Example sentences of "[adj] to it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By attempting to create rules for the exercise of power , the people subject to it have some hope of being able to control it and to make it legitimate in their own eyes . |
| 2 | He distinguished between simple power ( the ability to make one 's will prevail against the resistance of others ) , domination ( or Herr-schaft : enduring power associated with a habit of obedience on the part of the subordinate person or group ) , and legitimacy ( power which exists and endures because those subject to it believe it is morally right to obey ) . |
| 3 | The prerogative order of prohibition , as its name implies , performs the function of ordering a body amenable to it to refrain from illegal action . |
| 4 | Today , a large proportion of the EC research budget is devoted to industrial projects , especially in the development of basic technology prior to it becoming marketable . |
| 5 | The Council had resolved to prepare a plan prior to it becoming mandatory . |
| 6 | How important to it had Angela Morgan been ? |
| 7 | The acid test of a skill is to watch someone else doing something effortlessly and then to try it yourself — you quickly discover that there is much more to it thin you imagined . |
| 8 | Deltaic deposition can occur anywhere that a current carrying sediment slows down , especially if the cause of its check in velocity is due to it spreading out on release from a confined channel Thus submarine tidal deltas can be built where strong tidal currents pass through narrow straits between islands and then fan out . |
| 9 | Course they must be used to it doing it must n't they ? |
| 10 | you get used to it do n't you ? |
| 11 | Oh , it did n't give you much chance then to get used to it did it ? |
| 12 | We now come to the second part of our programme , according to our agenda , which has the broad heading , Achiev N C V O Achievements and Intentions , and it 's obviously a natural follow-on from the I er , A G M which we have just completed , at which council received the annual report of N C V O's work for the past year , and its use of the resources which are available to it to carry out that work . |
| 13 | It is unlikely that corporate management has the information available to it to determine what social goals are supported by a broad consensus or what their order of priority might be . |
| 14 | it 's five to it says on the bits of paper |
| 15 | Mind , once it did get going it would then do its best to roast us alive , and the girls with beds nearest to it had to move back to escape the heat . |
| 16 | a street gambling game in which pennies are pitched at a target , the player whose coin lands nearest to it having the right to then toss all the coins in the air and claim all those that fall face upwards . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He was in the small bathroom adjacent to it shaving when his secretary , Ilse Huber , entered . |
| 19 | If you kind of drop down behind the blue if you use the blue first and the bat 's up there you got ta go sort of near to it to get behind you 're going to rush down to your hoop . |
| 20 | Near to it stands the Wailing Wall which is all that remains of the ancient Jewish Temple , . |
| 21 | Next to it goes a soft touch 6a , Cocoluche , which has an easily avoidable 6b section . |
| 22 | The face next to it smiles at me , nervously . |
| 23 | The other end of the scale the erm Sun gets much of its editorial exclusives and material often running to five or six pages erm by covering the Royal Family erm in terms of language in that in the language used , the Sun erm tends to adopt a very simple writing style of one adjective erm sorry one verb and a number of adjectives with a couple of nouns , tends to be sentence went off around ten to twelve words and the design is also quite interesting because they like to sort of leave things out so you have a paragraph in normal type and then a paragraph in bold with big splodges next to it to highlight it . |
| 24 | Next to it lay a note from Cinzia to her husband about collecting their daughter from school . |
| 25 | But in some cases there is dependence , and laser killing shows that , for example , one kind of cell induces three other cells just next to it to develop along a particular pathway . |
| 26 | Ian snapped , ‘ The key under the tab marked ‘ Hardnut ’ on your board there does not resemble that hanging under the tab next to it marked ‘ Sylvester ’ . ’ |
| 27 | Next to it stands the former bailiff 's castle which is now a historical museum housing several treasures , one of which has a link with America . |
| 28 | Next to it squatted a young girl about fifteen or sixteen years old . |
| 29 | Next to it stood an empty tubular blue clothes rack , a tubular blue chair , a tubular blue AV rig . |
| 30 | An oval mirror , pock-marked and fly-stained , was set in the top of this extravagant and monstrous contraption and next to it stood a hollow elephant 's foot mounted on a wooden base . |