Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb -s] [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | I do not advocate using a glossy varnish , because it tends to give false readings as you try to shot the float down . |
4 | Many comments contended that LIFO is conceptually flawed because it fails to assign current costs to inventories held and so distorts the balance sheet . |
5 | It is functional because it serves to integrate various groups in society . |
6 | Any culture , because it has to retain traditional customs and beliefs , has to be in a sense a conservative institution . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Therefore we have a control mechanism to bring down blood-sugar level when it begins to reach unhealthy peaks . |
9 | Drink up : Euro Disney has begun to serve alcohol for the first time at four of its restaurants as it seeks to stem heavy losses from weak attendance . |