Example sentences of "it [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE LEITH Aged Mariners ' Fund asks members of the public and companies to send donations to enable it to continue its financial assistance to more than 100 former merchant seamen and their dependants . |
| 2 | She is too afraid of her reaction : ‘ To this day , it drives me crazy listening to her various hypotheses , the way religion and superstition all merge with her own beliefs . |
| 3 | ‘ It changed my whole attitude to racing . |
| 4 | It owes its unique status to the fact that the people who developed modern science and in many other ways created the modern world community had acknowledged the supremacy of gold since prehistoric times . |
| 5 | And at the same time , it owes its very existence to an alliance of social forces that sees government as the instrument of social domination — whether by a ruling class , a small party or tribal elite or a coalition of either with the bureaucracy of the state . |
| 6 | In Kepler 's construction of the solar system , each planet had its own melodic line associated with a changing speed that increased as it approached its closest point to the sun . |
| 7 | Auden 's influence on the young Britten was enormous : it shaped his whole attitude to the setting of words . |
| 8 | It owed its rapid expansion to its role as the chief supply centre for the growing metropolis of Edo , above all as the locus of sale and distribution of the rice income of the daimyo and their retainers . |
| 9 | It is therefore not unusual for junior nurses to feel that it takes them some time to " settle in " on a surgical ward . |
| 10 | While tying is not necessarily incompatible with the fundamental economic objectives of aid , it reduces its potential benefit to the extent that goods are over-priced , or that they are less appropriate — and sometimes much less appropriate — for the job . |
| 11 | It bowed its ruined head to its chest as if to inspect the squealing assailant now hanging from its buckled shoulder with frantic claws . |
| 12 | It charts her recent return to prominence and features her hits ‘ Nothing Has Been Proved ’ and ‘ In Private ’ along with interview footage . |
| 13 | It took me two hours to cha to teach him how to change a fuse an and erm w w was n't only how to change a fuse but the correct fuse for the the correct appliance like you know . |
| 14 | The reforms were designed to strengthen the government 's position before it presented its economic programme to the International Monetary Fund later in the month . |
| 15 | It was , understandably , the peace which was essential information for the descendants , for it influenced their present actions to some extent ; and the solemnities were intended to impose themselves on the memory of the participants and witnesses and their children . |
| 16 | She was doing all right as a nursing orderly in a geriatric hospital — one of her favourite ‘ legitimate ’ jobs as it gave her easy access to sleeping pills and downers . |
| 17 | It gave her added sensitivity to other people 's feelings . |
| 18 | And it gives me great pleasure to personally invite you and your guest , to spend a luxurious weekend on the Craigendarroch Country Estate , just a few miles from Balmoral in the heart of Royal Deeside . |
| 19 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
| 20 | It gives its own accent to the Ramsden classic without being at all effete or patronising . |
| 21 | er you should be able to display more confidence , I mean that 's what Mike suggested it gives you more confidence to be able to do this . |
| 22 | In so far as it explained his personal ideology to the French people , it may be regarded as the first speech of de Gaulle the politician , as opposed to de Gaulle the symbol . |
| 23 | In 1976 it was purchased by Phyllis and Keith who restored it , quite miraculously , from an almost derelict state to its present form in which it resembles its original appearance to an extraordinary degree . |