Example sentences of "[det] [to-vb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is one thing to have sufficient understanding in coming to believe and another to have it in every area of continuing to believe . |
| 2 | was one of the pioneers of embalming and did much to promote it within the Co-operative Funeral Service and was held in high esteem by colleagues for his long standing service to the Institute . |
| 3 | Nor can I feel that the far finer E flat Symphony has much to commend it as a performance , beyond its solid assurance and resilient rhythm . |
| 4 | The Wentwood experience as described in this monograph has much to commend it as a means of enabling people with quite severe learning disabilities to take their part in ‘ normal ’ middle class life ; but as the authors themselves say , ‘ We will not succeed in this ( developing potential for growing as a person ) by concentrating on making people better functioning conglomerates of various skills only ’ ( p. 28 ) . |
| 5 | For the non-obese patient over 65 years who needs a sulphonylurea , a short-acting drug like tolbutamide has much to commend it as the elderly are more prone to hypoglycaemia . |
| 6 | Digital telecommunication has much to recommend it over the analogue alternative , and the move away from analogue systems is n't restricted to the mobile networks . |
| 7 | Its positioning accuracy alone ( + or -1mm ) has much to recommend it over the human alternative . |
| 8 | An expensive all-concrete , all-dredge , work-from-both-sides approach may in certain cases have much to recommend it to a few of the more old-fashioned river managers , especially since the cutting of straight ditches involves minimum initial design and subsequent supervision , combined with maximum actual earth-moving and construction works on the ground . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the principle of chisel ploughing has much to recommend it in the right conditions . |
| 10 | He who valued life so much to enter it in the form of a human person must be committed to its survival . |
| 11 | is that that the consultation is a problem the legislation which takes away the requirement for several developments to promote valuable time and be advertised prior to the application so the first most people knew about this application was after this this opportunity prior to that to discuss it with the development before it was submitted . |
| 12 | The Romans , imitating the Greeks of Asia Minor and , nearer home , the Etruscans , thought a grid should have precise right angles , and so the rectangle of streets sits awkwardly in the bend of the river and one has to tack this way and that to cross it to the medieval cathedral and the Roman bridge . |
| 13 | Swooping onto a reed warbler 's nest , this female cuckoo removes one of the host bird 's eggs and lays one of her own to replace it in a matter of seconds . |
| 14 | The imposition of this ‘ necessity constraint ’ on holist explanation is enough to separate it from the individualist view that to describe the individual traits which caused a social phenomenon is to explain it . |
| 15 | My view was that it was enough to clear it with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and that she had a war to fight . |
| 16 | The energy transferred from the photon to the electron is more than enough to remove it from the atom . |
| 17 | Of course he has been over it a million times in his mind , but when the normal glide speed is 160kts , with the drop tanks you should have 175kts , add another 15 on top of that to flare it from a descent , and he really needed 200 kts to make a decent landing in those conditions . |
| 18 | This is not to deny that it is an intelligent reaction , and that the sense of when to trust the analogy between present and former situations is in some individuals very intelligent indeed , but there is nothing in that to distinguish it from the other insights and hunches by which we instantaneously synthesize similarities and differences too fine and complex to be analysed before a change in the situation obliterates them . |
| 19 | I wanted us both to read it at the same time . ’ |