Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [indef pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never use plonk — it contributes nothing to the recipe and can ruin a dish . |
| 2 | It alerts one to the importance of contextual factors such as those relating to the institution 's regulations , resources and ethos . |
| 3 | Now , after every Hong Kong citizen with a television set has seen how Peking treats its dissenters , it offers nothing to a public whose mood has become one of restrained panic . |
| 4 | The secret of Proudfoot 's success is hard to encapsulate but it owes something to its leadership in productivity consultancy , advice which is likely to have enduring appeal when times are hard . |
| 5 | It owes everything to the puppets but the tongue is firmly in the cheek for this production of Thunderbirds … |
| 6 | It is not quite the setting the founders of the game envisaged but it has something to be said for it . |
| 7 | These two paragraphs are quoted in his book Modern Fantasy by Dr C. N. Manlove , who then goes straight on as usual to spearhead the critical assault and declare : and Dr Manlove goes on to cite a well-known Ubi sunt passage from the Old English poem and to observe that ‘ This is real elegy , for it has something to be elegiac about ’ . |
| 8 | This is because physical science can be superior as a method of investigation and scholarship only if it has something to be superior to . |
| 9 | It adds nothing to our understanding , Skinner argues , to talk of its frame of mind . |
| 10 | If reliability is defined in terms of the production of truth , it adds nothing to the first condition once we restrict our attention to the particular case . |
| 11 | If it is defined in terms of justification , it adds nothing to the third . |
| 12 | Reg. v. Grant and Hewitt , 12 J.L.R. 585 , although it adds nothing to the established principles , is an example of inconsistent previous statements wrongly withheld by the Crown at the trial but properly , if belatedly , disclosed on appeal , so that a conviction depending on evidence of identification was quashed for want of a fair trial . |
| 13 | Do you not think that I mean the people who were saying keep them there they 're saying it adds something to what 's in the city centre do you not agree ? |
| 14 | I think we might need to look at that one very carefully to see whether it adds anything to the er criteria . |
| 15 | ‘ Because the music that they constantly play , it says nothing to me about my life . ’ |
| 16 | It takes one to the high , isolated polar desert at the height of the summer season . |
| 17 | Now , amongst varied voluntary work she enthusiastically organises and participates in orienteering , ‘ It is a good family sport and it takes one to interesting and beautiful places in this country and abroad ’ . |
| 18 | It takes as fact that employers , judges and Tory legislators can do no wrong , and so it is hardly surprising that it finds nothing to be said in favour of trade unions . |
| 19 | In other words , it attributes everything to one specific event and draws all its consequences from that one event . |
| 20 | Used as in this instance , it helps one to ‘ see the wood for the trees ’ . |
| 21 | Beyond this , current sensations converge with knowledge and memory and desire to make sense of the experience of the present : I not only experience this object but I recognize it — as something of a certain kind ; as yours , as mine , as something I have seen before ; and it means something to me in terms of my appetites and needs and ambitions . |
| 22 | Although you look far too pretty to suffer from the present malaise , you might find it means something to your generation . ’ |
| 23 | Unless it means something to you it 's not really much point . |
| 24 | Erm then you gradually get used to it , and when you read it , you 've read it several times , it means something to you then . |
| 25 | ‘ Of course it means something to me — but I know you 'll survive . |
| 26 | pi means , hopefully , it means something to you now . |
| 27 | And it means nothing to the layman , two Greek words meaning ‘ grey ’ and ‘ marrow ’ , so we 've given it an easier name , infantile paralysis , which at least is English . ’ |
| 28 | It means nothing to her . |
| 29 | ‘ If I smile at him , it 's because it means nothing to me . |
| 30 | ‘ It means nothing to me . ’ |