Example sentences of "to [noun] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Hugh Rushton , Research Director for the Philip Kingsley Trichology Clinic , believes that hormone replacement therapy ( HRT ) is very effective in restoring condition to hair because it maintains a better balance of hormones , particularly oestrogen . |
| 2 | They are the people who can refer clients on to solicitors and it is highly likely that the ‘ Advisory Liaison Service ’ and the proposed liaison officers could have played a significant part in making and fostering those contacts . |
| 3 | I wanted to go to Sunderland because it is in my own region , the far north . |
| 4 | Even if it landed on time , I would have the four-hour journey to Hull and it was unlikely that I would make it to the funeral . |
| 5 | A principle is enunciated which is intended and designed to regulate a certain real situation X. Another principle regulates another real situation , Y. When a novel situation Z arises for which no principle has apparently been specifically designed , the law is determined by examining the extent to which Z is closer to X or to Y. If it is more analogous to X , then the legal principle regulating X will ordinarily be invoked . |
| 6 | And then of course your sugar beet went direct to Colwick and it used to go by horse and cart in those days . |
| 7 | Mozart wrote to Constanze that it was attracting full houses , and several numbers — ‘ Mann und Weib ’ , Papageno 's glockenspiel in the Act One finale , and the trio of the three boys from Act II ( ‘ Sied uns zum zweiten Mal willkommen ’ ) had to be repeated . |
| 8 | Mr Wilson added : ‘ When many of the developments were being built tenants associations and public representatives pointed out that publicly-owned areas were prone to vandalism but it was never envisaged they would be subject to such official neglect . |
| 9 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 10 | Wainfleet carried on : ‘ I 've apologized — I 'll even apologize to Linley if it 'll make any difference — but what more can I do ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't say anything to Philippe because it was so inconclusive , ’ she finished , ‘ and I still ca n't decide whether it 's worth taking them to the police . ’ |
| 12 | The residents believe the L-plates flock to Henley because it 's a driving test centre , and instructors want to give their pupils a taste of what 's to come . |
| 13 | The doctor told me they were strong : in fact he prescribed them for me but it seems more logical to give them to Mum since it 's her that stops me sleeping . |
| 14 | There was evidence of rivets in it and an X-ray revealed traces of a metal covering , which confirmed to experts that it might well have come from the gable end of just such a shrine , and that it could well have been the piece described by the father of Welsh historical research . |
| 15 | There 's a really good train service to Brighton so it 's easy to nip between the two . |
| 16 | Variations of economic pattern were then more striking ; rural society was a matrix much more localized and resistant to change than it is today . |
| 17 | Based upon his evaluation of the Senior Management Team conduct of assemblies , the Head of Department said that he would take any criticism of teaching skills very much to heart if it came from the DHS . |
| 18 | Briefly it occurred to Kelly that it would be sensible to lie . |
| 19 | Up to now , distribution has been via system integrators to the Federal and commercial markets , but it is now lowering retail prices for all its ViewStation FX Series of X terminals by 30% to 50% when it sells them direct . |
| 20 | They maintain that through insider dealing the firm can convey information it could not feasibly announce publicly because an announcement would : ( 1 ) destroy the value of the information , ( 2 ) be too expensive , ( 3 ) not be believable , and ( 4 ) ( owing to uncertainty of information ) expose the firm to liability because it was found after the fact to be incorrect . |
| 21 | Helen whispered to Sarah that it had been confirmed that she was pregnant and the baby was due in late November . |
| 22 | I am going to send it to Sarah when it 's finished and the final word on its fate will be hers . |
| 23 | But I mean if you count how many people were there when I went to mass when it was a holy day . |
| 24 | Ultimately , of course , Æthelred 's inactivity did cost him his throne , but the point at which this could reasonably have been foreseen may have been little clearer to contemporaries than it is today . |
| 25 | The European Commission has decided that the state aid offered to Digital Equipment Corp at its Scottish plant in Ayr conforms with Community rules , the Irish Department of Enterprise & Employment has had to admit : in a letter to the department , Brussels said ‘ The Commission , with regard to information provided by the UK authorities , considers the regional aid granted to the Ayr plant is in conformity with Community rules and the aid received is within the limits approved by the Commission for this region ’ ; the Irish government had asked for a review of state aid to DEC after it decided to transfer some operations from Galway to Ayr . |
| 26 | Personally , I would not object to payment but it would be interesting to see if all users would contribute . |
| 27 | The charity organisation assessed the hospital 's needs on its last visit to Romania when it took out over 30 tons of relief aid on three articulated lorries . |
| 28 | to smithereens but it went off and I woke up |
| 29 | And that we have an obligation to listen to noise because it shows us the grim truth of reality . |
| 30 | Yeah and erm yeah I mean that 's one of the things that tends to happen to kids and it 's almost like when you 're a kid your body is n't your own |