Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Office is currently considering the establishment of a computer-readable data archive ( CRDA ) , and although it has few answers to the problems facing the world archival community in such matters , I hope that it is in the position to ask some interesting questions . |
| 2 | This generous depth , combined with a full-scale neck , a heavily arched back and a lightly-strutted belly , means that the guitar packs a lot more punch than it has any right to — more than a Martin 0–16 New Yorker , I 'd say , although that 's only from memory . |
| 3 | On a modern system this may have been replaced by a safety device called a residual current device ( RCD ) , which turns off the supply if it detects current leaking to earth , and so protects the system and its users against the twin risks of fire and electric shock . |
| 4 | Such a gene could pay for itself if it motivated little girls to in fact compete with their brothers for what their brothers might otherwise er get uncontested . |
| 5 | As she hesitated , she glanced at the loose page to see if it offered any clue to its rightful position in the book . |
| 6 | I think if it makes any difference to you we 've got a thingy whirring away there . |
| 7 | Golf development will not normally be permitted if it causes unacceptable disruption to the public enjoyment of rights of way . |
| 8 | Now that allowance would be nice if it bore some relationship to what was allowed in the estimated er , figures . |
| 9 | Representatives of the NAC met the Guild Council on 21 October and made it quite clear that the NAC could not continue to recognize the Guild as the youth section of the Party if it retained sympathetic affiliation to the Young Communist International . |
| 10 | The borough argued that the leaflet was misleading because it omitted all references to the joint liability of spouses and cohabiting couples . |
| 11 | Speaking to the European Parliament ( EP ) after the summit Ruud Lubbers , Prime Minister of the Netherlands , said that the word federal had been dropped because it meant different things to different people . |
| 12 | The court office can not refuse to issue proceedings by the process requested by the plaintiff/applicant merely because it considers such process to be inappropriate ( Baker v Thatcher ( 1984 ) 134 NLJ 863 ) . |
| 13 | It is also a particularly useful structure because it allows further information to be stored at the nodes . |
| 14 | Throughout the Communist world , the videotape recorder was the greatest status symbol because it implied ready access to a constant supply of Western videotapes . |
| 15 | Literature is based on ‘ the very plurality of meanings ’ ( 1966 : 50 ) ; or , put in a slightly different way which nicely reverses an old critical saw , ‘ a work is ‘ eternal ’ , not because it imposes one meaning on different men , but because it suggests different meanings to one man' ( p.51 ) . |
| 16 | The rule that costs follow the event is important in negotiations because it adds another factor to the equation . |
| 17 | The Great Storm was a setback to woodland conservation because it drew public attention to trees and woods without adding to public understanding . |
| 18 | the situa , perhaps it 's worth outlining how Litchfield came to look at the new settlement option , because it has some relevance to York |
| 19 | In the upshot the SEA , whilst it made some concessions to the political aspirations of the EP , was notable chiefly for its powerful commitment to the economic concept of completing the internal market . |
| 20 | The firm has been deluged by applications for tickets after it offered two flights to Europe with every Hoover product bought worth more than £100 . |
| 21 | Part of the problem with encouraging girls to take ‘ useful ’ subjects is that we do not know whether it makes any difference to the kinds of jobs they eventually do ; and whether , indeed , these jobs would still be highly rated if women did them . |
| 22 | In fact , to refuse a parent 's request would not be a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights , even though it requires such convictions to be upheld . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , of course , ’ said Holly , as though it made any sense to her . |
| 24 | The Communist Party , though it gave full facilities to the People 's Vigilance Committee in the Daily Worker and Labour Monthly , continued to deny that the Convention was entirely inspired by the Party . |
| 25 | Last month Rainbow Warrior II was seized by the French navy as it led another protest to the atoll . |
| 26 | Wall-mounted spotlights are useful , but the ability to reposition the light slightly as well as alter the direction of the beam is especially desirable as it enables different features to be highlighted as the seasons change . |
| 27 | This victory was to delight the masses just as it brought little pleasure to the newly energized forces of the political left , but , just as significantly , it was now also an occasional delight to a growing audience drawn from amongst critics , intellectuals , and the more respectable classes generally . |
| 28 | Blocking will not usually increase the probability of having to read data from a given track , except insofar as it allows more records to be stored on that track . |
| 29 | On the clean sound , reverb really does make a difference , adding as it does greater depth to any guitar 's tone . |
| 30 | This is easier for us , for it presents less challenge to the habits of our mental and emotional processes . |