Example sentences of "[pron] it [verb] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Ministry of the Interior , anxious about the security implications of labour unrest , experimented from 1901–3 with police-run labour organizations through which it hoped to direct working-class energy from political towards purely economic and cultural aims .
2 Novell Japan already claims 500 registered outlets to which it plans to add some more dealers with Unix experience .
3 The Trotskyist movement reflected the traditions of the pre-Revolutionary Russian Socialist groups , from which it seemed to draw much of its inspiration and terminology .
4 It is presently working on a Pentium-upgradable board for its Expresso line of personal computers which it intends to have ready by the summer .
5 A complainant should establish with the Commission in advance whether it objects to disclosure of its complaint and the complainant should always be clear in advance as to any information which it wishes to remain confidential .
6 In the discount market the Bank of England takes advantage of day-to-day flows of funds between the public and private sectors to indicate the way in which it wishes to see short-term interest rates move .
7 The company remains committed to worldwide annual spending of about $5 billion in 1993 and 1994 on projects which it expects to yield good returns in future , even if present lacklustre oil market conditions persist .
8 And Oracle is already talking about Oracle 8 , which it expects to add object-oriented extensions to SQL and due to be announced in December of next year .
9 And therefore , it takes one element and er it it erm it it seeks to highlight that particular element .
10 They will pay whatever it takes to get Scots crayfish and Dublin Bay prawns into the shops and restaurants in beautiful condition , when no one back home can be bothered .
11 ‘ You may be prepared to do whatever it takes to get this house , but I 'm prepared to do whatever 's necessary to ensure that Thomas remains in my care . ’
12 Sir Keith Joseph echoed the view of his predecessors and successors when he declared in 1984 , " History , properly taught , justifies its place in the curriculum by what it does to prepare all pupils for the responsibilities of citizenship . "
13 ‘ Lee and Ian have shown they have what it takes to earn first-year professional terms and I 'm delighted they 've agreed to join us .
14 I 'll give you a fair fight if that 's what it takes to cool that hot head of yours . ’
15 I want to be a rich young man , if wealth is what it takes to buy this feeling ; a young lord leaving the city after a night of riot …
16 And although this particular episode in the end solved no major scientific problem , it serves a crucial role in bringing to light the many aspects of what science is all about and what it means to do good science .
17 Oh I was in repudiation of my contract well I du n no what what it means to repude some things , you know I jumped to get a dictionary and found out , but I really do n't know what my contract was because I do n't think we ever had any .
18 But this silliness does not derive from what I claimed about what it means to have successful thoughts : it derives from our habit of regarding individual thoughts as if they were like sentences .
19 As the reorganised schools began to settle and establish themselves it began to become apparent that the curriculum , the vehicle for educational progress , needed to be reorganised also .
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