Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It testifies both to a new realism in Moscow 's approach to the country 's profound economic crisis , and acknowledgement by the Western financial community that red-blooded free market therapy can not alone provide the answer . |
| 2 | Second half was better , though it got off to a poor start with Speed and MacAllister passing the ball away to Ipswich players . |
| 3 | It got off to a hairy start with several heated discussions about what a wild boar is . |
| 4 | If the one-day series was then to prove one-sided for years to come , at least it got off to a good start . |
| 5 | The small firm needling the big multinational may be only a nuisance for the time being , but if it latches on to a new and successful technology and makes all the right first-mover investments it may be tomorrow 's market leader . |
| 6 | WASHINGTON — The Soviet Union risked an ‘ inflationary disintegration ’ of its economic reforms unless it moved rapidly to a convertible rouble backed by gold , according to Wayne Angell , a governor of the US Federal Reserve , writes John Lichfield . |
| 7 | As it howled on to a new course , the river bank no longer protected Trent and Mariana from the worst of its savagery . |
| 8 | It opened on to a flagged walled yard that sloped steeply upward to where steps and a battered gate gave access to the rear driveway , with its ramshackle collection of goat- and poultry-pens . |
| 9 | After a while it turned on to a concrete road , where another truck was waiting . |
| 10 | He fills it up , and cooks for himself , and when it gets down to a certain level then he thinks , ‘ now I might do a concert ’ . |
| 11 | It would therefore not be too long before it settled down to a stationary state . |
| 12 | I saw it happen once to a dear old woman who went around a group of people , gently offering her book , and everyone signed except one . |
| 13 | In fact , as we have seen , it boils down to a moral evaluation of differentiation ( rather than a ‘ scientific ’ finding ) : the differences that distinguish criminals are things that are deemed to have ‘ gone wrong ’ with their biology , psyche or values . |
| 14 | It boils down to a sharp retraction in the Plains economy . |
| 15 | Does a certain relationship retain its explanatory power for a number of countries rather than just for one — can it stand up to a comparative analysis ? |
| 16 | It went on to a leading role in the ‘ Baker plan ’ , Brady 's predecessor , based on debt rescheduling and new loans , not debt relief . |
| 17 | Because a lifetime of debauchery somehow loses its romantic kudos once it winds down to a respectable job and keep-fit classes ; it stops being a biopic and starts sounding like a how-I-conquered-my-bad-habits-and-became-a-normal-person telefilm . |
| 18 | It gave on to a shadowed court whose centrepiece was an orrery on a stone plinth . |
| 19 | Up-stream , it sloped down to a grassy path between the trees and the water . |
| 20 | It had a small receptive field that was somewhat elongated vertically , and on examination with elongated stimuli it became clear that it responded well to a vertical bar but not at all to a horizontal bar . |
| 21 | Is it referring just to a triumphalistic idea of atonement in which everything is just alright in the end ? |
| 22 | It backed on to a big grey building like an overgrown garden shed , with no windows . |
| 23 | This is essentially a bog plant , but it adapts satisfactorily to a submerged condition in a tank . |
| 24 | It pointed instead to a new meritocracy indistinguishable for all practical purposes from the old autocracy , but writ sometimes smaller , sometimes larger . |
| 25 | ‘ … unfortunately , ’ Michele went on , ‘ I have n't a clue as to where Lucia 's secret hiding-place might be , so it comes down to a straightforward search . ’ |
| 26 | And it comes down to a basic difference of approach to this . |