Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This brings the concept of ideology into the centre of his work unlike Marx 's writings where it remains peripheral to the account of the material relations of the process of production . |
| 2 | The library reference room was on the Fludyer Street side of the building and although it housed some to the 5,000 volumes in the manuscript library , some had to be distributed throughout the passages of the building . |
| 3 | Although it seemed trivial to high minded folk , like Deputy Matron and Sister Tutor who were burdened with the difficulties of their office , these concerts were so important . |
| 4 | Although it seems contrary to all logic … ’ |
| 5 | ’ I think the advisory committee is entitled to make the comments that it feels appropriate to the situation that it is addressing . ’ |
| 6 | A police officer said he suspected an enormous volume of explosives was stockpiled inside one of the buildings and that it exploded due to careless handling . |
| 7 | One police officer said he suspected a vast amount of explosive was stockpiled inside one of the buildings and that it exploded due to careless handling . |
| 8 | If someone , looking at a flower , said , ‘ It 's blue ’ , on account of what he saw , drawing no inferences , and not lying , then it would be psychologically true to say that it looked blue to him even though it would be linguistically odd to say this if one had no reason to doubt that the flower was blue . |
| 9 | And she had to confess , much as she hated to , that it felt nice to be on amicable terms with Jake . |
| 10 | To be sure , the great apes behave so intelligently and have such a rich social life that it seemed extraordinary to many people that they could not learn to speak . |
| 11 | Cardiff had supervised the clearance of the office block , noting wryly that it seemed easier to clear everyone out than it had been to get his original team established . |
| 12 | Mr it 's been suggested from my plaintiff that it took ten to fifteen minutes to enter and secure the flat by the firearms officers . |
| 13 | It is only when a living organism dies that it becomes subject to the laws of the non-living world , and disintegrates into simpler and simpler molecules or components . |
| 14 | As a routine measure , you should open your dog 's mouth each week , so that it becomes used to this procedure . |
| 15 | You will probably not have to lift your dog up frequently , but it is important that it becomes used to this experience . |
| 16 | When it comes to data storage , the second and third of these categories predominate , indeed take over from the first ( to the extent that it becomes important to the data creators that records which challenge or compromise them are destroyed ) . |
| 17 | You should repeat the puppy 's name at every opportunity within its hearing , so that it becomes accustomed to the sound . |
| 18 | After the initial impetus has run out , he wrote , and before one has got in so far that it is easier to finish than to go back , it is then that it becomes hard to be sure of your footing , hard to know why you are doing what you are doing , hard to know if you are doing correctly what you are doing . |
| 19 | The trustees and the directors say that it takes two to three years to get the feel of the responsibilities — those responsibilities are considerably greater these days — and to work one 's way in and become able to contribute fully . |
| 20 | The same bearded man whom we had already met said that it lay next to the mosque , behind some barbed wire which had been put there to protect it . |
| 21 | It can take some comfort from the rise of 7.5 per cent in its vote and from the fact that it came second to Labour in so many seats and is at last beginning to nibble at Labour 's huge majorities in the Central Belt . |
| 22 | " The copper ore of Greenburn was so fine in colour and texture that it came near to gold ! |
| 23 | The work itself has maintained an almost subterranean existence in footnotes and references in many other works , yet it was not until comparatively recently that it became accessible to the non-specialist reader . |
| 24 | The difficulty with writing it down was that it became real to the extent of being in a book , there were two lives , the one in the book and the one which he lived to collect the details for the book one ; he could go further in his head than on the page , the words slowed him down . |
| 25 | Reality Therapy involves confronting the sufferer with the reality of life as perceived by others and helping him or her gradually to change the perception of how life should be so that it comes nearer to how life actually is . |
| 26 | When it gets too dangerous it will be a matter of simulating what 's supposed to happen so that it looks real to the TV audience , but not to those involved . |
| 27 | Indeed , the pineal of a New Zealand reptile known as the tuatara is pigmented and so close to the surface that it looks similar to a real eye . |
| 28 | The fact that we may have no reason to say of someone looking at a blue flower that it looks blue to him does not mean that it does not look blue to him . |
| 29 | in in my course of work , I have three grown up sons and I think an awful lot of what we 're talking about is in your own attitude to men , and generally the most difficult men to deal with , I find , are men who for whatever reason , are actually inadequate , a little bit sensitive to women being competent I I have no difficulty at all in dealing with that , but I I 'm aware that it seems significant to me that a lot of the younger women here are much more shall we say , sensitive to erm , what I perceive as being basically male chauvinism . |
| 30 | Herta is so small that it seems natural to be quite strict with her . |