On maturity , the holder receives the par value of the bill by presenting it to the Bank of England . |
| 23 | The usual way in which his power is circumscribed is by limiting it to a right to break for certain specified purposes . |
| 24 | Despite signs of renewed interest from both Ford and Volkswagen ( keen to re-establish itself as the largest car manufacturer in Europe ) , the British government announced in March 1988 that it intended to pursue a wholly British solution for the remaining parts of Rover by selling it to British Aerospace ( BAe ) . |
| 25 | But I still say , it seems a shame that they are prepared to make money by selling it to a Tescos of all people to er really make money so they can move somewhere else ! |
| 26 | It was claimed earlier that black — in blackbird was not a semantic constituent ; we can now verify the claim by subjecting it to the recurrent contrast test : |
| 27 | In an attempt to rid the game of endless scrums , pushover tries etc. , the NZRFU has proposed to do away with the five-metre scrum by moving it to 10 metres from the goal line . |
| 28 | The original holder ( i.e. whoever has lent the money ) will buy the bill at a discount and earn a return by holding it to maturity when its redemption value is paid . |
| 29 | I detest Alvaro Delgado-Gal , who advocates the return of the painting to France , believing that ‘ the glorious dead should be left in the graveyard where they chose to rest ’ ; Juan Pedro Aparicio , who suggests carrying ‘ Guernica ’ in procession all around Spain in a high speed train ; the old anarchist Carlos Semprón Maura , who protests at the Reina Sofía 's injection of morphine into ‘ Guernica ’ to prolong its deep coma ; Joan Barril , for whom the dilemma posed by moving ‘ Guernica ’ from the shrine of the Buen Retiro to an apartment with freezer in the ‘ Sofidou ’ could be resolved simply by sending it to Sarajevo , Bangkok or Lima , places where its political message would be more relevant . |
| 30 | A sad and ironic pendant to this story was the fact that when Dowding was dismissed he could not betray Ultra by calling it to the defence of his strategy . |