Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] to [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because it applied to all bodies everywhere , the universe had at last become a universe . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | There was all sorts of processes before it got to that and after it got to that stage . |
| 5 | So our involvement was for it to be presented to us before it came to this meeting . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Before it got to this stage there would undoubtedly have been letters flying between the two . |
| 9 | Soon , however , a new controversy arose when it seemed to some zoologists and paleontologists that even the large dinosaurs could very well have had a high running speed , at least as high as an equivalent sized modern mammal . |
| 10 | And when it came to those Trumpers I could only agree with my father 's judgment . |
| 11 | Such an interpretation is not inconsistent with Katib Celebi 's brief account , particularly if it is remembered that by his time the Seyhulislam had long since been the Mufti of Istanbul and that he may therefore have concerned himself with trying to sketch the history of the office only in so far as it related to that city . |