Example sentences of "[verb] it [verb] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has it become routine to stay at your desk till 6.30 pm. ? |
| 2 | The techs froze with shock for the two heartbeats it took Mitchell to turn the old man 's gun on them . |
| 3 | AT&T says it has plans to expand the service to nine European countries in 1994 and plans to invest $350m over five years to deliver the services but may spend less if it can form ventures . |
| 4 | The Magazine , Paris Match , says it has photographs to suggest that the publisher , Robert Maxwell , was beaten before his death . |
| 5 | She says it makes sense to go to France . |
| 6 | That is what the Labour party means when it says it wants councils to raise more of the money that they spend . |
| 7 | By a notice of appeal dated 6 September 1991 the solicitors appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) under section 6(2) of the Act of 1986 the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of section 3 of the Act to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell and ( b ) under section 61(1) of the Act the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of any rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell ; ( 2 ) the court had no jurisdiction under sections 6(2) and 61(1) to award claims for compensation for loss against persons knowingly concerned in such contraventions in contrast to sections 6(3) to ( 7 ) and sections 61(3) to ( 7 ) ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) the power of the court under section 6(2) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention to take such steps as the court might direct for restoring the parties to the transaction to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into and ( b ) the power of the court under section 61(1) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention of the rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to take such steps as the court might direct to remedy it included power to make a financial award against such person directing payment by that person to individual investors of sums equivalent to the amounts paid by such investors pursuant to the said transaction , neither subsection empowering the court to order restitution by the repayment of moneys outside the possession or control of the person concerned ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law ( a ) in his construction of sections 6(2) and 61(1) in failing to have regard to the principle ‘ generalibus specialia derogant , ’ in particular in holding that there could exist within each of sections 6 and 61 two parallel powers to order financial redress at the suit of the plaintiff , one derived from sections 6(3) and 6(4) and sections 61(3) and 61(4) respectively , which was subject to the limitations set out in those and subsequent subsections , and the other derived from section 6(2) and section 61(1) , which was subject to no such limitations ; ( b ) in rejecting the submission that sections 6 and 61 were essentially procedural and did not create new substantive legal rights and remedies ; and ( c ) in failing to have regard to the fact that the orders sought under paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim required payment to the plaintiff or alternatively into court of moneys recovered thereunder from the solicitors despite the absence of any provisions for such orders in the Act , his dismissal of the summons being inconsistent with his finding that there was no provision in sections 6(2) or 61(1) directing payment into court and that any order under the sections would have to direct repayment of the sum paid to each individual investor who had made the original payment . |
| 8 | Where nothing is written it takes time to create a document which is genuinely useful to many of us , both as a verification of our struggle and a signpost to future strategies for our art work . |
| 9 | Novell has said it expected Univel to do over $5m worth of business during the quarter just closed . |
| 10 | I will accept that you are designing it to enable humanity to select and rear a future generation that is peaceful and creative rather than aggressive and destructive , that your personal motives are good . |
| 11 | As winter approaches it makes sense to include details of the school 's procedures for short notice closures with a reassurance that young children will never be sent off to an empty home . |
| 12 | Now , foreign dogmatism threatens to drive the government down a road it abhors — forcing it to oblige industry to take back and recycle the packaging it ships its product in . |
| 13 | But not far behind in the firing line are welfare-dependent single-parent families , now so used to being vilified it seems time to offer a blindfold and last cigarette . |
| 14 | The editor of Les Colonies , however , seized on this statement , and in an editorial in the very last issue his paper was ever to publish , tried to use it to encourage people to stay in St Pierre . |
| 15 | yeah I think that 's probably the best thing and gradually the past you 've missed might start fitting into place as it were you know if you , if you keep up with the present , I think that 's probably the best thing so er and , you know , er I know it 's no comfort but these things take time , you know it takes time to get socialized into something and it takes time to get used to a way of working . |
| 16 | An Oslo court has decided to begin public debt negotiations for Norsk Data A/S at the request of the company 's board : Norsk Data has found it difficult to reach an out-of-court refinancing settlement with creditors that would enable it to secure funds to provide a 25% cash payout to unsecured creditors . |
| 17 | Tendring District Council hopes to declare open land at The Naze at Walton a local nature reserve , which would enable it to seek by-laws to help manage and protect the site 's wildlife . |
| 18 | Inevitably , as capitalism developed it made sense to introduce more machinery , to move to a division of labour and to a conveyor-belt system of production . |
| 19 | On March 3 Libya appealed to the International Court of Justice in the Hague ( as the judicial arm of the UN ) , asking it to take measures to prevent the dispute escalating . |
| 20 | The commission has contacted the Ramsar Bureau asking it to nominate hydrologists to carry out an independent survey of the scheme . |
| 21 | ‘ I can not continue as a member of a body which pretends it has power to make priests without the authority of scripture or tradition , ’ he said . |
| 22 | It was about how difficult inventors find it to raise finance to bring their inventions to market , no matter how promising the inventions may be , and how many potentially marketable creations are languishing for lack of capital , since the financial institutions are either not interested or not prepared to take risks with anything which is not already established . |
| 23 | The Inspirals are not big in Finland yet , but they reckon it makes sense to play small shows in far-flung corners of the globe . |
| 24 | ‘ I guess it takes time to adjust . ’ |
| 25 | Irvine , California-based Corollary Inc 's search for a volume multi-processing market , derailed by the Advanced Computing Environment fiasco , has led it to switch gears to pursue the P5 and NT in league with Intel Corp and Microsoft Corp . |
| 26 | He thought it wasted time to have official committees pre-processing options before they came before ministerial groups . |
| 27 | Do you think it bothers AT&T to jettison Unix ? |
| 28 | He may think it looks cissy to do what a normal man would and carry the baby in its cot , but I reckon it only looks unchivalrous . |
| 29 | Supply problems during the war made it seem madness to postpone further the steps necessary to improve communications and construct strategic railways . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've heard it costs pounds to stay in hotels in places like that . ’ |