Example sentences of "it [verb] some [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely a forlorn ambition , but it goes some way to explain , what would otherwise be so difficult to understand , why eminent members of the nascent |
| 2 | In the second place , it involves some intention to maintain that control on the part of the possessor . |
| 3 | Although our productivity compares well with coal industries in Europe , it has some way to go before it is at the level of some of the coal industries outside Europe . |
| 4 | support among GPs , so it has some way to go in winning the argument . |
| 5 | As the media caught on to this aspect of the cult , it caused some skins to leave the movement and more violent people to join it . |
| 6 | It regained some bounce to end the week nudging DM3.0400 . |
| 7 | On the one hand , the local situation and knowledge about it encouraged some people to retire at the same time as they were made redundant . |
| 8 | However , it requires some skill to devise a service which is relevant to a varied congregation and yet remains first and foremost an act of worship . |
| 9 | It requires some self-confidence to enter this pantheon of antiquarian books : catalogues cover almost every category and boast such rarities as ‘ The original autograph manuscript of Jane Austen 's only completed play ’ ; prices range from £100 to £8 million . |
| 10 | Indeed , it requires some effort to keep the attention focused on the music and its words and on God . |
| 11 | However , it takes some skill to identify them . |
| 12 | It takes some imagination to share the contradictions , the unrealised hopes , the might-have-beens , of the past . |
| 13 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 14 | I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’ |
| 15 | As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations . |
| 16 | We do not know how this activated state is subsequently maintained throughout the healing process , although the final overrun and pile-up suggest that it takes some time to switch off . |
| 17 | It needed some spark to concentrate his mind , something to take him out of the ruck . |
| 18 | Images of Nazism and the war appear so often on the screen that it took some effort to realise that these were real people inside those costumes ; that the peaked cap and leather boots were n't on hire from the wardrobe department . |
| 19 | It took some effort to stay upright with such variations in terrain . |
| 20 | It took some courage to do so . |
| 21 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 22 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 23 | Therefore it took some time to penetrate the Boardrooms of British industry , because many of the early headhunters did not really speak the businessmen 's language . |
| 24 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 25 | It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us . |
| 26 | It took some time to reassemble their people , so much so that presently Douglas , growing impatient , left some of his lesser commanders to round up the stragglers , attend to the wounded and collect the booty from the camp . |
| 27 | The advantage however is accidental , and brings with it difficulties of its own ; assuming that matter , unlike ch'i , is inert until moved , it took some time to arrive at the thought of inertia as either rest or uniform motion in a straight line . |
| 28 | Once he had got the idea of killing her ( and at first this fantasy did not seem very different from the reveries in which he wept by her open grave , comforted by young , fashionably dressed women ) it took some time to appreciate that this scenario was of quite a different type from the others . |
| 29 | It took some time to get entry , there were delays , long sessions of questioning and trouble with certificates but in the end it was sorted out and we got on a plane in April 1974 . |
| 30 | It took some time to get the obstacle equipped with runners . |