Example sentences of "to it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can to it at one tenth of the cost and lots of countries want to do it . |
| 2 | Mr Reenan , of Abingdon , Oxon , confessed : ‘ I can not deny there was a greed aspect to it at first but I regret it now . |
| 3 | Their aim is not so much to alleviate the horrors of war as to make war so horrific that potential aggressors will fear to resort to it at all . |
| 4 | I could n't get used to it at all . |
| 5 | went to put the , he , he went away again , but I , I did mention to the police , who I might say were very helpful were ninety per cent of burglars do n't get cleared up so of course it was n't important and I never expected it would be , but I did mention to the police at the time that I would like an future occasion because I 've been trying to use guns in America er to have a gun in the house but they er , but they would n't erm agree to it at all |
| 6 | No magic to it at all , except insofar as it was a direct transferral of intention to effect with very little attenuation of the causal chain . |
| 7 | He wanted to ask what she had to be tired about , to remind her that this dinner-party was all her idea , and there was no real point to it at all , since they had asked nobody whom they needed to impress . |
| 8 | There is no ’ further ’ to it at all : I have dealt with it . |
| 9 | What I found was the Women 's Movement and I dedicated myself completely to it at all levels from forming advice groups , demonstrating to reclaim the streets etc . |
| 10 | Chapter Five argued that the main problem in discussing the peasant question in the reign of Nicholas I is explaining why he addressed himself to it at all , not why he did relatively little . |
| 11 | The main problem in discussing the emancipation may be explaining why Alexander addressed himself to it halfheartedly rather than why he addressed himself to it at all . |
| 12 | One moment you give all your time to it , you do n't come home till late at night , you do n't even come home in the afternoon like ordinary men , the next you are giving no time to it at all . |
| 13 | You 've done extraordinarily well to get on to it at all . ’ |
| 14 | Never once had she referred to it at all . |
| 15 | I do n't object to it at all . |
| 16 | If businessmen regard the increase in demand as temporary , they may not respond to it at all : this will be the case if they are generally pessimistic about the future level of economic activity . |
| 17 | There 's no plot to it at all , it 's it 's just so farfetched ! |
| 18 | Th there 's no logic to it at all but they play it on . |
| 19 | Well if you are then we wo n't ma , you wo n't make it to it at all because I do n't |
| 20 | Very little built on to it at that stage . |
| 21 | It probably sums up the case and we can discuss it and perhaps add to it at that time . |
| 22 | What happens further to small mammal bone before it is buried and fossilized depends in part on what happened to it at earlier stages in the transition from living animal to fossil ( Fig. 1.2 ) . |
| 23 | The former is a tenancy made by the agreement of the parties on the terms that either may put an end to it at any moment at the shortest notice ; the latter arises where a tenant whose interest has expired continues in possession without the landlord either assenting or dissenting . |
| 24 | She could see that she had got to it at last . |
| 25 | Got him to agree to it at last . |
| 26 | Their excellent long-distance vision spots something suspicious and they fly to it at high speed . |
| 27 | Remember that it is far better to get down and then to run into obstruction than to stall on to it at flying speed . |
| 28 | It is not that racism vanishes — in fact it intensifies and violence increases , but most children start to face up to it at this point , and their ‘ inferiority ’ usually clears away . |
| 29 | You 're talking to it at this very moment , you 're talking it out , you 're talking it down , and you want my help . |
| 30 | It is difficult , I think , to overestimate the potential significance of this approach , and we will return to it at several points in this book . |