Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this is no more than a metaphorical description , it nevertheless serves to give some idea of what these relations are like . |
| 2 | How does the bird manage to identify part of the scene as a fish , or as food , in the first place , and how is it thereupon led to take appropriate action ( that is , how does it know that it should dive , irrespective of how steep the dive should be ) ? |
| 3 | It is notable , however , that although titled nobles were very prominent in the highest ranks in the college it still had to make extensive use of commoners , since even in the 1750s it was impossible to find enough dvoryane ( members of the privileged landowning class ) with an adequate knowledge of foreign languages . |
| 4 | The auditor commended the council on sports improvements but said it still needed to address key issues such as staff cover at the swimming pool . |
| 5 | The biggest shock in the new round of cuts is that IBM 's forecasting last year was so abysmal that despite the fact that 40,000 people will have left by the end of the year where it was only counting on shedding 20,000 , it still has to make more cuts . |
| 6 | And however you decorate your spacious new room , it still tends to have that feel of two rooms made into one . |
| 7 | Yet the government survived until March 1979 because it always managed to win any vote of confidence . |
| 8 | On the subject of home improvements , why is it that whenever I attempt to carry out a simple repair job at home it always seems to cause big problems ? |
| 9 | It 's only a little shop and yet it always seems to have lovely decorations . |
| 10 | The NCDL has a nondestruction policy , which makes it different from other animal-rescue services : it always tries to find good homes for all dogs , and as such is the beneficiary of many legacies . |
| 11 | It also helps to clarify those areas of design which have been successfully computerized and those areas which have been neglected . |
| 12 | It also helps to leave one dose of flake in a twist of polyfoil ready for that feeding . |
| 13 | For a start it reduces the volume of waste which goes into landfill sites and it also helps to make better use of the Earth 's natural resources . |
| 14 | It also agreed to request international assistance for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Cambodia . |
| 15 | It also plans to privatise 21 state companies , including Air France and Renault . |
| 16 | It also hopes to procure similar licences elsewhere in Europe . |
| 17 | The politics of the situation probably means that it has to be sensitive to the traditional concerns of the governments themselves but it also has to provide strong arguments for deviations from generally accepted accounting principles for business . |
| 18 | It also has to have some mechanism by which the latent TL signal is zeroed that can be related to an archaeological or geological event of interest . |
| 19 | It also intends to monitor local authorities ' progress in fostering provision by private companies and voluntary agencies . |
| 20 | It also intends to develop greater object extensions using the Object Management Group 's Object Request Broker — to increase the interoperabilty and communication of objects between Oracle-based tools and foreign software . |
| 21 | The monitoring and evaluation completes the course of action for that year ; it also begins to produce fresh information on which to base action for the following years , and so the cycle can begin again . |
| 22 | It also aims to eliminate potential product overlap . |
| 23 | It also aims to consolidate recent work carried out to assess the potential for new rail services between Leicester and Burton ( Funded by Leicestershire County Council ) and Nottingham and Worksop ( Funded by Nottinghamshire County Council ) . |
| 24 | It also helped to construct married women and , by extension , all young women , as employees who were ‘ not interested ’ in pensions , their wages typically being construed as ‘ pin money ’ . |
| 25 | It also helped to keep condemned forms of sexuality alive by its perpetual writing and talking about them . |
| 26 | It also needs to study short strings within the text . |
| 27 | In the DOE it also tended to overburden top management , producing large amounts of detailed information about costs whilst ignoring both wider policy judgements ( which perhaps offer greater scope for savings ) and day-to-day political issues ( which usually preoccupy top civil servants and ministers ) . |
| 28 | The Slovak parliament on Nov. 15 passed a resolution approving its presidium 's position , but on Nov. 19 the Slovak government nevertheless voted by 12 to eight to accept the view that the treaty was a basis for discussion , rather than a legal document ; it also agreed to concede further powers to the common state . |
| 29 | It also intended to keep Scottish Pride , which processes and sells much of the milk . |
| 30 | The significance of this is that not merely does sight — particularly the excellent stereoscopic colour vision of the primates — require a developed cerebral cortex , but it also tends to mean progressive emancipation from the basic chemical and pheromonal control of behaviour seen in many mammals in which the sense of smell has retained its pristine importance . |