Example sentences of "[adj] it [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1972 it failed to reach reserve price when it came under the hammer at auction . |
| 2 | All it takes to give this work a decent hearing is five intelligent and compatible singers , a good deal of rehearsal time , sensitive discussion about the best way of tackling the considerable demands both of the words and the huge span of music , and some recording equipment . |
| 3 | In other words , for an action to be deviant it has to cause some form of critical reaction and disapproval from others in the particular society . |
| 4 | When a company evolves to Stage 4 it ceases to view geographical units as necessarily important in marketing terms and instead takes a global view of its marketing , financing and operations . |
| 5 | By the year 2000 it hopes to have similar centres in its six other urban hubs — Edinburgh , Liverpool , Manchester , Leeds , Birmingham and Cardiff . |
| 6 | First it tries to reconcile central funding and government accountability for national standards of service with the need for local autonomy to meet local need . |
| 7 | Together with the Reichsjugendgerichtsgesetz ( RJGG , Juvenile Court Act ) of 1923 it tended to replace punitive measures with pedagogical , child-oriented principles and to set standards for national youth departments in every part of the country ( Sachsse and Tennstedt , 1988 , p. 99 ) . |
| 8 | Of the diagnostic statistics reported for ( 2.2 ) , the RESET test statistic is of particular importance in that it fails to provide any evidence that relevant higher moments of the explanatory variables have been omitted from the equation . |
| 9 | USL says it ‘ would be happy to help Sun do that , ’ but SunSoft , which also has a seat on USL 's board , is currently lobbying hard to get its own views adopted by UI , and to do that it needs to get other members on its side . |
| 10 | However , the less able the front end is to specify the full characteristics of the phonetic input , the more difficult it becomes to distinguish lexical hypotheses . |
| 11 | This belief is firmly backed up by the experience of the West German government when in 1965 it attempted to bring criminal charges against nine Chemie Grunenthal executives who were indicted for causing bodily harm and involuntary manslaughter in connection with the drug thalidomide . |