Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [to-vb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So to keep its 100 kg stock of tritium fresh , it has to manufacture 5 to 6 kg annually . |
| 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 | Westlake Village , California-based Delphi Information Systems Inc says it plans to acquire all of the outstanding stock of Continental Systems Inc of East Lansing , Michigan for about 446,000 shares of Delphi common stock , worth $3m . |
| 6 | This is why men who have been deeply hurt in an extra marital affair often have a compulsion when it ends to tell all to their wives in a great burst of weeping . |
| 7 | It intends to do this by modifying the object interface definition language in its System Object Model ( SOM ) for OS/2 2.0 to support CORBA 's interface definition language . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Erm , the advantage of this way is it tends to confuse most of the time , but it 's a lot quicker . |
| 10 | It tends to ignore some of the more interesting theoretical issues concerned with the ways in which Chomskyan notions of Universal Grammar interact with the immediate linguistic , cognitive and contextual features that are the properties of individual children and fails to suggest how research into language acquisition is developing in other areas . |
| 11 | The main difficulty with the HCF approach , however interpreted , is that it tends to jettison most of what is distinctive of religion . |
| 12 | If you 're using wooden or fibrous plaster mouldings without pilaster for the arch , it tends to look better with corbels fitted to its ‘ springing points ’ ( where the arch starts on the side walls ) . |
| 13 | A telephone call is all it takes to summon one of our team of experts to your doorstep . |
| 14 | The paint , so thick in places that it seems to exist independent of the canvas , becomes an integral part of this annual cycle . |
| 15 | Having looked at the draft Memorandum to the Presidency I can only say it seems to cover most of the key points . |
| 16 | The point about [ 20 ] is that it seems to achieve most of its relevance through this range of weak implicatures . |
| 17 | My practice has not encountered serious practical problems different from those of other fundholders and it seems to remove some of the difficulties of the existing scheme in that it resolves the problem of what referrals are within the range of services that can be purchased . |
| 18 | I 'm particularly interested in the shipping side because it seems to provide most of the group 's cash flow at the moment . " |
| 19 | Unfortunately the Muddletonians erm seems to contradict the point I 'm wanting to make , because erm frankly it seems to belong more to the world of historical novels . |
| 20 | The mission of Teesside TEC is to promote and contribute to the economic growth of Teesside and it aims to do this by fostering individual initiative , community teamwork , business development and quality training . |
| 21 | It hopes to sell some of the offices as going concerns . |
| 22 | The notion of an internal lexicon is particularly powerful in that it helps to explain many of the phenomena associated with word recognition . |
| 23 | So it helps to put that in the brackets . |
| 24 | It helps to put that in a smaller bracket , when I go three times that , minus that . |
| 25 | So it pays to keep all of them well out of the reach of young , inquisitive hands . |
| 26 | Although of limited relevance to modern societies , it serves to introduce some of the crucial questions . |
| 27 | X/Open Co Ltd is about to embark on the largest Xtra process ever : it expects to invite 50 to 75 user groups worldwide to participate , get 35 to 50 of them actually involved and circulate 10,000 multiple-choice questionnaires in six languages : English , French , German , Spanish , Chinese and Japanese ; it is now trying to figure out how to get feedback from the non-industrial nations ; results will probably appear in Rome in early December . |
| 28 | Fujitsu says it expects to break even in 1993-94 , with zero net profit . |
| 29 | Fujitsu says it expects to break even in 1993–94 , with zero net profit . |
| 30 | Even if bitten or pecked it continues to lie limply on the ground . |