Example sentences of "to it in " in BNC.

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1 The word itself is derived from two Greek words : holos and kaustos ; the former , ‘ wholeness ’ , has a tragically ironic edge to it in the light of Leonard 's concerns for ‘ oneness ’ .
2 It is a Possessed kind of joke , inconceivable in Crime and Punishment , and there was no reference to it in the version of ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ submitted to Katkov initially .
3 Anny Evason 's atmospheric evocation of the Piazza del Erbe , with its salamis , live chickens , fruit barrow and cafe tables , is spectacularly wrecked as the young bloods go to it in the first of Terry King 's convincing fights .
4 I 'm quite used to it in the House of Commons … .
5 The nearest concepts to it in early modern England were probably sodomy and buggery .
6 Another problem is that if you 're trying to deal with other manufacturers in the way that we do , where we have this extremely close relationship and they are very reliant on our forward forecasts of volume , they feel if you have your own manufacturing plant that you would always give preference to it in bad times and the other suppliers would be the people to suffer if sales declined .
7 It 's always a shock when summat 's different , but you get used to it in the end .
8 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 .
9 Past Glories suggested he is on the way back when third to Kribensis in the Fighting Fifth at Newcastle , while Floyd is not quite up to it in the highest class these days .
10 Nikolaus Pevsner did not much like Bridehead 's rather whacky Tudor style , referring to it in his Buildings of England as ‘ excruciatingly awkward ’ .
11 Nothing is more characteristic of churches than their attitude to assurance and the place they give to it in their preaching and systems of doctrine .
12 Further genetic progress on mastitis resistance is expected because the weighting gives to it in the Norwegian breeding programme has recently been more than doubled .
13 Nor did he refer to it in his address to new SS recruits at midnight on 9 November , and not a word relating to the pogrom was contained in his confidential speech — not meant for public consumption — to leaders of the German press on the evening of 10 November , less than twenty-four hours after the burning of the synagogues and the destruction of Jewish property throughout the length and breadth of Germany .
14 Hitler reminded his audience of his grim ‘ prophecy ’ for the first time in his Reichstag speech on 30 January 1941 , and in 1942 returned to it in no fewer than four major addresses , on 30 January , 24 February , 30 September , and 8 November , as well as hinting at the destruction of the Jews in the war in his ‘ New Year Appeal ’ .
15 Different people at different times and in different places , over a period of five years , displayed the same interest in the past , and ( within acceptable degrees of variation ) gave the same account of incidents and conditions , and gave the same weight to it in their explanations of their actions .
16 It was n't only that I could n't lift myself off the ground but that I was stuck to it in some way .
17 It must have been the most bewildering social change since the Enclosures , and yet I can find no reference to it in the village School Log .
18 By early in 1944 he had already won the D.S.O. in Libya , and a bar to it in Sicily .
19 In one set of studies stimulus A was the onset of a light and the target response acquired to it in the intermediate phase of training was a conditioned eye-blink reinforced by an air-puff unconditioned stimulus .
20 No Moslem could have greeted the sight of its medieval columns with more glee than the clapped-out crews of the TransaDeuche for , even though the place is a little less remote these days , it was still a pretty formidable achievement getting to it in a vehicle not really designed to leave the Left Bank .
21 Visitors used to flock to it in omnibuses and examine it with the careful scrutiny of sightseers . ’
22 He knows that he is only looking at ink on paper , yet his nervous system responds to it in the same kind of way as it might respond to a real woman .
23 These extra digits do not come from the graft , but from the cells adjacent to it in the anterior part of the bud .
24 After Francis Bacon first drew attention to it in 1620 , there was endless speculation on the reason for the striking similarity in shape between the coastlines of Africa and South America .
25 And in the year 1037 Ferdinand slew Bermudo the King of Leon in battle , who was his wife 's brother , and conquered his kingdom , and succeeded to it in right of his wife Doña Sancha .
26 The debate as to whether this institutional framework exercised a determining ( ideological ) influence on film output has been an ongoing one , but the importance of Claire Johnston 's contribution to it in the mid seventies is that she argued for a reading of Hollywood entertainment films which made a space for ‘ collective fantasies of women 's desire ’ .
27 The story has a familiar ring to it in the sense that women are seldom encouraged to be in top positions at work the world over .
28 They propose a more comprehensive assessment of LFA handicaps on a farm by farm basis with HLCAs linked to it in order to create a more favourable climate for conservation .
29 It preceded the building of the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 185 1 , and served as an inspiration , if not a model , for it , but is actually superior to it in design .
30 an inscription on the Monument which was not finally removed until 1831 imputed the blame for the Great Fire of London ( 1666 ) to treacherous Roman Catholics , and Pope indignantly alludes to it in the third of his Moral Essays ( ll. 339–40 ) : ‘ Where London 's column , pointing at the skies , / Like a tall bully , lifts its head and lies . ’
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