Example sentences of "it [verb] [noun] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | From here it goes east to pass to the north of Cawston before arriving in Aylesham . |
| 2 | It made Lydia go to sleep in the afternoon too , which was why she did it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It covers emergency repairs to the boiler , central heating system , locks , doors , windows , plumbing ( including drains ) , roof , and gas and electricity supplies . |
| 5 | The danger with this was that it caused believers to look to their own faith rather than to Christ alone for the assurance of their salvation . |
| 6 | ‘ The benefit of massage is that it allows patients to talk to someone on a one to one basis . |
| 7 | ‘ The benefit of massage is that it allows patients to talk to someone on a one to one basis . |
| 8 | Dounreay was chosen because it possesses cable links to the national grid and a suitable coastal site . |
| 9 | LASMO announces that yesterday it filed documentation relating to the proposed listing of its Ordinary Shares on the New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE ) with the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington , together with documentation relating to the proposed issuance of up to US$150 million cumulative dollar preference shares and up to US$250 million long-term fixed rate debt securities ( Yankee bonds ) . |
| 10 | Like marketing , it classifies informants according to sociological classes combined with consumption patterns . |
| 11 | The Electrophone did not diminish box office receipts — on the contrary it tempted subscribers to flock to the West End to see the ‘ real thing ’ . |
| 12 | It takes time to adjust to reforms , but some general observations are now possible on the impact of market liberalisation on the architectural profession , particularly remuneration , the level of unemployment and the organisational structure of practices . |
| 13 | Hoyle writes : ‘ My own recent work has caused me to doubt , not that evolution takes place , but that it takes place according to the usual theory of natural selection operating on randomly generated mutations . |
| 14 | It prompted Diana to speak to a lawyer and write to her father-in-law spelling out the way she felt she had been treated by her husband , the Royal Family and their courtiers . |
| 15 | It seems pity to go to school and not plant bulbs |
| 16 | It urged countries to revert to containing the disease at levels that their own general health services , rudimentary though may of them were , could cope with . |
| 17 | For much of the nineteenth century this strategy was attractive to local government because it enabled localities to maintain to a large degree their prized autonomy . |
| 18 | It helps parents come to terms with their difficulties . |
| 19 | But certain individuals clearly played crucial roles and it meant names had to be mentioned . |
| 20 | This latter approach is known as programme budgeting and it identifies amounts allocated to individual services . |
| 21 | How it proved people had to be saved financially before you could save their souls . |
| 22 | Such action ‘ simply does not wash if it means children exposed to wholly unsuitable material . |
| 23 | of the costs of the corporation when it pays redundancy sums to mineworkers . |
| 24 | The main importance of the controversy in the history of the Church of England was in the opportunity which it gave Andrewes to assert to Rome that ‘ Our appeal is to antiquity — yea even the most extreme antiquity . |
| 25 | One example of this is that the CEGB 's engineering costs for a new coal plant are expected to be 16 per cent higher than for the completion of the coal-fired Drax power station while for a new AGR it expects engineering costs to be 20 per cent lower than for the Heysham II prototype . |
| 26 | It gives students access to another source of spoken English and it gives them one or two hours ' exposure to the language . |
| 27 | The big advantage of film or video in teacher training is that it gives trainees access to a range of classrooms they could not otherwise enter . |
| 28 | He asserts cautiously that there is a ‘ possibility that both genetic and environmental influences , and interactions between them , may be important in the causation of mental processes , including awareness ’ and goes on to say that awareness probably has survival value because it enables animals to respond to the complexities of the world in which they behave . |
| 29 | Not only does it help children come to terms with deeply felt emotions and powerful personal experiences , it is also a means to investigate the natural world about us . |
| 30 | It provides communications links to a variety of relational databases including Ingres , DEC 's own Rdb , and Oracle — and support for Sybase will be added by the end of the year , the company promises . |