Example sentences of "it [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ It does n't matter who you are , it has to take that period of time . |
| 32 | ‘ The National Grid does not own the land on which the pylons are to be built and it has to negotiate some form of agreement with the landowner , ’ he said . |
| 33 | Additionally , because the bridle will be wrapped in with the kite , and handled frequently , it has to withstand more abuse than the kitelines . |
| 34 | It has to absorb all the liquid it requires through its skin . |
| 35 | Note that baths and shower trays have a low waste trap , so there will be problems getting sufficient fall on the waste pipe if it has to run all the way across a room under floorboards . |
| 36 | Often as not it has to make several passes through the gravel before all of the suspended matter is finally trapped in the gravel . |
| 37 | So of course I hope that Iran will use what influence it has to get those hostages released . ’ |
| 38 | The problem for the potential incumbent is that it has to get enough customers signed up to enable the prices quoted to be profitable . |
| 39 | No action is deviant in itself : it has to excite some reaction from others . |
| 40 | ‘ It has to end some time , Ace . |
| 41 | If our style is reserved and peaceful , a gentle climax is enough , but if we are forceful and aggressive , it has to have much more duration , body , and weight . |
| 42 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 43 | However , many wo n't learn just any song they happen to hear — it has to have some resemblance to the typical species song . |
| 44 | The aim was to save animals who bolted during the blitz — it promised to return any lost animal to its owner . |
| 45 | It 's no good just saying you can report fraud er to er t t to the regulator , they should also be responsible to the shareholders , the stake holders , everybody involved er in er er er a company er and in fact er they are n't they have really responsibility to no one except the directors er who appoint them , the company share holders are given very little information , the choice of auditors er is firmly in the director 's director 's hands , the depositors , the consumers , the employees er have no say er in the appointment of er auditors and more important the recent legal cases for instance and the Al Saudi Bank er er and Berg er sons er and company also decided that er auditors do n't owe a duty of care er to individual shareholders , potential investors , the current or potential creditors er even though that information is supposed to be there to help markets understand what is happening to that committee and the government showed no indication that it wants to reverse these judgements , it should reverse them , there should be specific responsibilities attached to er auditors to give them a duty of care er so that we get the information er and er spend more widely and the share holders and the stake holders know what 's going on er er er as well as er the bank or the financial er institution er itself . |
| 46 | Now it wants to stimulate more investment by reducing the bureaucracy and allowing foreigners to have a controlling interest in hotel and tourist developments . |
| 47 | Saying it helped to quell that flicker of excitement . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Japan , which would be the only remaining IWC member in favour of whaling if Norway left , says that it plans to use this year 's meeting , to be held in Kyoto , to " press for the resumption of commercial whaling around Japan and in the northern Atlantic " . |
| 50 | Westlake Village , California-based Delphi Information Systems Inc says it plans to acquire all of the outstanding stock of Continental Systems Inc of East Lansing , Michigan for about 446,000 shares of Delphi common stock , worth $3m . |
| 51 | Still devoid of a current top-line superstar as a number one driver , it plans to contest these rallies with its test driver Stig Blomqvist , gaining full experience for a full championship season in 1992 . |
| 52 | Novell Japan already claims 500 registered outlets to which it plans to add some more dealers with Unix experience . |
| 53 | Corel Corp , Ottawa cut the price on CorelDraw 3 to $200 from $400 in preparation for the launch of CorelDraw 4 : it says it plans to market both versions simultaneously . |
| 54 | As allopurinol did not inhibit the growth of L. casei nor interfere with the growth of experimental tumours , nor did it appear to have any other properties which made it unsuitable , it received further investigation in man . |
| 55 | I know Japan is the country everyone points to , but it is the favourite one because it happens to show all the deficiencies of forecasting and combatting rivalry that are available . |
| 56 | Last week , it seemed to matter enough for Mr Hurd to hint that the Government would refuse to ratify if the amendment prevailed . |
| 57 | She wanted to do things for him — it seemed to give some purpose to her life to have somebody depending even a little on her . |
| 58 | After the war it seemed to lose some of its attraction . |
| 59 | The Trotskyist movement reflected the traditions of the pre-Revolutionary Russian Socialist groups , from which it seemed to draw much of its inspiration and terminology . |
| 60 | He says that it seemed to take more than half an hour . |