Example sentences of "[verb] to it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I understand that it is possible , even at this late stage , that the review itself could be overturned by the refusal of France to agree the new allocation of seats and we 've already had an exchange on that , Mr Deputy Speaker , which indicates that whatever we decide today might actually be overthrown and overturned completely by the inability of the French to ratify their part of the arrangement , er the minister referred to it as a massive inconvenience , I suggest that if we have to resort to going back to the old boundaries to fight these elections and indeed the problems that that will cause for the selection of candidates as well , that that will be one of the greatest understatements that even this house has heard . |
| 4 | He holds to it in a most unsceptical way — that is , with a fair degree of dogmatism . |
| 5 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 6 | In the past , when his thoughts had turned to it as a young boy 's thoughts will , his body had n't followed his mind . |
| 7 | Chair , if I can , if I can speak to it from a financial point of view , this is the scheme where we have been successful in bidding for the European Rural Development Fund grants . |
| 8 | If the provisions of s213 can be satisfied , management would incur no income tax charge or capital gains tax charge ; Target should have no liability to capital gains tax under s178 or 179 , even though it would be leaving a capital gains tax group as a result of the de-merger and may have had assets transferred to it on a no gain/no loss basis within the preceding six years . |
| 9 | Listen , listen to me , when it 's finished , instead of putting it in the box we 'll put it on that other one and listen to it for a wee while |
| 10 | The one MUP molecule in the asymmetric unit makes its most extensive interactions to a molecule related to it by a 2-fold rotation about an axis parallel to the axis of the β -barrel . |
| 11 | An Iron Age fortification on North Berwick Law is still visible despite the damage done to it by a quarry which provided stone for many of the town buildings . |
| 12 | Release 2 also provides performance improvements through an enhanced Virtual Memory Manager and asynchronous input-out put using the AIX/ESA Communications Server , which is claimed to enhance usability and performance for those connected to it via a channel or local network-attached RS/6000 . |
| 13 | In front of the gate and connected to it by a high causeway was a tall grey watchtower whose summit commanded the approach down the valley . |
| 14 | Boltzmann showed how the function — was related to the gradient of torque in an experiment on the twisting of a wire ( we would refer to it as a time-dependent shear modulus ) and gave the results of such an experiment . |
| 15 | With the best will in the world , no-one could refer to it as a training scheme . |
| 16 | ‘ Maybe they want to talk to it about a burning truck , ’ said Masklin . |
| 17 | Spontaneous handwriting has a life and character of its own , conveyed to it by a busy brain through easy fingers . |
| 18 | This in turn stems from the quite understandable confidentiality on commercial grounds imposed on CSM for all the information supplied to it by a drug firm . |
| 19 | Should we look to it for a pool of inventive talent that actively embodied novelty in its products , and thereby provided pressure for technical change among its customers ; or rather , for provision of engineering skills that responded passively to the demands made upon it by the inventiveness of its clients consumer industries and civil engineers ? |
| 20 | Hence the strategy of the working class is worked out in terms of the opportunities open to it in a particular situation — or rather in terms of the opportunities that Poulantzas claims would have been open to it had the class itself been quite different . |
| 21 | In part it 's down to S&M mainstream fashion ; in part to the rise of interest in all forms of body art ; in part to the fact that gays are turning to it as a form of safer sex ( hardly the sort of thing that should be criminalised ) . |
| 22 | The instruction books refer to it as a 2x2 rib but most people call it a 2x1 rib to differentiate between it and a true 2x2 rib , which we will come to late . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He takes to it as a duck takes to water . |
| 25 | Burton put himself on trial , later on public trial , either because he was driven to it by a daemon he could not command or because he willed the daemon to come out and fight . |
| 26 | I would like to emphasize that erm the Greater York authorities have n't lightly arrived at erm the strategy for a new settlement , er we have been driven to it by a very careful examination of the development possibilities , firstly around the edge of York , and secondly around the various villages , we know these areas erm intimately from our day to day planning work , and on two occasions , once in connection with the Greater York study , and secondly in connection with drawing detailed greenbelt boundaries we have tramped around the edges of all these settlements and looked very carefully at the possibilities for development , erm the possibilities have been taken up in the development equation , which the County Council has put in front of you , which does still include er some development around villages and around the edge of the city without harming greenbelt , but we do n't really think we can go much further , and that 's what has driven us to the conclusion that er a new settlement must play a part in the longer term development equation for Greater York . |
| 27 | The emotional warmth of this novel never exceeds the space allotted to it in a strongly active story but it does benefit by one physical fact of great importance to any sea-story — the constriction in terms of space on a ship , intensified in time of war , the effect of protocol and strict discipline and a lack of privacy on normal human feelings . |
| 28 | But a mile or so away from Panama City , linked to it by a discreet network of roads and side-streets that become suddenly cleaner , neater , less tropic , less obviously corrupted , is a city that bears the great conquistadore 's family name . |
| 29 | He was introduced to it as a game played in the garden before coming north from Devon in 1970 . |
| 30 | ‘ I was very fond of ffeatherstonehaugh 's from the time I was introduced to it by a pal of mine in the late 1940s . |