Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [adj] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " The copper ore of Greenburn was so fine in colour and texture that it came near to gold ! |
| 2 | Their mother had warned them to beg for forgiveness when their turn came to pray to their great-grandfather 's spirit before the altar , and it seemed certain to Lan 's ten-year-old mind that if she and her brothers had angered their father so deeply they must also have offended the spirits of their illustrious ancestors too . |
| 3 | Conversely , a golfer occasionally has a phase when the hole really seems larger and it seems possible to hole almost every putt . |
| 4 | This recalls the sequence at several civitas capitals , including Cirencester and Exeter , but it remains unique to date at the small towns . |
| 5 | The remaining 90 per cent of cases remained an obstinate mystery until the middle fifties , when it became possible to culture this obscure organism on the yolk-sac of the chicken embryo . |
| 6 | He was late yesterday , got a brand new vehicle and , yet I mean if , if was getting here at one and yesterday he got to ours at half past eleven , so erm , it was half past eleven that 's right , it was dead on , so erm , erm whatever 's he going to be like when it gets near to Christmas ? |
| 7 | To liberate desire from oppression is not — could never be — a matter of resuming or regaining a desire/subjectivity as it existed prior to discrimination . |