Example sentences of "it [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its impact could probably have been even greater but it ceased to become available to students by 1980 and this was unfortunate when many much less meritorious texts have soldiered on ! |
| 2 | For young women and men to want to use contraception , it has to feel relevant to their lives — something they can actually envisage themselves using . |
| 3 | The European Commission is trying to deregulate the European airline market , but it wants to stop short of America 's ‘ open skies ’ policy . |
| 4 | Above all , the Labour Party should abandon its current stance on Northern Ireland if it wants to remain true to the principles of its founders . |
| 5 | Will it be used mainly at night , or does it need to look fresh for breakfast , serviceable for lunch and intimate for dinner parties ? |
| 6 | The left wing impact caused the aircraft to yaw sharply left and it came to rest erect on a heading of 150°M around 3.5 metres beyond the initial impact point , with the nose embedded 1.3 metres into the demolished lower comer of the building . |
| 7 | Whereas in Northumberland it rarely lasted for a whole day and almost never appeared on consecutive days , in London and Surrey it seemed to shine uninterrupted for weeks at a time . |
| 8 | While the new order clearly meant that the Community law supplanted existing statute law , the concept that it should likewise override any later Acts of Parliament caused some legal debate , for it seemed to run contrary to the doctrine that no Parliament might bind its successors ( Howe , op. cit. , p. 13 ) . |
| 9 | It is presently working on a Pentium-upgradable board for its Expresso line of personal computers which it intends to have ready by the summer . |
| 10 | It began to glow red for overload . |
| 11 | Once the process was completed , older boys , apprentice papermakers , came and dislodged the sheet , taking it away to the drying trestles , where it had to be carefully watched and removed after it had dried but before it began to turn yellow in the sun . |
| 12 | The paint , so thick in places that it seems to exist independent of the canvas , becomes an integral part of this annual cycle . |
| 13 | When it started to get busy on the course he went to the practice ground and then it was pitch and putt , chipping — a lot of practice with his short game . |
| 14 | But BZW remains more pessimistic , believing the FT-SE index would have to fall to 2,200 before it started to look attractive to investors . |
| 15 | Fujitsu says it expects to break even in 1993-94 , with zero net profit . |
| 16 | Fujitsu says it expects to break even in 1993–94 , with zero net profit . |
| 17 | Even if bitten or pecked it continues to lie limply on the ground . |
| 18 | If Travellers Fare did not wish to provide a service on a train , there should be none ; if they closed a refreshment room , it had to lie idle for a year before a private operator was allowed to take over . |
| 19 | In February the chairman of National Westminster Bank , Lord Alexander , warned his investment-banking arm , County NatWest , that it had to become profitable within two years or face possible closure . |
| 20 | Part of the considerable achievement of Michael Mann 's imaginative but faithful treatment is that it manages to make acceptable for the 1990s some of the outmoded attitudes of its characters , and yet refuses to go for that eco-trendiness that will make Dances With Wolves look dated by the turn of the century . |