Example sentences of "it [verb] [noun prp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It horrified Brian to think of Celia hypnotised by some guru who would try to drag things out of her which might not even have been correct . |
| 2 | Novell has said it expected Univel to do over $5m worth of business during the quarter just closed . |
| 3 | In a statement issued on March 28 the Mongolian Foreign Ministry announced that it expected Russia to abide by a March 1990 Soviet-Mongolian agreement which stipulated that all Soviet troops would withdraw from Mongolia by Aug. 30 , 1992 [ see p. 37318 ] . |
| 4 | Irvine , California-based Western Digital Corp has filed a patent infringement suit against Conner Peripherals Inc over a patent relating to intelligent disk drives — last year Conner and Alps Electric USA Ltd bought the patents of the bankrupt PrairieTek Corp and Western Digital said it expected Conner to sue it based on two of these PrairieTek patents and on two patents developed by Conner , and its own suit is a pre-emptive strike . |
| 5 | It requested LEAs to prepare and submit to the Secretary of State plans for reorganising secondary education on comprehensive lines , and offered guidance as to methods of achieving this . |
| 6 | When the EC negotiated car imports with Japan , it asked Britain to take a 20% rise — the largest among European countries that enforce individual quotas . |
| 7 | It asked Barclays to release Brian Pearse , its finance director , to become chief executive and asked Sir Peter Walters , the former head of BP , to join him as chairman . |
| 8 | His work on it led Koops to prove that paper made from straw , wood , and recycled waste paper could be produced commercially ; this achievement earns him a place in the history of paper-making . |
| 9 | Over forty years ago , Sutherland 's ( 1940 , 1945 , 1949 ) contribution to our knowledge and understanding of corporate crime was so significant that it led Mannheim to comment that if there were a Nobel Prize for Criminology , ‘ Sutherland would have been one of the most deserving ’ ( 1965 : 470 ) . |
| 10 | It contains Panthenol to help hair regain its bounce and elasticity . |
| 11 | There is continuing speculation it wants Burmah to buy Calor Group , where it has 43 per cent . |
| 12 | It wants Brussels to consider bringing some table wine vines into its quality wine scheme . |
| 13 | While the award of the Nobel Prize will , if anything , only strengthen Peking 's resolve over Tibet , it challenges Peking to honour what it says is its readiness to open dialogue with the Dalai Lama . |
| 14 | The Jersey Championship may not be a classic , but it helped Jacklin to regain the old jaunty confidence . |
| 15 | This artificiality led to the zoom shot 's falling out of favour for all but occasional use ( how it helped Superman to fly will be discussed later on ) . |
| 16 | The United States attempt to modify its own declaration in April 1984 was an implicit acknowledgment that it believed Nicaragua to have a valid declaration . |
| 17 | It caused Edouard to feel better sometimes , but he accepted facts . |
| 18 | Steve laughed so unnaturally that it caused Ruth to widen her eyes at him with surprise . |
| 19 | It caused Aggie to say brightly , ‘ Well , I think you 'll still be lucky , because you might be seeing your ma later today . ’ |
| 20 | Of course , the irony of what he had just said escaped him , but it caused Shiona to smile a bitter inner smile . |
| 21 | Such a response seems understandable given that it allows McFaul to explain why he is at odds with the Party while still maintaining that he is loyal to its principles and to its founder , but it can not stand as a general proposition . |
| 22 | Similarly , Marshall Sahlins 's work on the Hawaiian islanders in his Islands of History , though far more acutely aware of contending multiple narratives trying to ascribe different significances to the same happenings , is also organised so that it allows Sahlins to present a narrative wherein conflicting stories/histories are mapped out in a framework which explores these histories ' interpenetrations , their assimilations of each other rather than their refusals of each other . |
| 23 | This can be useful , as it allows Goblins to drive off charging enemy units with their Fanatics , and even enemy who are not panicked into fleeing away will be severely mauled . |
| 24 | It took only a micro-second , but it told Jezrael to prepare for some movement from Kandinskaya 's left hand . |
| 25 | During this brief interregnum , it pleased Zacco to call Nicholas to St Hilarion for disputatious council meetings which occasionally ended in concord . |
| 26 | Worth US$7,000 million , it committed Iran to supply oil and gas to Ukraine in return for chemicals , concrete , pipes and other goods . |
| 27 | Then it forces Italy to remove almost 4,000 tons of offending industrial wastes from Nigerian soil . |
| 28 | It encouraged Baldersdale to look up and beyond its natural boundaries . |
| 29 | An advantage of the first point was that it allowed Galileo to say that the sacred scribes had intentionally refrained from imparting complex scientific knowledge , despite having it at their disposal . |
| 30 | Apple Computer Inc has always jealously guarded its Macintosh environment , but it made a striking gesture when it allowed IBM to build machines that would run the PowerPC version of Macintosh System when the chip is ready . |