Example sentences of "it [vb -s] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once it agrees to the other two bits of the resolution , the sanctions committee ( which has overseen the embargo since August ) would lift the export ban . |
| 2 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 3 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 4 | Hong Kong seems reluctant to take the pressure off China by letting the deadline slip unless it agrees to talks . |
| 5 | This collection is a sampler only — there are no more than six poems from each poet — but it testifies to the way in which poetry can — and does — survive in the most unpropitious circumstances . |
| 6 | The historical significance of this book is therefore multi-levelled : it is a reminder of the intellectual scope of one of America 's leading feminist art historians , it testifies to the changing interests of the discipline of the history of art and , perhaps most importantly , it charts the developing priorities and concerns of the American women 's movement . |
| 7 | The success experienced among the eastern Angles with the conversion of Eorpwald may have been due in part at least to the influence of older patterns established by missionaries in the time of Raedwald , but nevertheless it testifies to Eadwine 's real influence in the East Anglian area at this time . |
| 8 | It 'appens to a lot of us and everyone ai n't as lucky as I was . ’ |
| 9 | It 'appens to be private . ’ |
| 10 | Travel : An offer you can refuse Mark Edmonds is all for haggling — but not when it turns to meanness |
| 11 | Skin itching worse ( < ) for heat , scratching ameliorates ( > ) but it turns to burning . |
| 12 | But when it turns to obscenity , their report contrasts the cruelty or violence depicted in Goya 's Disasters of War or King Lear , which appeal ‘ to our shared humanity ’ , with depictions of a more prurient kind which ‘ invite us to collude in degrading it ’ . |
| 13 | An adult 's constant blaming of another can also be heard as the angry protest of the deprived internal infant within that adult body , and when it turns to whining , may also serve to express the yearning and become an attempt to control the whereabouts of the other . |
| 14 | And so throwing up its hands in horror and resignation it turns to the priests and pastors of religion — of a more primitive world order — and tells them to get on with it . |
| 15 | IBM AD/CYCLE STRATEGY IN DISARRAY AS IT TURNS TO AIX CASE |
| 16 | Then it turns to the effect of the ‘ managerial revolution ’ ; that is , it says , to concentrate power in the hands of directors and to withdraw power from ineffective and acquiescent shareholders who only exercise it at times of crisis . |
| 17 | But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers . |
| 18 | Because it , it , it turns to the , you do n't lose so much bass in the back |
| 19 | And it turns to what ? |
| 20 | An example of this is when it refers to ‘ food business operators ’ which , according to Mr Knowles , is unspecific and far too general a definition . |
| 21 | ( 'Prime' does not simply mean ‘ expensive ’ — it refers to the more desirable types of property within each group , whether quaint country cottages , Georgian rectories or large estates . ) |
| 22 | The term ‘ gouger ’ is flexible in that it refers to known criminals as well as others who look or act as if they have a potential for crime and trouble . |
| 23 | It refers to the fable of the sick lion and the wary fox , who is frightened at seeing all the footprints pointing towards the den and none the other way . |
| 24 | It refers to the fable of the sick lion and the wary fox , who is frightened at seeing all the footprints pointing towards the den and none the other way . |
| 25 | To be strictly accurate a species can be defined precisely only in living animals , where it refers to populations that can interbreed under natural conditions , and which produce offspring that are capable of further reproducing their kind . |
| 26 | At one level , this definition is rather broad ; it refers to threatened acts and the likelihood ( rather than the actuality ) of damage to person or property . |
| 27 | I suppose it refers to those bands who need two or three goes to start every song . |
| 28 | Also when it refers to financial or economic affairs it is usually only bad news . |
| 29 | Rather , it refers to the ‘ Woopies ’ — Well-Off Older People — who are in their middle 50s , or at pre- or just retirement age . |
| 30 | The lovely negro spiritual ‘ Balm in Gilead ’ expresses it very well when it refers to ‘ the sin sick soul . ’ |