Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a sort of like a I do n't know what i whether it was erm some sort of a private or it belonged to this Manchester Co-op or something I think it was . |
| 2 | Though the six counties initially refused an offer of separation from the rest of Ireland , that was the compromise eventually agreed on , although it led to civil war in the new Irish Free State , and remains the root cause of later violence . |
| 3 | Only a quarter say that it led to in-service training and a fifth think that it improved staff relations and improved teaching methods . |
| 4 | His impact was such that it led to further villainy — as the probably gay hit man in the Big Combo ( 1955 ) , as a rapist and murderer in Ride Lonesome ( 1959 ) , as Lee Marvin 's psychotic side-kick in The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance ( 1962 ) as well as more conventional heavies in Gunfight at the OK Corral ( 1956 ) , The Tin Star ( 1957 ) and How the West Was Won ( 1962 ) . |
| 5 | She said Thresher was aware of the receipt for £18.37 and had established that it belonged to another customer . |
| 6 | The Administration decided that it applied to any coal owner who had actively sought to mine the coal up to the day the law was passed . |
| 7 | It is important to try to be clear about what exactly this force was and the nature of the challenge that it posed to British rule in India — for there was a profound difference between Gandhi 's perception of these things and that of the British . |
| 8 | In his few remarks on clause 56 , the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East assumed that it referred to British Rail . |
| 9 | David O'Leary had another reason for the lack of flair : ‘ Once it went to extra time everyone was afraid to make a mistake . |
| 10 | It used to be important because it made it more difficult to score with groin kicks , and it led to narrow stances with the leading foot turned inwards . |
| 11 | And it led to all sorts of ‘ self-management agreements ’ between enterprises on the reallocation of foreign exchange . |
| 12 | When you played Hammersmith a couple of years back and it got to that point in the song , I looked around and a lot of people were craning their necks , checking out how that was done . |
| 13 | And it went to seven months because they did have a downturn in the business so it pushed the quantities back a bit . |
| 14 | The study of the proposed L.R.T. system had been ordered by the Department of the Environment , and it appeared to all intents and purposes that any future for the Comber-Dundonald portion of the line , at least as far as the Trust was concerned , were dead and buried , as it seemed evident that the D.O.E . |
| 15 | If it came to straightforward riot control , the most appropriate force would probably be the 12,000-strong People 's Police Alert units , under the control of the ministry of the interior . |
| 16 | If it came to constitutional change , he would prefer it to involve the introduction of direct presidential elections — no doubt hoping that the first directly elected president would be none other than himself . |
| 17 | If it came to unknown backgrounds , after all , no one seemed to know too much about Wheeler 's . |
| 18 | Clearly it would be difficult to justify a dual system of justice if it led to certain types of people being more easily convicted , for the whole concept of the rule of law was to tip the balance of power away from the accusing state to the accused individual because it was rightly felt a too one-sided contest without such protection . |
| 19 | The reply would be satisfactory if it conformed to standard practice . |
| 20 | As yet working-class protest was on too small a scale and too sporadic to pose a major challenge , but it contributed to official anxiety . |
| 21 | Because it applied to all bodies everywhere , the universe had at last become a universe . |
| 22 | The first , by a Bank of England official , must be presumed to have been highly critical because it led to drastic reform of the island 's supervisory procedures . |
| 23 | In theory , the committees were to provide opportunities for skilled and apprenticed employment , though members admitted that formal apprenticeship , at least , was not always possible , partly because it appeared to many observers that machines had eradicated a number of handicrafts , turning the worker into a ‘ machine-tending artisan ’ , and partly because ‘ skill ’ was a relative concept , demanding different degrees of training . |
| 24 | Furthermore , although the Commission put forward a proposal for a Council Recommendation on banning smoking in public places based on Article 235 , this gave rise to a Resolution of the Council and of the Ministers for Health of the Member States which , whilst it referred to that proposal in its recitals , claimed to be made ‘ having regard to the Treaty ’ . |
| 25 | There was all sorts of processes before it got to that and after it got to that stage . |
| 26 | But Summers suggests , ambitiously , that there was solid evidence which , he claims , was what stopped Hoover tackling the Mob before it came to awesome power in America . |
| 27 | But even before it came to public notice earlier this year , poor Mr Engholm was having to struggle to impose himself on a fractious party . |
| 28 | So our involvement was for it to be presented to us before it came to this meeting . |
| 29 | Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ . |
| 30 | And really it has to be said and has to be said historically that I mean the army in a way was left with a job which politicians should have sorted out before it got to that stage . |