Example sentences of "what it [vb -s] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " We 'll do what it takes to invest in America 's future . |
| 2 | Has the little hatchback got what it takes to succeed in one of Europe 's toughest markets ? |
| 3 | What it takes to succeed in the PC market differs sharply from that for mainframe computers . |
| 4 | We are beginning to wonder what it what it takes to engage in good faith negotiations as a business with the state of California , if all it takes is one person to get up , make some kind of scurrilous allegations , and throw the entire bidding in into cast some kind of doubt upon it . |
| 5 | They have what it takes to exist for millions of years , and that is why they are still here today . |
| 6 | Bangor have proved they have what it takes to challenge for the major honours but they have never won the league or the cup . |
| 7 | Winner of the great race in 1978 with Lucius and then with Hallo Dandy in 1984 , Richards knows what it takes to win round Liverpool and do n't forget he was successful with The Antartex over the Aintree fences last year . |
| 8 | I do not know what it means to talk about conservation while idling away one 's leisure time in the killing of pheasants , foxes , deer and hares . |
| 9 | How does this understanding of God 's transcendence clarify what it means to talk of the divine immanence or presence ? |
| 10 | He learns what it means to talk of Truth through its use in the religious context of Hindu tradition and culture . |
| 11 | Similarly , it is as a participant in the Hindu way of life that he understands what it means to talk of Religion ; he understands the meaning of the term Religion from its use in his own form of life . |
| 12 | To understand this , one has to think along certain lines , about what it means to talk of a sensation being in a certain part of one 's body . |
| 13 | Young people with backpacks and habitual travellers may know what it means to go on a journey , but for most the romance of escape begins with deciding where to go on holiday and then getting there as quickly as possible . |
| 14 | These two-dimensional planes cutting through nine-dimensional genetic space give some feeling for what it means to walk through Biomorph Land . |
| 15 | Unless users are involved in helping to define what it means to work in an empowering way , in the training which enables this to happen and in other ways in the planning , delivery and evaluation of services , it will be another case of users being ‘ done to ’ by professionals . |
| 16 | Our political allies in the Labour Party should spell out exactly what it means to work in an unsafe environment , and last but not least , we should push the message of the National Health and Safety Conference of last year , better safe than sorry . |
| 17 | That is partly what it means to speak of the interconnections of race , class , and gender . |
| 18 | truth transcends all concrete or particular instances of truth yet particular instances of truth are necessary in order to understand what it means to speak of absolute Truth . |
| 19 | Particular religions , while not embodying the fullness of Truth are necessary to convey what it means to speak of absolute Truth or Ultimate Concern . |
| 20 | What it means to think of and work for an audience . |
| 21 | Finally , social services works out what it needs to pay towards the cost of the place . |
| 22 | It is essential for an investor to decide at the outset what it expects to obtain from the due diligence exercise . |
| 23 | what it serves to emphasize in the present context is that the user of the STV is inevitably denied knowledge that could influence his preferences . |
| 24 | This objection to religion is highly selective in what it chooses to notice about religion ; it ignores all its beneficial aspects . |
| 25 | America has to know precisely what it wants to achieve in Bosnia — not just , vaguely , an end to the horror . |
| 26 | In short , what this has to do with modern poetry is very clear ; what it has to do with modern criticism is not clear at all , since that criticism has , as we have seen , no vocabulary for dealing with it , and moves further and further from finding such a vocabulary , the more it takes its lead from linguisticians like Saussure and Jakobson . |
| 27 | As height is genetically determined , it is difficult to see what it has to do with an acquired goal of achievement , except where parents or teachers convince tall children that they are achievers . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm sorry about Billy , but I do n't see what it has to do with me or how I can help you . |
| 29 | I am bound to say My Lords that my own view is still that the size within the limits laid down by statute with a minimum of sixteen or eighteen and maximum of twenty-four would best be determined locally and if we 're not going in for a national police force , I still ca n't see what it has to do with the Secretary of State and why the Home Office should be settling the size of forty-three or so police authorities . |
| 30 | You obviously know she and Steve had an affair , but what it has to do with me dining with my partner I fail to see . ’ |