Example sentences of "it [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Achmore is entered and from it goes a narrow road to Plockton and Kyle of Lochalsh on a journey of sustained delight . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Moreover , it displays a political sensitivity to local authority and community plans . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It offers a simple introduction to many subjects |
| 12 | At Felixstowe it offers a 24-hour service to some of the world 's biggest ships , handling around 6,000 vessel movements a year . |
| 13 | 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 ] . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Morse said it lent a new meaning to the phrase ‘ keeping a shop ’ . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | It involved a gradual transition to a " regulated " market . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It provided a fitting accompaniment to the voice of the headmaster . |
| 25 | In particular , it was contrary to articles 7 , 52 and 221 in as much as it created a complete barrier to freedom of establishment in the United Kingdom for individuals as owners and operators of fishing vessels and as directors and shareholders of companies owning or operating such vessels . |
| 26 | In 1920 it routed a Polish army to the suburbs of Warsaw and at the end of the following year launched an invasion of the Menshevik Republic of Georgia after its government had quelled an internal Bolshevik uprising . |
| 27 | There is some doubt as to whether a health authority is primarily liable , i.e. that it owes a non-delegable duty to its patients . |
| 28 | A female usually very , but , I do n't know , it looks a young bird to me . |
| 29 | It bore a hideous resemblance to the blighting , punishing sorts of work which are common in the world at large . |
| 30 | It was at his suggestion that the name taekwondo be used , because it bore a close similarity to the old name of tae-kyon . |