Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | If you do end it should go down to the end . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | He says it 'll go back to the Conservatives at the next election . |
| 5 | It 'll come down to the same thing . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If it could bring its cost-effectiveness nearer the average , it could recruit up to the establishment that the Home Secretary has recommended . ’ |
| 8 | Any intelligent word processor you could type M and it would whiz down to the March . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Share your thought with the class — if , ha ha , it will bear up to the glaring light of day . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But it will go back to the same position as that ? |
| 20 | And it will go either it will come up to the surface itself or it 'll just disappear . |
| 21 | Hopefully it can carry through to the end of the season . ’ |
| 22 | A spokesman said : ‘ The problem with heavy rainfall and flash floods is that a lot of it runs away before it can soak through to the underground aquifers . ’ |
| 23 | But clearly the it forms two purposes , one is to remove the er the through traffic but also it it forms a purpose of redistribution of the traffic such that er there are er benefits er of getting er traffic off the A sixty one which for example is headed for the for the northern part of Harrogate and that that can come in from the South , it can go up to the A fifty nine and then come back into the northern part of Harrogate without having to pass through the centre of Harrogate . |