Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Balfour would say that Austen Chamberlain should be sent for ; and , according to Birkenhead , Balfour thought that this was ‘ the right course to pursue as it gave the King one other alternative before sending for Ramsay MacDonald ’ . |
| 2 | Ambitious young curators have a different axe to grind and it worked out very well because I did n't produce that much . |
| 3 | It is therefore necessary to turn to public law to see whether it provides a solution by enabling the rules of the SIB and SROs to impact on the respective obligations and rights of firms and their customers under fiduciary law . |
| 4 | The EURODASS consortium led by Marconi Defence Systems Limited offered a solution , and this has been subject to rigorous scrutiny to confirm that it meets the necessary technical criteria . |
| 5 | Cotton lavender needs a dry sunny situation in light soil to ensure that it ripens fully and is thus better able to withstand cold . |
| 6 | Any record in the module which exceeds this width is flagged with |
| 7 | Second , the Trust is a body committed to conservation on such a wide scale — it is the second largest landowner in Britain — that it also has a clear duty to ensure that it follows good environmental practice in its own affairs . |
| 8 | - British Rail issue a new timetable and you have a nasty suspicion that they have juggled it around so that they have deleted a few trains and cut out that convenient late night one , and you look for your old timetable to check but it has gone with the wind . |
| 9 | But then again , how is the individual management to know if it happens to be one of those which ought to acknowledge a responsibility to maintain or lower prices , or whether it is one of the lucky ones which can be let off that responsibility ? |
| 10 | The accounts department is responsible for ensuring that top management is aware of the financial state of the company and for advising it on appropriate actions to ensure that it remains sound . |
| 11 | The accounts department is responsible for ensuring that top management is aware of the financial state of the company and for advising it on appropriate actions to ensure that it remains sound . |
| 12 | In turn , these two characteristics permit hierarchy to meet four of any organization 's fundamental needs : to add real value to work as it moves through the organization , to identify and nail down accountability at each stage of the value-adding process , to place people with the necessary competence at each organizational layer , and to build a general consensus and acceptance of the managerial structure that achieves these ends . |
| 13 | They saw them as fertile slopes on which to grow tea and coffee , as well as a cool and pleasant place to live when it became uncomfortably hot nearer sea level . |
| 14 | The Office of Fair Trading is still examining the American Raytheon 's £250m bid for Corporate Jets to see whether it complies with EC competition rules . |
| 15 | The Office of Fair Trading is still examining the American Raytheon 's £250m bid for Corporate Jets to see whether it complies with EC competition rules . |
| 16 | His purpose was to demonstrate not that the earth did spin but that it was impossible for human reason to prove that it did not . |
| 17 | There is some historic evidence to suggest that it included about 800 titles , among which some so important that they have tantalised historians ever since : works by Cicero , Tacitus , the Greek historian Polybius , the playwright Aristophanes etc. , quite possibly in complete versions . |
| 18 | If so , the fact that a dependence thesis is true of theoretical authorities is strong evidence to suppose that it holds for practical authorities as well . |
| 19 | A firm must take reasonable steps to ensure that it does not make any personal recommendation to a private customer of an investment or investment agreement , or effect or arrange a discretionary transaction with or for an customer , unless the recommendation or transaction is suitable for him , having regard to the facts disclosed by that customer and other relevant facts about the customer of which the firm is or reasonably should be aware . |
| 20 | A firm must take all reasonable steps to ensure that it does not give investment advice to , nor effect , a discretionary transaction with or for , a private customer , unless that advice or transaction is suitable for him having regard to the facts disclosed by that customer or other relevant facts about the customer of which the firm is or ought reasonably to be aware . |
| 21 | The United Kingdom , Belgium and Greece all took the view that Community law did not limit the competence of each state under public international law to define as it thought fit the conditions upon which it granted to a vessel the right to fly its flag . |
| 22 | The United Kingdom , the Kingdom of Belgium and the Hellenic Republic argue , however , that the position is different when it comes to the competence of each state under public international law to define as it thinks fit the conditions upon which it grants to a vessel the right to fly its flag . |
| 23 | Microsoft Corp says it has trouble estimating the number of copies of Windows NT it will sell , so what is the reasonable way to tell whether it succeeds ? |
| 24 | ‘ Rock ’ climbing has already overtaken shopping as the number one leisure pursuit in most parts of the developed world — and still has a good way to go before it peaks . |
| 25 | There 's a long way to go before it sounds natural . ’ |
| 26 | The Oxenhope Straw Race has a long way to go before it reaches its centenary , but the aims of the people who organise it and take part are the same as those who in the nineteenth century began the hospital sings at Holmfirth and Mapplewell . |
| 27 | However , the volume of research varies considerably from one polytechnic to another and , in general , it has a very long way to go before it begins to approach that generated within universities . |
| 28 | I 've a long way to go when it comes to these explanations . |
| 29 | The dt route suddenly appeared to be promising , though there is still a long way to go as it takes 20 to 40 times this to make a muon in a particle accelerator . |
| 30 | he is aware of the danger or has reasonable grounds to believe that it exists : |