Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] [adv] [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frank Dzubeck , president of Communications Network Architects Inc in Washington DC , commented to the German newspaper 's US sister title , Computerworld , that IBM ‘ considers today 's multi-processors an interim step , and it does n't want to [ build them ] ’ . |
| 2 | Ask what a vinyl group is though , and they may not know , because although students know the polymer as PVC , they actually call it polychloroethene , and it does n't occur to many of them that there must be something called vinyl chloride . |
| 3 | For you sit here , thousands of miles away from Palestine , a land which most of you will never see , and yet which you will certainly pay for-with your money , yes , and some of you with your blood and sweat — you sit here and you listen to me as I tell you about this impossible , this ridiculous dream , and it does n't occur to you that we are all mad , you and I and all our people ? ’ |
| 4 | And it does n't appeal to me but I know that I should do it . |
| 5 | ‘ Does n't look right to me , and it does n't seem to be getting any nearer . ’ |
| 6 | Looking at things squarely , I should say that most of the £5 million you have advanced to Ingard will have to be written off — and it does n't seem to me to make much difference to the bank whether this becomes open knowledge now , or in a week or so . |
| 7 | ‘ We never saw anything he videoed on it and it does n't seem to be here . |
| 8 | And it does n't seem to be happening . |
| 9 | You audit a job and it does n't conform to procedures , , there are procedures to deal with it , it 's probably for a major change to that . |
| 10 | Whatever one may think of Sex , Lies and Videotape — — and it does n't have to be much — it does at least address the question of the gaze and of masculine sexuality . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm pleased , ’ says Richard , ‘ that we 've proved that you can come out with a silly record and it does n't have to be your only silly record . |
| 12 | There 's coffee if you 'd like it , and it does n't have to be totally harmless , if you prefer something a bit stronger ? ’ |
| 13 | Can be cost-effective , but only when there 's a genuine rationale and it does n't have to be bureaucratic . ’ |
| 14 | And it does n't have to be a weekly commitment . ’ |
| 15 | The requirement for such pleasures is a matter of time and place , and it does not have to be Friday , Berlin or Strasburg , New York or San Francisco . |
| 16 | The other type of assessment may comply with schedule 2 to the original environmental impact assessment directive from the European Community and it does not have to be referred to the appropriate regulatory agency . |
| 17 | This is the closest the British pension system has got to earnings sharing between spouses , and it does not apply to men and women whose marriages end in divorce . |
| 18 | I had never heard of otter hunting and it did n't occur to me that there might be such a sport . |
| 19 | I found out next morning that his boat was in Halfway House , but when I first saw him I had no idea he was a Moila man , and it did n't occur to me that he would know the mooring there . |
| 20 | ‘ The rest of the field could n't compete , and it did n't occur to us that MacQuillan was utterly cynical and making pledges he meant to disregard , ’ he said . |
| 21 | He 'd come round and it had been so nice , and we seemed to be so comfortable with each other , not just in bed you know , and it did n't occur to me we would n't do things together and see each other . |
| 22 | ‘ And it did n't occur to you that I might have been referring to you ? ’ |
| 23 | I 'd heard all about Group from Rosemary and it did n't seem to be my sort of place . |
| 24 | Jim and Jonathan had been away , picketing and pamphleteering in Reading , had simply been not available , and Jo 's squat had been suddenly repossessed and it did not occur to any of the women that the boys would mind . |
| 25 | Neither of them possessed a credit card , and it did not occur to them to offer a cheque . |
| 26 | Without taking those concerns seriously — and it did not seem to — the West stood little chance of persuading ( or even bullying ) them rapidly to give their nuclear weapons up . |
| 27 | It was in fact the first time she had thought of such a thing , and it did not seem to be a very good idea , but nothing irritated her more than being addressed in that Listen With Mother voice ( particularly as her daughter-in-law spoke to her children quite normally ) and it goaded her to contrariness . |
| 28 | That Asian children are teased about their food may not seem very important in itself , but it does rather lead to the thought — if people eat food which is thought of as disgusting and unclean what are these people like ? |
| 29 | But it does not feel to them like real work and there is no financial reward and rarely any specific long-term achievable objectives which can be shared with others . |
| 30 | The government wants to tighten immigration controls , but it does not want to be seen as anti-Semitic . |