Example sentences of "[to-vb] [subord] it [vb -s] " 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 | 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 ? |
| 5 | ( 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 ) ? ? |
| 6 | Leave the chocolate to stand until it cools and the mixture thickens slightly . |
| 7 | The multi-product firm might be awakened to the need to innovate if it finds its price-recovery margins being eroded . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At that price bidders will need to know whether it 's still got all its the original characteristics . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The mechanism can thus be " driven " through its operating cycle to establish whether it operates correctly . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | we need to know before it 's published |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I found the metal of the cutter easy to work as it seems quite soft in comparison to the tool steel of my gouges . |
| 19 | Unfortunately it does not seem to carry much weight these days , people only want to trust when it suits them |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They say that 20 per cent of American motorists who can run cars on unleaded petrol are switching back to lead because it gives a better performance . |
| 23 | But it 's hard to talk because it makes your jaws so cold ! |
| 24 | So , you finish the conversation , and you just flick the handset , you flick the black button in other words , you do n't fully put the handset down , so you flick the black button and you make another call and the camp on does n't mature , it does n't seem to mature because it does n't seem to be long enough for the computer to recognise that the conversation has ended . |
| 25 | The first is the easiest to remember since it uses characters that are related to the name of the function the sequences is performing ( as mnemonic ) . |
| 26 | The word MACRO is easy to remember since it means being exceptionally prominent , which is surely the aim of every ambitious young person reading this book . |
| 27 | A quick glance at Ikeda 's sepulchral concrete space indicates what the gallery does hope to sell while it waits for American collectors to warm up to the cutting edge of new Japanese art . |
| 28 | ‘ The eye should learn to listen before it looks . ’ |
| 29 | It is to a degree , on the application form that each charity receives , it has to state whether it collects for people in the Oxford area , but not as a percentage . |
| 30 | It is a straight-down-the-middle view of the work , and given the number of rough edges I have to wonder whether it has anything more to offer than a dozen more successfully recorded alternatives . |