Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In places , it defies understanding to this day . |
| 2 | But IBM immediately realized it faced a possible unexpected success , redesigned what was basically Univac 's machine for such mundane applications as payroll , and within five years became the leader in the computer industry , a position it has maintained to this day . |
| 3 | Although the executives of the rugby club were in favour of the earlier offer , the cricket club committee was firmly against it a stand it has maintained to this day . |
| 4 | It has gone to German manufacturer ASI GmbH , and ASI will now supply products to the Tandon sales and marketing subsidiaries in Europe . |
| 5 | With new mid-range models , NWS5000TF and the NEWS5000TG in its News workstation line , based on the R4000 RISC chip , Sony Corp is mounting a new offensive in the Japanese workstation market , where it has fallen to fourth place from third , deposed by NEC Corp as the number three player behind Sun Microsystems Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co . |
| 6 | This study compares the methods used to diagnose pyloric stenosis at Camperdown children 's hospital during two periods , 1974–7 and 1988–91 , to determine whether imaging is being used more frequently and whether it has led to earlier diagnosis and better management of pyloric stenosis . |
| 7 | But still the habit of flying north for the summer persisted among the birds and it has remained to this day , even though the journey is no longer a few miles , but several hundred . |
| 8 | ‘ Try a selection from the Desert Song , topped up with a few choruses of Cool clear Water , Midnight at the Oasis or Caravans which may convince your bird that it has come to wrong place . |
| 9 | Another group , the Ridgewood-Bushwick Senior Citizen Council , has been around for years without promising amenities like that ; one of Bushwick 's biggest employers , it has stuck to various welfare and housing services . |
| 10 | Our eyes lit up on reading in the Wall Street Journal that the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom has said that it plans to respond to foreign competition by rebalancing its telephone call charges to make long distance calls cheaper and local calls more expensive , but it was a false alarm and you can all go back to sleep again : the piece goes on to quote an official saying that no decision about a rate structure had been made and that any change wo n't occur before 1995 at the earliest . |
| 11 | It was a phrase with many shades of meaning , but essentially in these years it came to refer to that freedom from lay intervention in ecclesiastical appointments and operations which it was Hugh 's special mission to promote . |
| 12 | Although Thatcherism denounced past policies , it affected to return to past philosophy . |
| 13 | But it might be months , or even years away , for it seemed to belong to another person , a different life . |
| 14 | When a line is good , it ceases to belong to any school . |
| 15 | Truly it seems to belong to another world , one where contestants wrestle with supernatural strength and powers of endurance . |
| 16 | It seems to belong to another world . |
| 17 | It aims to appeal to all age groups . |
| 18 | It lay tilted to one side , its body-work rusting into the ground . |
| 19 | More importantly , it put paid to public faith in the League . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , it did add to royal pressure upon the archbishop and further reminded him of the realities of royal power : in 1285 he petitioned for the relaxation of the statute , especially in respect of grants to parish churches , but Edward reserved his right to licence — to confer or withhold favour . |
| 21 | By last year it had risen to one pound sixty nine . |
| 22 | But in the madrigal it had led to heightened tone-painting of individual words and phrases , a practice which Zarlino 's own pupil , the Florentine lutenist and singer Vincenzo Galilei ( c. 1520–1591 ) , father of the astronomer , ridiculed in his Dialogo della musica antica e della moderna ( Venice , 1581 ) . |
| 23 | However , although calcium caseinate is not soluble in water it does soften to some extent after soaking . |
| 24 | As regards the argument of international recognition and recognition by the United Nations , though this does not as such involve control of territory or a population , it does correspond to one aspect of statehood . |
| 25 | But assuming we it does come to some sort of settlement ultimately , are you saying then that you still doubt whether there 's that political will ? |
| 26 | Supervisory control is by no means universal , in fact it remains restricted to high technology systems such as aircraft , computer controlled machine tools , chemical plants and power stations . |
| 27 | And wh why that 's happening is really what we 're going to be spending the evening on , and it 's related to international trade . |
| 28 | Coming in at all , so that 's , that is n't easy , but it , eh were it works it 's really good I mean for example we , we d o up the Poll Tax enforcement policy , erm and again it was where the Cou I mean if the Council had followed the legislation on Poll Tax collection , it 's you know , erm and it did n't want to do that , and so again well , it 's , well it 's related to this legislation bit , but we looked at , we looked at how we could get round that legal procedure and we looked at developing a more sensitive policy and we had to do that with other departments . |
| 29 | Yeah , well , thank you Chairman , I I I 'm erm er , I must admit , I 'm I I am think long and and and er think deep really , about er , you know , changes such as this , but I I also er , er have to run my own businesses , and er , I just er , I think we have experienced a water-shed , it 's coincided to some extent with the change of administration and then during the nineteen eighties , we had to a boom in this county , we had the the opportunity and I never er ever er , been against that principle , of er , of er , using our actual receipts we have hidden reserves , we we talked about the reserves of twenty nine million pounds here , for the er , erm , we have er er , assets of twenty nine million , in an earlier paper . |
| 30 | Right that 's what it is. it 's raised to some power |