Example sentences of "it [vb past] [noun] [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 | ‘ It got people to sit down and think about these things . |
| 3 | Novell has said it expected Univel to do over $5m worth of business during the quarter just closed . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He thought it wasted time to have official committees pre-processing options before they came before ministerial groups . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In January 1987 , it asked suppliers to increase their productivity by 5% a year , for five years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It asked governments to abolish nuclear bombs , and wished for the strengthening of the United Nations . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It asked people to join ‘ a growing movement for action on the greatest issue of our times ’ . |
| 13 | The Hong Kong government fears the market may be thinking the same way : in late April it announced legislation to formalise the power of local banks to pay negative interest rates on Hong Kong dollar deposits ( just as Swiss banks did at one time when the Swiss wanted to discourage an inflow of foreign money into the Swiss franc ) . |
| 14 | More ambitiously , it appointed envoys to present their views directly to the politicians . |
| 15 | It recommended steps to prevent further growth there and to encourage dispersal of both people and jobs to other parts of the Kingdom . |
| 16 | It recommended fellow-prisoners to occupy their time to the best advantage , such as attending a talk on ‘ The Poetry of T. S. Eliot ’ , and there was a sketch of a man studiously reading a book with this title . |
| 17 | The Church of Ireland rejoined in 1860 , because it lacked funds to continue its own system . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | As every flat needs to have these service spaces , and such spaces occupy a fixed minimum area in a flat of any size , it made sense to maximise this internal accommodation in order to utilise fully the broad interior , and this was achieved by making the majority of flats one-bedroom or bedsitter units . |
| 22 | Perhaps under the circumstances it made sense to remain in the one place . |
| 23 | It made sense to leave them where they would be used . |
| 24 | If he was going to adopt this strategy , it made sense to do so as soon as possible — before new legislative elections renewed parliament 's mandate and while Algeria was still fresh in people 's memories . |
| 25 | Nine out of 10 said it made sense to carry condoms ‘ just in case ’ . |
| 26 | He was already out there , virtually his spiritual home according to his team-mates back in Taunton , and it made sense to put him on alert . |
| 27 | During the 18 years they had lived in Sion House in Tunbridge Wells they had grown accustomed to its neo-classical spaciousness , but since two of their four children had married and left home it made sense to move to somewhere smaller . |
| 28 | WITH the Mantes operation committed to specialist and innovative products , it made sense to move the OPP pilot line to France from Bridgwater in the UK . |
| 29 | Asked whether , in this increasingly environment-conscious world it made sense to use expensive oak or metal caskets , Miss Vincent said . |
| 30 | The first decision was clearly whether it made sense to concentrate all our resources behind the two core businesses , without foods . |