Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You mean — is it Dom João ? " she asked , and when he confirmed it added half to herself , " So he is — quite important . " |
| 2 | As the days passed it became clear to Ned 's family that he was drifting away from them and his strange affair with the stone was fast turning into a deep and meaningful relationship ! |
| 3 | So , although the events leading up to the Civil War made it seem desirable to Hobbes to write De Cive before the completion of De Homine , his finding this possible was not inconsistent with his conception of a three-part ordered system of Elements of Philosophy . |
| 4 | Millwall on the other hand made it look all to easy … their sub Verveeay was a yard too quick for the Oxford defence … and his shot was spot on … |
| 5 | Nor did it seem apparent to all that the war fought at sea , the damage which might be inflicted upon enemy vessels and morale , and the consequences which victory at sea could have for those who lived in areas close to coasts , were all part of a wider war which could not be restricted to the fighting on land . |
| 6 | Only in retrospect , after our detailed research , did it become clear to anyone what had transpired in GPs ' surgeries throughout Wirral in 1982–4 . |
| 7 | For years he had preached it , he had believed it intellectually , but never had it become personal to him . |
| 8 | I said it 's no good asking my opinion I said it looks alright to me . |
| 9 | A student of mine in a Spenser class which read A Present View suggested it seemed peculiar to be reading a piece by an author commonly hailed as one of the great writers of the English Renaissance putting forward views which makes him a type of war criminal within a twentieth-century perspective . |