Example sentences of "it [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court ruling comes at a sensitive time for the Japanese government , which is claiming a lead role in environmental affairs , and has strenuously denied that it encourages its hazardous industries to relocate to third world countries . |
| 2 | BORLAND International said yesterday it expected its second-quarter results to beat analysts ' expectations after buoyant sales of Paradox , the US software company 's database product . |
| 3 | On Dec. 18 Bush instructed the department to reverse its decision on the grounds that it contradicted his stated intention to increase educational opportunities for minorities . |
| 4 | As attractive as the 900 T16S is , it owes its seductive lines to function rather than fashion . |
| 5 | The centre has already placed 50 or 60 people here or abroad but it has its own problems to overcome : there are few , if any overseas versions of NISW as most of the work tends to be located in the ministries of health or welfare . |
| 6 | The other week it cost me fifty quid to go to the , to get it tuned you know ? |
| 7 | You had to enter them as foals , and then when you entered them it cost you fifty pounds to enter them , and it cost you fifty pounds for every quarter of that lifetime of that foal . |
| 8 | We spent a short time discussing how Sylvia now felt about that long-ago event and whether it caused her any distress to think about it . |
| 9 | It tool him several minutes to make a hole only two to three feet deep . |
| 10 | so I said but I 'm not disappointed but she said just listen to what I 've got to say , she said , erm , because anybody else that 's failed we 've just said I 'm sorry we ca n't have you , but she said with you , we all feel that you 've got so much to offer she said I 'm gon na offer you a relief post which means that you can go into other people 's ho er other homes , all around , all different hospitals if somebody 's short , they can call on you and I said could it be a full time job , will it give me enough money to say that I 'm working ? |
| 11 | The fact that we are doctors , priests , social workers will not necessarily be of any advantage to us , nor does it give us any right to expect intimate revelations . |
| 12 | The ORIGINAL DRAWING section is similar in principle to a charting device in that it allows you total freedom to create a diagram of any shape that you want and to knit that shape using the yarn , stitch pattern and tension of your choice . |
| 13 | So powerful did the Association feel itself to be that it declined to amalgamate into a nationally representative Shipping Federation which came into being in September 1890 , though it allowed its individual members to join if they wished and developed a working arrangement with it.Indeed the separatism of the Mersey shipowners lasted until 1967 when they eventually merged into a British Shipping Federation , though not under the title " Employers ' Labour Association " . |
| 14 | ‘ It takes me two hours to write a song . |
| 15 | It takes me many minutes to sort it out , as each released dog shows marked enthusiasm for getting tangled up again . |
| 16 | She 's engaging brain it takes her some time to come out to the phone instruct the whole thing . |
| 17 | I can deliver to you next day , but it takes him ten days to get it here , what service does he need ? |
| 18 | I , when , when we go down to playschool I walk but because it takes what fifteen minutes to walk into town I put him in the pushchair |
| 19 | And it takes them twelve hours to do this job . |
| 20 | There the microscopic ovum was revealed and followed as it started its monthly journey to await possible fertilisation . |
| 21 | It tailors its therapeutic help to meet each child 's needs and brings together residential and field workers to smooth their path out of care . |
| 22 | Yet somehow it brought him more explaining to do . |
| 23 | It took me all day to convince my mother that there had been a change , but by the next afternoon I found myself flat on my back in the hospital again with injunctions not to move . |
| 24 | It took me two hours to paint out the damage that Sweetman had caused to our hull . |
| 25 | It took me two minutes to realise what a bunch of inaddo wimps the hacks who had managed to destroy the NME 's ridiculously high punk circulation were . |
| 26 | It took me two minutes to decide . |
| 27 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 28 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 29 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 30 | So er we were introduced and the first time he took me out er he proposed to me but it , it , it took me six months to make my mind up . |