Example sentences of "to it in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A county council spokesman said : ‘ We have received Rev Harper 's letter and will be replying to it in due course . ’ |
| 2 | The nearest concepts to it in early modern England were probably sodomy and buggery . |
| 3 | More important , the CGLI argued that the latest proposal from the DES would break undertakings given to it in 1973 , when it agreed to provide the administrative services for TEC , that the latter would be confined to technician occupations and would not be used as an instrument of government policy . |
| 4 | The Estonian government at the beginning of August accused the central USSR authorities of attempting to rob the republic of the economic sovereignty granted to it in 1989 [ see pp. 36825 ; 37045 ] . |
| 5 | Mr Waugh acknowledged that he was once again freezing the Ayr Road project even although money had been allocated to it in 1991 . |
| 6 | The final reference to it in 1577 described it as being ‘ so utterly ruinated … that ( it ) hardly can be judged where ( it ) hath stood ’ . |
| 7 | There are frequent references to it in Anglo-Saxon writings , and the Greeks and Romans made much use of it ; the Greek army doctor Dioscorides listed it amongst medical herbs , and Pliny also describes it . |
| 8 | However , for the past two years I 've dedicated myself to it in total and , like yours , my trade has mushroomed . ’ |
| 9 | ( 7 ) A board must not consider an objection made to it in private . |
| 10 | ‘ I expect I 'll come round to it in good time , ’ said Ellen . |
| 11 | He can laugh about it now , and has referred to it in many speeches since to very good effect ; but at the time it hurt . |
| 12 | In order to gain acceptance for their interpretation of educational problems , researchers , administrators and politicians usually find it necessary to ‘ explain' the problem ; to pinpoint the processes which appear to have led to it in such a way as to make the remedy appear obvious . |
| 13 | The hand can be distinguished from the body , yet it belongs to it in such a way that it can not operate as a hand unless attached to the body — except in fantasy as in Ted Hughes ' story of The Iron Man . |
| 14 | However , the company 's real problem ( hardly unique to it in general publishing ) was not profitability , but cash flow . |
| 15 | An abstract recently presented by R K Yu et al at the 22nd annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Anaheim , California , indicated no clear association of treatment with monosialoganglioside ( G m 1 ) and the development of antibodies to it in 418 samples from human subjects receiving parenteral gangliosides . |
| 16 | I bin pretty 'ard put to it in that kitchen lately , ’ he said , passing his hand through his thick greying hair . |
| 17 | ( 2 ) A licensing board may , on an application made to it in that behalf by : ( a ) the executors , representatives or disponees of any person who held a licence in respect of premises situated within the area of the board and who has died before the expiry of the licence ; or ( b ) the trustee , judicial factor or curator bonis of any person holding such a licence who has become bankrupt , insolvent or incapable before the expiry of the licence ; transfer the licence to the applicant if the applicant is in possession of the premises . |
| 18 | ( 3 ) A licensing board may , on an application made to it in that behalf by a person other than an individual natural person , substitute another employee or agent of the applicant for the employee or agent mentioned in section 11 or 26 of this Act . |
| 19 | That is to say a little evidence against it will cause him agonies of doubt and self-mistrust , moderate amounts will cause some real concern and a pursing of his lips — but total and irrefutable proof of his law 's inaccuracy , its illogic , its basic and undeniable untenability , will cause him to cling to it in all its unmodified entirety with the tenacity and single-mindedness of a barnacle . |
| 20 | We have noted already the fact that her passing coincided with a most virulent attack of cholera : no fewer than two thousand people in London succumbed to it in one single week in that September of 1849 . |
| 21 | At present , a very large number of people are exposed to it in one way or another . |
| 22 | Each term is usually given together with terms which are related to it in one of a number of ways . |
| 23 | The debate has moved on and new elements have crept in which make devolution attractive to many people who perhaps did not feel so strongly about it or were even hostile to it in earlier days . |
| 24 | In addition to these United Kingdom bilateral conventions , there was a very large number of bilateral arrangements between States , many of whom were parties to the 1905 Hague Convention , regulating procedures and providing for other modes of communication ; the Hague Conference Permanent Bureau listed over 50 such arrangements known to it in 1967 . |
| 25 | It has also been argued that the halting of peasant movement in the Ukraine and the extension to it in 1783 of the poll-tax , which doomed the Ukrainian peasant to serf status , were inspired by a desire to end the privileged position enjoyed by many border areas of the empire , and to some extent by the need to increase revenue , rather than by the extension of serfdom as a matter of policy . |
| 26 | Hiroshima was originally written for the New Yorker magazine , which devoted an entire issue to it in 1946 . |
| 27 | There needs to be a facility whereby one is automatically informed that the entry at which one is looking has a cross-reference to it in another part of the dictionary , and whereby one is immediately given a display of this cross reference ( or all of them , if there are several ) if one wants to check it . |
| 28 | There may be an allusion to it in 11.34 " now when they shall stumble , they shall be helped with a little help , but many shall join themselves unto them with blandishments " . |
| 29 | The footpath passes ( on the right ) the Beroldingen castle which probably occupies the site of the earlier castle of 1530 ; attached is a chapel added to it in 1546 by Josua von Beroldingen when he was accepted into the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem . |
| 30 | First , it is clear that balancing necessitates some judgment as to how much we value a particular interest , and that people may well disagree as to the weight accorded to it in any particular instance . |