Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , it may take up to a week before your bank actually receives the money . |
| 2 | The debate on the Bill to bring back whipping was a thoroughly undignified affair in which the principles of the matter seemed to count less than considerations such as the size and weight of the flogging instrument to be used : calculations made necessary no less by the desire to limit the discretion of ‘ judges infected by maudlin sentimentality ’ , than by the requirement that it should measure up to the brutes who were ‘ so degraded , that they could only be deterred by forcible appeals to their fear of physical pain ’ . |
| 3 | If you do end it should go down to the end . |
| 4 | ‘ Those who argue that maybe we should just once more try to delay it must face up to the responsibility that they may , by their good intentions , create much more suffering than anything we have seen so far . |
| 5 | He says it 'll go back to the Conservatives at the next election . |
| 6 | It 'll come down to the same thing . ’ |
| 7 | With a top capacity of some 75 litres it 's large enough for a week 's backpacking , or even extended expedition use , although I do have some doubts as to whether it could stand up to the rigours of expedition life . |
| 8 | However , it could take up to a week before he can open his eyes . |
| 9 | If it could bring its cost-effectiveness nearer the average , it could recruit up to the establishment that the Home Secretary has recommended . ’ |
| 10 | Any intelligent word processor you could type M and it would whiz down to the March . |
| 11 | I took him around the garden and told him simply , in the hope that it would feed through to the Romanian government , that we were making the most enormous efforts to try to break this COCOM problem . |
| 12 | Democratic Russia itself , at a press conference on Sept. 10 , warned that it would go over to the opposition if economic reform programmes were watered down and the former nomenklatura were once more put in command . |
| 13 | But then it would go back to the usual music , the old pictures would go up again and it would be back to the black paintwork . |
| 14 | Now , if it was impossible for any reason for the next of kin , the oldest brother to do it , then it would go down to the second or on down the line , whoever was the nearest to become the kinsman redeemer . |
| 15 | There is an ugly lump on his right fist and Thornton does n't sound too confident when asked whether it would stand up to a hard fight . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought I would wear my thick coat because it might be cold waiting for the bus and it would stand up to the rain . |
| 17 | For you would see the jeep in front of you proceeding along the Egyptian highway in a very dignified manner , when all of a sudden it would swing in to the side of the road near a fruit-barrow , a large brown hand would shoot out , and a succulent water-melon would disappear as the jeep accelerated away again . |
| 18 | I knew that if I let it go it would collapse on to a teapot and mugs still waiting to be cleared from the sideboard , which would confuse the situation still further . |
| 19 | Right If we multiply that up it would come out to a half |
| 20 | Tomorrow 's top temperatures , 10 Celsius , 50 Fahrenheit , but it will drop off to a cool 7 celsius , 45 Fahrenheit , accompanied by quite a strong north westerly wind . |
| 21 | They 're also looking at some of the data integrity erm issues one of which is potentially quite a major problem and the new system will for any qualifying plans , once the new system is in , if a policy 's in arrears it will try and collect the arrears and it will collect up to a maximum of two premiums each month until the policy 's in force and up to date . |
| 22 | Mrs Thatcher called the move ‘ a major step in the right direction … we hope it will lead on to the release of Nelson Mandela and open the way for negotiations for a new constitution for South Africa ’ . |
| 23 | Share your thought with the class — if , ha ha , it will bear up to the glaring light of day . |
| 24 | According to one hypothesis ( p. 90–91 ) , the smell of its home stream is memorized by the young salmon , and when it grows up it will migrate back to the river that smells like its home stream . |
| 25 | If a horse is frightened , particularly a foal , it will rush back to the other horses or its dam for the psychological comfort of contact . |
| 26 | With a plastic top affixed to a metal base the ME6 looks and feels like it will stand up to a fair bit of punishment . |
| 27 | But it will go back to the same position as that ? |
| 28 | And it will go either it will come up to the surface itself or it 'll just disappear . |
| 29 | Like a sea-anemone it will close down to a blob if touched , and it feeds on small organisms which brush past its tentacles , by shooting out special poisonous threads to paralyse its victim , which can then be collected by the tentacles and drawn into the hydra 's mouth . |
| 30 | Hopefully it can carry through to the end of the season . ’ |