Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The designation warrior family ( shizoku ) was no more than an indication of family origins although it continued to have social prestige . |
| 2 | This was welcomed by American businessmen , although it helped to disrupt international trade as other countries retaliated by raising their duties . |
| 3 | As the lifting kite is going to be large enough to carry the weight of line , carrier and passenger(s) , there will be quite a pull , so it pays to use good quality braided Dacron of adequate breaking strain . |
| 4 | Building reusable code can take more time initially , so it has to make good business sense to invest the extra time on a particular object . |
| 5 | As a vanguard , in spite of one or two sensational assassinations , it was not going to get very far unless and until it managed to co-ordinate widespread resistance to the French . |
| 6 | The security aspect was obviously serious : how could the Comrade 's convoy of cars approach the planned government buildings at its usual high speed , if it had to turn sharp corners ? |
| 7 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton MP , Scottish Office environment minister , said it would be ‘ additional ’ to the public road building programme and could start by 1992 or 1993 — against a delay until the next century if it had to await public funding . |
| 8 | The merchant bank or broker will charge a commission for procuring the subscribers and may agree to subscribe itself for the balance if it fails to procure sufficient interest from its clients . |
| 9 | Either it must achieve the reductions it agreed to by using technological means to remove the sulphur from domestic coal , or , if it chooses to see low-sulphur coal being imported , or gas burned in power stations , it must endure reductions in emissions closer to those agreed by West Germany , the Netherlands , France , Belgium and Denmark . ’ |
| 10 | Sex education in schools may therefore have most impact if it aims to discourage helpless attitudes , by emphasising to young people that they are in control of their own lives , encouraging them to see themselves as active rather than passive , and in discussing what they might do in the event of an unwanted pregnancy . |
| 11 | He added that if Strathclyde PTE did not continue to have the power to assemble a package of services which involved busy services cross-subsidising off-peak ones , the council would have to spend much more money if it wanted to maintain off-peak services . |
| 12 | The appeal for tolerance by gesturing to lists of Famously Artistic Homosexuals is one of the classic tropes of gay self-justification — it goes ‘ Sappho , Michaelangelo , Shakespeare … and me ’ — and it needs always to be resisted because it seeks to extend contemporary definitions of sexuality back to incorporate historical periods when categorizations of the sexual were quite different . |
| 13 | Considering that NFS version 3 , which was a major re-do , is sitting on a shelf somewhere collecting dust because it failed to garner popular support , there will probably be some reluctance to call this puppy by the same name . |
| 14 | There were times when her preoccupation with ‘ basket power ’ , with the sovereignty of the consumer seemed part of a conception of political change that was both reformist and restricted , not least because it failed to challenge domestic discourses of women 's roles ; but such attention has to be seen in the context of a commitment to conceptions of political radicalisation based on personal development . |
| 15 | For them , the survey embodied the scientific method because it sought to make basic observations of the phenomena of interest and out of this formulate generalisations . |
| 16 | Even this better-than-expected showing , however , does n't do that much for Sun 's margins because it had to promise free MP upgrades . |
| 17 | To some types of mind work at the Chancery Bar appears dull and repellent , because it tends to lack human interest . |
| 18 | I do not advocate using a glossy varnish , because it tends to give false readings as you try to shot the float down . |
| 19 | Many comments contended that LIFO is conceptually flawed because it fails to assign current costs to inventories held and so distorts the balance sheet . |
| 20 | It is functional because it serves to integrate various groups in society . |
| 21 | It takes a variety of forms and has long bewildered scientists and philosophers because it appears to lack biological purpose . |
| 22 | Control of spending was crucial to the government 's strategy because it wanted to cut governmental borrowing and taxes . |
| 23 | Charles Kingsley and his associates saw the question , Cole records , as a moral issue ; and valued Consumers , Co-operation only because it helped to provide retail outlets for producers ' co-operatives . |
| 24 | Any culture , because it has to retain traditional customs and beliefs , has to be in a sense a conservative institution . |
| 25 | While it served to reconcile warring elements in the Conservative party , in the other parties it prevented any such reconciliation . |
| 26 | And much as I coveted a wonderful watercolour by Albert that I came across in an Alice Springs gallery for 4,000 dollars I was even more taken with the traditional native art , particularly since it seemed to offer useful hints about a problem I had of seeing the outback in ways other than through the window-on-the-world vision that developed in Renaissance Italy . |
| 27 | One unnamed area was criticised after it appeared to have industrial dereliction and sad , downcast people . |
| 28 | Should the British Gas Corporation be attempting to boost its share of the UK energy market when it plans to import high cost foreign gas in order to achieve it ? |
| 29 | When it failed to attract substantial readers , it faced a financial crisis which forced it to curtail some of its journalistic efforts . |
| 30 | Therefore we have a control mechanism to bring down blood-sugar level when it begins to reach unhealthy peaks . |