Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | This work belongs to the genre of the ‘ Mirror for Magistrates ’ ; it offers conventional advice to kings and rulers on all relevant themes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Great Storm was a setback to woodland conservation because it drew public attention to trees and woods without adding to public understanding . |
| 5 | Representatives of the NAC met the Guild Council on 21 October and made it quite clear that the NAC could not continue to recognize the Guild as the youth section of the Party if it retained sympathetic affiliation to the Young Communist International . |
| 6 | For a police force still largely unarmed it highlights fierce opposition to the Sheahy proposals on police reform now before the Home Secretary . |
| 7 | The UN Security Council on Aug. 15 unanimously adopted Resolution 707 condemning Iraq for its failure to disclose full details of its weapons programme and ordering it to provide complete access to UN inspection teams [ see pp. 38307-08 ; 38360-61 ] , including accepting their right to conduct aerial inspections anywhere in the country . |
| 8 | It has rear access to a small but easily maintained rear sunny garden . |
| 9 | It has particular relevance to the timing restrictions on acquisitions of shares contained in Rule 5 of the City Code and to mandatory offers . |
| 10 | The terms should also make it clear that the committee has the power to investigate matters within its brief and that it has full access to information . |
| 11 | It has ready access to the coal pits of south Lancashire and North Wales , the limestone quarries of Derbyshire , and plentiful supplies of salt ‘ right beneath our feet . ’ |
| 12 | It has direct access to the sea , three swimming pools and a night club situated in a separate building in the gardens of the hotel . |
| 13 | Golf development will not normally be permitted if it causes unacceptable disruption to the public enjoyment of rights of way . |
| 14 | We have heard many more such stories , evidence of a continuing brotherly regard for chimpanzees among the older members of the local community ; it causes great concern to them , and to us , that many of the younger members take no interest in these traditions . |
| 15 | This carries two great dangers : It risks damaging the UN 's moral authority and reputation for impartiality if it is seen as the vehicle of superpower foreign policy ; it causes huge embarrassment to the UN when , because of its own priorities , the US is unable to help , and the UN is then confronted with the question why have you failed to act decisively in our crisis while you were willing to do so in the case of Iraq 's aggression ? |
| 16 | It causes woman-centred psychology to be much more restricted to the concept of a purely psychological subject than egalitarian feminist and even some traditional psychologies are . |
| 17 | I find that kind of back-door pressure disgraceful and it caused great concern to many people in my local association . |
| 18 | It allows traditional practice to be infected with transgressive ideals ’ . |
| 19 | In corridors and classrooms throughout the county it bears silent witness to the perception of the man who formed it , to his generous breadth of outlook and to his integrity . |
| 20 | GDA is not a large operation , employing 130 people on two floors , but while planning its opening in July last year it paid close attention to making the restaurant a focal point . |
| 21 | The film makers say it shows routine insensitivity to livestock , but experts say they 're wrong . |
| 22 | The short cloak had three advantages over the coat : it need not be tailored and so was available ‘ off the peg ’ ; it was more fashionable ; and it allowed unhindered access to the sword . |
| 23 | It includes mutual conformance to a proposed new Application Binary Interface ( ABI ) that UI members are working on and should be ready in the next three months . |
| 24 | On a modern system this may have been replaced by a safety device called a residual current device ( RCD ) , which turns off the supply if it detects current leaking to earth , and so protects the system and its users against the twin risks of fire and electric shock . |
| 25 | This may not seem too controversial , but when one of the team leaders is an ex-alcoholic it requires tremendous openness to God to go down a risky and unexpected route ! |
| 26 | Throughout the Communist world , the videotape recorder was the greatest status symbol because it implied ready access to a constant supply of Western videotapes . |
| 27 | Yet the Commission could only do what member states allowed it to do , and it lost real power to other institutions which protected national interests . |
| 28 | This Condition can only have effect if it is called into operation by the party wishing to rely on it giving written notice to the other to that effect . |
| 29 | No-one could deny that it brought real benefit to Scotland , which built up one of the most advanced and successful electronics sectors in Europe . |
| 30 | It was inspired by Brendan Foster and it brought international athletics to the town and put it on the map . |