Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [adj] to [noun] " 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 It 's passable , he says , and it leads direct to Tmjillo .
4 Conversely , a golfer occasionally has a phase when the hole really seems larger and it seems possible to hole almost every putt .
5 His business contacts were being checked , but it seemed unlikely to Azadi that any of them would have been in a position to spirit the shipowner away at a moment 's notice .
6 This recalls the sequence at several civitas capitals , including Cirencester and Exeter , but it remains unique to date at the small towns .
7 But it remains prone to generalizations : ‘ we share a common root as women … capitalism , imperialism and racism are symptoms of male supremacy — sexism ’ ( 1970 : xxix , xxxix ) .
8 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 .
9 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 ?
10 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 .
11 As it drew nearer to Corrie 's fifth birthday she began desperately seeking a way in which to keep her in Chertsey .
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