Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the State itself undertakes investment , it rarely does so to the benefit of the older industrialized regions . |
| 2 | It just comes straight to the point |
| 3 | His venom against a country of 3 million people not only reinforced the Latin American image of the US as a bully , it also led directly to the Iran-contra scandal , the most serious political crisis of his administration . |
| 4 | It also led directly to the headsman ‘ s axe for Andrew Hardie of Glasgow and John Baird of Condoratt in the Parish of Cumbernauld . |
| 5 | It also reacted strongly to the proposal of a white veto over CODESA decisions , which , it said , " smacks of the very precept of racism on which the present unjust order is based " . |
| 6 | It also looks forward to the later poetry , where the ‘ spirit of the river ’ Mississippi becomes ‘ a strong brown god ’ , while the ‘ spirit of the sea ’ is that of the Atlantic of the New England coast of Eliot 's childhood . |
| 7 | The existing common law on breach of the peace has been continuously expanded so that it now adds greatly to the non-statutory powers of the police to restrict peaceful assembly ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 8 | Although society as a whole was very far from accepting the extremes of revolutionary order and , of course , most of Europe , Britain above all , had fought for years to suppress it , the painfulness of the Church 's early experience of the Revolution helped to keep it profoundly opposed even to the Revolution 's more moderate implications , ones increasingly accepted by European society as a whole . |