Example sentences of "it [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gamble is that the more people know about the workings of behaviour the more they will use it skilfully to benefit themselves and others . |
| 2 | Nor is it so regular that we can trust to it altogether to fix the exact date of any given work . |
| 3 | At first he left that aspect of the practice to David Bryce , his partner from the early 1840s , and then , after his move to Stratton Street , London in 1844 , finally abandoned it altogether to concentrate exclusively on country houses . |
| 4 | She threw it down in disgust and took a drum which Corrie showed no inclination to use , thumping it furiously to express her feelings . |
| 5 | Or ought it rather to suggest that the texts do not record the words of the classical jurists very precisely ? |
| 6 | High factor sunscreens wo n't stop you turning brown , but will prevent your skin from burning when first exposed to the sun , allowing it slowly to acclimatise and produce its own natural protection and colour . |
| 7 | They may not be used to telling you so honestly about how you behave , so take it slowly to begin with . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought it right to feed you , sir , ’ said Fosdyke , ‘ in the style of an English gentleman . |
| 9 | I think it right to say at once that on the authorities , consisting of a series of previous decisions of the Divisional Court in which the provisions now contained in section 7(3) and ( 4 ) and section 8(2) of the Act of 1988 have been considered , neither the magistrate nor the Divisional Court in this case had any option but to decide as they did . |
| 10 | I thought it right to refer to this decision with which again I entirely agree . |
| 11 | That is a point of view which I understand , but which I should not commend against a background in which Parliament , when removing the unfettered right of a land owner to develop his land as he wished , thought it right to enable a land owner to get a second opinion if the local decision on his application was adverse . |
| 12 | I am writing hurriedly to you but I have thought it right to apprize you of this … |
| 13 | However , I thought it right to debate the report of the Select Committee chaired by my right hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale ( Mr. Jopling ) because many hon. Members of all parties , which was not the case with the other Select Committee report , asked me to find an early opportunity to enable the House to give its initial response to that splendid and important report . |
| 14 | It is not practical politics to abolish private schools , nor do I believe it right to do so , in the interests of freedom . |
| 15 | Nevertheless it appears from the judgment of Thorpe J. , and I do not doubt that he was right , that a dominant factor was W. 's desire to be in an environment where , as she thought , she was in control and could cure herself if and when she thought it right to do so . |
| 16 | His position was not unlike that of MacDonald two years before : but he was able to exert his influence with most of his former strength when he thought it right to do so . |
| 17 | Knowing Christopher , she has judged it right to leave him to make his own attempts , though had he not succeeded she would probably have joined him and discussed the solution with him . |
| 18 | In fact , pursuant to r 6.80 , no resolutions can be taken at the meeting of creditors other than : ( i ) a resolution to appoint a named insolvency practitioner to be trustee or two or more insolvency practitioners as joint trustees ; ( ii ) a resolution to establish a creditors ' committee ; ( iii ) ( unless a creditors ' committee has been established ) a resolution specifying the terms of the trustee 's remuneration or to defer consideration of that matter ; ( iv ) if two or more trustees are appointed , a resolution specifying whether acts are to be done by both or all of them , or by only one ; ( v ) a resolution adjourning the meeting for not more than three weeks ; and ( vi ) any other resolutions which the chairman thinks it right to allow for special reasons . |
| 19 | He said the CSM did feel it right to act at the end of 1981 as there was not enough information available . |
| 20 | Are there any circumstances in which the Home Secretary would feel it right to take the honourable course and resign from the office which he discharges so inadequately ? |
| 21 | We thought it right to publish the memorandum to help the House understand the background to the instrument . |
| 22 | I presume that the hon. Gentleman thought it right to return to the matter in the House having notably failed to achieve the result for which he hoped by an overheated press release to the same effect which he issued at the end of last week . |
| 23 | I do not think it right to ban all these services . |
| 24 | It is legislation in an area in which Parliament itself has not thought it right to legislate and thus , in my view , it steps outside the judicial function . |
| 25 | Somehow the protestant part of me could not find it right to speak of her place in God 's order of salvation because I was afraid of her obscuring the central place of Jesus Christ in his Church . |
| 26 | It is in this sense , of having an abnormal number of our normal needs unmet , that I think it right to speak of disabled people as not being normal . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , their Lordships think it right to concentrate attention on the reasons given by Barnett J. for the order now under appeal . |
| 28 | Over the last 2000 years the Church has thought it right to make many changes : in patterns of ministry , in liturgical forms , in ethical emphasis , in doctrine . |
| 29 | As chairman Sir Peter Thompson explains in his statement , ‘ With the spotlight on corporate governance following the report of the Cadbury Committee , we have felt it right to make a statement on how the group complies with best practice in this area . ’ |
| 30 | In the meanwhile , we did not feel it right to make aspects of knowledge about language in the programmes of study ( which will be legally obligatory for every pupil working at levels 5 to 10 ) too extensive or demanding . |