Example sentences of "it [verb] [indef pn] to the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I never use plonk — it contributes nothing to the recipe and can ruin a dish . |
| 2 | It alerts one to the importance of contextual factors such as those relating to the institution 's regulations , resources and ethos . |
| 3 | It owes everything to the puppets but the tongue is firmly in the cheek for this production of Thunderbirds … |
| 4 | If reliability is defined in terms of the production of truth , it adds nothing to the first condition once we restrict our attention to the particular case . |
| 5 | If it is defined in terms of justification , it adds nothing to the third . |
| 6 | Reg. v. Grant and Hewitt , 12 J.L.R. 585 , although it adds nothing to the established principles , is an example of inconsistent previous statements wrongly withheld by the Crown at the trial but properly , if belatedly , disclosed on appeal , so that a conviction depending on evidence of identification was quashed for want of a fair trial . |
| 7 | I think we might need to look at that one very carefully to see whether it adds anything to the er criteria . |
| 8 | It owed something to the atmosphere of Leo XIII 's innovation ( but even in 1893 Loisy , a leading French biblical scholar and modernist , had lost his chair at Paris , and an encyclical had been published affirming the complete inerrancy of the Bible ) . |
| 9 | Change was a mass movement ; it owed nothing to the puny efforts of the individual . |
| 10 | It takes one to the high , isolated polar desert at the height of the summer season . |
| 11 | And it means nothing to the layman , two Greek words meaning ‘ grey ’ and ‘ marrow ’ , so we 've given it an easier name , infantile paralysis , which at least is English . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm just you 're just making me think actually because I saw in one of the papers this morning erm a headline , if I can find it , it said something to the effect that — yes here it is , in the Independent , it says ‘ TV soaps are first to survive rescheduling ’ and it goes on to tell us that the British television schedules as we all know were the first casualties of war in the Gulf except for the nation 's daily diet of Australian soap . |