Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is typical of what it involves to speak a language fluently : you can do something consistently and in agreement with other speakers without being able to explain why . |
| 2 | This is great as far as it goes , but it needs to go a lot farther ! |
| 3 | Smith and Efford will both have to win if Labour is to secure the 326 seats it needs to form a Government with an overall majority . |
| 4 | My Lord in making my main submissions to your Lordship , erm , I submitted and this is position that there is no distinction between public and private acts , in the British Rail Board both the act and the central fund byelaw should be taken as valid in the interim if your Lordship is minded to make a reference , unless strong evidence of invalidity is , so your Lordship if you make a reference it needs to form a view as to the strength of the |
| 5 | My Lord making my main submissions to your Lordship , erm I submitted and it is position that there is no distinction between public and private acts , the thicken in the board , both the act and the central fund by the law should be taken as valid in the interim if your Lordship is minded to make a reference unless strong evidence of invalidity is produced , so your Lordship if you make a reference it needs to form a view as to the strength of the |
| 6 | ‘ Now that C4 has to look harder minute-by-minute at audience size and profile , it needs to strike a balance between more people watching without losing good market rates . ’ |
| 7 | This may seem a paradox and different from the usual pattern of learning , therefore it needs to become a habit . |
| 8 | And it needs to have a path to get there and back . |
| 9 | ‘ It stands to reason a man like that would have a partner . ’ |
| 10 | Sunsoft admits that it has to do a lot more work modifying Solaris 2.0 for Intel than it thought . |
| 11 | The cuckoo can not lay its egg while the future foster-parent is in residence ; it has to pick a time when the parent bird has left the nest — and the eggs — so that it can perform its surreptitious substitution . |
| 12 | The machine does not need to know anything : it has to perform a task . |
| 13 | If it has to tell a story , he wrote , it will be the story of the machine inside the ghost , of the ghost animated by the machine . |
| 14 | First , it has an ideational function : it has to convey a message ( in the sense of 4.2 ) about " reality " , about the world of experience , from the speaker to the hearer . |
| 15 | ‘ A major misconception is to treat IT as a department but you ca n't hive it off , it has to pervade an organisation and be built into marketing , sales , finance , production and so on . ’ |
| 16 | It has to find a way to appeal to younger drivers . |
| 17 | In which case it has to find a way of lowering expectations of the public good , limiting damage by the pursuit of private interest , building a different notion of good citizenship and public virtue out of that private interest . |
| 18 | So , if the green lacewing larva is to enjoy a decent meal of woolly alder aphids , it has to find a way of avoiding being attacked by the ants . |
| 19 | Under that section , the prosecution has to prove mens rea in respect of ’ knowing ’ , whereas , under section 22 , the handling provision , it has to prove a case in respect of ’ knowing or believing ’ . |
| 20 | The information required is proprioceptive : it has to provide a kind of internal sensation or perception in order to activate the correct response . |
| 21 | But it has to have a record button ? |
| 22 | Then you remember it and it starts to come a bit true does n't it ? |
| 23 | Because it starts to get a bit more complicated now . |
| 24 | It wants to add a northbound entry slip road and a southbound exit slip road to the junction . |
| 25 | The company says that it wants to have a hand in computing , video , telephony , wireless and information technologies as these activities converge . |
| 26 | Nintendo Co does plan to use satellites for delivery of computer games : the company says it plans to broadcast a game via satellite in Japan , and owners of its game computers that buy a decoder and adaptor — for about $85 — will be able to pick the thing up ; Nintendo also plans a national competition for high scorers in satellite games ; meantime Nintendo of America is poised for its largest launch of a video game ever this week in a bid to best Sega Enterprises Ltd — it plans to spend up to $15m in a month-long promotion of Star Fox , a science fiction action game inspired by Star Trek and Star Wars that uses its new Super FX technology , which includes a RISC embedded in the $60 games cartridge ; it claims to have 1m advance orders for it . |
| 27 | Bull says that it plans to release a Windows 3.1 version by the end of the year . |
| 28 | Microsoft Corp says it plans to lead a campaign against growing software piracy in Japan 's personal computer industry , opening it with a letter to 50 hardware manufacturers and 290 software vendors in Japan alerting them to the problem — the Japanese are generally law-abiding , but Microsoft suspects many are unaware they are doing anything wrong copying software . |
| 29 | It plans to incorporate a repository application programming interface ( APIs ) that 'll allow users to connect to other dictionaries , such as the one Informix already has for its Storm products — see below — as well as larger third-party repository environments . |
| 30 | As well as campaigning against embryo research , it plans to introduce an abortion amendment to the Bill , thereby forcing a free vote for the first time since abortion was legalised in 1967 . |