Example sentences of "it [verb] [n mass] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find newspaper bingo even more repulsive than the cinema-hall type , because it encourages people to read newspapers for the wrong reason . |
| 2 | Using a democratic structure of rotating the roles of therapist and patient , it encourages people to express previous hurts in ways they might have done as children if that had been allowed . |
| 3 | ‘ It got people to sit down and think about these things . |
| 4 | It asked people to join ‘ a growing movement for action on the greatest issue of our times ’ . |
| 5 | Royal Bank won its first gold star when it lent £70,000 to help Mr Miller , a professional caterer , to buy a restaurant business in Hampstead , north London . |
| 6 | Changes in the way the money is distributed could mean Cheshire only getting £30m when Coun Harold Tomlins claims it needs £40m to cope with demand for services . |
| 7 | Similar exercises have been undertaken by other er governments and there 's a tremendous contrast with the way those governments have actually sought to do this , with our own government , erm no publicity whatsoever has appeared yet and again I offer the minister the chance to tell us at some later point , what the government is prepared to do to exert itself on this matter and to tell us indeed whether it wants people to register erm it is n't particularly clear whether in fact this is part of er some idea that the government has that people should n't register and I think that the minister needs to be very clear about this so that people get the message outside , because nine and a half million people did n't vote , even in the last general election . |
| 8 | On our first day of trading we took £8.36 , which delighted us , but a local health nut had eaten the geraniums and it cost £6 to replace them . |
| 9 | The thing is that I could n't cancel the draft — it cost £6.50 to get it , and would have cost another £12.00 to get it annulled . |
| 10 | The error was spotted after work began and it cost £70,000 to raise the bridge . |
| 11 | It cost £90,000 to install just this one sign . |
| 12 | ‘ I read somewhere that it cost £30,000 to do the season nowadays . |
| 13 | 200 years ago , it cost tuppence to cross the Thames at Pangbourne . |
| 14 | It cost £300,000 to build , a vast sum for the time , and Murray 's Handbook for Travellers in India , Burma , and Ceylon , with typical travel-guide hyperbole , described it as the finest railway station in India or any country . |
| 15 | In 1785 it cost £63,174 to build the 100-gun ship Victory . |
| 16 | The editor of Les Colonies , however , seized on this statement , and in an editorial in the very last issue his paper was ever to publish , tried to use it to encourage people to stay in St Pierre . |
| 17 | IF HEINZ announced that it uses people to test the taste of its baked beans , who 'd be surprised ? |
| 18 | To do this , the ‘ vocational ’ element in education is critical because it increases the skills people have for use in a variety of enterprises ; it allows people to make use of their learning . |
| 19 | It allows people to get into the story — to read , to read . |
| 20 | Sewerage charges add roughly as much again to the bill : it costs 1p to flush a toilet , and other comparative costs include : shower , 3.5p ; dishwater , 5.5p ; bath 8p ; washing machine , 11p ; garden hose for one hour , 54p . |
| 21 | John thanked the staff for their generosity and went on to explain that it costs £1.5m to run the hospice for a year . |
| 22 | It costs £40 to register , via Compu Tag ( UK ) Ltd on 0424 730760 or Polygon Insurance on 048 171 6000 . |
| 23 | It costs £40,000 to train and keep in service one Nurse for three years . |
| 24 | It costs £250m to put on racing ; punters bet £4 billion every year on the results . |
| 25 | Normally it costs £3.00 to join , but here 's the great news ! |
| 26 | It costs £20 to join and all members are shareholders . |
| 27 | It costs $200 to attend . |
| 28 | It costs £74,000 to put the 348 GT on the road and nearly as much again to take it to Le Mans . |
| 29 | Of course it costs $700 to go . |
| 30 | Secondly , as my hon. Friend the Member for Neath ( Mr. Hain ) reminded the House , the Audit Commission has said that it costs £15 to collect £8 . |