Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if money supply were £10 billion , and money as it passed from one person to another was spent on average eight times a year on national output , then total spending ( MV ) would be £80 billion a year . |
| 2 | A few hours later , it passed by seventy votes to twenty-three . |
| 3 | The Act provided no definition of a ‘ public place ’ , but it refers to any place to which the public have access , irrespective of whether or not they have a legal right to go there , even when there are particular and restricted rules of entry . |
| 4 | but then the bell does n't go till nine , although sometimes it goes at two minutes to nine and sometimes it goes at five past nine |
| 5 | And it goes at sixty revolutions to the minute . |
| 6 | Firstly , while it goes to great lengths to be friendly and avoid jargon , because it is an American book , you do need to be happy with US slang speech to enjoy it , and sometimes even to understand it , as in ‘ Obtuse code-word sorters divvy those ’ , ‘ Most DOS programs are text-based critters ’ , or ‘ To counter this bad trip , the Windows programmers created a communal work place where all the programs could groove together peacefully ’ . |
| 7 | Since the product bore her name , it became of paramount importance to her to maintain an image of which she approved . |
| 8 | Did it relate in some way to the fact that millions of years ago our gill-bearing ancestors crawled out of the pond , and ever since we have been paralysed by the thought of a return to it ? |
| 9 | Schering disclosed what it regarded as confidential information to Falkman and the expert for this purpose . |
| 10 | This is a life so transformed that it stands in utter contrast to the life which comes naturally to us as human beings . |
| 11 | Moreover , it stands in dazzling contrast to the sombre pessimism of most novels by white writers who seem to suffer what Alice Walker herself defines as a debilitating sense of ‘ cosmic guilt ’ and who have largely ceased to believe that literature can actually do anything . |
| 12 | It referred in that connection to paragraph 13 of the judgment in the Pesca Valentia case . |
| 13 | It referred in that connection to article 8 of the Convention of 1986 . |
| 14 | It referred in that connection to Ordre des Avocats au Barreau de Paris v. Klopp ( Case 107/83 ) [ 1984 ] E.C.R. 2971 and Commission of the European Communities v. Belgium . |
| 15 | It also stressed that the quotas constituted a derogation from the principle of non-discrimination on grounds of nationality , and it referred in that connection to the order of 10 October 1989 in Commission of the European Communities v. United Kingdom ( Case 246/89 R ) [ 1989 ] E.C.R. 3125 . |
| 16 | If it passes on lower costs to its customers in the form of lower prices it may be open to the accusation of behaving in a predatory fashion . |
| 17 | The agreement excluded the British and French nuclear arsenals , and it came as welcome news to advocates of nuclear disarmament , but ironically the INF treaty upset NATO planners and Europeans like Chancellor Kohl who feared , once again , that the agreement would harm the policy of an escalated response to any Soviet attack . |
| 18 | Yes , erm , on paragraph three erm , the , the last sentence erm , where it says without direct access to its own balances , the authority may therefore have to make revised precept in ninety four , ninety five erm , I understand what 's being said there , but any organization needs to actually work within er , a clearly defined budget . |
| 19 | Because this programme tried to do so much in limited time , it seemed to some observers to be somewhat thin or superficial . |
| 20 | It seemed at first sight to be a chaos of struggling men and horses , a wild mêlée ; but soon it became apparent to the newcomers that it was in fact more like a whirlpool of activity , with the ambushed English , above whom the royal standard wavered uncertainly , in the centre , whilst their more numerous attackers circled round them , smiting and thrusting but apparently making only moderate impact . |
| 21 | It graduated from simple swaps to new-fangled instruments , such as options on swaps . |
| 22 | They does microwaves and all over there You got It varies from one week to the next what they got . |
| 23 | But it ca n't fake it when it varies from one place to another . ’ |
| 24 | It calls for clear guidance to be ‘ issued urgently ’ by the DoH and , if necessary , legislation to ensure there are ‘ no inhibitions on the ability of social services departments and health authorities to make a full assessment of unmet needs ’ . |
| 25 | ’ It does not specify that it applies to all parties to the conflict , and is thus more ambiguous on this point than common Article 3 . |
| 26 | And except in one particular , it applies with equal force to nationalised industries . |
| 27 | Second , where there is a reference to time , for instance the past reference of former in ( 36 ) , it does not apply to the putative referent of the noun phrase , who still lives ; nor does it apply to the intensional entity , which is still available to any speaker of the sentence ; rather it applies in some way to the status of the property inherent in the noun ( king , in this example ) . |
| 28 | At the end of a quarter of a mile of rough track it seems on first sight to be a typically humble and remote farmhouse , with its low and unobtrusive policies almost growing around it . |
| 29 | Copiously furnished with crammed bookcases , shelves stacked with cassettes and 19th century lithographs tastefully dispersed across the walls , it seems at first glance to be a richly cultured environment . |
| 30 | It called for urgent steps to be taken to ensure impartial policing and demanded that the police enforce legislation to stop the carrying of spears and other " cultural " weapons by Inkatha supporters . |