Example sentences of "it [verb] [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 | Instead , it encourages students to act out confrontations , such as a US Soviet conflict over oil in disputed territory , without resorting to nuclear attack . |
| 3 | It encourages judges to decide and act on their own views . |
| 4 | It encourages learners to explore and experiment with language , but at the same time provides security and support through a clearly structured syllabus . |
| 5 | And here , ICMS goes even further than prevention ; it encourages growers to take positive action to enhance the environment by , for example , establishing wildlife strips to harbour natural predators or creating wildlife ponds to encourage wildlife diversity . |
| 6 | It encourages individuals to make a personal pledge to change their lives in a way that minimises their impact on the environment — each of the eight pledges shown here will make a real difference . |
| 7 | It encourages pupils to approach them from angles not considered by other subjects or forms of study in the curriculum . |
| 8 | I find newspaper bingo even more repulsive than the cinema-hall type , because it encourages people to read newspapers for the wrong reason . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | All is not lost for the Albion works , as it supplies axles to DAF 's Belgian factory at Westerlo , which will continue in operation . |
| 11 | ‘ It got people to sit down and think about these things . |
| 12 | Novell has said it expected Univel to do over $5m worth of business during the quarter just closed . |
| 13 | 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 ] . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He thought it wasted time to have official committees pre-processing options before they came before ministerial groups . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | From here it goes east to pass to the north of Cawston before arriving in Aylesham . |
| 18 | In January 1987 , it asked suppliers to increase their productivity by 5% a year , for five years . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It asked governments to abolish nuclear bombs , and wished for the strengthening of the United Nations . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It asked people to join ‘ a growing movement for action on the greatest issue of our times ’ . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | More ambitiously , it appointed envoys to present their views directly to the politicians . |
| 25 | Would n't it make would n't it make sense to set aside a figure annually for advertising beyond which you do n't go . |
| 26 | Does it make sense to suppose that , as in The Andromeda Strain , members of a crew sent out to recover a satellite would be infected and killed by an exobiological organism it carried ? |
| 27 | Does it make sense to suggest that acellular creatures evolved out of a ‘ reality ’ which is relative only to a human-style perceptive system of mind and sense organ ? |
| 28 | And if Unix is destined to dominate mainstream data processing , does n't it make sense to run it at the desktop as well — why have two different — and ultimately competing — operating system worlds when the expressed ideal is to have everything working seamlessly together from desktop to the multiprocessor servers that threaten to supplant the monolithic mainframe ? |
| 29 | The funds made available through the Farm and Horticultural Development Scheme will be a sound national investment but does it make sense to embark on a programme with a possibility that perhaps after six years the land might be allocated to forestry ? |
| 30 | Does it make sense to buy an annuity ? |