Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It lacked five days to Christmas , and it might be , with a good wind and a following swell , that they might not have to spend Christmas at Birsay . |
| 2 | In addition it made some recommendations to BRAC , one of which was to encourage BRAC to make a greater effort to cooperate with the local village practitioners . |
| 3 | The Great Storm was a setback to woodland conservation because it drew public attention to trees and woods without adding to public understanding . |
| 4 | It attracted many workers to Glasgow from all parts of Scotland . |
| 5 | Influenced by Dada and Surrealism , it explored subconscious responses to configurations of dots , dribbles , shapes , textures and juxtaposed materials as a means of instantaneous communication … a visual music ! |
| 6 | It cut net payments to creditors by $4 billion a year between 1989 and 1994 — twice as much as rescheduling would have done . |
| 7 | No-one could deny that it brought real benefit to Scotland , which built up one of the most advanced and successful electronics sectors in Europe . |
| 8 | It brought 40,000 people to Clyde football club 's ground , where Lynch won comfortably . |
| 9 | The firm has been deluged by applications for tickets after it offered two flights to Europe with every Hoover product bought worth more than £100 . |
| 10 | Although the Accord was approved by most of the provinces by the end of 1988 , Manitoba and New Brunswick had withheld ratification on the grounds that it offered insufficient protection to Quebec 's English-speaking minority . |
| 11 | Bush rejected the campaign finance bill , the first such measure to have been approved by Congress in more than a decade of partisan dispute over the issue , on the grounds that it offered public subsidies to House and Senate candidates and because it did not eliminate donations from political action committees ( PACs ) . |
| 12 | To take a lorry load of goods from Leeds , it took 4 hours to Liverpool docks and 2½ hours to Hull docks before the motorways were opened — and ‘ time is money ’ . |
| 13 | The water was very cold , it took eight hours to film and eight days for Duncan 's head to lose that ‘ prune ’ look . |
| 14 | ‘ It took ten minutes to film and I was actually on TV for about six seconds . |
| 15 | It took some balls to beard the Colonel in his lair . |
| 16 | The gathering perception that pen input has been over-hyped was reflected in the fact that it slipped two points to 8% , and speech technology does n't have many friends either , dropping one point to just 7% . |
| 17 | It organised three presentations to representatives from business , voluntary groups and community councils which created a lot of interest . |
| 18 | What constitutes the novelty of the Hellenistic age is that it gave international circulation to ideas , while strongly reducing their revolutionary impact . |
| 19 | It gave some backing to Wilson 's much-publicized but largely ineffective policy of economic sanctions against Rhodesia . |
| 20 | The group doubled the number of passengers it carried last year to 1.65m and should perform even better this year following the purchase in September of Pickfords Travel from NFC for more than £16m . |