Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Redwood Shores , California-based Oracle Corp has joined the Greek chorus to say that it plans to convert its complete family of products to run on Alpha architecture under both OpenVMS and DEC OSF/1 ; the conversion effort on the VMS products is under way and should be out by the time DEC starts ships . |
| 32 | The Vimy was a heavy machine to handle and it took Jack all his strength to hold her steady . |
| 33 | As she hesitated , she glanced at the loose page to see if it offered any clue to its rightful position in the book . |
| 34 | We find it a hard , yet meaningful road to travel because it fits in with our experience of life — the disappointments as well as the joys . |
| 35 | The Bank repeated its intervention just as the New York markets opened during the European lunchtime to signal that it did not want the American markets , closed since Friday night , to push the pound down further . |
| 36 | Publishers want safeguards at a practical level to ensure that it does not open the floodgates to returns of all kinds . ’ |
| 37 | This is undoubtedly the most tiring skill to learn since it involves so much swimming . |
| 38 | To allow the hot water to expand as it heats up , an expansion vessel is fitted ( together with an expansion relief valve in case the vessel should fail ) , and to provide protection against overheating three levels of safety must be built in — thermostat , energy cut-out and temperature/ pressure relief valve . |
| 39 | It was the right thing to do because it captured everyone 's imagination . |
| 40 | At the moment the offer is being considered by the Office of Fair Trading to see whether it complies with competition rules . |
| 41 | ‘ And now it 's a wonderful feeling to know that it has enabled me to look at the top guys knowing there are only a few ahead of me . |
| 42 | For one thing , the people elected Solidarity to govern and it has been governing for barely seven months . |
| 43 | It is therefore not unusual for junior nurses to feel that it takes them some time to " settle in " on a surgical ward . |
| 44 | It can be argued that a car dealer has an implied obligation to make pre-delivery checks on a new car to ensure that it meets the manufacturer 's specification . |
| 45 | My research , if I can call it that , has involved ( over the same period ) a cyclical process of listening to teachers , tidying up what I think I 've heard into some more-or-less coherent story , and then telling it to other teachers to see if it makes sense to them , and captures in an interesting , plausible and fruitful way something significant of their experience . |
| 46 | Early speech recognition systems relied on converting words in a given vocabulary into a pattern stored in the computer and comparing each spoken word to see if it matched . |
| 47 | This distinction has to be expressed morphologically , by adding a suffix to a noun or by changing its form in some other way to indicate whether it refers to one or more than one : student/students , fox/foxes , man/men , child/children . |
| 48 | Your child will probably need a calcium supplement , and the overall diet should be checked by a paediatric nutritionist to see if it contains enough of other minerals , as well as vitamins . |
| 49 | But try and be positive about it , and say , ‘ Yes , this , I have to say this is a bad situation , , it 's not a situation which has occurred before , we are taking very positive steps to ensure that it does n't happen again , we have prosecuted Mr X , we have done whatever is appropriate . ’ |
| 50 | There is at least a plausible argument to say that it does not . |
| 51 | When provincial committees produced two or even three sets of recommendations , the centre 's longstanding inclination to act as it saw fit returned in full measure . |
| 52 | It is easier than intravenous heparin to give and it has been shown in randomised studies from McMaster University in Canada that it is as effective . |
| 53 | Both management and unions tend to keep a tight grip on local activity to ensure that it keeps to national agreements and to avoid the embarrassment and disruption of uncontrolled local initiatives . |
| 54 | It appears to give legal authority for an apparently open-ended power to intercept and it fails to constrain that power by an adequate framework of judicial or parliamentary scrutiny . |