Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] it [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mobile users can only use it to make outgoing calls , and must be near one of the 8,000-plus Rabbit base stations dotted across the country .
2 Director of OEM and technology licensing for IBM 's advanced workstations and systems division , Lucian Bifano said ‘ Since the [ PowerPC ] agreement with Motorola and Apple 18 months ago , we speculated on who would be the first to market with a product ; we certainly did not expect it to come four months after our October announcement of the first silicon ’ .
3 Not that Eliot harboured any illusions about the efficacy of his work — although Notes … was selling well , he did not expect it to have much influence .
4 At the Federal level there is an Office of the Co-ordination of Soil and Water Conservation , but it has a tiny staff and its position within the Ministry of Agriculture does not enable it to have much influence on land-use decisions .
5 You did not mean it to happen this time .
6 The Vienna Convention defines a treaty as an agreement ‘ governed by international law ’ and does not require it to allocate legal rights and obligations .
7 Those whose attitudes are negative and who consequently will have a powerful filter , even when they understand a message in the second language , will not allow it to reach that part of the brain responsible for language acquisition .
8 Sources say there were only really four companies behind COSE : Unix System Laboratories Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc : beyond that , says the source , Santa Cruz Operation Inc had to fight to get in and the Open Software Foundation was not a party to the negotiations ; but the real power behind the throne , although it does n't want it to appear that way , was of course Novell Inc .
9 The power behind the throne , though it does n't want it to appear that way , was Novell Inc .
10 Rickards did n't want it to become public knowledge and it wo n't .
11 We do n't expect it to cause any problems , and we will still be meeting him for talks some time over the next couple of days . ’
12 Sorry , I did n't mean it to sound that way .
13 ‘ I did n't mean it to sound that way , ’ Ruth huffed .
14 I did n't mean it to happen this way . ’
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