Example sentences of "it [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tomato plant attracts a pest called whitefly which causes harm by feeding off the tomato and leaving sugary deposits , disfiguring the fruit and causing it to go mouldy . |
| 2 | The old maestro having been asked to give a last exhibition of his art , no one wished it to go wrong . |
| 3 | ‘ We would n't want it to go wrong , ’ said Garvin . |
| 4 | ‘ We could n't afford for it to go wrong . |
| 5 | Cos they did n't want it to go bad you see . |
| 6 | I felt my face go red , as red as it was physically possible for it to go red , and a surge of hate and rage and fear swept through me from nerve ending to brain cell to nerve ending . |
| 7 | We have come to expect the premeditated dishonesty of Conservative Central Office to be reprinted in the Daily Mail , but we do not intend to allow it to go unchallenged in the columns of Hansard . |
| 8 | The venturi-tube type of total energy system can be dried out by venting it to cockpit static to allow the venturi to suck out the water in flight . |
| 9 | If a horse is left unfed one day , it will feel the physical stress of lack of food and be hungry and lose condition , and it will also suffer anxiety caused by the hunger which will cause it to lose additional weight . |
| 10 | Emeryville , California-based Sybase Inc is also getting in on the act , saying that it has licensed IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture and plans to use it to support distributed unit of work access between IBM databases , and Sybase SQL Server and Open Client and Open Server applications . |
| 11 | Emeryville , California-based Sybase Inc has licensed IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture and plans to use it to support distributed unit of work access between IBM databases , and Sybase SQL Server and Open Client and Open Server applications systems pay $150,000 for full distribution rights . |
| 12 | Amdahl Corp , Sunnyvale has launched a consulting service and data storage feature to facilitate the migration of customers to Escon Architecture : the company accompanies the new service with a new Serial Channel Feature for next quarter for use with its 6100 Storage Processor , which attaches to parallel channel adaptors on the 6100 and enable it to support serial Escon channel connections ; a 6100 with the feature will support up to 32 Escon serial channels or a mixture of serial and parallel channels ; native serial channels cost $62,560 for the first four and $32,280 for each additional pair ; the Serial Channel Feature start at $21,000 . |
| 13 | Sentencing the two men , Judge Richard May said he was bearing in mind that the defendants had n't put the money in their own pockets or used it to support expensive lifestyles . |
| 14 | Only eight out of more than two hundred teams made it to today' final at Silverstone |
| 15 | Answer guide : Managers would be using it to plan future activity levels , order stocks , employ labour etc. whereas bankers are more interested in an overview of where the business is likely to go and perhaps also as a monitoring tool , although it is doubtful that such a level of sophistication is applied to the majority of enterprises . |
| 16 | Bob Collicutt acknowledges that he is presiding over a mature , commodity business with limited growth opportunities , but sees the free-standing role as an opportunity for it to remain profitable in the longer term . |
| 17 | One new church in America called its sanctuary The Living Room , so keen was it to remain normal . |
| 18 | As a result , an alumina implant can shield the surrounding bone from the stresses generated by normal activity , and the bone loses the stimulation which is necessary for it to remain healthy . |
| 19 | I want it to remain open , but I also want to understand the position . |
| 20 | The Walrus and Carpenter Restaurant st Church Street , Whitby , is appealing against Scarborough Council 's refusal of permission to enable it to remain open until midnight , an hour longer than current planning permission allows . |
| 21 | They had pleaded with the bankruptcy judge to close down Eastern last autumn , but instead he allowed it to remain airborne and continue to run down its cash resources . |
| 22 | In order for it to remain competitive , jobs had to be shed . |
| 23 | It is a matter of examining the contract to see whether the parties intended it to remain valid even if the goods were not in existence or had perished . |
| 24 | Why is it that structural ageism sanctions discrimination against older people and enables it to continue unnoticed on a daily basis , and remain unchanged over many years ? |
| 25 | By ‘ thought ’ Descartes did not just mean deliberation , or some strictly intellectual activity ; he took it to include other forms of consciousness , such as imagining and feeling . |
| 26 | You will recall that when we talked about the libido theory , I said that there were erm different one of the reasons why Freud had to introduce the libido theory was he wanted to get away from the narrow biological reproductive concept of sex to do with genitals and reproduction which is of course he 'd want to expand it to include psychological never seen before er or never seen before so clearly , such as erm love of the self and , and this he gave the name narcissism , well he did n't actually , somebody else invented it not long before and he took it over very quickly . |
| 27 | The use of ‘ but ’ where common sense demands ‘ and ’ is symptomatic of a general malaise : the scriptwriters do n't think about the meaning of what they 've written , they just want it to sound pretty . |
| 28 | There is a tendency for it to sound scrappy and undernourished , and intonation is variable , too . |
| 29 | The insecticide is carried in a very penetrating light oil but it is nor fair to expect it to penetrate heavy deposits of dust , dirt and cobwebs before it reaches the timber . |
| 30 | A few modifications have been made to it to accommodate foreign words but , generally speaking , it is the words rather than the syllabary that get modified and some get very thoroughly modified indeed . |