Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great deal of it amounted to little more than an adjunct to farming , typically by smallholders plying a trade on the side . |
| 2 | January was a month of intense political and diplomatic activity in Hong Kong , much of it related to constitutional developments ahead of the territory 's restoration to China in 1997 . |
| 3 | This leads to the inevitable question ‘ Where does it all go to ? ’ and the simple answer is that most of it goes to several firms specialising in BOB ( Buyer 's Own Brand : ie , supermarket brands etc . ) |
| 4 | This is partly because of the increasing importance of employment in the service sector , much of it geared to regional and local markets and client groups , but it also has much to do with the particular circumstances of the 1980s . |
| 5 | Between 1970 and 1984 , Latin America 's foreign debt mushroomed from $21 billion to $360 billion , the bulk of it owed to Western banks . |
| 6 | The order , won by DEC and its prime contractor Computer Sciences Corporation , calls for $4.2m worth of DEC 3000 Model 400 AXP machines immediately with the possibility of it going to 2,500 boxes , a value of $30m , over the next four years . |
| 7 | 1290 in England , and that knowledge of it spread to various centres ’ . |
| 8 | If Elmer has a right to the inheritance according to a convention of this sort — if he has a right to it according to social conventions about who has power to legislate and how that power is to be exercised and how doubts created by the language are to be settled — then he has a legal right to it , but not otherwise . |
| 9 | Her rent would have certainly been paid in advance and the rent man , whoever he was , would likely be the only one who would come down here , except of course the child 's uncles , and they must have been hard put to it to resort to this hole . |
| 10 | But the amendments tabled on it run to 60 pages . |
| 11 | You can specify a door to take you directly to another room , and just double click on it to get to another application . |
| 12 | I argued earlier that there are problems in attempting any rigorous theoretical definition of the ‘ manual work/mental work ’ , or ‘ manual/non-manual ’ , distinction but all the same this classification , conceived as a socially constructed principle of division , has a certain social validity , as least as it applies to male workers . |
| 13 | Some learning theories ( differential association was an example ) moved away from the idea of criminals being identifiably different kinds of people : their criminal behaviour was seen as being acquired in much the same way as any other behaviour was acquired ; it did not require any special , predisposing characteristics for it to happen to particular people . |
| 14 | It 's hard to see how they could ever get to know each other long enough for it to come to this . |
| 15 | By 1880 this was more and more a matter of Great Russian chauvinism within the boundaries of the Russian Empire , and tsarist imperialism abroad , but it had great sentimental appeal among Slavs living under non-Slav rulers who were encouraged by it to look to this ‘ big brother ’ . |