Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can also zero the counter at your end point on the tape , then rewind to the start point : when it plays up to 000 the machine stops the tape and rewinds to the beginning . |
| 2 | Her voice echoed in the stairwell as she raised it to carry back to him . |
| 3 | ‘ It drains down to the moat , ’ Sir Brian mumbled . |
| 4 | erm I voted for it to go out to consultation , but I have n't yet voted that it will be a site , and I will take the representations of everybody into consideration before I make up my mind . |
| 5 | Strolling , they pondered public education versus private schooling ; Johnson wondered why boys from England had been sent as far as Aberdeen to be educated , with ‘ so many good schools in England ’ , and they went back to the New Inn , to be joined there by Sir Alexander Gordon , an old friend of Johnson 's , who had sent a card in advance , and through Boswell we join their conversation as it drifts back to the stocking-making . |
| 6 | It turns on to its side and as I cling on for dear life I hear a startled cry from Nathan . |
| 7 | This work is described as a personal celebration of the mountains and landscapes of Nepal , but it turns out to be a pictorial account of six treks and climbs in the more popular areas of the country . |
| 8 | In nine cases out of ten it turns out to be the office cleaner 's milkman 's financial adviser . |
| 9 | And should an original and lovely ‘ Samuel Palmer ’ sketch or ‘ Vermeer ’ canvas be any less valued when it turns out to be by Tom Keating or Henricus van Meegaeren ? |
| 10 | They 're always about to reveal something important , then it turns out to be nothing . |
| 11 | It turns out to be a surprisingly exact science , in which ten or fifteen minutes are spent deliberating over whether someone deserves to be graded ‘ adequate ’ or ‘ limited ’ for their motivation or their ability to organize . |
| 12 | Fortunately it turns out to be impossible to give a simple answer to this question and possible to give a more complex answer allowing both possibilities . |
| 13 | They do n't have time to verify stuff , a lot of the time they just put it out and it turns out to be false . |
| 14 | Do n't worry if it turns out to be a false alarm — it 's always better to be safe than sorry . |
| 15 | It turns out to be no picture after all , but the image of a worm-eaten corpse . |
| 16 | It turns out to be convenient to put ( 10.9 ) where ψ and λ are considered as time-like and space-like coordinates , which may then be rescaled by putting , . |
| 17 | It turns out to be convenient to make the coordinate transformation . |
| 18 | But no , I do not want to take the chance myself in case it turns out to be a family weakness . |
| 19 | Despite the rather fearsome appearance of the route from below , it turns out to be pleasantly mild mannered , the slabby right wall of the groove allowing sneaky side-stepping of all major difficulties . |
| 20 | ‘ But I 'm too hungry to think about it , so let's eat it first , and then if it turns out to be wrong to eat it , I promise to be very sorry . ’ |
| 21 | It 's opening leads one to expect a knowing , ‘ insider ’ political novel , but it turns out to be the story of a destructive sexual passion , complete with purple passages , the saga of a successful man who becomes obsessed with his son 's mistress , who is only too willing to oblige . |
| 22 | The nine stages of gestation of the unit will take a variable length of time depending on whether it turns out to be an " elephant " or a " mouse " . |
| 23 | There are arguments about what is " the best " , and how far one goes in meeting present taste before developing it ; there are arguments about paternalism and mandarin or upper-class standards ; but no children 's librarian would accept a purely passive supply function ; all would agree that one hopes to provide opportunities for wider exploration and the growth of informed taste , whatever it turns out to be . |
| 24 | I , I have a quandary here cos I 'm not quite sure whether I should be asking a question or proposing something against the deliverance but I have attended and er listened to a number of debates arising out of this matter of er the baptism of children and time and again it 's struck me that it starts off about baptism but it turns out to be a discussion about the parents . |
| 25 | On closer inspection it turns out to be also contextual , dictated by what is going on in the mind of the sender and the assumptions he or she makes about what is going on in the mind of the receiver . |
| 26 | Although the matter does not arise in this appeal because Woolwich were fully aware of all the relevant circumstances , I can not help feeling that there is some illogicality in treating as voluntary a payment by someone who justifiably believes that the demand is lawful whereas in fact it turns out to be unlawful . |
| 27 | The second reason why an apparent consent or refusal of consent may not be a true consent or refusal is that it may not have been made with reference to the particular circumstances in which it turns out to be relevant . |
| 28 | The software that handles index building and additions can operate on the keys separately , while the size of the gap between key and data allows the data record to be transferred into main storage if it turns out to be the required record after examination of the key by the control unit . |
| 29 | And yet it turns out to be the same old stuff only worse , more , again , further . |
| 30 | Like a bottle you expect to have whisky in and it turns out to be full of a specimen for the doctor . ’ |