Example sentences of "to [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year might represent a compromise with regard to the those two opposition positions which again I would suggest are something that perhaps owes more to than it does to actual political affiliation . |
| 2 | One of the tragedies to that it has now become so expensive but is very difficult but not because it was sponsored but somebody told me the other night that the Billy Connolly programme excuse me Billy Connolly programme about art and culture was |
| 3 | SLUMP is where the recession is heading to once it has gone through depression . |
| 4 | It makes you think about what you are listening to and it gives you an active role in the lecture process . |
| 5 | I did think I might read them some day , when I could bear to and it did n't feel quite so much like prying . ’ |
| 6 | put this program in and you swap it for this er map disk , then it comes up , you tell it where you are , where you going to and it works your route out |
| 7 | They can become self-fulfilling prophecies : you go into a situation expecting to fail , even wanting to if it reinforces your self-image — and the inevitable happens . |
| 8 | Industry watchdog Lautro could have banned the company from selling investment products altogether , but decided not to because it had been co-operative and had acted promptly to beef up its sales methods . |
| 9 | Charles pointed out that Aimee could consider going even shorter in the future to emphasise fully her delicate bone structure , a feature which her old hairstyle had failed to draw attention to because it had tended to drag her face downwards . |
| 10 | Often I stay longer in the shop than I mean to because it smells so good . |
| 11 | push it straight through it to till it 's done . |
| 12 | When the butterfly or moth hatches , it will need something to climb on to while it spreads and dries its wings . |
| 13 | The sunshine dries it up and sometimes it depends on what it 's use how deep it is as to whether it dries up . |
| 14 | There was also uncertainty among experts as to whether it belonged to Picasso 's Blue or Pink period . |
| 15 | So extraordinary was this bird and so little was known about it , that previously naturalists had been divided as to whether it belonged to the vulture or the gallinaceous race . |
| 16 | Better education opportunities : There was a general sense of dissatisfaction with education provision which seemed to relate more to whether it met people 's needs than the actual range of classes provided . |
| 17 | Although widely admired , the ASEA was by no means without its critics , and considerable doubt was expressed as to whether it offered a practical answer to the problem of boy labour . |
| 18 | The effect of the Famine in 1921–2 was far more crippling in the Volga provinces than in Tambov guberniia , so that one can argue either way as to whether it had a stimulating or depressing effect on the mettle of the Tambov Greens ; certainly in Samara and Saratov its vehemence blew out all hope of resistance . |
| 19 | However , about one tenth of teachers were unsure as to whether it had been submitted . |
| 20 | About one quarter of Oxfordshire teachers are unsure as to whether their review and report had led directly to any change at all and with regard to whether it had improved teaching methods , over a third were unsure . |
| 21 | All too rarely is the building considered as a whole : the shopfront is applied without a thought as to whether it clashes or blends in colour , proportion , materials or design with the building above . |
| 22 | right , well , I 'm , I 'm not worried about the point as to whether it arise out of cross examination , I seldom am because there is always erm can be an opportunity for further cross examination if the other party wants to , so er on the grounds of the objection I , I , I do n't uphold it you can ask that if you like , but er I do want the jury always to keep their eye on that what really is the issue in the case er certainly from the defendants point of view , I know what you say |
| 23 | Er it 's a matter of speculation as to whether it did play any part . |
| 24 | Much controversy has attached to the word ‘ servants ’ in this passage , as to whether it cancelled the previous Leveller insistence on full , unqualified adult manhood suffrage and was intended to exclude all wage-earners from the vote , or — more likely — was meant to cover only those living in , and so dependent on their master or mistress for board and lodging . |
| 25 | Now the point has already been raised and partly answered in the question in the case of Selby District Council as to whether it matters whether there is an over-provision of land for industry and other employment . |
| 26 | As to whether it has also increased proportionally is a matter that could only be determined empirically , although one could surmise that it has so increased . |
| 27 | Culture as content seems to point , on the other hand , to different answers for different kinds of educational programme , and even begs the question as to whether it makes sense in some subject domains . |
| 28 | We 're about half way through the process at the moment , and as of today , it does depend which train she travelled on from Oxford as to whether it 's actually been converted with the disabled accommodation or whether er it 's not yet provided . |
| 29 | In these sentences , it will be recalled , the event is seen as prospective , as a subsequent potential , a meaning that arises from intercepting the movement of to before it reaches the infinitival lexeme 's place in time . |
| 30 | Its importance , however , is not that we know when doubt becomes unbelief ( for only God knows this and human attempts to say so can be cruel ) , but that we should be clear about where doubt leads to as it grows into unbelief . |