Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time itself is finite — a government will not devote it to passing less desirable and more controversial laws when it has better things to do with its time . |
| 2 | A world transfixed by the horror in the Balkans is entitled to feel it has better things to worry about than what is not happening in the Middle East . |
| 3 | The rattlesnake is a more formidable enemy , because it has infra-red detectors to see in the dark and makes virtually no noise as it glides along . |
| 4 | It is hoped that this chapter will not be dismissed as an arid academic ground-clearing exercise , since it has important things to say about the most appropriate way to approach the subject of the book . |
| 5 | It helped fourth-century Christians to come to terms with the paradox that the privileged , wealthy , and powerful post-Constantinian church actually was also the church of the martyrs . |
| 6 | The solar wind carried its own magnetic field , and as this sweeps past it causes electrical currents to flow in the Moon . |
| 7 | It features patterned papers to buy by the sheet : 20in by 25in is £4.83 ( first quality ) , £2.41 ( second quality ) : or you can buy it made up into boxes , albums , desk sets , lampshades and photo mounts . |
| 8 | Actually , that is too great a relaxation , sinced it allows genetic values to range from minus infinity to plus infinity . |
| 9 | Although that has meant that not much can be done , in principle it is a good idea in that it forces underwater sites to compete with land sites for funding , and tends to keep the attention on the point that it is archaeology we are talking about . |
| 10 | It costs three pounds to join for two years , or five pounds to join for five years . |
| 11 | ‘ It takes real guts to carry off such a successful fraud . |
| 12 | Mm , yeah , It takes four hours to get to Lanzarote . |
| 13 | It is presumably used by species in which it takes two adults to provide for the young . |
| 14 | Mr Keith cited three examples of information on the map , prepared for the association , which he disputes : that it takes four-and-a-half hours to travel from his home town of Durness , in Sutherland , to Inverness ; that from Dunvegan , on Skye , to Inverness , via Portree , takes four hours 45 minutes , and that Inverness to Dalwhinnie takes one hour 25 minutes . |
| 15 | If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride . |
| 16 | But in the time it takes these children to ask for a drink of water an accomplice has slipped in the back and helped himself . |
| 17 | It takes forty minutes to walk from Dhang station to the farm along a road which starts as a stony track then turns to mud . |
| 18 | It urged all states to adhere to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) and called for more effective international controls and monitoring facilities to establish compliance with the treaty . |
| 19 | Expressing the conviction that the global eco-system would be best protected by turning Antarctica into a world park or nature reserve , it urged all states to cooperate with the UN and to support a ban on mining and prospecting . |
| 20 | It lost another 25-points to close at 2725.6 . |
| 21 | Against the dollar it lost 1.9 cents to finish at $1.5585 . |
| 22 | The GPS system made its public debut in the recent Gulf War when it enabled allied troops to navigate at night across hundreds of miles of desert to within a few metres . |
| 23 | stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that . |
| 24 | It took three hours to get in character every morning and another three to get out at night . ’ |
| 25 | It is , however , still very easy to pick up tufa from the latter on the coast of East Africa , to which it took 6 months to float across the Indian Ocean . |
| 26 | It took 21 days to get to Basra , through the Suez Canal , down the Red Sea ( that was not ) sharp left at Aden and up the Persian Gulf . |
| 27 | Morland has also issued new profit forecasts today showing that next year it expects pre-tax profits to rise by twenty-eight per cent . |
| 28 | Morland has also issued new profit forecasts today showing that next year it expects pre-tax profits to rise by twenty-eight per cent . |