Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It is to a degree , on the application form that each charity receives , it has to state whether it collects for people in the Oxford area , but not as a percentage .
2 Does as it wants to do when it goes outside rather than inside .
3 I have never found anything yet that will stop a squirrel doing precisely what it wants to do when it wants to do it , whatever that is what it wants to do .
4 These are precisely the questions that the peace movement has to address when it contemplates the use of law and many of these aspects are discussed in Part III of the book .
5 Duncan enjoyed the moment of take-off , that split second when the bird starts to fly as it comes free of the land .
6 So it 's really a case of just ensuring that the T G I manual does cover all a , it , it needs to state where it takes over from the procedure and then it needs to ensure that it covers everything from there on about T G I , because erm , just from thinking through some of the other procedures , I mean , it does n't , T G I does n't come into the costing , or at least it 's got it 's own costings .
7 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 .
8 That has to dry before it gets
9 It does not follow , however , that incised meanders are necessarily signs of rejuvenation , as if a stream starts to meander before it attains grade it may incise its own meanders to some extent without being rejuvenated .
10 Japan wants a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council , and knows that it has to show that it deserves one .
11 An expert from L'Oréal will talk about what happens to skin as it gets older and explain how to keep up with its changing needs by choosing from the extensive Plénitude range , which helps to combat the signs of ageing .
12 Britain should therefore not hesitate to use whatever powers and diplomatic skills she possesses to ensure that it does not come about .
13 The DTI refuses to ackowledge that it misinterpreted the EC directive saying :
14 Some writers use an engineering analogy and point out that the words ‘ stress ’ , ‘ strain ’ , ‘ tension ’ and ‘ pressure ’ are used when the load becomes too great and a breaking point is reached ; it is the point where the strain is so great that metal ceases to bend and it snaps .
15 Every time the Government does a bit and waits to see if it works , by the time it finds out that it has n't done , it needs to do still more .
16 Compounded by their own unconscious survival strategy , their room for manoeuvre appears to shrink until it vanishes .
17 Object Databases , the US arm of France 's Intellitic International , this weeks expects to announce that it has started porting Matisse , its object-oriented database , to Kendall Square Research 's KSR/1 family of general-purpose highly parallel systems based on OSF/1 .
18 One tries to explain that it happens on the odd occasion , at Question Time , which is not a great parliamentary occasion , and that is what the media pick up .
19 Every organism continues to grow till it has reached its peak and then as its growth stops , deterioration sets in .
20 An observer sitting on the star 's surface could , in theory , trace the history of the object as it continues to shrink until it reaches the so called space-time singularity , when all its mass is concentrated into a point .
21 The regime continues to feel that it has two chief enemies : Iraq locally and the United States , the Great Satan , farther off .
22 However , incidence ‘ peaks ’ when heroin use has ‘ saturated ’ most of the population likely to try the drug , and then begins to fall as it approaches saturation point .
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