Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may lead to vomiting or haemorrhage . |
| 2 | Unless this means actual ballot-rigging , it must refer to bribing people not to put their names forward at deme level for the ballot for the Council ; the candidate who ‘ eagerly put his name forward ’ according to Lysias ( xxxi. 33 ) is evidence that this stage of the process was voluntary . |
| 3 | But market research , opinion polls and academic ‘ advisors ’ confirmed politicians in their belief that it might contribute to swaying the decision of the 3–4 per cent of ‘ floating ’ electors ; these votes could decide the election . |
| 4 | Er , I should like to the names next month and I hope you 'll all support us because the numbers are going down and if we do n't get sufficient numbers , it 'll have to cancelled like the Torbay one . |
| 5 | But any suggestion that it could lead to leaving the NHS , whose headquarters move to Leeds next year , gets short shrift . |
| 6 | But I did n't think it would extend to massacring . ’ |
| 7 | Consideration of some of the justifications advanced for it will lead to casting doubts on its cogency . |
| 8 | It is said to help people in sleeping , but whilst it may get people off to sleep more quickly it can lead to waking later at night . |
| 9 | It is in terms of such a paradigm — broadly conceived , and preferred among the diverse methodological orientations that I discussed in the Introduction for its greater fruitfulness and explanatory potential — that I have analysed political movements , change and conflict throughout this book ; and in these final pages I should like to consider briefly the contribution it can make to understanding the present state of the world and its likely evolution in a medium-term future of two or three decades . |
| 10 | For while they always emphasized the special qualities of literature , and in particular the idea that the meaning or effect of literature can not be explained by a process of reduction to ordinary modes of expression , the New Critics also insisted on its connections with the ‘ real ’ world , and on the contribution it can make to coping with the problems of everyday human existence . |