Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb -s] [to-vb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The college 's development plan reveals that it hopes to give 700 pupils a year a taste of education in one of nine countries funds permitting .
2 To do that , it assesses the difference in intensity of the sound in each ear and the infinitesimal difference in time that it takes to reach one ear before the other .
3 In a large frying or saute pan put a slab of butter ( I use a good quality butter and find that it pays to prepare 2 lb. at a time since it keeps almost indefinitely and is immeasurably superior to fresh butter for frying bread , croquettes , rissoles , fish cakes , veal escalopes , fish à la meunière and a score of other tricky cooking jobs ) .
4 The US says that it intends to axe one satellite .
5 Norway has announced that it intends to catch 382 minke whales over the next three years .
6 Guar gum is a complex polysaccharide which can not be digested or absorbed and it appears to have two effects .
7 If it costs to transport one item from i to j , how should the goods be transported in order to satisfy all requirements at minimum cost ?
8 While it hopes to build 500 houses before winding up in 1999 , the corporation said yesterday that it hoped to start transferring houses to the proposed Irvine Housing Association in 1993 .
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