Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little chance of the " professional " participator emerging with real understanding , for to find out the truth of religion it has to be wrestled with and lived , not just safely and probably patronizingly studied from a safe distance . |
| 2 | We have considered the subject before , in the previous chapter , and we only need notice here the kinds of characteristics it leads to in males . |
| 3 | With animals it tends to be the other way round : more instinctive behaviour patterns and relatively less to learn . |
| 4 | If this was the intention it came to nothing , for the title was abolished in 1554 . |
| 5 | Then and we 're always we 're always finding dead stock it seems to me , er then we could give those away on yet another stand , give the cage away on the e on our own so we will actually have provided three , four different treasures , all of which are associated with bearings . |
| 6 | does she agree that there 's something bizarre in er I certainly agree successful experiment it bringing to an end because it 's a successful experiment , er clearly the policy is only to continue with unsuccessful experiments . |
| 7 | The significance is the boost it gives to the AX 's performance , particularly in the context of the diesel . |
| 8 | She had learnt long ago that Nahum 's chief interest in the Foundling Hospital was the boost it gave to his own ego being on the Board of Governors , a position acquired mainly through the generosity of his brother-in-law , John Bradford , who always supported the charity financially . |
| 9 | In creating specialist organists or choir trainers it contributes to the achievement of the highest musical standards , but does not generally offer all-round experience . |
| 10 | With Sarah Chester 's on the brink of insolvency it occurred to me he might be panicking … ’ |
| 11 | In Darcy 's Utopia it has to be . |
| 12 | Sir Lionel Russell , with a view from within the CNAA and the local authorities , said that he had never understood Crosland 's Woolwich speech and why he made it , and had doubts about the concentration in polytechnics because of the disappointment it meant to other colleges . |
| 13 | The damage this did to our criticism was as nothing compared with the harm it did to our poetry . |
| 14 | These optimistic perspectives were quickly abandoned by Khrushchev 's successors , and under Brezhnev it began to be claimed that the USSR had achieved no more than the construction of a ‘ developed socialist society ’ , a new and quite distinct stage of Soviet development whose further evolution into full communism would be a matter for the fairly distant future . |
| 15 | With Amantani fresh in my mind it seemed to me that more than the cattle were tethered here . |
| 16 | It is an eye-catching portrait of twisted repression , but to my mind it fails to conveys the essentially diabolic nature of Iago 's negativity . |
| 17 | She had seen her country overrun by both the German and the Russian armies ; she knew at first-hand the madness of war and the fear it transmits to the civilian population . |
| 18 | Far from relieving the companies from burdens and expense it adds to them ; for those companies that take advantage of it will have to prepare two distinct sets of accounts and reports , the full version to circulate to their members and the expurgated version to be made available to the general public . |
| 19 | If the odour persists after best practicable means have been taken and in the opinion of the local authority environmental health department it amounts to a statutory nuisance within s.92(1) of the Public Health Act 1936 , then permission would have to be sought from the Secretary of State for the Environment as required by s.92(2) of that Act , before the local authority could institute summary proceedings under the nuisance provisions of the Public Health Act 1936 . |
| 20 | As she was pouring the tea it occurred to me that maybe she knew Claudia too . |
| 21 | As soon as the group became too large to be controlled by a hyper-active Healy rushing around the country to quell the first signs of dissidence it had to be smashed . |
| 22 | With the recent review of the Carlton combo it seems to many of us out here that you 've started to wake up . |
| 23 | Among other research it led to a series of studies — mostly carried out in the 1950s and 1960s — of the personalities of very creative people . |
| 24 | Every instrument here is adding what weight it has to one of the four component parts of the texture ( i.e. and the tune itself ) . |
| 25 | Because there are so many variables in the equation , it is inevitable that management has some discretion as to how much weight it attaches to any point in a particular case . |
| 26 | So one vote it has to be . |
| 27 | In this paper ( as in [ R ] ) we insist that each parallel process declares which globe variables it wishes to be able to modify , and which globe channels it wishes to be allowed to input from , output to , or uses privately . |
| 28 | That was my view and still my view and I think John Major fought a very distinguished campaign er against the pundits it has to be said . |
| 29 | East and South restores the balance of exhibitions in terms of gender , the type of work it displays , the cities it takes place in and the opportunities it offers to artists . |
| 30 | Three major weaknesses of the paper are its lack of clarity , its lack of detail and the many opportunities it offers to those who hold information that should be made public , to use various loopholes to avoid so doing . |