Example sentences of "it [prep] [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MGM is already in default on $600m of loans from Credit Lyonnais and is totally dependent on it for capital to finance its day-to-day operations . |
| 2 | Using the yeast model , they have demonstrated different effects with different degrees of succussion and have also shown that the rest period between finishing the succussion of one potency and sampling it for dilution to prepare the next potency is important . |
| 3 | When he took Nicandra 's plate away he held it for Maman to see , hoping perhaps that a little annoyance might irritate her back to liveliness . |
| 4 | You may need it as evidence to support your claim . |
| 5 | Perhaps he wants it as credit to set against his future crimes . ’ |
| 6 | I 've simplified it as information to save time . |
| 7 | You may feel it worth while to spend a year abroad . |
| 8 | Even so , some mammal parents still find it worth while to deposit their babies in a creche . |
| 9 | He found it worth while to put himself to the trouble of finishing touches . |
| 10 | Even to-day I am still surprised that our history master should have thought it worth while to include in his course a class in Plato 's Republic … or that our English master should take me to his home to show me his excellent library and especially his fine editions of Blake and Donne . |
| 11 | Evidently , people in this street were used to strange cars being parked and nobody had thought it worth while to ring the police , despite the fact that the doors bristled with Neighbourhood Watch signs . |
| 12 | As Mr Hart himself asked in a letter to The Times : ‘ In the face of so pellucid a Parliamentary intention , how was it that the Revenue not only thought it worth while to try it on , but actually found two courts to agree with it ? ’ |
| 13 | No one seems to have any idea why ; but hardly anyone seems to have thought it worth while to try to find out … |
| 14 | ‘ To Lawrence , the world is intrinsically a beautiful place , yet we will turn it into filth to get a smaller and less beautiful object out of it . ’ |
| 15 | My staff erected ladders to enable the riggers to patch up the envelope and refill it with gas to obtain lift . |
| 16 | When the dashing Cigognes arrived they pounced with glee on the dispersed German planes flying up and down in the ‘ barrage ’ , tearing through it with impunity to shoot up the Drachen balloons , the vital eyes of the German artillery . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ One has to keep it under review to see what the need might be . ’ |
| 18 | It comes complete with all fittings for usual tap-threads , and all you will need is a wrench to tighten it in position to comply with the law — incidentally , a fine of up to £400 can be imposed for non-compliance with the law ! |
| 19 | Enormous efforts are being made by motor and oil industries around the world to clean up diesel 's act and get it in shape to meet the stringent emission standards coming into force before the start of the 21st century . |
| 20 | Let's take it in tun to tell each other about our families , our interests and hobbies and things like that . |
| 21 | The objection need not represent the judge 's real opinion ; he makes it in order to see how the student counsel responds . |
| 22 | There are some types of case which it can not sustain , and some which do not need it in order to remain at home ; but there is a group — those with relatively severe dementia , probably living alone , and unable to receive the care they need from elsewhere ( usually because they do not have able and willing involved relatives ) who appear unlikely to have remained at home had it not been for the involvement of the Home Support Project . |
| 23 | In the second part , Larry internalizes the discursive metaphor and deploys it in order to describe psychological phenomena . |
| 24 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the two essential components for a policy of nuclear deterrence are that one possesses the capability and that a potential enemy does not doubt one 's willingness to use it in order to defend oneself ? |
| 25 | She feels she is on the verge of some interesting illumination here , but has to abandon it in order to search for Brian , to ask him to fasten the back of her dress : if she does not leave soon , she will be late for her early arrival , and moreover she has promised to meet Esther Breuer at eight thirty precisely on the corner of Harley Street and Weymouth Street . |
| 26 | The man 's hairy arm had strayed across into her space , and she had to move it in order to lie down . |
| 27 | Cautiously he approached the smouldering heap , stood over it , and wondered if he could nerve himself to touch it in order to turn it over . |
| 28 | ‘ Is it in order to ask how you know ? ’ |
| 29 | You say that I have the endurance — you say it in order to give me strength . |
| 30 | Now and then he was obliged to curb it in order to give a chance to the bluebells and the wood anemones , which were both getting sparse to the point of extinction . |