Example sentences of "and it [verb] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Nigel : But 40 leading scientists do say that carbon dioxide is made in producing uranium and building the reactors , and power stations are not the main source of greenhouse gases anyway ; and nuclear programmes divert money from energy-saving programmes , and it takes six years to build a nuclear power station and you can save that amount of carbon dioxide in six months by saving energy . |
| 2 | The wax is on for about two minutes , and it takes two seconds to pull it off . |
| 3 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 4 | I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’ |
| 5 | In a ground loop there are very high inertia forces on the fin and it takes expert knowledge to detect quite serious damage in these areas , particularly with T-tailed types . |
| 6 | All these mistakes are only too easy to make , and it takes constant effort to keep oneself up to the mark . |
| 7 | Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds |
| 8 | As one would expect , the composition of precious metal artefacts has always been heavily influenced by economic factors and it became common practice to modify their value by alloying them with baser metals . |
| 9 | The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know . |
| 10 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 11 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 12 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 13 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 14 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 15 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 16 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 17 | Staff appeared not to care about the unavailable theses , and it took considerable effort to persuade them to check the whereabouts of the missing ones . |
| 18 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 19 | Nonetheless the principle of retirement pension was accepted from this point onwards , and it enabled older people to maintain their position as active partners in structures of kin support , at least in financial terms . |
| 20 | Its deliberations had been hurried , its request for evidence stressed the need for a brevity viewed by many as excessive and it lacked sufficient resources to produce a credible alternative to any Government proposals . |
| 21 | There is a sense in which standing is a preliminary question , separate from that of the substance and merits of the applicant 's case : standing rules determine entitlement to raise and argue the issue of illegality , and it makes little sense to say that entitlement to argue the merits of the case depends on whether one has a good case on the merits . |
| 22 | A person may belong to several different families during his life , and it makes little sense to regard him as changing identity on leaving or entering a nuclear family . |
| 23 | Skills that he wishes to rehearse with them may be part of the programme of another department also , and it makes good sense to have some consultation and perhaps co-ordination . |
| 24 | He says there are a number of ecological as well as economic reasons — it 's a longer , stronger tougher fibre — it makes a longer-lasting paper and it makes economic sense to grow the material in this country rather than importing it . |
| 25 | And it makes obvious sense to say that autonomous institutions are not necessarily homes of academic freedom . |