Example sentences of "it [verb] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It comes with its own good reviews in the form of sleevenotes which make amusingly extravagant claims , including that it is a record about ‘ how you sometimes feel like the sky will peel away like a mask and reveal something more brilliant behind ’ , which may tell some of you not just a little of how this record sounds , but how it got to sound that way too . |
| 2 | ‘ What does it want to do that for ? ’ |
| 3 | It offers to show that practice in its best light , to deploy some argument why law on that conception provides an adequate justification for coercion . |
| 4 | But then if it 's twenty or thirty it stands to reason that 's probably about the same |
| 5 | Cos it has to do that . |
| 6 | ‘ It does n't matter who you are , it has to take that period of time . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's only after that that someone like myself would look for technical skill , but it has to have that initial force to grab your attention , 99% of the time . ’ |
| 8 | Saying it helped to quell that flicker of excitement . |
| 9 | And it helped to maintain that crazy '70s wartime austerity , by forcing millions of us to flush the lavatory with our bathwater , boil potatoes in the fish pond and wait in yet more queues , this time for standpipe water . |
| 10 | It seemed to create that relationship , that tension between the audience and the performers which you got in a theatre , in a music-hall , but not usually in a cinema . |
| 11 | The court appeared to disagree with Goulding J at first instance in that it seemed to say that confidential information which can not be described as a " business secret " ( in the narrow sense of that phrase ) could not be protected by an express clause . |
| 12 | ICI fertilizers is also Europe 's leading liquid CO2 producer and it intends to stay that way , selling some 400,000 tonnes per year of product to industries as diverse as nuclear power and soft drinks . |
| 13 | I 'll give you a fair fight if that 's what it takes to cool that hot head of yours . ’ |
| 14 | When their paths crossed years later at Manchester United , Morgan admits that he ‘ thought the world of The Doc ’ but slowly , bit by bit , it began to emerge that Docherty was mistreating some players and scheming against others . |
| 15 | Instead of rapidly expanding the ranks of the Party , it threatened , in their view , to reduce them ; instead of bridging the gap between a party dominated by members of the intelligentsia and the working masses , it threatened to institutionalize that gap . |
| 16 | The proposed broadening of the granting of investment aids for the purpose of protecting and improving the environment ( part of Article 3 ) is to be welcomed although it does not appear to square with the basic investment aid objectives of such plans because it appears to mean that environmental investment per se will qualify for support , even if not part of an agricultural improvement . |
| 17 | Right okay so again it 's just a simple idea that shows you an awful lot how long would it take to put that back together ? |
| 18 | It seems to allow that , although we must begin and end with appearances , we might find it possible and advantageous in doing so to interpose conjectures about their hidden causes . |
| 19 | This would seem to run counter to the idea that receptor activation initiates a cascade of diverging biochemical pathways that conspire to produce an effect ( cell division , in this case ) ; and it seems to require that multiple kinases phosphorylate a small number of substrates , which , in turn , feed signals into a smaller number of Ras activators . |
| 20 | It seems to work that way . |
| 21 | The NFFO will be set annually by the Department of Energy ; it aims to guarantee that new electricity distribution companies in England and Wales use a certain amount of renewable souces to generate power . |
| 22 | When the EC wanted to ratify the Basle convention , it decided to extend that principle to trade by EC members with non-OECD countries . |
| 23 | Thursday dawned bright and blue and it decided to stay that way all day through . |
| 24 | However , insofar as it purports to strengthen that belief , the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act is to be welcomed . |
| 25 | So it helps to put that in the brackets . |
| 26 | It helps to put that in a smaller bracket , when I go three times that , minus that . |
| 27 | It 's a pity it had to happen that way . |
| 28 | it had to change that for me , cos it was so big the other one |
| 29 | And therefore , it takes one element and er it it erm it it seeks to highlight that particular element . |
| 30 | If it manages to make that charge stick , it will have got itself a powerful vote-winner . |