Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a wheel starts to spin , the brake attached to it squeezes just enough to keep it in check while the engine throttles back . |
| 2 | Nowhere in the above description of manager training did it explain how best to carry the role of mediator . |
| 3 | If it persists long enough to block out sunlight for an period , it will have the effect of wiping out phytoplankton , with potentially-disastrous effects for all marine life further up the food chain . |
| 4 | And it stopped short never to go again |
| 5 | And it needs not only to provide access to files or data , but actually to connect applications running anywhere on the network — and through the application , to connect the minds that are putting the applications to work . |
| 6 | However , the C , C E C feels it needs to consult with regions , it needs more closely to examine the point in question and we would ask for reference of that resolution . |
| 7 | It ventured forth only to kill cattle or flatten crops , poisoning the air with its fetid breath . |
| 8 | The Egyptian foreign minister , Amr Moussa , made it clear he expected Israel to offer more than it has so far to return the deportees to their homes in the occupied territories . |
| 9 | of the posts identified , but , even though it has done very well , it has somewhat further to go . |
| 10 | The other snag , ironically , arises from the very success of the smallpox vaccination campaign — because , as a result , most of the population of the Third World is already immune to vaccinia and would n't allow it to flourish long enough to produce the hepatitis antigen . |
| 11 | It had a number of clauses in it designed quite properly to protect the company , but there was n't one , not one , that was relevant to my private life . |
| 12 | Even then , would it bring in enough to repay Crédit Lyonnais 's lending ? |
| 13 | It seemed wrong somehow to take the ring . |
| 14 | Her voice sounded clipped , rather staccato , and it seemed not properly to belong to her any more . |
| 15 | His primary commitment was to effective control ; he chose deterrence because it seemed most obviously to follow from his views on human rationality . |
| 16 | ‘ It happened too fast to feel much , ’ Harry said , smiling lopsidedly . |
| 17 | The problem in West Yorkshire is that it costs more there to put a police man on the beat , and the authority spends more per head of the population . |
| 18 | At its southern end it turned sharply eastwards to cross the street described above , and possibly to link with yet another running south-west from the Tiddington road ; it has been suggested that the latter was constructed as a short cut to Ryknild Street and skirted the southern suburb . |
| 19 | In our natural history ( as elsewhere later in science ) it turned out best to adapt an existing language ; but the man who did it , Ligneous , in the middle of the eighteenth century , came from Sweden . |
| 20 | Unless it grows fast enough to sustain recropping the birds must move elsewhere . |
| 21 | There was increased reseeding and cutting for silage , which entails heavy fertilization of the grass so that it grows very quickly to give you an early crop , then putting in more fertilizer to enable you to cut it again . |
| 22 | It tends not only to slow the sphere significantly , but it may also affect its intended direction . |
| 23 | A final technical point on audio versus video recording : it takes no longer to set up for a simple video recording than it does to position a microphone for an audio recording . |
| 24 | We need to admit that for many older churches it takes much longer to change and also that a more traditional style can be helpful to many in finding Christ personally and following him radically . |
| 25 | However , it takes much longer to add records that cause splitting , so the addition versus update-only figures are very important in assessing the efficiency of a B-tree . |
| 26 | Yet as the war dragged on it served not only to increase the regime 's unpopularity but also to give new leverage to the forces of opposition . |
| 27 | The public inquiry into the expansion of the Windscale nuclear reprocessing factory gave the anti-nuclear movement the impetus it needed not only to challenge the official estimates of risks , but also to question repeatedly the idea that the simplistic estimation of the numerical size of a risk should govern its regulation . |
| 28 | But it flew well enough to confound the sceptics and won first place at the April 1978 Maryland Kite Festival . |
| 29 | Possessive adjectives , however , do not produce a satisfactory result : ( 60 ) our bicycles damaged all had red handlebars your ideas discussed will be put to our colonel One may enquire why there should be this contrast , since it seems easy enough to see what meaning should be attached to each of the sentences of ( 60 ) . |
| 30 | It seems almost wholly to have been the brain child of Gordon Thomas , appointed engineer to the Grand Junction Canal in 1894 and son of Hubert Thomas , general manager and clerk to the Grand Junction . |