Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | of the posts identified , but , even though it has done very well , it has somewhat further to go . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Unless it grows fast enough to sustain recropping the birds must move elsewhere . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It tends not only to slow the sphere significantly , but it may also affect its intended direction . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We would certainly agree that it is an unusual adjective , and further that , as Bolinger says , it acts as an intensifier with the definite article , but it seems quite clearly to follow from this that it can not be a sense-qualifier of the sort which Bolinger has in mind . |
| 17 | Many sections in WOW ! stimulate students to think about other countries , different cultures , the global environment : in this sense , it aims very definitely to provide a ‘ window on the world ’ . |
| 18 | When words bring the required response there is less need to scream and it becomes all right to ask . |
| 19 | And it becomes all right to ask even though the answer is sometimes ‘ No ’ . |
| 20 | I 'd rather not talk to the guests much beforehand simply because I find it works better just to say hello , and thanks for coming , and leave it at that . |