Example sentences of "and [pron] it [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The traditional term " content " fails to discriminate between the philosopher 's concepts of SENSE and REFERENCE : what a linguistic form means , and what it refers to . |
| 2 | To understand why damage to Broca 's area impairs speech we need to know both where it gets its input from and what it does to that input . |
| 3 | German memory of Weimar instability , and what it led to , is strong . |
| 4 | Lee sat with her hand gripped tightly around the curved handle of a pint mug of beer and tried to work out who could have decorated the rostrum with this masochistic phrase and when and why and what it meant to the writer and whether the evening 's entertainment was aware of the invitation signalling beneath her feet . |
| 5 | I turned to an investigation of my own family and my class background , and what it meant to be a woman … = This was the starting point of a project on ‘ my history ’ which I began by tentatively examining photographs of myself and ended by taking control over how I wanted to be photographed . |
| 6 | And what it takes to fits word together , to fit letters together . |
| 7 | The term reference is traditionally used in semantics for the relationship which holds between a word and what it points to in the real world . |
| 8 | Obscenity ‘ represents a much more fundamental assault on men and women and what it means to be human … [ it distorts ] human personality by depicting it as deprived of those characteristics which are essential to humanity [ since ] common to all obscene productions is the degradation of persons and of relations between persons ’ . |
| 9 | It 's now about what 's in here , ’ said Morgan , pointing to his heart , ‘ and what it means to them . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If this film had already been made there would n't be so much confusion about what the Maastricht Treaty is and what it means to Britain , ’ said one of the film 's producers , as Mr Brandreth rehearsed his lines in front of the European Parliament in Brussels . |
| 11 | Everyone has a different view of friendship and what it means to them . |
| 12 | It does , it might not seem it at this moment in time , but eventually you will understand everything that 's in there , and what it means to you , yes ? |
| 13 | Asked how he would tackle a photographic assignment based on the theme ‘ Positivity ’ for the Grolsch Showcase Competition , Dermot O'Shea replies : ‘ I would have to think very carefully about the word , its meaning and what it suggests to me . |
| 14 | If anything should have shaken up a national psyche for the Germans it was World War two and what it did to them . |