Example sentences of "[vb base] it to [be] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did people expect it to be liquified and work on it until it happened , or was it just an accidental discovery ? |
| 2 | We expect the law to be enforced , we expect it to be held because every citizen who lives under that law may change it . |
| 3 | Handy for determined sceptics , ex-members of the Socialist Workers Party , liberal intellectuals who want it to be known that there are more important things in life than just getting a green certificate . |
| 4 | The congress organizer , Sammy Macfoy , said that the CAR was " not afraid " of a multiparty system , adding : " No-one has rejected it , but we want it to be controlled and devoid of excesses . " |
| 5 | If , by contextual manipulation , we can reduce the apparent oddness , or at least cause it to be perceived as communicatively appropriate , then we can take it that we are dealing with a semantic deviance ( although the involvement of grammatical elements can not be ruled out ) . |
| 6 | It is the people , the parliament actually , because the Emir when he proposes a cabinet the parliament can accept the cabinet , or change , or request it to be changed and even the Prime Minister , which is proposed or nominated by the Emir , the cabinet has to approve him , and together they they run the business of the government . |
| 7 | On the contrary , Montaigne argues that the legal procedures common in the Europe of his day by which " under the cloak of piety and religion … neighbours and fellow citizens [ were allowed ] to tear by rack and torture a body still full of feeling , to roast it by degrees and then give it to be trampled and eaten by dogs and swine " were a more horrible form of savagery than anything he had described as prevailing among the Brazilian cannibals . |
| 8 | Where the petitioner is found not to be entitled to have presented a petition or wished to withdraw his petition or allow it to be dismissed or fails to attend on the hearing , the court may substitute as petitioner any creditor who has given notice of intention to appear , wishes to prosecute the petition and is a creditor who would at the date of presentation of the petition have been in a position himself to present a petition against the debtor ( ie is presently owed more than £750 ) ( r 6.30 ) . |
| 9 | It was argued before the Court that this was contrary to the fundamental principle that products must freely move throughout the Community , The European Court of Justice agreed and held that once a product had been lawfully produced and marketed in a member state , other member states must recognise that fact and allow it to be imported and sold in its own territory . |
| 10 | The postcode to Enumeration District directory and the digitised boundary data enable it to be mapped and compared with data compiled on a different geographical basis , an aid which has not been available for censuses prior to 1981 . |
| 11 | ‘ We , the undersigned , wish it to be known that we utterly condemn the evil and inhuman system of slave labour . |
| 12 | PI Associates , sole manufacturers of PolyPads , wish it to be known that Bridlesuite of Lanarkshire have never been supplied with or ever stocked genuine PolyPads . |
| 13 | ‘ You think I wish it to be known that I brought a traitor here ? ’ |
| 14 | We wish it to be known that the mosquito is no relation to the Gadfly . |
| 15 | However , I would net wish it to be thought that this was necessarily a unique example . |