Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun] to [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Detecting water movements helps many insects of fast-flowing streams to maintain their position , and it alerts aquatic leeches to the approach of animals which might provide a meal of blood . |
2 | Between the river walk and the village rises a conical hillock known in the past as ‘ Cunnigar ’ or the ‘ Witches Hill ’ it offers good views to the north and is one of several Bronze Age earthworks along this stretch of the river . |
3 | Last month Rainbow Warrior II was seized by the French navy as it led another protest to the atoll . |
4 | It made closer links to the army and the semi-fascist Falange movement . |
5 | It made little difference to the coal industry which continued to serve both . |
6 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
7 | In the upshot the SEA , whilst it made some concessions to the political aspirations of the EP , was notable chiefly for its powerful commitment to the economic concept of completing the internal market . |
8 | Not that it made any difference to the dead . |
9 | It supposes complete access to the language meaning ( the range of interpretations of that element of the message ) and developed ability to convey the message meaning in the target language . |
10 | It is evident in the vitality of the arts — hardly a city in the country now lacks for an international festival — and it contributed last year to the remarkable election of Mary Robinson , only in her mid-40s and impatient with old ways , to the ( largely honorary ) post of president . |
11 | Yet it devoted more space to a rival attraction at the London School of Economics that same evening , Britain 's first teach-in ; the subject , the Vietnam War . |
12 | I have spoken to a number of engine conversion kit suppliers and the almost unanimous response has been ‘ ooooogh the 6 cyl , that 's a difficult conversion … it needs extensive mods to the bulkhead … or … the propshaft needs changing , the gearbox needs moving . |
13 | Representatives of the NAC met the Guild Council on 21 October and made it quite clear that the NAC could not continue to recognize the Guild as the youth section of the Party if it retained sympathetic affiliation to the Young Communist International . |
14 | The coat colour can be all white , blue , blue roan or pied and it owes this variety to the Shorthorn ; the ‘ blue ’ is the equivalent of the Shorthorn 's roan . |
15 | The following two clauses come from Lincoln CAB 's code of practice and it illustrates one approach to the demarcation of responsibilities within a psychiatric hospital : |
16 | For a police force still largely unarmed it highlights fierce opposition to the Sheahy proposals on police reform now before the Home Secretary . |
17 | The view that certain types of fiction occupy a mediatory position between the ‘ reality ’ of a cultural heritage and contemporary ‘ true ’ accounts of it elevates these texts to a status which the novel has not held for quite some time . |
18 | IDB Communications Group Inc reports that its IDB Worldcom unit , yesterday announced that it had signed a correspondent operating agreement with British Telecommunications Plc which allows it to provide international services to the UK ; IDB is in process of acquiring TRT , which took over the resale of capacity on the British Post Office 's phone network from National Networks Ltd . |
19 | It was described as Italianate , but it bore little relationship to the contemporary light Italianate villas of the United States and of English country houses . |
20 | It has rear access to a small but easily maintained rear sunny garden . |
21 | It has particular relevance to the timing restrictions on acquisitions of shares contained in Rule 5 of the City Code and to mandatory offers . |
22 | It has ready access to the coal pits of south Lancashire and North Wales , the limestone quarries of Derbyshire , and plentiful supplies of salt ‘ right beneath our feet . ’ |
23 | The Office is currently considering the establishment of a computer-readable data archive ( CRDA ) , and although it has few answers to the problems facing the world archival community in such matters , I hope that it is in the position to ask some interesting questions . |
24 | It has direct access to the sea , three swimming pools and a night club situated in a separate building in the gardens of the hotel . |
25 | It subjects experimental catalysts to the same conditions they would face in an industrial reactor , then to probing by FABMS . |
26 | Golf development will not normally be permitted if it causes unacceptable disruption to the public enjoyment of rights of way . |
27 | This carries two great dangers : It risks damaging the UN 's moral authority and reputation for impartiality if it is seen as the vehicle of superpower foreign policy ; it causes huge embarrassment to the UN when , because of its own priorities , the US is unable to help , and the UN is then confronted with the question why have you failed to act decisively in our crisis while you were willing to do so in the case of Iraq 's aggression ? |
28 | The rule that costs follow the event is important in negotiations because it adds another factor to the equation . |
29 | Although Shaker has become fashionable and ‘ Shaker style ’ furniture is appearing all over the place , very little of it bears much relation to the real thing . |
30 | In corridors and classrooms throughout the county it bears silent witness to the perception of the man who formed it , to his generous breadth of outlook and to his integrity . |