Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [to-vb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has to take up private time — and at home . |
| 2 | The government has made it known it wants to shake up local administrations by combining all their services under single authorities . |
| 3 | One of the stores targeted by FoE , the B&Q chain , has announced it intends to phase out all imports of unsustainably-produced tropical timber by 1995 — the target date set by the World Wide Fund for Nature . |
| 4 | The sheer volume of the many assessments externally required by the Act and now under design by SEAC runs the danger of forcing the less confident teachers — indeed all of them in the first instance , as they ascend the steep learning curve — into ‘ rote teaching ’ , a much more dangerous activity than rote learning because it tends to shut down that sense of intellectual curiosity without which children are not really being taught . |
| 5 | Even when psychology recognizes gender differences between psychologists , it tends to pass over other differences . |
| 6 | Depending on how they feel the first time , they may carry on if they enjoy it or if it seems to block out other worries and problems . |
| 7 | It helps to carry out this activity in a group but individuals can use the method with equal success . |
| 8 | It takes twenty times as much energy to make new aluminium as it does to melt down recycled aluminium , four times as much energy to make new steel as recycled , almost twice as much to create new paper and half as much again to make new glass . |
| 9 | If , as its Members will , it seeks to bring about such change , it must rely upon other agencies if it is to shift the location of so much as a single molecule . |