Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The application of microelectronics to regulate the use of energy is , likewise , being depicted by this country 's government as a manifestation of progress since it involves harnessing advanced technology to promote efficient consumption . |
| 2 | It has reached definitive agreement to purchase Boston Five and its subsidiaries for approximately US $95 million . |
| 3 | It has reached definitive agreement to acquire the company outright , paying $17.25m for the other 89% . |
| 4 | It has reached definitive agreement to acquire the company outright , paying $17.25m for the other 89% . |
| 5 | It has become standard practice to picture the two cultures as standing in the most acute opposition at that time . |
| 6 | It has become common form to invoke the magic names of the French theorists , as if the names alone would cause a torpid academic establishment to collapse . |
| 7 | However , it has become common practice to say that if the terms of the draft are approved , then the top copy should be retained and used as an engrossment for the purposes of signature . |
| 8 | Unfortunately this latter function is very difficult to generate using simple analogue circuits , So it has become common practice to approximate the velocity profile by linear ramp functions [ Figs. 8.8 ( b , c ) ] . |
| 9 | London has come to be my second home , but it has taken some time to get used to it . |
| 10 | The council is the plaintiff , but it has brought this action to protect the interests of the residents . |
| 11 | Enabling technologies include the Bull Product Data Management System , which it says applies concurrent engineering to cut down design-to-manufacturing time and reduce costs , and ‘ integration enablers ’ , which Bull says connect two or more manufacturing applications ‘ without the time and cost of customized development ’ . |
| 12 | The independence of the pro-nuclear experts having been challenged , the DUC decided it needed to mobilize outside expertise to back up its position . |
| 13 | It aims to use scientific method to understand the fundamental processes of biology , agriculture , the environment and economics and to apply this understanding to the sustainable management of the world 's biological resources , including the provision of food , fibre , energy and natural products , for the benefit of man while at the same time developing methods to limit , control or eliminate conflicts of interest between the welfare of mankind and the well-being of animals , plants and the environment . |
| 14 | When the EC wanted to ratify the Basle convention , it decided to extend that principle to trade by EC members with non-OECD countries . |
| 15 | It did show excellent character to bounce back from the start … one plus point from the first half . |
| 16 | Before Morris introduced this type of maze , it had become common practice to study spatial learning in a more conventional version of the same task , in which rats are placed in various forms of radial mazes with four , six or eight arms , and must learn to run to a goal box containing food or water at the end of one of the arms . |
| 17 | But he desired the little glass key , because he was a craftsman , and could see that it had taken masterly skill to blow all these delicate wards and barrel , and because he did not have any idea about what it was or might do , and curiosity is a great power in men 's lives . |
| 18 | It had taken some labour to restore : a gang of builders had spent months ripping down hardboard partitions , taking out gas meters , attempting to rescue old parquet flooring , refitting windows , stripping paint from tiles . |
| 19 | It had taken some time to reach a decision , but eventually they had come across to check their bonds were in place , and then had gone off . |
| 20 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 21 | Nevertheless it does show considerable misjudgement to make films that had little to do with popular taste at a time when it was so difficult for British filmmakers to find an audience . |
| 22 | It does offer some opportunity to counteract the disadvantage many older people experience in access to health services , and in the reluctance of doctors to make home visits . |
| 23 | However , it does take more effort to push or pull a garden cart , and it can be more difficult to manoeuvre than single wheeled barrows . |
| 24 | While this evidence does not necessarily imply that children will always cope with empirical and intentional explanations in the classroom , it does imply that failure to do so is likely to be due to factors other than children lacking an understanding of causality , of intentionality , or of the causal connectives . |
| 25 | it 's got a green card in it and it 's got enough stuff to last you until |
| 26 | His Highnesse the Prince of Orange ( whom it hath pleased Almighty God to make the glorious Instrument of delivering this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power ) Did ( by the advice of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and divers principall persons of the Commons ) Cause Letters to be written to the Lords Spirituall and Temporall being Protestants and other Letters to the several Count yes Citties Universities Burroughs and Cinqe Ports for the chuseing of such persons to represent them as were of right to be sent to Parliament to meet and sitt at Westminster upon the two and twentieth day of January in this Year 1688 in order to such an establishment as that their Religion Lawes and Libertyes might not againe be in danger of being subverted . |