Example sentences of "it [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Milosh reversed his lance and flung it so hard that it pinned the Venetian champion to the gate of the city ; he struck off the champion 's head and threw it in Koulash 's nosebag . |
| 2 | From the end of the road at Bracorina , a track continues along the lochside to South Tarbet Bay where it crosses a narrow isthmus to Tarbet on Loch Nevis . |
| 3 | The church began in 1974 under the leadership of Roger Forster and grew to a congregation of 250 by 1980 , since which time it experienced a rapid growth to a 1985 membership of over 1000 people meeting in fifteen different congregations and by 1990 this growth reached over 1700 adult members , not including children , meeting in thirty-three different congregations . |
| 4 | The experience of Aden was therefore precious in that it revealed the only alternative to acquiescence or schizophrenia : the political struggle . |
| 5 | Achmore is entered and from it goes a narrow road to Plockton and Kyle of Lochalsh on a journey of sustained delight . |
| 6 | It goes the opposite way to this . |
| 7 | I am not sure how accurately that can be measured , but it represents a substantial cost to the NHS , which the hon. Member for Eccles compared , in my view rightly , with the large sums of money that the European Community still commits to subsidising tobacco production , against which we have argued vehemently in Brussels . |
| 8 | We want to lay emphasis on the concept of community education : it represents a whole attitude to education which makes science , maths and all the other subjects students learn , meaningful by relating them to the real experiences of life outside school . |
| 9 | It represents an important contribution to the ongoing debate between non-disabled feminists and the disabled people 's movement about the construction of community care . |
| 10 | It represents the logical conclusion to preceding buildings and is the expression of national culture ; it stands for the essence of Muscovite Christianity in Russia and was the last great church of the movement in this architectural form . |
| 11 | Moreover , it displays a political sensitivity to local authority and community plans . |
| 12 | And yet , on this fevered night … he stared at the heavy , handsome head , looked at it until it became a strange thing to him , a feeling of stone , a sight he saw from another part of the room , this unbodied head reflected more truly in the mirror than in the live skull itself … |
| 13 | Er But it took people busy to get it paid , you know , and in fact there was some people that could n't , er and it became a big worry to people . |
| 14 | For Moore , on the occasion of his 105th appearance in England colours , it became a miserable exposure to the inevitability of decline , an uncharacteristic positional error enabling Lubanski to surge through for the second of Poland 's two goals ; the famed captain would play only three more times for his country , and not in the climax to the qualifying group , five months later at Wembley . |
| 15 | It offers a simple introduction to many subjects |
| 16 | At Felixstowe it offers a 24-hour service to some of the world 's biggest ships , handling around 6,000 vessel movements a year . |
| 17 | The supplier of a new fuel , emerging as a competitor to coal in power stations , has refuted claims that it constitutes a new threat to the environment [ see ED51 ] . |
| 18 | What would be the effect of changing the public policy insofar as it constitutes a social guide to the conditions in which individuals or groups chose from the possible adjustments ? |
| 19 | A rejection of an ideal or principle is involved only if , when considering the relation of a man to his acts , his principle or ideal is regarded as absolute in the sense that it constitutes an infallible guide to human conduct , or if it is conceived of as a maxim in the Kantian sense and provides the reason a man might have for thinking it worthwhile for him to act morally . |
| 20 | Morse said it lent a new meaning to the phrase ‘ keeping a shop ’ . ’ |
| 21 | Its lack of significance is that it made no real difference to the political situation , except for putting the burgh of Edinburgh through a rapid change of councils and giving it the burden of housing the army of the Congregation . |
| 22 | It made no express reference to proceedings between a named representative of a class and a member of that class who might well have sharply different interests , as betweeen themselves , as to the substance of the plaintiff 's claim . |
| 23 | I 've used this one in the studio and I 've heard it used live , and in both instances it made a positive contribution to the sound . |
| 24 | Newman was aware that when eugenics was deployed in this way — shorn of its critique of environmentalism — it made a valuable contribution to the philosophical underpinnings of the profession . |
| 25 | He says he was an army officer seconded to the site and it made a remarkable contribution to the war , as well as developing the first computer . |
| 26 | It made an immense difference to military operations in Africa , stimulated research for other virus vaccines , and led to the award , in 1951 , of a Nobel prize to the medical scientist Max Theiler ( 1899–1972 ) . |
| 27 | It involved a gradual transition to a " regulated " market . |
| 28 | It provided a subtle bridge to the promised land of successful survival : not overtly trumpeting the triumphant rebirth of conspicuous consumption , but nevertheless easing in an almost unconscious separation from raging youth . |
| 29 | The sale to the public of 50 per cent of British Telecom ( BT ) in December 1984 was , at the time , the largest privatisation issue and it provided a major spur to the whole programme . |
| 30 | It provided a fitting accompaniment to the voice of the headmaster . |