Example sentences of "it [adj] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Revenues from non-System V products such as Transaction Processing and Networking were up $5.2m or 54% , most of it attributable to Services . |
| 2 | He took his job very seriously and made me rewrite the book to make it understandable to nonscientists like himself . |
| 3 | Such an omission was not peculiar to this particular school , I realise , nor is it peculiar to schools of its particular type . |
| 4 | It is failing to make it clear to parents that the law gives them full rights to withdraw their children from religious instruction and religious observance . |
| 5 | JS advertisements made it clear to customers they could expect higher standards from Sainsbury 's . |
| 6 | I know that he will lose no opportunity to make it clear to employers and workers in that industry how devastating the prospects for their jobs would be if the Labour party 's proposals were put into effect . |
| 7 | ‘ The sentence must also make it clear to others that the law will not permit individuals of excellent character , such as yourself , to take the law into their own hands . ’ |
| 8 | The scheme has made it clear to managers that the teaching contracts represent a substantial part of each hospital 's budget , and Dr Pearson says that most managers are now very anxious to work with the medical school to ensure a good service for the students . |
| 9 | Conversely , the major benefits of privatization are likely to stem not from literally returning ownership to the private sector , but rather from associated measures which make it clear to managers that they are expected to compete effectively and efficiently . |
| 10 | The name Trail Quest is supposed to make it clear to cyclists that they should n't stray away from legal routes . |
| 11 | We must make it clear to students that they can appeal against their rent to a tribunal so that the tribunal can decide whether the landlord is overcharging them on the council tax element . |
| 12 | We think it would also be useful if the Director General of Fair Trading made it clear to traders that advocating follow-on credit is unfair , and expect ( from what they told us ) that the National Consumer Credit Federation and Consumer Credit Association would support him in persuading traders to abandon the practice . |
| 13 | Moreover , they choose to disregard the ordinary law governing the transfer of title , calling it the civil law , as if to contrast it with the criminal law and thus render it surplus to requirements . |
| 14 | Hence it was important to reduce levels of grant to make it clearer to voters what services actually cost . |
| 15 | When selecting work from queues , priority should be given to processes which modify text , and therefore make it unavailable to users ; otherwise , priority should be given to tasks which make the least use of system resources . |
| 16 | Their concern is to understand the mechanisms that keep capitalism going and make it resistant to challenges — so that they might strengthen those challenges . |
| 17 | Some leave it all to officers and concentrate on policy issues in council and committee meetings , whereas others wish to know details of particular cases and administrative decisions . |
| 18 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 19 | took it all to pieces , cleaned it up all inside it 's great , I thought right I 'll take it outside and I 'll try it now |
| 20 | None the less , its heavy dependence on exports of minerals , especially gold and diamonds ( which make up about 80 per cent of export earnings ) , make it vulnerable to fluctuations in the world market , and to sanctions imposed by some members of the international community . |
| 21 | As Dr David Owen says in his book Our NHS , by exploiting and accentuating the apparent weaknesses in the system , the media is at risk of endangering the survival of the whole service by making it unattractive to recruits of the right calibre and commitment : |
| 22 | It is important for the organ to be properly covered by insurance , but making it available to students costs little and is again an investment for the future . |
| 23 | In essence , anyone linked to the system could store information and make it available to others with suitable terminals . |
| 24 | Through collecting up-to-the-minute information on what is selling and what is n't , and then making it available to suppliers via EDI , it becomes possible to achieve a stock replenishment process that is highly responsive to customer demand . |
| 25 | This will capture information from around the world , store it in meaningful applications , and make it available to users who need it . |
| 26 | Leguminous green manures , such as clover and beans , fix atmospheric nitrogen in the soil by means of their root nodules , so making it available to plants later in the growing season . |
| 27 | They also remove the carbon and make it available to plants as carbon dioxide . |
| 28 | Is it fair to pupils in allowing equality of opportunity to all who might benefit from what is offered ? |
| 29 | But its uniqueness , its disturbing habit of making immediate and concrete things which are best revered from a distance has laid it open to charges of ‘ magic ’ or ‘ blasphemy ’ or ‘ sacrilege ’ or ‘ obscenity ’ . |
| 30 | This characterizes the prey assemblages of the three larger species of canid studied , but the bat-eared fox has only 19 per cent of the incisors in its prey assemblages lightly digested , the lowest of any of the mammals and making it equivalent to categories 1 or 2 . |