Example sentences of "[vb infin] it [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A freshly bought loaf , still warm from the oven , smells and tastes delicious — but we would not expect it to taste good a week later . |
| 2 | This is a bold manifesto and the APB will expect it to receive careful criticism from all interested parties . |
| 3 | Do n't expect it to do all the fancy layout stuff that PageMaker can handle but look at it as a tool for creating automatic invoices , business forms , price lists and so on . |
| 4 | We do n't expect it to cause any problems , and we will still be meeting him for talks some time over the next couple of days . ’ |
| 5 | He 'd have to judge the force of the blow very carefully and you 'd expect it to leave more than a slight bump . ’ |
| 6 | Director of OEM and technology licensing for IBM 's advanced workstations and systems division , Lucian Bifano said ‘ Since the [ PowerPC ] agreement with Motorola and Apple 18 months ago , we speculated on who would be the first to market with a product ; we certainly did not expect it to come four months after our October announcement of the first silicon ’ . |
| 7 | But do n't expect it to cost any more by law a midwife must attend your birth and this will be provided by the NHS . |
| 8 | Not that Eliot harboured any illusions about the efficacy of his work — although Notes … was selling well , he did not expect it to have much influence . |
| 9 | I mean it 's just I would n't like it to go any |
| 10 | I 'd like it to stay that way , do you hear ? |
| 11 | Being medieval , she thought it was unsuitable for the church to be visibly glittering , but , if the pews and the brass were n't polished , it quickly looked sad and Anna did not like it to look sad . |
| 12 | You can use it to shoot heavy balls of metal from large guns . |
| 13 | You can also use it to make brief notes/ reminders and for keeping essential telephone numbers . |
| 14 | Mobile users can only use it to make outgoing calls , and must be near one of the 8,000-plus Rabbit base stations dotted across the country . |
| 15 | Other measures would involve more combined heat and power ( CHP ) stations , which , instead of discharging into the atmosphere the 60–70 per cent of the primary energy input which ends up as waste heat , would use it to provide hot water and heating in homes and commercial and industrial buildings ; and , of course , a switch from coal — which produces more carbon dioxide per ton than any other fuel — to nuclear , gas , oil and ‘ renewables ’ such as windfalls and tidal barrages . |
| 16 | You can use it to run all your ordinary software , just like any other notebook ( it 's a bit expensive , but the price will come down ) . |
| 17 | Silicon Graphics will buy a 15% equity stake in Tata Elxsi on undisclosed terms and will license it to manufacture more of its RISC-based servers and graphics workstations in India . |
| 18 | The ministry source noted several possible scenarios , from the sale of individual divisions of Bull , which would enable it to eliminate unprofitable activities , to the taking on board of new investors , to the complete dismantling of the French computer maker . |
| 19 | Its biggest hit , the Discovery , is now available as an automatic , a fact that should enable it to tap further new business . |
| 20 | Demand for the service is 25pc higher than expected and the company has bought a new aircraft which will enable it to run extra flights . |
| 21 | British Telecommunications Plc confirmed plans to apply this week to the US Federal Communications Commission for a licence to resell international private lines and to offer switched services that will enable it to provide international virtual networks to large firms — but approval depends on further negotiation between the US and UK . |
| 22 | At the Federal level there is an Office of the Co-ordination of Soil and Water Conservation , but it has a tiny staff and its position within the Ministry of Agriculture does not enable it to have much influence on land-use decisions . |
| 23 | North Korea was also believed to be constructing a nuclear reprocessing plant which would enable it to extract unused plutonium and uranium by-products from spent nuclear fuel rods . |
| 24 | At the summit meeting last month between Bill Clinton and Japan 's prime minister , Kiichi Miyazawa , America insisted that Japan should come up with specific measures that would enable it to meet new import targets . |
| 25 | The PLA won enough seats to give it a two-thirds majority in the 250-member People 's Assembly , which would enable it to make constitutional changes without the support of other parties . |
| 26 | The company believes the strength of its Rosemary brand , plus the ‘ state-of-the-art ’ technology installed at its new Bedworth plant , will enable it to achieve this aim . |
| 27 | Sarcasm does not become you , dear readers , but I will permit it to enter these columns on just this one occasion . |
| 28 | If peat is used , it will grow quite tall while clay will induce it to grow compact with tougher stalks and fairly brittle leaves . |
| 29 | I would hate it to get larger , but it could not be smaller because it is a specific professional education and training . |
| 30 | By cutting the stems back hard , you will encourage it to produce new shoots from low down . |