Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had not expected to find it necessary to leave the Cabinet . |
| 2 | She remembered , too , Canon Wheeler 's unexpected appearance at Ian 's attic office when he had perhaps expected to find it empty . |
| 3 | With 12 wins — nine inside the distance — in 13 fights , Wharton is on the right course and Carr can be expected to find it tougher this time . |
| 4 | The lines of his short-cropped ruthless hair were disturbed , as though he had forgotten to comb it that morning or else , having combed , had continually run his fingers through it since then . |
| 5 | Just the two of us … we 're the only ones who can be trusted to get it right . |
| 6 | But by the time he wrote ‘ The Quest of Erebor ’ ( perhaps around 1950 ) , Tolkien had come to think it undignified . |
| 7 | Although DCE does not provide any fundamentally new functionality — there is no single DCE component that has not already been implemented elsewhere — it integrates a set of highly complex functions in a way that is claimed to make it easy to develop and run distributed applications . |
| 8 | In the end , it turned out to be the Newtonian theory of gravity that had to be modified to make it compatible with the invariance properties of the Maxwell theory . |
| 9 | British Gas South West whose workmen has discovered a kerb side leak , they worked throughout the night in there to cut away the damaged pipe repaired to make it safe |
| 10 | The government is also expected to make it easier for foreign investors to take profits out of the country . |
| 11 | ‘ The time has come to make it clear that it is only where a taxpayer has established the existence of a profit-generating operation carried on by him outside Hong Kong that he can hope to escape the charge to profits tax imposed by section 14 . |
| 12 | However , he had come to make it clear that he wanted to continue the arrangement he 'd had with Kattina . |
| 13 | The qualification has been designed to make it possible for candidates to select modules which will give them the equivalent of at least three Highers in arts or social science areas . |
| 14 | The programme extends the company 's current vendor-recruitment efforts , and is designed to make it easy and profitable for the smaller vendors to support the HP-UX workstations . |
| 15 | Hewlett-Packard Co has teamed up with Ellery Systems Inc and scientists from the US environmental community to exploit the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment to create a computer-based system designed to make it easier and less costly to collect data about global environmental issues such as ozone depletion , deforestation and climate change . |
| 16 | Fibronics InterView/PowerMIB Toolkit is designed to make it easier to integrate new SNMP devices under Fibronics ' InterView Network Management System , by eliminating the need for code development . |
| 17 | As well providing a more comprehensive set of guidelines for specifying open systems than XPG3 , X/Open says the newly structured XPG4 is designed to make it easier for users to incorporate XPG requirements into their procurement policies . |
| 18 | The X/Open Group Co Ltd has missed its proposed May timeframe for rolling out XPG4 , the next version of its portability guide , which are a set of specifications designed to make it easier to develop open systems products , or to port proprietary offerings to open systems platforms . |
| 19 | The last few months have seen the launch of masses of small workgroup packages and E-mailing and scheduling programs , which are all designed to make it easier for people to chat to one another via their computers , |
| 20 | This is designed to make it easier for professionals to work in other member states . |
| 21 | This however is designed to make it clear that offer must not be made to those whose shares are subject to a restriction order under Part XV of the Act ; for the situation to which The Stock Exchange rule is directed , companies have to rely on the ‘ as nearly as practicable ’ in section 89 ( 1 ) , and Mutual Life Insurance of N. Y . |
| 22 | Equally importantly , these code provisions are designed to make it difficult for a detained person to make unfounded allegations against the police which might otherwise appear credible . |
| 23 | The recall instructions were specifically designed to make it difficult for subjects to use previous knowledge in the task and attempts were made to prevent them from mentally retracing the route , a strategy which several of them would otherwise have adopted . |
| 24 | First , is the procedure that the buyer has to go through to claim the remedy a proper one from an administrative point of view , or is it designed to make it difficult or impossible in practice for the buyer to invoke the clause ? |
| 25 | Previously there were many beginners ' boards available but most were supplied with a massive 6.5m 2 sail which stretched and distorted to make it unmanageable in more than a few knots of wind . |
| 26 | But when they brought him up into the higher reaches of the Warden 's Tower and shut him into his new prison he was stupefied to find it all they had claimed . |
| 27 | An attempt had been made to set it alight but no damage was caused . |
| 28 | And if the electronic sniffers or whatever they used to detect the presence of a nuclear mass gave a positive reading would the police want to evacuate the area before an attempt was made to render it harmless ? |
| 29 | In the best teams , this sort of thing rarely happens , but if it does , a collective effort is made to put it right . |
| 30 | Consequently in an SEC Commissioners document published in February 1986 the scheme was viewed positively , but owing to competing priorities , legislation was never framed to give it Congressional backing . |