Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] it to [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A cross spirituality will ensure that you and I are never tempted to follow fashions and fads in church life which , attractive though they may seem , ignore the cross or push it to one side .
2 Double-vault composting toilet : If people wish to reuse excreta in their gardens or to sell it to local farmers composting toilets can be built as long as users agree to follow strict rules of maintenance .
3 In seeking to be innovative and adventurous , church musicians will need to be careful not to abandon the traditional repertoire or to relegate it to second place .
4 Alternatively , the exporter could seek a loan against it or negotiate it to another party in settlement of a domestic trade debt .
5 These are claimed by the purchaser of an industrial building who is using it for his or her own trade or leasing it to another for that person 's trade , at the rate of 4% per annum on cost .
6 You can also , at the touch of a button , double the width and/or length of the pattern , mirror image it or convert it to double jacquard .
7 And then , I either leave it like that or turn it to one .
8 ‘ ( 2 ) A person secures access to any program or data held in a computer if by causing a computer to perform any function he — ( a ) alters or erases the program or data ; ( b ) copies or moves it to any storage medium other than that in which it is held or to a different location in the storage medium in which it is held ; ( c ) uses it ; or ( d ) has it output from the computer in which it is held ( whether by having it displayed or in any other manner ) ; and references to access to a program or data ( and to an intent to secure such access ) shall be read accordingly .
9 Consequently , many customers are banning smoking or restricting it to certain areas of the office or canteen , yet it is perfectly feasible to banish the smoke without banning smoking , by installing the latest electrostatic air filters .
10 After such training a given element will , when the stimulus is applied , be the target both of external input and of internal input by way of the associative links that connect it to other elements .
11 Style 3s are actually rarer than Style 4s , and this one has features and serial numbers that date it to 1931 or 1932 .
12 Where it is not supported , the reason is often , as suggested by Rundquist ( 1980 , 1983 ) , because the spending patterns are already set by the geography of demands ( one would not expect large spending on subsidies for cotton farmers in New Hampshire , for example ) and the goal of the pork barrellers is rather to get plenty of money for the programme than to direct it to certain areas rather than others .
13 Higher profits indicate a more favourable return on capital , which may encourage companies to reinvest any surplus rather than devote it to alternative uses .
14 So perhaps another note for Mr Patten 's no doubt very full in-tray is to look again at the decision to close down the body responsible for developing Milton Keynes , and start a new government initiative to encourage more new settlements throughout the region , rather than leaving it to private consortia to chance their arms through a development control system which seems unable to accommodate new initiatives in planning .
15 He proposed a theory in which the germ plasm was totally isolated from the adult body that transmits it to future generations .
16 Mervyn Wilson gives a good service to his cricket clients and it is hoped that he was able to put his money where his mouth is and lay this price to all that wanted it to reasonable limits .
17 Preliminary identification of the peptide binding to the SSB oligonucleotide was accomplished by synthesising a 5' biotinolyated SSB oligonucleotide and attaching it to magnetic Dynal beads coated with streptavidin .
18 Take one whole one , from the three whole ones , and change it to twelfths .
19 The island is savage , blackened , proudly ruined , as if a god had a colossal tantrum and laid it to magnificent , careless waste .
20 You should bottle that particular speech and sell it to clean-air groups . ’
21 He was not yet of an age where polite altruism is practised.among friends , a situation in which one denies oneself comfort and offers it to another .
22 Lord Hailsham , however , used twentieth century reasoning and applied it to nineteenth century cases .
23 That is why we are committed to provide the opportunity afforded by trust status and to grant it to those health care units that seek it , where they can show that they will use the freedoms that that status involves .
24 Write your answer on a postcard and send it to Good Food Competition , TODAY Features , 1 Virginia Street , London E1 9BS , to arrive by Monday November 9 .
25 Write your answers on the back of a postcard or envelope no bigger than 5in × 6in — please include your boot size , the size of jacket , fleece or T-shirt you 'd like , and your size for waterproof pants — and send it to Outdoor Action Adidas Competition , .
26 Data General Corp is moving into document imaging and forms management in an effort to move hardware , taking what it learned in the minicomputer business and applying it to current events .
27 Data General Corp is going into document imaging/forms management to move hardware , taking what it learned in the minicomputer business and applying it to current events .
28 This involved designing a questionnaire and applying it to quantitative observations of a sample of companies in the same type of industry in each country .
29 The judiciary has the function of interpreting the law and applying it to specific cases .
30 Peter founded the navy out of virtually nothing , recruiting officers and sailors in the same way as for the army , and used it to good effect against the Swedes .
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