Example sentences of "it [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a further speech in August 1987 he complained that there had been a tendency both in the USSR and outside it to see the socialist construction of the 1930s as no more than a series of mistakes . |
| 2 | You expect it to go a little bit just a tiny bit off |
| 3 | But how easy is it to spot a cheap imitation ? |
| 4 | But she did n't need to see it to sense the burning anger that poured from his eyes as he looked up at her . |
| 5 | And as he mulls over his reasons for behaving as he has and for writing and publishing this record , the footnote status of ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ causes it to embrace a wide range of familiar themes . |
| 6 | Listening , she opened it to greet the sandy-haired man who rose to his feet from behind the desk . |
| 7 | I did not intend it to include a mere error of law . |
| 8 | Meantime process-type industries make up some 60% of the total number of Ross 's manufacturing customers — a figure that is expected to grow in line with the expected 15% to 20% increase in the UK market for process-based systems — and Ross intends it to include an increasing number of large multinational customers . |
| 9 | It now has wholly-owned offices in Paris , Amsterdam , Brussels , Frankfurt , Geneva , Stockholm and Gothenburg , is a shareholder in a well-established US firm and has associate arrangements in the USA and elsewhere , enabling it to sustain an annual growth rate of between 20% and 30% which is now generating annual total fees of up to £5m . |
| 10 | The first is a highly fortuitous and austere way : namely that the compound might have the same effect — the transfer of some particular kind of information — sufficiently often and sufficiently advantageously for there to be some selective advantage in its coming standardly to possess that significance : that is , for it to acquire the biological function of transmitting just that kind of information . |
| 11 | The study 's thesis was that Attlee built on the Whitehall machine constructed in the Second World War and used it to implement the Labour Party 's reform programme . |
| 12 | When Neil Kinnock complained that soldiers were forced to leave their guts on Goose Green to show Mrs Thatcher had guts of her own , the Tories used it to mount a massive propaganda campaign against him . |
| 13 | I ca n't reach it to perform the same trick as on Mait 's … . ’ |
| 14 | Christie 's expects it to establish a new record price for his work . |
| 15 | Was it to establish a quasi-religious movement , one of such moral earnestness as would in the minds of the Owens among the Owenites exercise a compelling influence for beneficial change , one which would establish first alternative and exemplary societies where amity and reason would prevail , and hence would point inevitably to the creation of a co-operative commonwealth ? |
| 16 | Given the establishment of this joint working party , it would appear both reasonable and sensible for the APB 's Going Concern Task Force to work with it to establish the necessary guidance on what disclosures should be made , and then to incorporate it . |
| 17 | Now he looked up , and Lachlan was hard put to it to meet the bitter glare . |
| 18 | The suet crust is rich , but has enough air in it to absorb a generous amount of the dark , meaty gravy . |
| 19 | A well-documented response to the threat of take-over is for the company to increase its capitalisation by itself becoming a predator or otherwise absorbing additional businesses to enable it to obtain the relative security that comes with increased size . |
| 20 | Section by section it was being revised in the commissions and then approved during the general congregations — despite last-minute attempts to modify it to contain an explicit condemnation of communism . |
| 21 | Copy the supplied template configuration file into the root directory for the new LIFESPAN Process , and edit it to contain the correct information . |
| 22 | Normal market practice is for SCP to be issued on a non-interest bearing basis at a discount to its face value , although provision has also been made for it to bear a stated rate of interest . |
| 23 | SPORT 'S role as a major employer and contributor to government coffers has helped it to discover a latent power and a voice of its own , discarding its traditionally apolitical posture in the process . |
| 24 | They made a dazzling bouquet , not without charm , but the bunch which was presented each May Day by Mrs Curdle in person to the doctor was of such gargantuan proportions that Mrs Bailey was hard put to it to find a suitable place for it . |
| 25 | Then it is time for it to find a suitable spot to turn into a chrysalis . |
| 26 | His Wisdom closed transfer system ( CTS ) has gone on the market for £560 and he expects it to find a ready market amongst arable farmers and growers . |
| 27 | You can use it to find a particular place in a text if you know a word used there , or as a way of following up a particular theme , metaphor or symbol . |
| 28 | Myra gave her a gaily wrapped parcel , and Claudia opened it to find a beautiful silk scarf printed with white and pink roses on a jade-green background . |
| 29 | I hurried to the Adjutant and he opened it to find an urgent request for a volunteer to serve in Southern Arabia . |
| 30 | Well that 's right , yes , and the other thing as well , I should n't really be telling you this , , because it 's bad news for us but , if you in fact write a long , rambling press release , what you will find is that the journalist will almost , almost certainly go three-quarters of the way down it to find the real story which is hidden in there , and occasionally that real story is purposely hidden down in there , and you know you look at any council minutes , and the real story is always , inevitably hidden down there , because it 's the bit that somebody does n't want people to know about , and so journalists are naturally trained to go down the bit to find out what 's it about . |