Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Lionel Russell , with a view from within the CNAA and the local authorities , said that he had never understood Crosland 's Woolwich speech and why he made it , and had doubts about the concentration in polytechnics because of the disappointment it meant to other colleges . |
| 2 | Because there are so many variables in the equation , it is inevitable that management has some discretion as to how much weight it attaches to any point in a particular case . |
| 3 | A further merit of the presentation is the help it offers to those company functions whose responsibilities involve risks contingent upon the completion date of an R&D project . |
| 4 | A further merit of the presentation is the help it offers to those company functions whose responsibilities involve risks contingent upon the completion date of an R&D project . |
| 5 | Another attraction of the scheme is the flexibility it gives to general practitioners to make budgetary savings in certain aspects of their clinical practice which can then be reinvested in other aspects of patient care . |
| 6 | Together they went to bullfights , to watch Chamaco and Ordonez perform , Minton 's interest in this art having been fired by Hemingway 's Death in the Afternoon , by its colourfulness , sense of theatre and by the focus it gives to male idolatry . |
| 7 | The intensity of the field is generally weak , falling to 10–20% of the initial strength over most of the Earth 's surface , but in places it rises to high values . |
| 8 | Michael Russell , the party 's vice-convener for publicity , accused Labour of selling out on all the promises it made to Scottish voters at the last election . |
| 9 | With bank interest over the years it amounted to some £320,000-certainly enough to meet the Ingard cheque . |
| 10 | Representation is redefined as a kind of quotation : When a text turns its attention to giving a physical description of a character it resorts to various strategies which give its presumed object the status of a representation . |
| 11 | They have suggested that the loss of associability suffered by a pre-exposed stimulus is determined not by the extent to which it is predicted by its antecedents but by the relationship it bears to subsequent events . |
| 12 | The content it attaches to physical reality makes the natural world autonomous ; its quest is to determine what is . |
| 13 | Most of us take for granted food packaging and the convenience it offers to modern life . |
| 14 | In local situations it leads to mutual respect between generations and among different sectors and levels of society . |
| 15 | At the centre of the conception is high youth unemployment which , it is assumed , in the case of males leads to crime and trouble with the police ; in the case of females it leads to single-parent families . |
| 16 | Surely , the longer an animal lives , and the longer it goes on producing offspring , the more genes it transmits to future generations ? |
| 17 | A ham came next ; after some frenzied bidding at the lower prices it climbed to thirteen guineas , then to fourteen where it seemed likely to stay until at the very last moment , a cautious male voice offered fifteen guineas . |
| 18 | Miss Harder even refused the offer of financial assistance , in case it led to another child losing his chance of coming to Britain . |
| 19 | One sign of the success of the EEC was the change it brought to British policy . |
| 20 | In April 1873 W. H. Flower , subsequently to be in charge of the British Museum , Natural History , in South Kensington , lectured on palaeontology and the support it gives to evolutionary theory . |
| 21 | If the business buys goods for resale , or components for assembly , the terms on which it buys should be considered : to what extent is it possible to pass back liability for defects in those goods ; can the business recover an indemnity from its supplier against any liability it incurs to third parties , or is such liability excluded ? ( 3 ) Who are the business 's customers ? |
| 22 | In this case , though , when I totalled their length it came to 2,000 words ; and the books editor had asked for 700 . |
| 23 | [ … ] The social efficiency decision rule , that the optimal quantity of a good is produced when the amount it adds to social benefits ( its marginal social benefit ) equals the amount it adds to social costs ( its marginal social cost ) is difficult to apply . |
| 24 | [ … ] The social efficiency decision rule , that the optimal quantity of a good is produced when the amount it adds to social benefits ( its marginal social benefit ) equals the amount it adds to social costs ( its marginal social cost ) is difficult to apply . |
| 25 | With Rufus it did to some extent come back again and all he could do was grind it down and soldier on . |
| 26 | If the Commission regards the complaint as validly demonstrating a breach of the Convention it reports to that effect , and the case proceeds to the European Court of Human Rights unless it is solved in the meantime . |
| 27 | If the law of life is struggle , the ‘ bottom line ’ in economic activity as with any other , is the contribution it makes to that struggle , and no sector can simply opt out of it , even if it can be shown by some other criteria that doing so would improve matters . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , the broader range of perspectives reflected in recent scholarship has added immeasurably to our understanding of the pre-1950s era and the context it provides to postwar growth . |
| 29 | ‘ I said when we arrived two weeks ago that by the time it came to this Test you would have to give us a 50–50 chance because this is a one-off game , not part of a Test series . |
| 30 | Perhaps we , I mean , then British Section said to us on this erm and I 'd s , already said I think er by the time it got to this stage of conversation that we were without a prisoner at the moment , but , but awaiting one , and he said well , that would ex , that would explain it because er , until we initiate it , British Section initiates it you wo n't get another prisoner , they 're waiting for conformation from R E S |