Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Hugh Rushton , Research Director for the Philip Kingsley Trichology Clinic , believes that hormone replacement therapy ( HRT ) is very effective in restoring condition to hair because it maintains a better balance of hormones , particularly oestrogen . |
| 2 | Based upon his evaluation of the Senior Management Team conduct of assemblies , the Head of Department said that he would take any criticism of teaching skills very much to heart if it came from the DHS . |
| 3 | And that we have an obligation to listen to noise because it shows us the grim truth of reality . |
| 4 | Now correlation , in a similar way , measures something similar to association but it gives you a bit more detail . |
| 5 | NISSAN might not be the marque that springs to mind when it comes to performance hatchbacks , but look out for the nifty little Sunny SR . |
| 6 | Spelt out slightly more fully ( and at the risk of oversimplification ) , this means that a decision is open to review where it has been arrived at as a result of a mistaken view of the law , or where the decision is one that could not reasonably have been arrived at , in the sense that the person deciding must have taken into account irrelevant considerations , or failed to take into account relevant ones , or where he has failed to observe the dictates of natural justice which require him to give the parties a hearing before arriving at his decision . |
| 7 | Furthermore , those species that accidentally forged some connecting suspension for the front legs independent of the skull would be among the first to walk , otherwise the head would have to turn constantly from side to side as it did so . |
| 8 | The powerful driving fist of the surging tide was cuffing him off balance : he was rocked from side to side as it rose and fell . |
| 9 | The Tory government contributed to proliferation when it permitted the supply of nuclear weapons material to Saddam Hussein . |
| 10 | This interest in national subjects could have led to cosiness as it tended to during Balcon 's time at Ealing Studios , but at this period he was under pressure from the Ostrer Brothers to maintain a diversity in his output and aim for the international market . |
| 11 | These are so ponderous and unwieldy and so vulnerable to obstruction that it seems remarkable that major decisions are ever made outside of crisis situations . |
| 12 | The Bank has indicated to IBOA that it has no intention of introducing Performance Related Pay across these Grades . |
| 13 | An optimistic beginning , with an early goal thrown in , gave way to uncertainty and it took McCoist 's second goal to inspire Scotland to the stirring finale which brought a third from Pat Nevin five minutes from the end . |
| 14 | WE hear that there was a big attendance at the first meeting of the new Basingstoke branch of the League Against Cruel Sports , when the League 's information officer , Kevin Flack , told them : ‘ I believe that most people are opposed to hunting but it has been recent antics of the Quorn Hunt and publicity from the MacNamara Bill that has convinced them that something has to be done to put an end to their activities . ’ |
| 15 | The railway 's team crane , which was part of a demonstration goods train at the time , turned from game-keeper to poacher as it became derailed and had to be rescued by another crane . |
| 16 | The $24,000,000 production was to be an unmitigated disaster and was to bring Twentieth Century-Fox close to bankruptcy when it found out that the heyday of the film musical was past . |
| 17 | We may succumb to flattery because it makes us feel good . |
| 18 | 9 The group plans how it is going to work before it starts . |
| 19 | Well I always like to read it from left to right but it does n't matter really . |
| 20 | If the argument starts with numeric characters ( with or without a preceding sign ) , VAL will work from left to right until it meets a non numeric character . |
| 21 | The North Berwick line enjoys a spectacular claim to fame because it has at some time or other in its history been powered by every possible form of motive power ; horse , steam , diesel and electricity . |
| 22 | The case was brought by the RSPCA after claims that the animal was subjected to brutality when it became stuck on a five bar gate . |
| 23 | I have never met anyone who objected to capitalism because it relied on the freedom of the individual to buy and sell , to produce and innovate , to save and invest . |
| 24 | When it comes to safety when it comes to safety I would rather have an electric cooker . |
| 25 | That does not affect our commitment to safety and it has nothing to do with privatisation . |
| 26 | It was all to do with the silence , and the wine stain — turning now from red to black as it spread and seeped . |
| 27 | It 's it 's they 're allergic to gluten and it makes the inner bowel inflamed so it gives him |
| 28 | This is particularly the case as the IMF has been open to criticism that it ignores the social impact of its prescriptions , which create hardship and the potential for popular unrest as its free-market measures begin to bite . |
| 29 | The Lord of the Rings would have offered fewer hostages to criticism if it had been written like that . |
| 30 | It seems to us that the Bill would be open to criticism if it had to rely on provisions such as those in [ the Larceny Act 1916 , section ] 44(3) and ( 4 ) . |