Example sentences of "to it [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe they simply see the ark as a visible guarantee of God 's presence and of victory , but that understanding of it is no better , for then they turn it into an idol , ascribe to it magical powers , and leave us asking why they did not take it into battle in the first place . |
| 2 | He describes how , by 1837 , the game had evolved into a highly complicated sport , containing all the ‘ typical characteristics of a genuinely national art form , … profoundly popular in origin , yet attracting to it disinterested elements of the leisured and educated classes ’ . |
| 3 | None of them had been the kind of people who could have imagined devotion to a pet animal or according to it funerary rites . |
| 4 | In the event of any Related company ceasing to be so related then ( unless the requisite rights are duly assigned to it by such Party by agreement ) each Party undertakes on request to grant to it continuing rights of a similar nature on fair and reasonable terms . |
| 5 | This intellectual process is of greatest linguistic and epistemological importance , because thanks to it human beings can devise and use common nouns , which are class names and not merely proper names for each individual of a species of beings or class of things . |