Example sentences of "it [vb infin] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A corporate publication produced on behalf of a distinguished client wo n't want to appear flash , but nor will it want to risk seeming stuffy and behind the times . |
| 2 | ‘ What does it want to do that for ? ’ |
| 3 | Old reflexes and outsider instincts , along with its army 's need for cash ( see page 76 ) , make it want to duck great-power responsibilities and go on quietly selling dangerous nuclear technologies to the Irans of the world , and missiles and other advanced equipment to rogue regimes anywhere . |
| 4 | Will it be used mainly at night , or does it need to look fresh for breakfast , serviceable for lunch and intimate for dinner parties ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | What does it do to help these people find common cause with each other ? |
| 7 | What good does it do to knock foreign governments and aid agencies who are at least trying to help ( Keynote and The new missionaries ) ? |
| 8 | What harm could it do to play this little game another few minutes ? |
| 9 | And in fact the greater the difference is , the less easy does it become to dismiss one of the differing parties as a mere inadequate version of the other . |
| 10 | The Shamir administration refrained , however , from challenging for the time being the apparent PLO involvement with the Jordanian-Palestinian delegation , nor did it decide to use this as grounds for withdrawing from the conference . |
| 11 | " How much will it cost to replace those two beams ? " |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | So how much would it take to cause tremendous damage in this country — would they need gallons of it or not ? |
| 14 | How many hours does it take to go seven hundred and five miles at forty seven miles per hour ? |
| 15 | How long will it take to make these reductions ? |
| 16 | She felt the light , warm caress of his breath on her cheek as he bent his head and murmured tauntingly , ‘ Just how much heat does it take to melt broken glass ? ’ |
| 17 | So what , he was asked , would it take to keep Third Division football at Feethams next season ? |
| 18 | If a man drinks 6 pints of beer in fairly rapid succession , about how long will it take to clear all the alcohol from his body ? a. 6 hours b. 9 hours c. 11 hours d. 13 hours |
| 19 | Does it have to take another oil disaster like the Braer tanker , before Britain acts ? |
| 20 | Make it pleasant , you know , and have to do summat you know , just to make it have to get nice mirrors up on wall and |
| 21 | Did n't it have to survive first though ? |
| 22 | So she was pressing the wrong keys ; did it have to make such a racket ? |
| 23 | It does not take much imagination to conjure up the kinds of arguments that EDF will introduce should it wish to inhibit serious competition to itself . |
| 24 | After 1999 , Aegon will be able to inject any amount of new capital and should this be approved by the voting trust — which must be likely should it wish to generate more profits through business growth for the with-profits policyholders — then the with-profits fund must match Aegon 's injections ( which must be considered unlikely given the huge resources Aegon has access to ) or see its stake in the company diluted . |
| 25 | Instead of these days being taken together in the spring when the estimates were published , ‘ supply days ’ were scattered throughout the session so that the Opposition , which is allowed to choose the subjects , could always have some time available should it wish to raise some immediate aspect of government policy . |
| 26 | How may it attempt to overcome these difficulties ? |
| 27 | Does it tend to look limp and lifeless no matter how much time you spend styling it . |
| 28 | What , after all , does it mean to understand any culture , including one 's own , whatever that might be in ethnic , class , or any other terms ? |
| 29 | Nor did it seem to make any difference to ability to perform everyday activities ( such as selecting the correct coins for shopping ) which were poor for many in both samples . |
| 30 | Not only did it fail to achieve all the gains on which it seemed to be calculating in embarking on the assault , but it sustained one particularly debilitating blow in the course of it . |