Example sentences of "to [pron] [conj] it have " in BNC.

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1 Like virgins to the sacrificial altar , they followed Molly Malone to the place where it all happened ; where Wrens must learn to live in a men 's world because now the war was nearer to them than it had ever been .
2 I am speaking now of its Belgrade side , of the old men in the Academy who wished to complete Serb history because it seemed to them that it had not been properly completed back in 1918 .
3 The ERPS team are very fortunate that this facility is available to them because it has enabled the reconstruction work to be undertaken more efficiently .
4 One interesting feature of this discovery seems to me that it 's been a combination of different individuals approaching it almost laterally , in a sense , because you 're not an astronomer , particularly , are you ?
5 On European monetary union , it seems to me that it has long been the cherished aim of Conservative Governments to find a means by which we could control the value of our currency — to make it predictable in its exchange rate , as it was for much of the 19th century .
6 What I wanted to say was that when I read the Annual Report I was rather surprised to find that there is no reference to the er report of the committee under the chairmanship of Bob , Bob on the organization of the R Y A and then I realized that it probably did n't come to the Council till after the end of the year that we have under consideration but it did seem to me that it has some contentious and some very interesting and rather good points in it and I wonder if we could be told how the consideration of it is getting on .
7 There was another reason , of course , but he was not prepared to admit even to himself that it had played any part in his decision .
8 They have high inflation , I might add to you that it had a far far more damaging effect on poor old pensioners , like myself and I 'm a war pensioner as well , poor old pensioners t to be serious , old people and people of limited means who are affected far more by the cure , the other cure that the Labour party tried that that was high inflation , mind you I 'm sure that they tried it , I think it just happened .
9 And that 's the way around that little er Again it 's something that you 'll Does n't occur to you until it 's come upon you , you 've dealt with it and you 've realized it is a problem .
10 ‘ Tell me , Uncle , what happens to everything after it 's been squashed down ? ’
11 And it occurred to him that it had almost always been like that : he the serious and thoughtful one , and the one he loved mostly careless and unconcerned .
12 His first impression was that somebody had started to construct a small harbour , but then he saw a shallow groove cut in the face of the cliff which must at one time have accommodated a pipe , and it occurred to him that it had probably been a sewage outfall .
13 Steel-Maitland was running Central Office like a business enterprise , not in order to make a political point , but because it was as natural to him as it had been foreign to Percival Hughes .
14 ‘ Ross — I do wish that … ’ she began , hoping even at this last moment for some word , some sign that the scorching , torrid passion that had exploded between them in the Hamptons had meant as much to him as it had to her .
15 As Agnes hurried down the street it came to her that it had been tactless of her to talk about life being dull and with no bright future ; for had they any bright future ?
16 Bathed in the bright sun of Italy and glittering with social and commercial success , it seemed to her that it had always been menaced by dark shadows , many of which , Constance sometimes thought , had sprung up almost to punish her for leaving this remote area so early in her adult life .
17 After the ceremony , she and Ludovico went to Chiesa Santo Spirito , at the end of their road , where Ludovico had arranged for them to be blessed , explaining to her that it had no religious significance and did not endanger her non-Catholic soul .
18 The council grew so tired of lorries cutting this corner short and hitting the casement of the listed building next to it that it had to build a specially high kerb .
19 The ability of an offeror under CA 1985 , s429 to require dissenting minority shareholders to sell their shares to it once it has obtained 90 per cent or more of the shares of the target company for which the offer was made .
20 Have been too close to it and it had , and the vents at the back had got churned up with dust at one time , I keep dusting it now .
21 And we went to the one next to it and it had all naked women in it .
22 ‘ We had very little work to do to it because it had been kept in great condition throughout its time as a lifeboat on the Isles of Scilly , ’ he explained .
23 So a lot of it 's going to go through the big pipe and then what happens to it when it 's come through the , the , these three pipes ?
24 The Chopinesque left-hand arpeggios , the repeated chords of Mozart and Beethoven , Strauss 's waltz rhythms , popular song accompaniments ( with bass on the downbeats , chords on the upbeats ) , and so on — all are already so familiar to us that it has seemed superfluous and pedantic to describe them .
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