Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court can make such order as it thinks fit to restore the position to what it would have been if the company had not given that preference . |
| 2 | Even at this stage conciliation is encouraged and the EAT is enabled to take such steps as it thinks fit to enable the parties to avail themselves of the opportunity for conciliation . |
| 3 | Some seed should not be covered with soil because it needs light to germinate , some needs an acid-reacting soil , and some needs a period of cold between harvest and sowing . |
| 4 | Winter savory can be grown from seed sown outdoors in August ; it should not be covered as it needs light to germinate when it will then sprout in about ten days . |
| 5 | Even though this is barely above the rate of inflation ( 6.1% ) , it stands ready to cut rates again . |
| 6 | And it looks set to see its first full-year profit drop in 28 years . |
| 7 | Here , boards can speed down the course within feet of the beach in consistent summer trade winds of up to 45 knots , and it looks set to become the ideal venue for breaking records . |
| 8 | This is the UK company 's first non-stout brand to bear the Guinness name since the launch of the eponymous stout , and it looks set to consolidate the leading position of the Guinness in-can system in the take home trade . |
| 9 | In less than a century the world of sound-recording had expanded from a plaything for amateurs to a world-wide billion-dollar industry , and it looks set to stay that way . |
| 10 | And just because it looks easy to use a mouse and icons to develop new database applications , it does n't mean that you can forget all about the coding side . |
| 11 | But ICL is determined to break into this market , and with the introduction of its Zeno range , it looks likely to succeed . |
| 12 | It is reasonable to assume that , in view of the doubt about the ambit of the section , a party wishing to escape from a contract will challenge the effectiveness of any clause which appears to be within its ambit unless it looks likely to pass the reasonableness test . |
| 13 | The mainstream right already controls the Senate , almost all the regional councils ( 19 out of 21 ) , three-quarters of the departmental councils and a majority of the municipal councils — and now it looks likely to win at least 75 per cent and possibly as much as 85 per cent of the seats in the National Assembly . |
| 14 | Called ‘ Robben Ford & Blue Line ’ ( GRS 11022 ) , it looks likely to gain him the even higher profile as a soloist he so richly deserves . |
| 15 | It fits perfectly the charm and naivety of the early to mid-fifties ; it has little to do with the self conscious posturings of the later period that Scobie wishes to impute to it ; most of all that of the ‘ Beat generation ’ , for most of the book had been written before Howl howled and junkie commenced the near-universal junketings . |
| 16 | It has little to do with the quality of his jokes or the televisual cut of his suiting , although adequate performance here is important . |
| 17 | It has little to do with local regional architecture . |
| 18 | However , there is plenty of evidence that many of the teachers whose working lives will be transformed by the introduction of LMS still think it has little to do with them . |
| 19 | This sliding-scale approach might still have relevance to the Post Office Act , on which that case turned , but it has little to do with obscenity as defined in the 1959 Act . |
| 20 | Western society places the highest value on the most abstract , thus creating an elitism which means many people feel alienated from mathematics , and , apart from small groups , feel it has little to do with their lives . |
| 21 | As a thrilling spectacle it has little to offer , but as a powerful totem it is almost unique in its place in European and western culture . |
| 22 | It sometimes happens that a business is well disposed to the idea of partnership but it feels it has little to offer ; just to offer time may be very helpful and can bring dividends for both the partners . |
| 23 | Apart from this it has little to recommend it , as it consists of a chain of dim stars extending from near the head of Cetus into the region south of the Square of Pegasus . |
| 24 | As a theory , it has little to contribute to our reflective self-understanding of ourselves as agents of inquiry . |
| 25 | The many criticisms that have been made of this body of work will be recognised , but again we will be arguing that it has much to teach us , especially as regards incorporating an understanding of instinctive behaviour into an understanding of social relations and moral careers . |
| 26 | So of his falling in love with Mrs Moore we are merely informed that ‘ even if I were free to tell the story , I doubt if it has much to do with the subject of this book , ’ and of his father 's death in the late summer of 1929 that this ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 27 | It is clear that reading is a dynamic activity in which the reader is actively involved — that it has much to do with the reader 's thought processes . |
| 28 | Referring to ‘ active citizenship ’ as defined by Douglas Hurd , he wrote : ‘ As a platitude it has much to commend it . |
| 29 | Despite my reservations about some aspects of the book , I do believe that it has much to commend it . |
| 30 | It has much to commend it . |