Example sentences of "[to-vb] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do they have to go where it says : Danger ? ’ |
| 2 | I 've used a balloon in Africa but you tend to go where it wants ! |
| 3 | But technology and global competition will eventually put more people to work than it makes redundant |
| 4 | Mr Ashdown reaffirmed his willingness to be flexible and to compromise if it came to negotiating with a minority government of either hue . |
| 5 | But then again , how is the individual management to know if it happens to be one of those which ought to acknowledge a responsibility to maintain or lower prices , or whether it is one of the lucky ones which can be let off that responsibility ? |
| 6 | ( 21 ) John has two PhDs +> I believe he has , and have adequate evidence that he has ( 22 ) Does your farm contain 400 acres ? +> I do n't know that it does , and I want to know if it does The first of these provides an explanation for " Moore 's paradox " , namely the unacceptability of utterances like ( 23 ) : ( 23 ) ? ? |
| 7 | Women who I had attacked for bringing up boy children wanted to know if it had been an immaculate conception or simply parthenogenesis , and what was I going to do with it if it were a boy ? |
| 8 | Leave the chocolate to stand until it cools and the mixture thickens slightly . |
| 9 | The multi-product firm might be awakened to the need to innovate if it finds its price-recovery margins being eroded . |
| 10 | McNeill was reluctant to accept because it meant asking the club for 14 tickets . |
| 11 | The counterparty to this forward contract , let us say it is a bank , may for its part be willing to transact because it has a wider , more diversified portfolio than the hedger , within which it can to some extent offset the risky prospect . |
| 12 | As I write , I make assumptions about what my reader already knows about language and language learning , about the common ground of knowledge , and what he or she can not be expected to know since it concerns the idiosyncrasies of my own view of these matters . |
| 13 | At that price bidders will need to know whether it 's still got all its the original characteristics . |
| 14 | This distinction has to be expressed morphologically , by adding a suffix to a noun or by changing its form in some other way to indicate whether it refers to one or more than one : student/students , fox/foxes , man/men , child/children . |
| 15 | She opened her bag and sifted the contents , trying to discover whether it had been searched . |
| 16 | The mechanism can thus be " driven " through its operating cycle to establish whether it operates correctly . |
| 17 | The market for conveyancing services provided to commercial firms will also be studied to establish whether it requires the same degree of self regulation as the market for domestic conveyancing . |
| 18 | However , when searching for a particular route from the ‘ z ’ , a linear search must be employed to establish whether it exists or not , which slows down the search time compared with the 26-way tree where all 26 routes are allocated . |
| 19 | we need to know before it 's published |
| 20 | Xerox Corp chairman Paul Allaire said yesterday that profit in the second quarter from its document processing business ‘ could be somewhat below ’ the $1.12 per share the unit earned in the year-ago period : Xerox said nine-tenths of its total business is in document processing , and the remainder is in insurance and financial services , and that it is in the midst of realigning its US sales force for document processing , which along with continued weak economic conditions , are affecting its results ; it expects sales momentum to increase as it realises benefits of the sales reorganisation and still expects profit growth in document processing . |
| 21 | In turn , these two characteristics permit hierarchy to meet four of any organization 's fundamental needs : to add real value to work as it moves through the organization , to identify and nail down accountability at each stage of the value-adding process , to place people with the necessary competence at each organizational layer , and to build a general consensus and acceptance of the managerial structure that achieves these ends . |
| 22 | I found the metal of the cutter easy to work as it seems quite soft in comparison to the tool steel of my gouges . |
| 23 | Why did this intervention have to come when it did ? |
| 24 | Unfortunately it does not seem to carry much weight these days , people only want to trust when it suits them |
| 25 | They would throw the ball against a wall , do one or more twirls and still have time to catch when it came down . |
| 26 | His red Renault 9 , which he bought just the week before , was seen by truck driver Mr Burrige to indicate as it slowed to turn right from a central refuge . |
| 27 | Before long what has been described aptly by one penologist as a malfunction began to appear as it became evident that suspended sentences of imprisonment were being used in place of non-custodial penalties , especially probation orders and fines . |
| 28 | However , while the fact that it does lead to the possibility of new tests makes an hypothesis worthy of investigation , it will not rank as an improvement on the problematic theory it is designed to replace until it has survived at least some of those tests . |
| 29 | The debate about the vulnerability of land-based missiles has been going on so long that a few cynics have begun to wonder if it matters all that much . |
| 30 | The truth is that it is in a dreadful state of disrepair and would have been difficult to sell unless it went to a builder who would demolish it and redevelop the site . |