Example sentences of "it [vb past] [to-vb] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legend has it that it was once fired on by a warship because it failed to reply to a signal ! |
| 2 | The decision to maintain the acceptance of a long-standing invitation to go on Mr. Byrne 's show in Dublin on Friday night was prompted by the opportunity that it afforded to speak to the people of the Republic of Ireland about terrorism and the response of a democratic society . |
| 3 | Ms Stephens was asked by reporters how it felt to climb to the top of the world . |
| 4 | After the second world war it had to adjust to the loss of an empire . |
| 5 | Foreign investment was more or less prohibited ( it had to contribute to the development of the domestic industry ) . |
| 6 | A building society challenged the validity of transitional provisions in the Income Tax ( Building Societies ) Regulations 1986 by which it had to pay to the revenue on specified quarterly dates the tax in respect of dividends and interest it had paid to its members . |
| 7 | Porridge , for example , was always recommended as a cheap , nutritious food , but for a family cooking in a single pot on an open fire it was an impossible choice , primarily because it tended to stick to the bottom of the pan . |