Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly the question of how much it costs to sustain at home elderly people with dementia is a very important one , but it is one which is very difficult to answer . |
| 2 | While the government may decide how much it wishes to spend on health care and it may seek to discourage employers from spending by changing tax incentives , the report said , the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from ‘ barring individuals from using their own funds or their own insurance coverage to obtain appropriate medical care ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's funny 'ow it managed to get under me hat . |
| 4 | Of course , the result was , anybody watching you timed how long it took to go from the Dock gate to sign in and put it on the spike . |
| 5 | I 'll come round when we sign the deal after we 've signed the deal I 'll sit down with you for er er fifteen minutes however long it takes to decide on the copy . |
| 6 | Second , you need to master the geography of your college and learn how long it takes to get to and from various locations . |
| 7 | A pilot-induced phugoid — shoving the stick to 10 kts over the cruise speed and seeing how long it takes to stabilise in pitch — resulted in one swoop and a small dive before VS returned to level flight . |
| 8 | Perhaps it helps to explain to parents beforehand what time is available for visits and to stick to those limits as a general rule . |
| 9 | This is essentially the same package as the DOS version of Graphics Workshop only it designed to run in windows 3.0 or higher . |
| 10 | But then it is a small step to begin thinking of ( 18 ) as very similar to ( 20 ) , and thus Containing demonstrative or indexical elements : ( 20 ) That man ( ( the speaker indicates the man drinking champagne ) ) is Lord Godolphin And so it begins to look as if definite referring expressions may in general be used either in speaker reference or in semantic ( or attributive ) reference , and it is only the context of use that tells us which way to understand them ( Donnellan , 1978 ; Kaplan , 1978 ) . |
| 11 | It 's trying to forget it , and trying to turn it into a more reassuring manifest content , so it starts to dream about it , but the latent thoughts are so disturbing it never succeeds and consequently the whole dream work , this process of disguising the latent content , just does n't get anywhere at all , except for a few minor details . |
| 12 | The music sounded so faint and far-off it seemed to come from somewhere streets away , a voice from a vanished Alexandria : |
| 13 | How long and how quickly it takes to graduate to the more interesting business of designing good advertising depends on talent and initiative . |
| 14 | Gradually it began to dawn on me that while in the celluloid world all things were possible , in the other world it was quite a different story . |
| 15 | But gradually it began to dawn on people , not only politicians but teachers and educationalists as well , that ‘ grammar school for all ’ was an absurd idea . |
| 16 | the more I worked on it the more it began to evolve into another kind of idea and the more removed it became from my initial study which had so much freedom and energy , so I stopped . |
| 17 | The more literally this is interpreted the more it seems to lead into mechanistic , one-way formulations such as behaviourism . |
| 18 | It has to do with general properties , certainly , but also it has to do with ranges of them . |
| 19 | In Sweden secrétaires de commission began to be appointed to some missions in foreign capitals from 1669 onwards , mainly it seems to provide for greater continuity in the event of the death or recall of the head of the mission . |
| 20 | Now it remains to focus on the circumstances which promote the youth 's interests and involvements in sport . |
| 21 | Now it wants to expand from what is a relatively narrow base to create other catalyst uses and processes while maintaining and even enhancing quality . |
| 22 | Unveiling the proposals , Delors called on the United Kingdom government to clarify how far it intended to go towards EMU . |
| 23 | The Library Association is increasing efforts in parliamentary lobbying but the question of how far it wants to go in challenging the use of legislation for censorship is unclear . |
| 24 | Well it started to become like er |
| 25 | At one point the bag rose so high it seemed to disappear into the night . |
| 26 | ‘ Would n't it have to stay in the station ? ’ |
| 27 | Most remarkably it continued to function under California 's midday sun , when it 's slate grey shell was too hot hold ! |
| 28 | Nothing illustrates better the fluidity of viewpoints by which we can swing towards and away from egoism , and how little it has to do with morality . |
| 29 | Strathclyde roads department says the most it expects to receive from the European Regional Development Fund in the coming financial year is £7.5 million . |
| 30 | Mostly it had to do with Time . |