Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stripped , tied up and left to freeze It sounds like torture — and it is for some young workers forced to endure outdated initiation rites . |
| 2 | This involves a different type of responsibility as well , and to accept it takes real courage . |
| 3 | Better to accept it 's all gone . |
| 4 | Oh yes , if they want to come it does n't matter if it 's convenient to you or not does it ! |
| 5 | For a market economy to work it depends on the existence of certain values . |
| 6 | For a new system to work it needs to be flexible and to fit in with your own personal requirements . |
| 7 | If it 's to work it has to be part of a general strategy for traffic in an area not on one street at a time . |
| 8 | A factory plans to increase it 's output by fifty percent next year . |
| 9 | ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes . |
| 10 | Shall I read it very briefly it takes er time to find it does n't it ? |
| 11 | You say a word , the children find it ; first team to find it gets a point . |
| 12 | Perhaps to compensate it does classical physical chemistry well , and has one eye on the expanding market for physical chemistry books among life-science students . |
| 13 | But the influence of one mind over another is very subtle , and of all influences religious influence is the most dangerous and the most powerful , and to counteract it courts of equity have gone very far . |
| 14 | You only need to look at John Jensen to know it does . |
| 15 | And it helps to know it happens to beautiful women , too . |
| 16 | How is the world going to know it has received a boundless freedom at the hands of an obscure young man lying in some back room in a provincial Russian town ? |
| 17 | The Code itself imposes no legal obligations and failure to observe it does not by itself render anyone liable to proceedings . |
| 18 | And when it goes down to a water hole to drink it crouches down and awkwardly sips with its mouth . |
| 19 | Leicester City Council says that with forty thousand light bulbs to install it does n't really have any alternative to starting so early . |
| 20 | It is very large and to reach it takes three days and nights . |
| 21 | Though it is plausible that Mercury and the Moon could have lost large quantities of volatiles to space it seems unlikely that this explains the extreme extent of their depletions . |
| 22 | It is laughable to suggest it represents ‘ a tradition ’ . |
| 23 | To calculate its fictional arm 's length profits , a firm is supposed to assume it pays the same price ( the ‘ transfer price ’ ) for those imported bits that it would have done were it buying them from an unrelated company . |
| 24 | It is also supposed to announce it has finished porting Top End to Pyramid Technology Corp machines . |
| 25 | If too great a volume is produced for the i.c. to handle it shuts down automatically but will come on again when correct conditions are restored . |
| 26 | right now let's see what we need to do it says we need to melt the margarine |
| 27 | But he wants to do it does n't he ? |
| 28 | Everything I try to do it counters with more tortuous and convoluted traps . ’ |
| 29 | For the little good it 's supposed to do it brings with it inherent problems . |
| 30 | of course until they notify and get it exempted which is always opened to do it 's always been opened of course to notify an answer when they get a bit of clearance should of been |