Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can it be justified to send to prison people too poor to pay fines — and there are more such persons during times of economic crisis — not only when the original crime of which they were convicted did not warrant a prison sentence , but when their crime is trivial in the extreme in comparison with corporate crimes which we lack the political will to tackle directly by socialist remedies ? |
| 2 | " Well , it 's up to you of course , Mr Dakin , but this is the third time I 've had to stitch her teats and I 'm afraid it 's going to keep on happening . " |
| 3 | It does n't necessarily mean it 's going to work at front of house , so the sound man takes a direct feed , just a regular Marshall , dry , up to the house . |
| 4 | There now has to be more meetings to see how it 's going to work in practice . ’ |
| 5 | Integrated into the Optivity network management system , it 's claimed to allow for management of an entire network including Ethernet , Token Ring , FDDI and Asynchronous Transfer Mode technologies . |
| 6 | He can last for hours during the day without needing to go to the toilet , so I ca n't understand why it 's continuing to happen at night . |
| 7 | The automatic directions confirm that only those reports on which it is intended to rely at trial need be disclosed . |
| 8 | Define the market with which it is intended to communicate by region , by product or by any other segmentation method . |
| 9 | It is undertaken to help balance the power between the client and the agency whom it is hoped to influence for change . |
| 10 | The hundreds of millions of pounds it is poised to spend on science and technology at higher levels , including Britain 's IT industry , may be largely wasted if it does not . |
| 11 | Regional policy may not be a major strand of governmental intervention and in the short to medium term it is destined to decline in importance . |
| 12 | If Mr Parkinson agrees , BR would have to abandon the private Bill it is planning to introduce in Parliament next month , to build the link . |
| 13 | It is estimated to cost in excess of £20,000 to run a car like McHale 's Celica GT4 or the Subarus of Fisher and McKinstry on a rally as long and demanding as this year 's 1,200 mile Circuit — and that 's before the cars are put back together again after a five-day pounding on some of the toughest roads in Ireland . |
| 14 | ‘ An unconditional order in writing , addressed by one person* to another , signed by the person giving it , requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to , or to the order of , a specified person , or to order ’ . |
| 15 | For expositional reasons , we shall need to use the word utterance in various ways in this book , but where it is used to contrast with sentence it should be taken in the sense advocated by Bar-Hillel , as a sentence ( or sometimes string of sentences ) paired with a context . |
| 16 | No member of the family has to give up work before the allowance can be claimed and this extra income can sometimes enable a caring daughter to continue in her job if it is used to pay for help at home . |
| 17 | It is needed to burn off methane gas , which has been discovered seeping off a disused council tip . |
| 18 | The lungs are then able to extract more oxygen from the increased air supply and deliver it to the cells where it is needed to combine with food to produce energy . |
| 19 | It is programmed to take into account the driver 's wishes , the speed of the wheels and the speed of the engine . |
| 20 | He has dismissed warnings from the Office of Fine Arts that it is forbidden to deal in State property , quoting the former assistant secretary of state L. de Graaff , who in 1984 stated that the artists were free to do with these works as they wished . |
| 21 | In this chapter , it is proposed to consider in detail the radical legislation passed in Michigan , New South Wales and Canada , with a view to assessing whether it provides a better solution to the problem of rape than that envisaged by the Criminal Law Revision Committee in England . |
| 22 | Yeah the minutes of the meeting of the nineteenth of February nineteen ninety two , that 's an awful long time ago erm , and it is proposed to bring into force byelaws for district and parish council-owned land upon or as soon as possible after the first of April nineteen ninety two . |
| 23 | It is proposed to focus on insider dealing within financial conglomerates because of the probable extent of such trading , that is , the degree to which insider dealing probably occurs ; the damage it causes , both economically ( through the disruption of the efficient allocation of scarce economic resources ) , and socially ( through losses in public confidence in the operation of the financial markets ) ; and finally , the problem of detection ( self-evident from the low levels of prosecutions over recent years ) . |
| 24 | If a school is going to prepare a pupil for the ‘ opportunities and experiences of adult life ’ as it is required to do by section 1 of the Education Reform Act 1988 , it surely can not ignore his/her sex education . |
| 25 | Work is to start in October and it is expected to open in summer 1995 . |
| 26 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |
| 27 | The company says it is continuing to rely on cost-cutting and internal improvements to restore profits , rather than any upturn in demand for tyres . |
| 28 | In Gurtin in the Omagh area , where Riofinex has already caused huge disturbance to local people simply through its exploration activities and where it is proposing to stripmine for gold , there is strong opposition which stretches across the political spectrum from Sinn Fein to the Democratic Unionist Party . |
| 29 | Simplifying somewhat , we might say that a structural approach to language teaching lays emphasis on systemic knowledge and makes the assumption that once this is acquired the learners will discover for themselves how it is put to use in communication . |
| 30 | It was enabled to continue in office until May 1979 and in the recriminations of defeat the Conservative Party polarised into the Thatcher and Heath factions , the implications of which are still only partly worked out on the political scene . |