Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian Smales 's try and Fox 's fourth goal tied the scores again with 10 minutes to go and it took Fox 's drop to separate the sides . |
| 2 | ‘ The ball belongs to us , ’ whined Willie Allan 's letter , ‘ and if it does n't turn up we will take steps to see that it does . |
| 3 | " I know I 'll be all right because there 's a few steps to go before it gets to that , " she said , " but some of the lasses would n't know that . " |
| 4 | In a moment she would open her eyes to discover that it had all been an incredible , fantastical dream . |
| 5 | Microsoft has been demonstrating prototype versions of Word and Excel that exploit OLE 2.0 , leading many third parties to believe that it has a substantial advantage . |
| 6 | This may be an entirely uncontentious outline of the process of delivering care to individuals , although it conceals the profound organisational and operational difficulties of devising appropriate mechanisms and relationships to ensure that it happens . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But try and be positive about it , and say , ‘ Yes , this , I have to say this is a bad situation , , it 's not a situation which has occurred before , we are taking very positive steps to ensure that it does n't happen again , we have prosecuted Mr X , we have done whatever is appropriate . ’ |
| 10 | The sociologist who gathers a life-history takes steps to ensure that it covers everything we want to know , that no important fact or event is slighted , that what purports to be factual squares with other available evidence and that the subject 's interpretations are honestly given . ’ |
| 11 | While baptism was the main sacrament that could be performed by lay persons , the Church counselled the clergy to check that it had been properly performed . |
| 12 | The Commission will now issue a " Reasonable Opinion " , giving the government two months to prove that it had complied with EC law . |
| 13 | Subsequently , at a speech to UNICE on 22 July , Gillian Shephard , the British employment secretary and current chair of the EC Council of Social Affairs Ministers , stated that the Government will be reviewing European Community legislation on social and employment matters to ensure that it conforms with the principle of ‘ subsidiarity ’ . |
| 14 | There 's exactly twenty-five years to go before it starts . |
| 15 | It was the priest who examined the wound after three days to see whether it had healed . |
| 16 | I would wait a few weeks to see if it grows or clears up of its own accord and if it is still there , go to the vet . |
| 17 | We hope hope it is because if you take three weeks to do that it dilutes |
| 18 | The prosecution has now been been given seven days to decide if it wants a re-trail . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The more distant in time an issue is to current industry concerns , the more difficult it is for managers to establish that it applies to their business in some significant way ( relevancy ) and that it should be addressed now ( urgency ) . |
| 22 | The contents were debated , amended and finalised in a meeting of the home owners and managers to ensure that it met the needs of both participants and employers . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | My research , if I can call it that , has involved ( over the same period ) a cyclical process of listening to teachers , tidying up what I think I 've heard into some more-or-less coherent story , and then telling it to other teachers to see if it makes sense to them , and captures in an interesting , plausible and fruitful way something significant of their experience . |
| 26 | wait five seconds to check whether it has been carried out . |
| 27 | And one day he shave it off , it took his wife three hours to notice and it took his mum all day to notice |
| 28 | In Madzimbamuto v. Lardner Burke ( P.C. , 1969 ) Lord Reid said that even if Parliament acted improperly or unwisely , it was not open to the courts to say that it had acted illegally and that the resultant legislation was invalid . |
| 29 | It is therefore not unusual for junior nurses to feel that it takes them some time to " settle in " on a surgical ward . |
| 30 | he is aware of the danger or has reasonable grounds to believe that it exists : |