Example sentences of "it [prep] [v-ing] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a defendant was charged with committing an act of gross indecency with a co-defendant who had pleaded guilty to a charge of gross indecency with the appellant , evidence of the co-defendant 's plea of guilty , although relevant , should have been excluded from the jury , since such evidence would have an adverse effect on the fairness of the proceedings against the defendant as the jury was likely to treat it as going to prove the defendant 's guilt . |
| 2 | With more experience the observer will find it worth learning to use the full SCAN system , since the event-by-event analysis shows very clearly the rhythm of the teacher 's style and how the teaching unit and the program support or upset it . |
| 3 | I thought it worth checking to see just how far this had gone . |
| 4 | It is disappointing that so few teachers thought it worth attending to express their views either on the resolutions put forward or to raise other matters . |
| 5 | It was mid-January 1990 and the members of the Commons ' Energy Committee were plodding towards the ever-receding horizons that contained the answer to their question : was it worth continuing to fund the fast breeder reactor ( FBR ) ? |
| 6 | He was one of the eight directors of Lonrho who parted company from it after trying to oust Tiny Rowland in 1973 . |
| 7 | ‘ Is it fer learnin' to read ? ’ said Carrie . |
| 8 | He has been a longstanding critic of the council , accusing it of failing to support him following his sacking by Stockport HA . |
| 9 | The Taiwanese government passed legislation in harmony with the regulations of CITES ( the UN 's Convention on Trade in Endangered Species ) in 1989 , although environmentalists have since accused it of failing to enforce these laws sufficiently . |
| 10 | In early February , the chief of the general staff , General Mikhail Moiseev , sharply attacked the party 's military policies and accused it of failing to stem the tide of anti-military sentiment now sweeping the outlying republics ( 5,000 Lithuanians , for example , recently refused their call-up papers on the ground that the Geneva convention allows people to refuse to serve in the army of an occupying power ) . |
| 11 | But he 's been doing very well at it despite having to learn terrifying new skills , like walking a tightrope . |
| 12 | It forces it into trying to satisfy the need which is necessary for its physical survival . |
| 13 | A die-hard SVR4 advocate , Tandem is interested in seeing its fault-tolerant enablers incorporated in the base operating system to save it from having to re-invent the wheel each time a revision is done and to allow it to focus on true value-added differentiators . |
| 14 | Two reasons prevent it from continuing to provide this function . |
| 15 | By concentrating on only the fastest of fast-moving consumer goods , they keep their stock at a minimum — often selling it before having to pay suppliers . |
| 16 | When you have to get up from a settee , it will take less effort if you first come to the edge of it before attempting to stand . |
| 17 | I 'm well in front and I can easy just lose the hundred but I I 'll try for it without trying to knock down too many skittles . |
| 18 | Again , apart from alerting you to the likely development of a problem here , such inspections will help to ensure that even with a painful condition , the dog will have sufficient confidence to allow you to treat it without attempting to snap or simply pulling its head away repeatedly . |
| 19 | ‘ I still ca n't read it without starting to cry , it was so moving . |
| 20 | What I what I 'd really hope for is to be able to do it without having to go to college and just do it by experience but that 's I 'd have to be awful awful good . |
| 21 | They want low-octane fuel because they can manufacture it without having to spend money to make substitutes for lead , which would be necessary to retain higher octane fuel . |
| 22 | Combining the benefits of a budget account with a borrowing facility , the Revolving Budget Account helps to tackle unexpected bills and allows you to buy what you want when you want it without having to set up further loan arrangements . |
| 23 | There seemed no going back on it without having to retail some further lie and anyway I was sick at heart — without The Fat Controller 's gyroscopic girth to encompass it my world was spinning out of control . |
| 24 | Yes , I mean I have a very helpful husband , but he 's helping , he sees him himself as helping me rather than doing his share of it without having to ask what help I need . |
| 25 | The soil level is raised , so the patient can reach it without having to bend too far . |
| 26 | So it 's nought , point , six , two , so for our thirty seven minutes it 's , four point six , two , there we are look , but the thing is you can now do it without having to look at a scale |
| 27 | Thus Paisley was free to create party policy and to articulate it without having to convince a large membership . |
| 28 | Language is activity and we will not understand it by trying to put a static model of a complete language-system into the lead of an individual user . |
| 29 | But he was n't going to get out of it by trying to put her in the wrong . |
| 30 | Although Bush signed this measure on Aug. 18 , he effectively nullified it by refusing to declare the budget emergency required to permit additional spending . |