Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [adv] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personal — a subjective response to work and how it meets needs for growth and satisfaction . |
| 2 | Henry went on to point out the evils of sweated labour and the pay make-up system , how it fostered a disinclination to work and how it encouraged landless men to marry just so that their income would be augmented ‘ in proportion to the number of their children ’ , and how it led to degradation of the character : ‘ The weak , the indolent , and worthless worker is now secure of the maximum payment settled by the standards you have determined from parish funds , and the industrious , skilful and honest workman can expect no more … the pernicious and demoralising practice of paying wages out of rates … ought to be suppressed and prohibited . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ This exercise has allowed the bona fide cocklers to work but hopefully it has curbed those less caring about the estuary . |
| 4 | A photographer has to really be aware of this , and how light relates to colour and how it relates to black and white . |
| 5 | Walton stresses that there is no simple concept or criterion of the child 's best interests which can be applied in a crude rule-of-thumb way , and no group or individual which has sole authority to assume that generally it has the best conception of the child 's interests . |
| 6 | Now , to what extent could one move in that direction using a computer , which is a rather precise and definite sort of object that wants to know exactly what it has to do and how it has to do it ? |
| 7 | He turned instinctively against the wind , or nearly , for that way was easiest to control and fortunately it took him towards the greatest darkness . |
| 8 | Equally the buyer will not be able to sue for non-delivery unless he was ready and willing to pay or else it had been agreed that he could have credit . |
| 9 | With these , you define a chunk of text as an actor — you can do this either in the movie editor or in the Cel editor — and can then define , via dialogue boxes , how it appears onscreen , any movement you want it to have and how it departs the screen . |
| 10 | First , and parenthetically , it serves to remind us that the difference between the interests underlying individualism and holism is not merely the difference between showing why something happened to happen and why it had to happen , and thus between descriptive and counterfactual forms of explanation . |
| 11 | The whole colonial system was set up to exploit and so it continues . |
| 12 | Subsidiary to that , though still important , are the issues of what it has to say and how it came to be : ‘ sources ’ and ‘ designs ’ once more , both things Tolkien disliked , but useful if not essential to a proper reading . |
| 13 | With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together . |
| 14 | Christina had seen it every day for the past few months , but had to admit that tonight it looked especially magical . |
| 15 | Every creature would have a different tale to tell if only it knew how . |