Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adj] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company is claiming it offers five to six times the performance of a 66MHz 486DX , and is fully PC-compatible , meaning you can run your shareware utilities on it . |
| 2 | According to 3Com , router administration is reduced through its Boundary Routing System Architecture — it says five to 10 times more remote site connections can be added without adding resources , complexity or risk — and Cascade 's switching technologies are said to produce cost-effective wide area network backbones that are easily managed . |
| 3 | It reaches 3 to 5 m |
| 4 | 9.2 Subject hereto and same insofar as any defect or error in any technical information shall give rise to any liability on the part of any Party to the Secretary of State for repayment of Grant or otherwise pursuant to an IEATP Offer of Grant each Party shall be under no further obligation or liability in respect of any technical information which it furnishes pursuant to this Agreement and no Warranty , Condition or Representation of any kind is made , given or to be implied as to its sufficiency , accuracy , or fitness for purpose , or freedom from infringement of patents or other Intellectual Property Rights and the receiving Party shall in each case be entirely responsible for the use to which it puts the same . |
| 5 | Water condition : Indifferent to water hardness ; it requires neutral to alkaline conditions . |
| 6 | That 's probably why it takes fifteen to eighteen months to get a a result . |
| 7 | From the olive-branch , modern languages have derived a synonym for ‘ peace ’ ; the reason is that the olive is the product par excellence of peaceful cultivation , because it takes fifteen to twenty years to mature , and the destruction of olives was always the first task of an invading army . |
| 8 | The trustees and the directors say that it takes two to three years to get the feel of the responsibilities — those responsibilities are considerably greater these days — and to work one 's way in and become able to contribute fully . |
| 9 | Leopards still die for their skins and it takes five to seven leopards to provide the material for one fur coat ! |
| 10 | The dt route suddenly appeared to be promising , though there is still a long way to go as it takes 20 to 40 times this to make a muon in a particle accelerator . |
| 11 | It takes three to five years for a new plantation to bear a crop , but , with care , the vines will last indefinitely — some bogs are more than 100 years old . |
| 12 | Costing $50,000 to $75,000 , it takes seven to eight weeks to complete . |
| 13 | Although it seems contrary to all logic … ’ |
| 14 | Some might think this a rather idiosyncratic approach to a primarily theoretical topic , but it seems appropriate to this book . |
| 15 | In his poem it seems related to modern city life by both ‘ interpenetration and metamorphosis ’ . |
| 16 | At the moment the synthetic wood is two to three times more expensive than natural wood , but Collins and Aikman believes that the product can nevertheless be competitive because of the savings on incineration or dumping costs and because it lasts three to five times longer than wood . |
| 17 | You will probably not have to lift your dog up frequently , but it is important that it becomes used to this experience . |
| 18 | As a routine measure , you should open your dog 's mouth each week , so that it becomes used to this procedure . |
| 19 | It becomes essential to vectorial movement through any uniform fluid . |
| 20 | It becomes open to rational criticism , and to historical and other empirical checks , in ways which do not happen within the closed system of a community of fellow-believers . |
| 21 | At first it was not entirely clear where the word ‘ Hooligan ’ had sprung from — and it remains unclear to this day — or exactly what it meant , other than some kind of novel reference to street violence and ruffianism . |
| 22 | While it remains unclear to this reader exactly what moral or spiritual relations are set forth in the three stories which comprise the titular parables , Proofs , the main part of the present volume , concerns itself with how the collapse of communism threatens the whole Western intellectual tradition of idealism and asceticism . |
| 23 | It promises three to four times the performance of an AS/400 E90 . |
| 24 | It migrates first to unexploited areas and chomps the abundant low quality stems before moving on . |