Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb -s] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's surprisingly wild in its upper reaches where it leads to Threshthwaite Mouth — one of the most distinctive though seldom used passes in the Lake District . |
2 | In 1976 in the Conservative Monthly News Lord Whitelaw was clearly of the opinion that ‘ Undoubtedly , economic mismanagement … where it leads to high levels of unemployment , especially amongst young people , also contributes considerably to increasing the number of those tempted into a criminal life . |
3 | Does n't it rather vitiate the nature of Cabinet government , though , if a decision , like the one to remove all exchange control , a very fundamental one for any economy , is in fact worked up , although it goes to full Cabinet in the end , in such a body ? |
4 | Although it grows to some 20cm in the wild it rarely achieves even half that size in the aquarium . |
5 | Profiles of Development presupposes a common developmental path , and thus encourages the control of pupils ' learning experience so that it conforms to that path . |
6 | Both management and unions tend to keep a tight grip on local activity to ensure that it keeps to national agreements and to avoid the embarrassment and disruption of uncontrolled local initiatives . |
7 | The need for industrial application shows the practical nature of patent law , which requires that the invention should be something which can be produced or that it relates to some sort of industrial process . |
8 | The term ‘ gouger ’ is flexible in that it refers to known criminals as well as others who look or act as if they have a potential for crime and trouble . |
9 | This discovery precipitated the Red Lake Gold Rush , and their find became the Howey Gold Mine , the first in the Red Lake district , resulting in Burnt Bay being renamed as Howey Bay , the name that it retains to this day . |
10 | At a push boiling oil on its own will do the job , but a typical mixture has corrosive properties and is sticky so that it adheres to exposed flesh . |
11 | Sir , the pond in D thirty nine has been shown to be a breeding place for the Great Crested Newt , but it is also known that it migrates to other ponds , several others , but does not necessarily breed there , but chooses at Skelton . |
12 | Lindsey 's Corsair was delivered in 1953 and served initially with 12 Flotille , coded ‘ 12F.22 ’ and later moving across to 15 Flotille , where it was coded ‘ 15F.22 ’ , markings that it carries to this day . |
13 | ’ It does not specify that it applies to all parties to the conflict , and is thus more ambiguous on this point than common Article 3 . |
14 | Yeah perhaps , I , I know that it applies to some people . |
15 | But what makes the RNLI extra special is that it appeals to all ages . |
16 | ‘ The beauty of bonsai is that it appeals to all ages , ’ he says . |
17 | I gave this approach this title following a pamphlet which reproduces a lecture given by the English Anglican bishop of high church disposition John Austin Baker to a conference of the Movement for the Ordination of Women.l8 I believe that it is ( in less thought-out form ) widely followed by proponents of the ordination of women , perhaps of a less radical variety , and certainly I would think that it appeals to many men . |
18 | That it appears to this Committee that the Secretary ( Mr Huntingford ) has propagated reports injurious to the character of the Professor and that his conduct appears highly culpable in having spread such reports after he had reason to be satisfied that they were groundless . |
19 | ‘ That it appears to this Committee that the conduct of the Secretary has been highly culpable in inspecting and exposing the contents of papers of a private nature belonging to the professor which had by accident fallen into his ( the Secretary 's ) hands . |
20 | ‘ That it appears to this Committee that the conduct of the Secretary has been highly improper , in suppressing a Letter addressed to the general Committee . |
21 | Secondly , a distinguishing characteristic of negligence liability ( and indeed of the legal approach in general ) is that it attaches to single episodes of management failure . |
22 | But the inspectorate is prosecuting to underline the importance that it attaches to nuclear workers following proper procedures . |
23 | The fundamental weakness of this approach is that it relies to some extent on the researchers ' imagination as to what the future may hold , particularly about what new goods and services might emerge , either directly from the new technology or simply because its higher productivity may give consumers greater spending power and so create demands for hitherto undreamed-of goods and services . |
24 | At roughly the same time Terence said , ‘ Another objection to Christianity is that it leads to passive acceptance of social inequalities because the real rewards are in … ’ |
25 | not apply , any more than it does to all garden plants , There are certainly some , the Mediterranean group for example , which includes oregano , lavender , rosemary and thyme , that grow in this sort of environment , but there are many more which need such conditions as shade , moisture , plenty of food , or deep soil , or they may want varying combinations of these , or any of them combined with their opposites . |
26 | THE SAATCHI & SAATCHI share price responds better these days to gossip and innuendo than it does to hard fact . |
27 | The Victorians made the gardens the highlight of the Old Town , and it remains to this day an ideal place to sit and relax . |
28 | Presumably pop-stars and politicians feel otherwise , but many people like to feel they can control the extent to which their names are known ; it is to them an aspect of personal privacy , and it extends to other identifiers like home address . |
29 | And what happens then , the electric current , as we know , flows backwards and forwards and it gets to this bit here and there 's a break , so what does it do ? |
30 | This is to make a useful methodological standpoint within sociology into a dogmatic philosophy of history , and it leads to intellectual confusion , ethical relativism and nihilism by allowing no role to rational scientific work . |