Example sentences of "it [vb -s] the [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The approach used by Watts and Quimby does not have these problems , however , it encourages the subject to focus on the external environment in order to answer the question , moreover it makes the assumption that subjective risk is determined only by the chances of a near miss , it may clearly relate to other factors as well ( e.g. severity of consequences in an actual accident , presence of a police car , unpredictability of pedestrians ) . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ It encourages the children to go and talk to their grandparents and great-grandparents and other old people about their days at school . |
| 3 | Demonstrative reference is clearly an important aspect of the deixis of the poem : it encourages the reader to process the deictic meanings in a specific way . |
| 4 | This facilitates the smooth running of government and must be advantageous to those in government as it minimises the need to effect formal changes , a task which is time-consuming and may be beset with difficulties . |
| 5 | But envy is an ambivalent structure of feeling ; it involves the desire to possess certain idealized attributes of the Other and the desire to destroy them because they signify what is felt to be lacking . |
| 6 | To mainstream children it offers the opportunity to live with and work alongside children who are triumphing over pain and crippling disability . |
| 7 | Best remembered as the setting for Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet and The Gentlemen of Verona , it offers the chance to live with history — by attending productions still staged in its 1st century Roman Arena . |
| 8 | The college environment may offer less ‘ protection ’ than their school , but it offers the chance to broaden horizons . |
| 9 | However , I would argue that it begs the question to phrase it in such a way . |
| 10 | Of course , it behoves the legislator to distinguish the categories logically and justly . |
| 11 | Therefore , in the light of those consequences , it behoves the House to assure itself that there is no conceivable alternative to the British Rail proposals and that they will achieve the aim that we all want — the ability of channel tunnel traffic to serve the whole country , not just London . |
| 12 | It reserves the right to re-visit a company and claim further sums in respect of NICs where the Revenue officers have applied the wrong tests from an NIC point of view . |
| 13 | However , it reserves the right to lend direct should dealing distort market conditions . |
| 14 | The school says some parents owe more than three thousand pounds , and it needs the money to help pay teachers ' salaries . |
| 15 | It needs the public to associate the phrase ‘ nuclear weapons ’ with the word ‘ useless ’ . |
| 16 | The company says it needs the cut to keep going , and union leaders agree that the alternative would be job losses . |
| 17 | We have had a marvellous season with thankfully no major accidents and also the best of racing , particularly at the Ulster Grand Prix and the Tandragee 100 , so perhaps we can be forgiven for forgetting that racing needs not only the top line competitors like Joey Dunlop and Brian Reid it needs the newcomers to help the sport thrive and we are just not getting enough of them . |
| 18 | Furthermore , Ms Burke said , it needs the resouces to fund growth . |
| 19 | It needs more than will , it needs the imagination to find a way . |
| 20 | But it it it needs the heat to lift the the the white p You 've seen the white polish |
| 21 | In this way , the legal system can be said to become ‘ self-reflexive ’ : it develops the capacity to reformulate the rules by which it functions . |
| 22 | It trivialises the issue to say that it was merely the result of panic — although there was certainly panic in good measure . |
| 23 | With or without words , it has the ability to create an atmosphere , to evoke memories , and to enable worshippers to receive from God and to respond to him . |
| 24 | Employee fundraising appears to be an increasingly popular option and whilst it involves a lot more work than a straight donation it has the ability to generate longer term grass roots support amongst employees . |
| 25 | It has the ability to dial phone numbers and print labels . |
| 26 | It has the ability to dial phone numbers and print labels . |
| 27 | But Palmer 's log that day contains a significant remark : ‘ Bart [ Czirr ] suggests that we use palladium as the metal cathode as it has the ability to let hydrogen diffuse through it at will . |
| 28 | In addition , it has the ability to link a huge variety of hardware and operating systems platforms — these include , as well as DOS , OS/2 and Windows , Apple Macs , Sun Systems and a number of UNIX workstations . |
| 29 | Fine-boned , fine-limbed and agile , it is well adapted to the uplands and moorlands of Devon where it has the ability to convert poor grazing into excellent beef . |
| 30 | society will win the ability to freely determine its national existence when it has the ability to determine its political being and the conditions of its creation . |