Example sentences of "[conj] it [be] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The shorter and most effective from a literary standpoint survives in only one manuscript where it is attributed to Rolle .
2 The animosity between Stratford and Kilsby was to some extent personal , yet even where it was related to principles , they were set within revealing limits of assumptions , experience and motives .
3 Although wool was not usually graded , Furness wool was listed as ‘ worst , medium , best , ’ and it went far afield by pack horses to London and Southampton , where it was exported to France and the Low Countries .
4 He said the motorcycle was new , and left near the crowded Dadar railway station in central Bombay where it was reported to police by a doctor .
5 Cheshire is the oldest of all the English cheeses and is referred to in the Domesday Book , although it is thought to date back to pre-Roman times .
6 The fare for most of those years until 1939 was 6d ( 2½p ) , although it was increased to 9d when the tour was extended to Clifton Drive in 1932 .
7 He had heard about the Old Magic at University , although it was forbidden to wizards .
8 It is well worth visiting and contains facsimiles of many fine and interesting manuscripts , but be prepared for the fact that it is geared to schools and is therefore rather didactic .
9 The design process must be managed so that it is completed to quality within cost and time targets and with all necessary decisions having been taken and expressed fully and clearly in specifications and drawings .
10 This is not unlike the high-technology if , vestment profile except that it is generalised to situations where the expected risks of high technology are absent .
11 The third problem with the existing legislation is that it is confined to gold and silver only , giving archaeologists no control over accompanying objects in other materials which are often of equal archaeological importance .
12 Note that it is confined to males only , but includes retired people as well as those economically active ( relevant to the composition of the electorate as a whole ) .
13 If a correction is made , consumers have the right to demand that it is notified to people who have had information during the previous six months .
14 ‘ We do nothing , except make sure that it is drawn to friend Cawthorne 's attention . ’
15 In one way it is more limited , in that it is restricted to rodents , but in another it is less limited because rodent incisors are less variable between rodent taxonomic groups than are the molars .
16 It had been the property of Mrs Stratton 's first husband , and it was he who had expressed the wish , as stated in his will , that it be returned to England to find a permanent place in the Ashmolean Museum with its counterpart , the Wolvercote Buckle .
17 The instructions were not carried out and the wife signed the deed without reading it , in reliance on the husband 's false representation that it was limited to £60,000 and would last only three weeks .
18 According to the ADC , in the cases quoted by councils the properties by and large fulfilled all the principal criteria set down by the Government for a property suitable for occupation by older people , ie that it was let to persons over pensionable age ; access was relatively easy ; the accommodation was on level ground ; the dwelling had no more than two bedrooms ; the heating arrangements were adequate ; the property was reasonably conveniently located .
19 That it was addressed to teachers and their employers and not to governors or parents mattered less when the report was published than it would now .
20 The UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher expressed concern at the constitutional implications of the judgment but pointed out that it was left to UK courts to decide whether to exercise the powers .
21 I believe that it was attached to leather or wood ; perhaps a harness decoration or cabinet .
22 He replied that on the facts as stated it did not appear , at least so far as the testator 's words were concerned , that it was entrusted to Pamphilus that he should make over a hundred .
23 James Ogilvie could not be present to receive the award , so it was handed to Dr Robert McIntosh , the manager .
24 There are no by-lines in the Bible , so it was left to scholars a century ago to identify the hidden signatures behind the Pentateuch , the Five Books of the Law , which is the core of the Old Testament .
25 II of Capital ( Chapters XX and XXI ) , but did not live to put this part of his work in order for publication , so it was left to Engels to prepare the various drafts for the printer .
26 Brian was attending a medical dinner that night , so it was left to Celia to entertain the pair alone .
27 The Paris-based Office Internationale d'Epizooties ( OIE ) , which represents 120 countries , has accepted the principle that live trading could be resumed provided it were restricted to animals born after the feed ban — and that cattle born from BSE infected dams were excluded .
28 Every time an ATP molecule is used to provide energy , a phosphate bond is broken , and it is converted to ADP , or adenosine diphosphate .
29 The scheme is aimed at straightforward disputes ; it does not cover sharp practice or dishonesty by agents , and it is limited to England and Wales .
30 The circulation of each newsletter is 5000 ( approx ) and it is distributed to students , all academic staff , academic-related staff , members of the court of the University , and to a wide variety of external organisations .
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