Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [noun sg] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japan , which has no fossil fuel reserves of its own , wants to stockpile plutonium because it believes that it can develop the technology to transform it into plentiful and cheap electricity . |
| 2 | Want to tell daddy if it 's gone . |
| 3 | I shall never go to the Ivory Tower , that 's the most despicable thing , to choose to leave life because it does n't suit you . |
| 4 | While UVA is about one-tenth as strong as UVB , it does appear to accentuate damage when it works with UVB . |
| 5 | According to this interpretation , the associability of each stimulus element might be expected to decline as it becomes associated with others , just as a CS as a whole is thought to lose associability as it becomes linked with a US . |
| 6 | He was going to have fun if it killed him , to coin a phrase . |
| 7 | It can also be used to prevent disease before it takes hold . |
| 8 | A witness said : ‘ Two engines cut out and the plane started to eject fuel as it lost height . |
| 9 | The example a few hundred yards upstream cuts through the neck of an entrenched meander , but it is some 100 m ( 330 ft ) long so that considerable modification will have to take place before it becomes a true natural arch of the Ardèche type , if it ever does . |
| 10 | If people believe that the pound is likely to appreciate , they will want to hold sterling until it does appreciate . |
| 11 | A straw poll covering 40 London restaurants and two large liquor-store chains unearthed only one outlet not intending to re-order Perrier when it becomes available again . |
| 12 | The chair of the NEC said that it was forced to take action after it uncovered widespread irregularities and blatant corruption on the part of both recognized political parties — the National Republican Convention ( NRC ) and the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) . |
| 13 | It continued to lose weight until it caught the attentioin of a neighbour who reported to the RSPCA that winter . |
| 14 | Melman told the tale of an American car parts manufacturer where one plant elected to perpetuate Taylorism when it installed computers , and the other agreed ( as a condition of collective bargaining ) to train workers to program , In the first plant , workers were designated ‘ operators ’ and paid $12–50 an hour ; when their machine malfunctions they nip the on-off switch and call in a repairman . |
| 15 | However , most boards tended to extract material when it suited them and rarely adhered to the time-scale or suggestions for different kinds of activity . |
| 16 | ‘ But I have to take Undry where it belongs . ’ |