Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Furthermore it becomes folly to seek a boundary between synthetic statements , which hold contingently on experience , and analytic statements , which hold come what may .
2 That 's how long it took Leicester to find a winner .
3 The main experimental procedure will involve measuring how long it takes people to read successive segments of carefully-prepared sentences presented on a microcomputer screen .
4 An arts student may have no arguments either way ; they 've just heard of this mystical thing called Science , but once you 've been doing Science , you realize that a statement like that just does not hold water , and so it enables faith to come far more easily .
5 Normally it costs £3.00 to join , but here 's the great news !
6 Thus it makes sense to share the teaching resources that have been developed which incorporate relatively straightforward extracts of data formatted for use with specific software and which are documented clearly and comprehensively .
7 Usually it makes sense to commission a business which is able to undertake both design and print .
8 And always it gave time to fit the second shaft and loose the second volley , and redouble the boiling turmoil that was held at a distance by nothing more deadly — but there was nothing more deadly ! — than cloth-yard shafts of wood and steel flighted with a handful of feathers .
9 During the 18 years they had lived in Sion House in Tunbridge Wells they had grown accustomed to its neo-classical spaciousness , but since two of their four children had married and left home it made sense to move to somewhere smaller .
10 Very often it helps pupils to make the imaginative leap that is required of a historian .
11 Often it makes sense to divide a territory into segments radiating outwards , with the salesperson 's home being at the centre .
12 Equally it seems nonsense to anticipate the recording of that volume and complexity of assessment for each child during lesson time .
13 From here it goes east to pass to the north of Cawston before arriving in Aylesham .
14 Surely it makes sense to have this knowledge of what it feels like , almost as if you are on the stage of the London Palladium in front of a full house with the spotlights full on , as you have questions fired at you — rather than be totally unprepared and unrehearsed .
15 Sometimes it took weeks to persuade an owner to surrender his pet .
16 Sometimes it makes sense to use a particular type of paper so that other media can be applied as well .
17 Then it forces Italy to remove almost 4,000 tons of offending industrial wastes from Nigerian soil .
18 Then it used fur to cover the skin .
19 If the students are workers , for instance , not raw material , then it makes sense to ask what products they ought to be producing and for whom ; it is possible to work back from this to a process for delivering those products .
20 If this view is held then it makes sense to borrow funds now at low rates to obviate the need for borrowing later , when funds are expected to be more expensive .
21 ‘ And if they think that , then it makes sense to assume they 're trying to get to me by hurting you . ’
22 But if , as is proposed , the core is to start to be taught from the primary schools , upwards , then it makes sense to introduce at the same time graded tests in each of the compulsory subjects , English , mathematics , modern languages , and science ( the music examinations could hold their present place as optional ) .
23 May I suggest to you at least it makes sense to start to see what problems you are going to come up against
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