Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Net Book Agreement first came into force after the practice of ‘ underselling ’ in the latter half of the nineteenth century had reached a stage where it threatened to undermine the whole of the book trade . |
| 2 | Any failure to press the Bat switch while the Bat diode D9 is momentarily lit results in a low output from transistor TR4 and the ball moves on to the wicket l.e.d. where it stays to let the batsman know he has been bowled out . |
| 3 | The survey also pointed to two weaknesses : marketing ( where it failed to make the top ten ) and capacity to innovate ( where it came seventh ) . |
| 4 | Even now , the extremities of the grass , where it dipped to meet the mudline , were slowly and silently being invaded by the dark water as the tide reached its zenith . |
| 5 | The noise thus created is thought to be passed up the animal 's windpipe and into the sinus cavities of the skull , where it resonates to produce the purring sound . |
| 6 | a similar point arose where it proposed to serve the writ and an Anton Piller order out of the jurisdiction on a Belgian company . |
| 7 | Ritual mourning for the divine son of a mother-goddess is very common throughout ancient polytheism — not to mention modern polytheisms like Catholicism — where it seems to represent the same situation as the self-inflicted mutilations but at one remove . |
| 8 | Another Gothic design did win a prize , although it failed to satisfy The Saturday Review that it was a bona fide Gothic scheme . |
| 9 | In 1650 , the Rump of the Long Parliament replaced the 1648 Blasphemy Act with their own far less harsh legislation , which although it continued to outlaw the extreme beliefs of disruptive fringe groups such as the Ranters , signalled a far more liberal approach on the part of the civil authorities . |
| 10 | Although it helps to illustrate the multi-vibrator family in this way , here we are really concerned with the electronic version . |
| 11 | The system operated by the park authorities to limit numbers into the Canyon can be tiresome and bureaucratic , although it helps to retain the essential peace , solitude and ecology of the area . |
| 12 | At this point in the history of the evolution of mankind The Origin rejoins The German Ideology and Formen , although it continues to consider the themes of the family and the position of women in a way that had not been done before . |
| 13 | The Chancellor has evidently made it clear to Moscow that West Germany respects East Germany 's existence as a separate state , that it does not want to alter the present military set-up of Nato and the Warsaw Pact , and that although it aims to overcome the division of Europe , this does not also apply to the political division of Germany — at least for the foreseeable future . |
| 14 | Copland 's lovely , lyrical work , with a strong element of jazz in the final section , receives another excellent performance — although it fails to dislodge the uniquely authoritative account recorded by Benny Goodman ( who commissioned the work ) and the composer — and Decker is equally masterly and convincing in the very different requirements of Weber 's lighthearted Concertino . |
| 15 | All this makes the Safrane 's handling capable and efficient , although it fails to reward the driver with tactile responses in the way that , say , an Alfa 164 does . |
| 16 | For fear of losing one or two sales of its obsolete mainframes , IBM designed the RT so badly that it had to junk the machine completely and start again from scratch to create the ( incompatible ) RS/6000 . |
| 17 | The government has been quick to say that it plans to continue the economic policies that have pleased businessmen and kept the country relatively well-off . |
| 18 | CrossCom says that it plans to use the net proceeds for new product development and for working capital . |
| 19 | THE Western Health Board has denied that it plans to close the accident and emergency unit at the Tyrone County Hospital . |
| 20 | The Slovak government has also announced that it plans to privatize the power station when the project is completed . |
| 21 | Today the department of transport said only that it ontinues to support the council 's road safety measures . |
| 22 | The Mother 's Defence League , organised during the 1920s , opposed all intervention in the working class home on the grounds that it threatened to undermine the working class wife 's responsibility for the welfare of her family and reduce her to a servant and drudge . |
| 23 | Britain never adopted the terms of the Convention because the Government Actuary considered that it threatened to usurp the husband 's responsibility to provide for his family and because it would have resulted in the payment of higher National Health Insurance ( NHI ) contributions . |
| 24 | If the Tories ' supporters in 1970 had liked the sound of anti-union radicalism , a significant number had decided by 1974 that it threatened to bring the house down around their ears . |
| 25 | Our father , Fa , was an agent for India 's Inland Navigation so that we ( our mother , Mam , my three sisters , Jon , Nancy and Rose , and I ) lived on the banks of Assam 's and Bengal 's great rivers , sometimes two miles wide , flowing through land so flat that it seemed to meet the sky all round like an inverted bowl . |
| 26 | While the criteria apply to around 260 companies throughout Europe , Jeffrey Knight , special adviser to the Federation , says that it hopes to start the Eurolist early next year with a few major companies and then expand it rapidly . |
| 27 | It also met a further requirement which Freud demanded of a new theoretical formulation , namely , that it help to explain the sociological and historical development of humanity . |
| 28 | There should be an ongoing process of evaluation as the programme develops to ensure that it continues to meet the needs of the students and employers and enables the students to achieve its objectives . |
| 29 | During the two shorts months that it took to draft the White Paper , opposition could be quelled , using the new powers and wholehearted support given him by the Prime Minister . |
| 30 | But perhaps the most surprising " own goal " scored by the Command was the length of time that it took to appreciate the value of Radio Countermeasures ( RCM ) . |