Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sentiment has not been helped by sharp profit downgrading from such pillars of Japanese business as Sony , Matsushita and Pioneer , though computer group Fujitsu recently said it expected current profits to be modestly increased . |
| 2 | Sir Kenneth Newman — then commandant — suggests that the book 's claim to attention is that its contents are contributed by insiders ; while in their introduction , the authors claim it goes some way to challenging Holdaway 's claim ( 1979 ) that ‘ research from the Police Staff College has not resulted in a major project on the police ’ . |
| 3 | All this formed a background to the first century of crusading ; and it goes some way to explaining the more secular aspects of the magnetism which drew French knights to take up the cross in their thousands . |
| 4 | This has the advantage of relating expenditure to sales , but it discourages innovative approaches to advertising expenditure and does not allow for distinctions to be made between products or sales territories . |
| 5 | Entitled Challenge , it ‘ will be progressive in the sense that it understands Christian faith to be of necessity a commitment to the cause of all who are oppressed , discriminated against or unjustly treated . ’ |
| 6 | Detecting water movements helps many insects of fast-flowing streams to maintain their position , and it alerts aquatic leeches to the approach of animals which might provide a meal of blood . |
| 7 | Does it make more sense to be beaten 62–7 or play tight competitive fixtures like Southland and NZ Universities as England ‘ B ’ did . |
| 8 | Would it make any difference to life in this community if there no primary school in Village ? |
| 9 | Would it make any difference to you personally if there were no primary school in Village ? |
| 10 | A different type of two-part problem is one in which the second part commences : ‘ Would it make any difference to your answer if … ? ’ |
| 11 | " Did it make any difference to your light ? " |
| 12 | Sorry does it I put my question very badly , does it make any difference to traffic through this particular part or Knaresborough where the relief road is ? |
| 13 | Would it make any difference to their relationship ? |
| 14 | Between the river walk and the village rises a conical hillock known in the past as ‘ Cunnigar ’ or the ‘ Witches Hill ’ it offers good views to the north and is one of several Bronze Age earthworks along this stretch of the river . |
| 15 | This work belongs to the genre of the ‘ Mirror for Magistrates ’ ; it offers conventional advice to kings and rulers on all relevant themes . |
| 16 | It judged the centre , which carries out work on AIDS , infectious disease and transplant research , to be a world-class laboratory and says that it offers unique facilities to researchers in Europe such as a rhesus colony for which the microbiological status is known and typed for major histocompatibility complex , essential for transplantation studies and infectious disease research . |
| 17 | It lacked five days to Christmas , and it might be , with a good wind and a following swell , that they might not have to spend Christmas at Birsay . |
| 18 | Last month Rainbow Warrior II was seized by the French navy as it led another protest to the atoll . |
| 19 | It made closer links to the army and the semi-fascist Falange movement . |
| 20 | It made little difference to the coal industry which continued to serve both . |
| 21 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
| 22 | The creation of the autonomous region had been opposed by the Moro National Liberation Front ( MNFL ) , the largest of the separatist guerrilla organizations , on the grounds that it made insufficient concessions to Moslem autonomy and failed to meet the terms of the 1976 Tripoli Accord [ see p. 28440 ] . |
| 23 | In the upshot the SEA , whilst it made some concessions to the political aspirations of the EP , was notable chiefly for its powerful commitment to the economic concept of completing the internal market . |
| 24 | In addition it made some recommendations to BRAC , one of which was to encourage BRAC to make a greater effort to cooperate with the local village practitioners . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , of course , ’ said Holly , as though it made any sense to her . |
| 26 | Not that it made any difference to the dead . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't think it made any difference to my career or Peter 's , ’ says Finney . |
| 28 | It supposes complete access to the language meaning ( the range of interpretations of that element of the message ) and developed ability to convey the message meaning in the target language . |
| 29 | It provided simple answers to seemingly intractable questions . |
| 30 | Enthoven pointed out that whereas the NHS efficiently contained costs at the macro-level it provided few incentives to consistently reward efficiency and high performance at the micro-level , and indeed penalised both . |