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

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1 As well as being truly Scottish it needs to have strong international links .
2 All it takes to give this work a decent hearing is five intelligent and compatible singers , a good deal of rehearsal time , sensitive discussion about the best way of tackling the considerable demands both of the words and the huge span of music , and some recording equipment .
3 A telephone call is all it takes to summon one of our team of experts to your doorstep .
4 A single gain pot and bass , middle and treble pots are all it needs to deliver some superb clean tones , but if these sounds are too clean and a slight amount of edge is preferred , then a push switch adds in some crunch .
5 In other words , for an action to be deviant it has to cause some form of critical reaction and disapproval from others in the particular society .
6 When a company evolves to Stage 4 it ceases to view geographical units as necessarily important in marketing terms and instead takes a global view of its marketing , financing and operations .
7 By the year 2000 it hopes to have similar centres in its six other urban hubs — Edinburgh , Liverpool , Manchester , Leeds , Birmingham and Cardiff .
8 First it tries to reconcile central funding and government accountability for national standards of service with the need for local autonomy to meet local need .
9 To make the offer especially palatable it proposes to accept two now and the other two later .
10 Of the diagnostic statistics reported for ( 2.2 ) , the RESET test statistic is of particular importance in that it fails to provide any evidence that relevant higher moments of the explanatory variables have been omitted from the equation .
11 USL says it ‘ would be happy to help Sun do that , ’ but SunSoft , which also has a seat on USL 's board , is currently lobbying hard to get its own views adopted by UI , and to do that it needs to get other members on its side .
12 However , the less able the front end is to specify the full characteristics of the phonetic input , the more difficult it becomes to distinguish lexical hypotheses .
13 But then if it 's twenty or thirty it stands to reason that 's probably about the same
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