Example sentences of "to [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Careful analysis of the electoral results showed that the ALP 's narrow victory — its majority in the House of Representatives fell from 18 to eight and it suffered a negative swing of almost 2 per cent — had been achieved through skilful targeting of marginal constituencies and preference voters . |
| 2 | But BZW remains more pessimistic , believing the FT-SE index would have to fall to 2,200 before it started to look attractive to investors . |
| 3 | If you do n't tell anybody nobody 's going to react to that until it starts to annoy them , because most people think that everybody else is going to do something about it . |
| 4 | ‘ Ah , ’ was all that Maidstone said to this but it had a knowing sound to it . |
| 5 | But the Committee do not have to agree to this if it thinks that the new information is not important . |
| 6 | A lot of time and thought has been given to this and it looks like the best way of dealing with it is … because … . |
| 7 | Reference has already been made to this and it has been emphasised that the requirement of a nominal monetary value is an arbitrary and illogical one which has been rejected in certain other common law jurisdictions . |
| 8 | There 's a very strong religious tinge er er to this and it 's argued that the holy alliance is perhaps an expression of of a significant religious revival that 's going on erm in Europe in the early nineteenth century . |
| 9 | I mean , er FIMBRA can do its regulatory bit , the same as the police can regulate or the , or the government can regulate , but only within certain er parameters , and if somebody really wants to cheat , then they will cheat anyway and er we 've go we 're in a very sophisticated position where the directors of B C C I were able to move money from one continent to another and it meant er it looked as if you 'd actually got money in three separate areas , but in fact there was only one lot and it was being moved rapidly . |
| 10 | Clearly , the structure and mode of operation of mixed professional — paraprofessional teams will vary from one setting to another and it needs to be acknowledged that in a variety of situations it would be an inappropriate social service practice model . |
| 11 | An organism adapts to another when it changes itself to suit the latter . |
| 12 | Starting at the Cow and Calf you climbed through a Khyber Pass of crags from one ling-and-bracken horizon to another until it seemed the sky could not be far off . |
| 13 | If you have more space , you could create a series of pools with the water falling from one to another until it reaches the lowest in a continual cycle . |
| 14 | When a drifting particle of food touches an arm , tube feet fasten on to it and pass it on from one to another until it reaches the gutter that runs down the upper surface of the arm to the mouth at the centre . |
| 15 | With a startled squawk a rook flew from one tree to another where it perched complaining loudly . |
| 16 | That 's the reason why the needed not only to draw her self-portrait , but also to make it clear to all that it embodied something unique and irreplaceable , something worth fighting or even dying for . |
| 17 | The Committee made no reference to complaints from Members , although the IBA survey showed that the percentage of MPs who found the Chamber too hot rose from 9 before the experiment to 36 after it had run for four months . |
| 18 | Peter Karsten , marketing director of Surfax , which brews the low-alcohol Clausthaler , comments : ‘ The number of products available has dropped from 70 to 50 and it needs to come down to about 20 . ’ |
| 19 | John Davidson , the secretary of the committee , explained : ‘ We 've got some fixed dates in the diary , but we do n't always operate to those because it depends whether or not we 've got enough cases . ’ |
| 20 | The oil paint lazily moves over the surface of the paintings ; in places its application is to thick that it seems to be rotting and falling away . |