Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All money which people save has to be invested somewhere , and when it is taken out of circulation it helps to reduce inflation . |
| 2 | Cleveland County Council hopes an attempt it made to stop solvent abuse is taken up by other authorities . |
| 3 | Criticism of the phenomenological approach to RE was given in Chapter 4 , particularly on the grounds that in practice it tends to lose touch with much of the religion it sets out to understand and include . |
| 4 | All councils faced massive problems , he said , with Lothian being £19.68 million above the capping limit ; Strathclyde , £20 million ; and Fife , £11.3 million short of the figure it needed to maintain services . |
| 5 | To ride a horse it has to have saddlery . |
| 6 | In essence it proposes to replace block grant by a new needs grant ( based on a simplified GREA ) and a standard grant ( consisting of a fixed sum per adult ) . |
| 7 | At its 1935 conference it decided to oppose League of Nations sanctions against Italy , an approach close to that eventually adopted by the ILP and reflecting the influence of Cripps . |
| 8 | If successful in acquiring the British group it intends to operate Pearl as a separate entity with its own sales force . |
| 9 | The Cambridge-based group intends to use the cash it receives to increase group shareholder funds and reduce borrowings , which increased £600,000 to £20.8m due to exchange rate movements . |
| 10 | If it 's courage it takes to put sports cars and coupes into production then the product planners at Mazda deserve a medal . |
| 11 | This had been identified by the Allies as an Iraqi command and control centre , but in the event it proved to contain civilians , 300 of whom were reported killed . |
| 12 | I only live a few doors down the road from Derek and normally it would have taken me just a minute or two , but on this occasion it seemed to take ages . |
| 13 | In September it was asked by the MOD how much scope it had to lift ammunition production ( it provides about 45% of the ministry 's total purchases ) . |
| 14 | Last month it agreed to spend £194.2m on the US-based ABS cheque-printing business . |
| 15 | When the clock receives the start signal it begins to generate pulses , which are fed to a microprocessor interrupt line , so that program execution is forced to transfer to the INTERRUPT entry of the motor control program . |
| 16 | That which spreads northward is warmed in summer to a maximum of about 4°C at the Convergence , where it sinks below still warmer subantarctic surface water ; beyond the boundary it continues to spread north as the subsurface Antarctic Intermediate Current . |
| 17 | He maintained that the increase was reasonable to provide sport for all , but insisted that since leisure and recreation expenditure took up 30 per cent of the council budget it had to safeguard jobs . |
| 18 | Skip however showed us more of the struggle it took to get recognition as a serious competitor . |
| 19 | At worst it has unjustly built expectations of a return to mass employment ; put money into the pocket of large consultancy firms ; served the objectives of narrow sectional interests ; undermined physical and administrative planning ; substituted ACE and private contract jobs for public sector jobs ; been irrelevant to the needs of women ; been virtually unaccountable ; and invested less than one tenth of the money it took to de-nationalise Shorts and Harlands , even had the programme 's money been additional . |
| 20 | The horror felt for or against the censorship is less than the feeling for the opportunity it provides to make capital out of the situation . |
| 21 | It 's about the patience it takes to apply 7lbs of paint without a drip . |
| 22 | She let him see what effort it cost to stay calm . |
| 23 | Similarly , people can read a paragraph and employ the information it contains to answer questions , solve problems , plan action , translate into another language , or to precis . |
| 24 | In the next century it came to include offences not only against the church but also against society and the realm at large . |
| 25 | Things may have gone a bit quiet on Intel Corp 's joint venture with VLSI Technology Inc to develop chips that include iAPX-86 cores for use in handheld devices , but Intel says that the effort is quietly progressing and that early next year it expects to see manufacturers offering small , lightweight hand-held computers based on the new chips ; Intel is currently preparing fully functional samples of the chips for shipment to manufacturers in the second half . |
| 26 | Called the Franchise Company it claims to offer help and advice on all aspects of franchising to any firm looking at franchising as a means of expansion . |
| 27 | A further advantage of detailed job analysis is the ability it gives to allocate resources . |
| 28 | Such savings may allow energy planners like Reddy to muster the political clout it takes to close aluminium smelters . |
| 29 | In this context it seeks to inform public opinion of the importance of protecting the traditional character of the Welsh rural environment , and to persuade decision-makers at every level to have due regard for this objective in carrying out their responsibilities . |
| 30 | Finally when moving into a new house it pays to replace door locks — you do n't know who has previously had a key ! ! |