Example sentences of "it [vb -s] always [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT HAS always tended to be assumed that governments , by and large , prefer things to go well . |
| 2 | It has always seemed to me rather sad that almost any move from beat duty is regarded as a promotion . |
| 3 | It has always seemed to me that in pupils ' day to day work and more specifically in their exercise books , we have a reasonable body of evidence which can be evaluated , probably in the school , moderated , probably by other teachers and headmasters and allowed to count in some way towards the success of pupils . |
| 4 | One of the great mysteries of the Bible , it has always seemed to me , was how Daniel managed to interpret the writing on the wall at Belshazzar 's impious feast . |
| 5 | Great Escapes ' Paul Scrimshaw explained : ‘ It has always seemed to us that as long as the hoteliers play the game fairly then all parties have received a reasonable benefit . ’ |
| 6 | It has always seemed to us better to face our competition on the basis of our chemical abilities , where we are undoubtedly strong . |
| 7 | The translator described ‘ the party ’ as the collective hero of Serge 's ( 1978 ) Conquered City , but it has always seemed to me that in both that work and in Birth of Our Power ( 1977 ) the great proletarian cities of Petrograd and Barcelona are actors in their own right . |
| 8 | And it has always seemed to me that at that moment Wes walked back into his old life . |
| 9 | It has always seemed to me a pity that Evelyn Waugh , the one person present with a gift for writing , was blind to the historical significance of the occasion , impercipient of this last manifestation of Abyssinia 's traditional pageantry . |
| 10 | It has always seemed to me that people vote in a new government not because they actually agree with their politics but just because they want a change . |
| 11 | It has always belonged to my people . |
| 12 | As Wright is asking , yes , it does always seem to be him and until he and Arsenal manager George Graham do something to stop it being him , the ambitions of a fine talent will remain strictly limited . |
| 13 | Sometimes people ca n't speak for the same sort of reasons , but it 's always got to be something traumatic that 's happened . |
| 14 | There would be absolutely no u need to use an apostrophe because there 's no possession to follow it , it 's always got to be in that pattern of owner and possession , and if it 's one , then it 's before the s and if it 's more than one , it 's after the s . |
| 15 | it 's always got to be the dearest all the time |