Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I presume that the hon. Gentleman thought it right to return to the matter in the House having notably failed to achieve the result for which he hoped by an overheated press release to the same effect which he issued at the end of last week . |
| 2 | It only added to the team Renault-Williams ' total embarrassment at carelessly letting him go at the peak of his box office appeal and pulling power . |
| 3 | The money supply is of no intrinsic significance : it only matters to the extent that it may be manipulated in such a way as to achieve other intermediate objectives of macroeconomic policy such as interest rate or exchange rate stability . |
| 4 | It merely adds to the deprivation in the world . |
| 5 | The third is the possibility , suggested also by Katib Celebi 's account of the office and supported to some degree by several contemporary documents , that there may have been a separate official muftilik of Edirne during the period : unfortunately , so shadowy is the evidence for its existence that as matters now stand it merely adds to the confusion , though could the facts about it be discovered , they might go some way toward resolving some of the problems in this vexed period . |
| 6 | Marking the error with a symbol like sp or s without also giving the correct version of the word , is unproductive , because it merely demonstrates to the pupil that he has " failed " , without showing him how to improve . |
| 7 | Yeah , it just goes to the bottom of the pack , but erm there 's numbers up there , you 've got ta collect them to spell out sex maniac |
| 8 | So it just got to the point when he was getting real busy and I did n't want to put my fate in someone else 's hands — even though my way it was a much slower progression . |
| 9 | No longer in the calendar with a prime week of its own , an event which has only just survived this year through a last minute rescue sponsorship package , will hardly be able to reduce its prize money in 1993 from the $1m it already pays to the Double-Up new minimum of $625,000 , even though it will no longer be guaranteed even one of the top ten ranked or other leading box office players . |
| 10 | One danger with this emphasis on the language of adults is that it easily leads to the conclusion that adults actually cause developmental progress by the way in which they speak to young children . |
| 11 | This was kept locked from tenants who could n't have used it anyway owing to the condition of the two inside walls , which were crumbling alarmingly . |
| 12 | It thus points to the way in which meditation is the very " halsynge of Rachel " . |
| 13 | It thus contributed to the ineffectiveness of much of the warfare of the period . |
| 14 | I mean there were erm draper 's stores , there were furniture stores , there were all the butcher 's shops , grocer 's shops , greengrocer 's shops , chemist 's shops , ladies ' outfitters , hatters , tripe shops , er seed merchants , er bakers , millers , erm I ca n't say there were wallpaper sop shops and paint shops as such because there was n't such a thing as a wallpaper shop specializing it usually went to the hardware shop for wallpaper and paint . |
| 15 | The term is used to cover different types of situation but in practice it usually refers to the danger to old people 's health and safety which may arise when they live alone and are very frail , either physically , mentally or both . |
| 16 | The rhythmic movement of volumes and planes in space is so basic in Cézanne 's design that it usually extends to the treatment of the background — whether that be sky , wall or drapery — and makes it serve the dual purpose of a screenlike area or space boundary and of a rhythmic sequence of semivoluminous planes which continue the movement of the units in the middleground and foreground ; this sequential ordering thus contributes to compositional unity in the widest sense as well as to the expressive movement of the total form . |
| 17 | If it ever came to the crunch … |
| 18 | The list included the JONA 22 self-launching aircraft which appears to have been an Italian invention — did it ever get to the production or prototype stage ? |
| 19 | FitzAlan tossed the gown carelessly on to the stool , where it promptly slithered to the floor . |
| 20 | The House of Lords held that it still belonged to the timber firm . |
| 21 | I think it still belongs to the Duke of Devonshire because he was interviewed at the end was n't he ? |
| 22 | It was in response to that application that the committee yesterday published its findings , which must now be digested by the Law Society before it formally applies to the Lord Chancellor for extended rights of audience . |
| 23 | The particles are coated with a single molecular layer of a dye ( a not particularly cheap complex of ruthenium — but since so little is used , it hardly adds to the expense ) . |
| 24 | This is that , once life ( i.e. replicators and cumulative selection ) originates at all , it always advances to the point where its creatures evolve enough intelligence to speculate about their origins . |
| 25 | It always goes to the practice manager . |
| 26 | This dream of decentralisation as a means to administrative efficiency continues to the present day , but it always wakes to the reality of Political control . |
| 27 | A man who owned a needle made of octiron would never lose his way , since it always pointed to the Hub of the discworld , being acutely sensitive to the disc 's magical field , it would also miraculously dam his socks . |
| 28 | ‘ It once belonged to the Lion of Venice . |
| 29 | The pilot stated that as the aircraft rose above the treeline , at about 150 feet above the ground it involuntarily banked to the right , and despite maintaining the climb speed he could not prevent the roll to the right — which continued past ninety degrees of bank . |
| 30 | As a detectorist I now know that it also led to the loss of Civil War coins , militaria and other relics in the vicinities of sieges . |