Example sentences of "[pron] it [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ministry of the Interior , anxious about the security implications of labour unrest , experimented from 1901–3 with police-run labour organizations through which it hoped to direct working-class energy from political towards purely economic and cultural aims . |
| 2 | In the discount market the Bank of England takes advantage of day-to-day flows of funds between the public and private sectors to indicate the way in which it wishes to see short-term interest rates move . |
| 3 | They will pay whatever it takes to get Scots crayfish and Dublin Bay prawns into the shops and restaurants in beautiful condition , when no one back home can be bothered . |
| 4 | ‘ You may be prepared to do whatever it takes to get this house , but I 'm prepared to do whatever 's necessary to ensure that Thomas remains in my care . ’ |
| 5 | I want to be a rich young man , if wealth is what it takes to buy this feeling ; a young lord leaving the city after a night of riot … |
| 6 | And although this particular episode in the end solved no major scientific problem , it serves a crucial role in bringing to light the many aspects of what science is all about and what it means to do good science . |