Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] it [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of all this secrecy , I happen to know that it takes the form of a humorous catalogue of my supposed states of mind , arranged from one to ten like the Beaufort Scale . |
| 2 | The emphasis was now to be increasingly on service , given to and paid for by the state , which assumed the right to appoint its commanders ( this was made easier by the fact that all accepted the state 's money for service in war ) and to demand that it got the best available in return for its money . |
| 3 | ( 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 ) ? ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The EURODASS consortium led by Marconi Defence Systems Limited offered a solution , and this has been subject to rigorous scrutiny to confirm that it meets the necessary technical criteria . |
| 7 | When records are to be selected on the basis of the state of one or more attributes , a serial search concentrates on the records , examining each in turn to see if it meets the specified conditions of the search . |
| 8 | Each option which appears to be attractive must be considered and designed at least in outline to see if it meets the objectives for the project . |
| 9 | If the preceding edge is in turn completed then any partial edge preceding it is tested to see if it needs the newly completed edge etc . |
| 10 | This begins with a blue divider ; look at it first , to see if it contains the name of the statute you are after . |
| 11 | They did not demand a search for set words ; they demanded instead that a disposition be scrutinized to see if it satisfied the law of trusts ( the principles of benefit and intention were the minimal requirements ) . |
| 12 | Still , glad to hear that it pulled the President through . ’ |
| 13 | The main point is this : Flaubert thought democracy merely a stage in the history of government , and he thought it a typical vanity on our part to assume that it represented the finest , proudest way for men to rule one another . |
| 14 | Mr Cook pledged Labour would try to help if it wins the election . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm happy to help if it means the right thing is done by poor Harriet . |
| 16 | An observer sitting on the star 's surface could , in theory , trace the history of the object as it continues to shrink until it reaches the so called space-time singularity , when all its mass is concentrated into a point . |
| 17 | For the first time during Morse 's analysis , his audience was seen reluctantly to smile as it acknowledged the primacy of the perpetually belly-aching little lady from California . |
| 18 | Dimensions — The Clio feels like a larger car to drive because it has the longest wheelbase and widest track in its class . |
| 19 | A range of frequencies wide enough to ensure that it encompasses the resonant frequency of the sample v r is then examined . |
| 20 | Government has a responsibility , as well , to ensure that it promotes the common moral values that bind us together as a Nation . |
| 21 | The contents were debated , amended and finalised in a meeting of the home owners and managers to ensure that it met the needs of both participants and employers . |
| 22 | However , once the licence to sink an exploratory well was awarded to the Hamilton Oil Company , we tried to ensure that it honoured the conditions attached to the licence , prepared an adequate oil spill contingency plan and designed an operational programme which minimised the risks to the environment . |
| 23 | It can be argued that a car dealer has an implied obligation to make pre-delivery checks on a new car to ensure that it meets the manufacturer 's specification . |
| 24 | In his judgment , Nourse LJ relied on the defendant 's argument that the plaintiff had actual knowledge of the position and that the plaintiff had led the defendant to believe that it considered the fact not to be material . |
| 25 | Trevor Pinnock ensures that the music keeps moving , and never allows us to forget that it conveys the emotional meaning of the words and is not , as some interpreters would have us believe , detached from all relevance except the purity of its own sound . |
| 26 | These are precisely the questions that the peace movement has to address when it contemplates the use of law and many of these aspects are discussed in Part III of the book . |
| 27 | It is not something any pilot would wish to happen on take-off , when power is at full thrust and the plane has only begun to fly as it approaches the end of the runway . |
| 28 | Balfour would say that Austen Chamberlain should be sent for ; and , according to Birkenhead , Balfour thought that this was ‘ the right course to pursue as it gave the King one other alternative before sending for Ramsay MacDonald ’ . |
| 29 | The DTI refuses to ackowledge that it misinterpreted the EC directive saying : |
| 30 | When the whole structure is still , as it were , in two parts we have a noun phrase such that there is no reason to suppose that it has the property of the adjective ; when the structure is united we find first , that the property of the adjective does apply to the noun phrase , and , second , that the verb tells us of a temporal change . |