Example sentences of "it [vb past] to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It applied to a special form of law embodied as a matter of convenience in a single document . |
| 2 | Lord Fraser ( at p813 ) stated : The Crown contended that the definition in s454(3) ( now TA 1988 ss681(4) ) applied to all transactions that did not have a bona fide commercial reason , and that it applied to the present transaction , the sole reason for which was to avoid tax . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , Gower , who will be in India this winter commentating for BSkyB , last night changed his position on the protest , saying : ‘ I had hoped they might drop this before it got to the full meeting . |
| 4 | But then I thought this might not be understood by many people , and also , by the time it got to the Augean Bulls and the Birds of Stymphalus , it would be a little recondite for people like Terry Coleman . ’ |
| 5 | The regionalist novel represented a kind of literary discovery of America , in that it revealed to an urban public the conditions of life in the remote , underdeveloped areas of the continent 's interior : the plains ; the jungle ; the Andes . |
| 6 | The tower was added in 1864 and it passed to the Metropolitan Water Board in 1904 . |
| 7 | Formerly a part of Kievan Rus , Belorussia also came under Lithuanian and Polish control until it passed to the Russian Empire under the partitions of the late eighteenth century . |
| 8 | In the present case the argument was at one stage canvassed that requesting the receipt with the consequent obtaining of fingerprints , should be regarded separately from the main issue , that it amounted to a separate trick within a trick . |
| 9 | It amounted to a general statement of belief in socialist realism rather than a systematic attempt to offer a coherent theory relevant to the French context . |
| 10 | However , the Divisional Court held that it amounted to a common law contempt in that the Sun had , in spite of its editor 's protestations to the contrary , intended to interfere with the administration of justice . |
| 11 | It amounted to a coded acknowledgement of the barely-supressed rage of Conservative MPs , mostly on the right , whose concern over a fresh wave of ‘ large-scale immigration ’ hitting overcrowded facilities in Britain was clothed yesterday in language close to that of Mr Gerald Kaufman , the shadow Foreign Secretary , who called the plan ‘ inherently unworkable , invidious and divisive ’ , and demanded details on how it would work . |
| 12 | From start to finish the sketch took minutes , and whilst it amounted to no great work of art , it was nevertheless an agreeable experience and an insight into what the pastels could do . |
| 13 | This happened once while I was at Binbrook , and we were all jailed for a week — well , con fined to our quarters , really , but it amounted to the same thing . |
| 14 | It amounted to the same thing for him . |
| 15 | Once the bill of lading became an abstract document , it conveyed to a good faith holder what became known as a ‘ mercantile ’ title to the goods — the lawful holder of the bill of lading acquired a better right to the possession of the goods than his transferor . |
| 16 | A middle scale version of Rodin 's ‘ La Defense ( The Call to Arms ) ’ ( lot 16 , est. $200,000–300,000 ) attracted the sale 's highest bid of $310,000 ( £181,000 ) when it sold to an American institution , while Utrillo 's pretty winter scene , ‘ Rue à Poissy ’ ( lot 131 , est. $60,000–80,000 ) was the sale 's most expensive painting , bought by an American dealer for $100,000 ( £58,000 ) . |
| 17 | A splashy Belle-epoque tableau literally bursting at the edges with tumbling patrons leaping from the stage , frantic dancers , several pairs of identical twins and top-hatted gentlemen consorting with masked beauties , it was most entertaining decoration , and seemed reasonably estimated at $100–150,000 , though it sold to an American collector ( widely believed to be Iris and Gerald Cantor ) for a stunning $650,000 ( £373,500 ) . |
| 18 | But it led to no official population policy , nor to real changes in government policy towards family support ( see Chapter 13 ) . |
| 19 | It led to no new tests . |
| 20 | It led to no permanent transfers of territory , though some islands were made neutral at the end of the war , and the half-dozen years after the war ended in 1749 were one of the peaks of eighteenth-century prosperity in the sugar trades . |
| 21 | A door at the far end was a little ajar , showing that it led to a white-tiled wash-room . |
| 22 | It led to a major fracas , in which some tried to get him ‘ unelected ’ , but failed . |
| 23 | It led to a vast improvement for everybody in Baldersdale because it provided a regular income . |
| 24 | This was neither the basic approach of Raistrick to fungal metabolism , nor quite the same concept as that of antibiosis , but it led to a similar outcome , the possible discovery of a microbial agent which could destroy the microbes that caused disease . |
| 25 | She took a path across the land at the side of the house and found that it led to a small wood which girdled the top of the hill on which the house was built . |
| 26 | It sounded utterly preposterous but it led to a longer silence . |
| 27 | On the contrary , it led to a significant wave of resignations by constituency officers and cancelled subscriptions , particularly in the South of England . |
| 28 | It led to the highest floor where we found an Iraqi soldier firing an automatic rifle through a narrow aperture in a pile of sandbags , reloading and firing his weapon until he became exhausted . |
| 29 | ( It led to the partial withdrawal of the present writer from my political party and was a factor in my decision in the following year to join with others in setting up a new political party , the British Ulster Dominion Party . ) |
| 30 | The last folly was finished in nineteen thirty-six and provoked such a public outcry that it led to the first-ever planning inquiry . |