Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem in West Yorkshire is that it costs more there to put a police man on the beat , and the authority spends more per head of the population . |
| 2 | There was increased reseeding and cutting for silage , which entails heavy fertilization of the grass so that it grows very quickly to give you an early crop , then putting in more fertilizer to enable you to cut it again . |
| 3 | The Egyptian foreign minister , Amr Moussa , made it clear he expected Israel to offer more than it has so far to return the deportees to their homes in the occupied territories . |
| 4 | When words bring the required response there is less need to scream and it becomes all right to ask . |
| 5 | And it becomes all right to ask even though the answer is sometimes ‘ No ’ . |
| 6 | Her voice sounded clipped , rather staccato , and it seemed not properly to belong to her any more . |
| 7 | And it needs not only to provide access to files or data , but actually to connect applications running anywhere on the network — and through the application , to connect the minds that are putting the applications to work . |
| 8 | This was the most encouragement the boy got there , and it proved not enough to pep up his dismal sales figures . |
| 9 | And it stopped short never to go again |
| 10 | This was based on his father 's life and it did well enough to bring in five thousand pounds . |
| 11 | If it persists long enough to block out sunlight for an period , it will have the effect of wiping out phytoplankton , with potentially-disastrous effects for all marine life further up the food chain . |
| 12 | If until 1832 the working class seen in a Marxist perspective as a proletariat was emergent and potential , if it had yet fully to identify itself , the Reform Bill of that year finally distinguished it from the rest of society . |
| 13 | We would certainly agree that it is an unusual adjective , and further that , as Bolinger says , it acts as an intensifier with the definite article , but it seems quite clearly to follow from this that it can not be a sense-qualifier of the sort which Bolinger has in mind . |
| 14 | But it flew well enough to confound the sceptics and won first place at the April 1978 Maryland Kite Festival . |
| 15 | Unless it grows fast enough to sustain recropping the birds must move elsewhere . |
| 16 | His primary commitment was to effective control ; he chose deterrence because it seemed most obviously to follow from his views on human rationality . |
| 17 | Possessive adjectives , however , do not produce a satisfactory result : ( 60 ) our bicycles damaged all had red handlebars your ideas discussed will be put to our colonel One may enquire why there should be this contrast , since it seems easy enough to see what meaning should be attached to each of the sentences of ( 60 ) . |