Example sentences of "[verb] to it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'll be a way to acknowledge the end of an era as well as to acknowledge the people who contributed to it over the last 20 years . |
| 2 | As a public-trust authority with central government funds committed to it through the Harbour Act , it needed a private bill to get its constitution altered . |
| 3 | But that we become committed to it as the way to save the country and the peace appears to me full of dangers . ’ |
| 4 | One indication of current priorities is that Making Belfast Work has less money committed to it in total over four years than is spent on prisons in a single year . |
| 5 | If one wants to deliver a caring service one will deliver a better caring service if one manages it efficiently and uses the resources committed to it by the taxpayer to the maximum possible extent . |
| 6 | However , as the pope himself had been so committed to it before his election , such an outcome was unthinkable . |
| 7 | However historically authentic ( or not ) this account may be , what is clear is that Hungarians adhered to it for a thousand years after their arrival in the Danubian plain at the beginning of the tenth century . |
| 8 | Their excellent long-distance vision spots something suspicious and they fly to it at high speed . |
| 9 | Standard English today differs from local dialects not only in permitting the expression of complex relationships in familiar written forms , but also in the astonishing wealth of vocabulary which has accrued to it through its intellectual and imperial history . |
| 10 | It 's the oldest lyrical theme in the world and David Gedge adheres to it with laudable steadfastness . |
| 11 | Put another way , the more the teacher is explicit about what behaviour is wanted , the less opportunity the pupils have to come to it for themselves and make the underlying knowledge or understanding their own . |
| 12 | This is an unreal place to be , because if you ca n't talk to other women , yet you believe all women must in the end come to separatism , then either those women have to be born separatist or they have to come to it through isolation , pain and struggle . |
| 13 | The lack of attention devoted to it by the British Government and , in particular , by the British press , in terms of the discussions at Maastricht , is symptomatic of our isolationist approach not only to Europe , but to the development of regional policy . |
| 14 | You 're hurting , and I have added to it with my stupidity . |
| 15 | Although providing a degree of flexibility to cope with ground settlement , this type of joint tended to leak and a cement filling was added to it with the whole pipe laid on a bed of concrete carried up the sides . |
| 16 | ‘ Nothing was added to it until January when two separate payments of fifty pounds were made . ’ |
| 17 | The comparison will not show British progress in a very nattering light , for although Traffic in Towns was a hugely influential report in its day , nothing of significance has been added to it in the UK in a quarter of a century . |
| 18 | North of the River Cam , re-using the older Roman town , was the late eighth-century Mercian burgh which had another fortified town south of the river crossing added to it in the late ninth century by the Danish soldiers and traders . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I build to it during the lost-in-the-wood speech and then it starts a bit uncertainly and then they really get it and it hits the show like a trumpet solo . |
| 21 | I do n't object to it at all . |
| 22 | In some heating systems the water circulates naturally , ; hot water rising from the boiler and returning to it by force of gravity when it is cooler . |
| 23 | However , the issue of the relationship between classical deterrence and interactionist ‘ labelling ’ clearly needs further attention , and I will be returning to it in Chapter 8 . |
| 24 | A small herd inhabited a reedbed formed by the overflow from a large pool fed by hot springs , leaving its shelter only after dark and returning to it before light . |
| 25 | They cynically referred to it as ‘ college ’ where they picked up further tips in the arts of fraud from their cell mates . |
| 26 | This could be ( and has been ) achieved not only by investigative journalism and television documentaries , which do appear to have influenced the general level of awareness amongst American citizens to such an extent that Spiro Agnew referred to it as the ‘ post-Watergate ’ morality . |
| 27 | The Scots ' commissioners in London were far from pleased with this new English church , and one of them referred to it as ‘ but a lame , Erastian presbytery ’ . |
| 28 | Elsewhere he referred to it as ‘ developing socialism ’ , differentiating it from the ‘ developed socialism ’ that was supposed to have been constructed in the Brezhnev era and still more so from the utopian vision of a society rapidly advancing towards full communism that had been current in the Khrushchev years . |
| 29 | Robert Savage referred to it as a box-iron piece , a piece of land roughly the shape of an old fashioned box-iron used for smoothing linen ; and he related that the old ploughmen used to refer to the ploughing of this type of field as goring work . |
| 30 | In any case , the clear separation of the Bank from all others was well enough indicated by Lord North in 1781 when he referred to it as " a part of the constitution " and " to all intents and purposes the public exchequer " . |