Example sentences of "to [noun sg] it " in BNC.

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1 sufficient to exhale it :
2 As a Muslim woman from Jhelum explained to me , in Islam a man can marry four times but according to Islam it is his duty to look after each of his wives and treat them honourably .
3 Sparkling red or white grape juice can make an innocuous , though rather sweet , non-alcoholic drink , but an alternative to champagne it is not .
4 The vocablry — you get the idea ? — was devised by a comity headed by a lectr at Astn Universty ( as this paper 's Edicayshn Editr reported on March 27 ) and seems to hav it in for vowls .
5 To tide it over , the government will seek from parliament a limited spending authority .
6 Because of that , the CITB has had to introduce various schemes using its own investment to tide it over what it believed at the outset would be a short recession , but which has now become a very deep and long recession .
7 After a court ruling that this was unlawful , Haringey rang round other councils to see if they could borrow and lend on the money to tide it over .
8 Because this policy existed , and the government was democratic , both the United States and the International Monetary Fund have given Argentina the benefit of the doubt and lent it money to tide it over .
9 As is explained later in the book , despite the high-sounding words with which the Bill was presented to Parliament it is a complete sham .
10 I hope you do n't expect me to foot it .
11 As to negligence it was true that Moorgate Mercantile had been careless in failing to register their hire purchase agreement .
12 The doctrine of operationalism took a particularly extreme view on this issue by stipulating that the meaning of a concept consisted in the operations required to measure it .
13 Thus , strictly interpreted , the meaning of the concept " alienation " is the attitude scale used to measure it .
14 Because few such cases proceed to trial it was argued that claims assessors should be able to issue proceedings on behalf of their clients .
15 After gingerly retrieving his whistle from the offending item and giving it a quick clean-up , McNally was immediately called on to blow it when he awarded a drop goal after a free-kick .
16 I was saying to mum it Sally 's was ages before theirs stopped .
17 Hence it was decided to remove this ceiling and its supporting joists and to resite it at a higher level .
18 Marx maintained that the human consciousness which could project this refracted religious self-image must be a ‘ false consciousness ’ , profoundly alienated from itself ; that it had been brought into this state by the development of divisions within human society between the different social and economic classes ; that religion served in that situation as an ‘ ideology ’ , a system of beliefs functioning to support the established order , and an ‘ opium ’ which would keep the proletariat passive in the face of their oppression and exploitation by diverting their attention and hopes to another world and its promised rewards ; that it was not enough for the philosopher to understand and diagnose this situation , but that he must go on to change it ; and that this involved moving back from Feuerbach 's ‘ critique of heaven ’ to a fresh ‘ critique of earth ’ , of economics , politics and society in general , with the aim of changing the structures of the established order and overcoming the forces of division and alienation which both produced religion and drew support from it .
19 Under Ord 18 , r8 the plaintiff must plead both the claim for provisional damages and the facts relied on to support it as specified by s32A of the Supreme Court Act 1981 .
20 Measuring over 200 feet from head to toe it stands proudly on the south of Windover Hill , a few miles inland from Eastbourne .
21 From tip to toe it gives almost 900 ′/270m; of verticality .
22 Passing me , she swooped up the hen in her arms and proceeded to cradle it as she apologized to me again .
23 She slipped her left arm behind his head to cradle it while her right hand brought the whisky to his mouth .
24 When reconnaissance shows that there is a large herd of elephants with young calves close to camp it is often decided to try to capture some of the young elephants first by means of mela shikar .
25 to harp it Does look rather
26 Now that we have seen how this very simple pattern is created , we can go on to fancy it up a bit .
27 According to Honey it 's these little touches that make a big difference .
28 Moreover when he does refer to ideology it is not to develop the concept or incorporate it into his analysis of capitalism but to refer back to the tyranny of ideas and the emptiness of idealism ( e.g. in the Grundrisse , Marx 1973 : 164 ) .
29 To give your system a clean-out you need to descale it thoroughly , then drain it down , flush it through with clean water , and refill it with fresh water , to which a corrosion inhibitor has been added .
30 If corrosion and scale in your heating system are causing problems , you need to descale it thoroughly , then drain it down , flush it through with clean water , and refill it with fresh water , to which a corrosion inhibitor has been added .
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