Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 Instead of banning corporal punishment outright , however , it sought merely to give effect to the Court 's ruling .
2 The Council rejected a mainframe bid from IBM Corp , even though it has previously supplied equipment to the organisation .
3 It has nevertheless given rise to such widespread misunderstanding in subsequent interpretations of his model that Keynes would have done better to exclude all discussion of money wage rigidity from the main body of the General Theory .
4 Instead of spending money on a media blitz , it sends carefully targeted mailings to social-events committees and retirement clubs , and to schools and colleges .
5 Mind , it do n't make sense to me , an 'andsome feller like 'im not 'aving no wife .
6 It did not make sense to her .
7 And it did not pass complaints to us , or our chairman Sir Bob Reid . ’
8 It did not do justice to the biblical doctrine of atonement .
9 They found this unsatisfactory because ‘ it did not direct attention to governmental manipulation of transnational relations … [ and they have ] grown progressively more interested in the interaction between governments and transnational society and in transnational coalitions among subunits of governments ’ ( Keohane and Nye , 1973 , p vjj ) .2
10 It did not sound human to me .
11 On Dec. 15 the Bissau government sent a protest note to the Senegalese authorities over the violation of its borders , reiterating that it did not provide support to the rebels .
12 It did n't make sense to me .
13 However , the following day , when the floorboards were removed to examine the beam , it was found to be so deeply cracked in two places that they ascribed the fact that it had not given way to a ‘ wonder of [ God 's ] providence ’ .
14 The report deeply angered Price Waterhouse because it had not given evidence to Senator Kerry 's subcommittee .
15 The number of boxes it shifted also increased 59% to 40,000 , accounting for 80% of total group turnover .
16 What he brought to the Card Trio was what the singers also brought , which is dramatic tension ; and yet its subtlety is such that it does not draw attention to itself , but simply contributes to the dramatic fabric of the whole .
17 When I was in the north-east , there was particular concern among business men whom I met because the north-east in particular has benefited greatly from Japanese investment and it does not want investors to be frightened off .
18 The selection of source material will limit the information which can be processed , and may introduce unnecessary overheads if it does not fit material to be processed well ( Sampson , 1989 ) .
19 Although Lakatos 's methodology embodies a definition of what progress in modern physics has consisted in , it does not offer guidance to those who aim to achieve such progress .
20 It has the advantage that it does not cause corrosion to galvanised cisterns , but is now more expensive than copper and harder to bend and to join .
21 It does n't matter tuppence to you whether I go off and have affairs with other people or not … ! ’
22 It does n't encourage people to be too careful , ’ he said .
23 Of course , if you can afford full double-glazing then you have no problems , and it does actually add value to a property , providing it is in a style sympathetic to the house itself .
24 It is a fascinating project and I believe that it does really bring art to millions of people . ’
25 It remains however to explore alternatives to that model in the context of the sections above , concerning the nature of educational change and the managerial and professional perspectives involved .
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