Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | David O'Leary had another reason for the lack of flair : ‘ Once it went to extra time everyone was afraid to make a mistake . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If it came to unknown backgrounds , after all , no one seemed to know too much about Wheeler 's . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The reply would be satisfactory if it conformed to standard practice . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Er and when it progressed to automatic tools , all these tools were kept in a store at night , and you collected them in the morning when you went back onto the job . |
| 12 | But the fact was that when it came to practical jokes , he regarded anybody as fair game , from the most fleeting acquaintance to the dearest friend . |
| 13 | She was n't so sure about her safety when it came to other things . |
| 14 | When it came to other people , particularly men , she preferred to be in control . |
| 15 | When it came to new furnishings , people usually they found it difficult to say why apart from ‘ I got it because I liked it ’ , or ‘ I got it because it was cheap ’ . |
| 16 | The flamboyant impulsive talkative Celts of Ireland 's Iron Age may , in their enthusiasm , have put just a little too much emphasis on quantity rather than quality when it came to liquid refreshments . |
| 17 | In addition , many schools were failing ‘ to venture beyond undemanding popular authors or books associated with favourite television characters ’ when it came to encouraging children to read novels . |
| 18 | The Frizzell sons-in-law might wear halos , but when it came to financial success they were nowhere . |
| 19 | Men had n't a bit of sense when it came to personal relationships . |
| 20 | For Whitehall he was a ‘ handy City man ’ when it came to international finance , especially prior to 1914 when Britain practised imperialism in competition with other great powers . |
| 21 | Not only had I had that run in with him over the rehearsals but he was also the fussiest teacher in the school when it came to long hair . |
| 22 | I was , I explained , a bit of a big girl 's blouse when it came to crumbling ledges , sheer drops , being underwater for unreasonable lengths of time and squeezing into jam jar sized spaces . |
| 23 | Marin Ceauşescu 's position at the Romanian Foreign Trade Mission in Vienna made him the provider of the family 's needs when it came to everyday items from razor blades to video films . |
| 24 | When it came to subordinate males , however , there was a strong relationship between how nice males had been to infants and how likely they were to be attacked by the female : nicer males fared better . |
| 25 | But he had a dark side , too , as I 'm sure everybody knows , and Seve Ballesteros could n't lace Weiskopf 's boots when it came to bad temper on the course . ’ |
| 26 | H. C. Wyld , for example , was a very great expert on the grossly divergent regional dialects of Middle English , but when it came to post-sixteenth-century English , he was quite insistent that the only object worthy of our study was Received Standard English . |
| 27 | He got his PhD through animal experimentation , but he was n't qualified when it came to recombinant DNA technique . |
| 28 | The Draft Basic Law of the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People 's Republic of China , which was to become the territory 's constitution when it reverted to Chinese rule in 1999 , was published on July 13 . |