Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite valiant attempts to mount a large multi-media show to mark Robert Adam 's bicentenary in London and Edinburgh this year , it eventually fell to the latter city to honour the great designer with a group of exhibitions during its recent Festival . |
| 2 | In the late 1960s it only applied to the clearing banks . |
| 3 | This led to confusion over concentration with the term minimum inhibitory concentration ( MIC ) being used as and mistaken for dosage rate when it merely related to the bacteriostatic performance against certain bacteria under artificial conditions and at specific concentrations . |
| 4 | In the 1960's the date was changed to a Sunday to make it easier for people , but there was such an outcry that it soon reverted to the traditional Friday . |
| 5 | It finally fell to the British in 1815 . |
| 6 | This criticism was in part a reflection of the call made by the Report of the Committee on Physical Deterioration for greater physical and mental education for adolescents , but it also pointed to the three main criticisms of clubs which were reiterated years later by Freeman : that they could only really provide amusement ; that their positive educational value was small ; and that they failed to reach the mass of boys . |
| 7 | Yet it also testified to the increasing power of the new medical strategy and its ability to force a dialogue with competing political forces . |
| 8 | ( c ) Branscombe A village in two parts ; in the 9th century it was owned by King Alfred and it later belonged to the Benedictine Abbey in Exeter . |
| 9 | Once an élite activity , almost the exclusive prerogative of monks , it now spread to the swelling ranks of secular clerks , to servants in princely households , even to some ordinary townsmen . |
| 10 | It simply added to the fatal pull he had over her ! |
| 11 | You stood in the dark watching the glow and the flare of fireworks , and it never occurred to the other people to invite you in , and you could n't ask . |