Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From its beginnings here , silk weaving spread to the Midlands and the north where it graduated to factory industry status . |
| 2 | The marriage of John Donaldson and Frances Thornycroft resulted in the birth of a son , who was named Thornycroft Donaldson , who — together with John Isaac Thornycroft 's eldest son , John Edward , continued the business into the twentieth century , although it removed to Southampton in 1900 . |
| 3 | Until very late in the day , the possibility of their downfall does not seem to have occurred to Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu , any more than it had to Zhivkov or Honecker . |
| 4 | The Buddhist press paid more attention to gambling and drunkenness than it did to cattle stealing , presumably because most newspaper correspondents lived in towns , where cattle stealing was a relatively infrequent occurrence . |
| 5 | While both Angevins would naturally have liked to get their own way in both regions it is likely that the Quercy meant more to Richard than it did to Henry . |
| 6 | The third requirement grew out of this — namely , as America became more involved in this conflict , so it looked to Britain to send at least a token force to assist in the war in Vietnam , or failing that to give strong diplomatic backing to the United States . |
| 7 | One might claim Simon 's heart was in the right place , but his head — so it appeared to Markby — was all over the place . |
| 8 | The various elements combined until it seemed to Ace that a choir was whispering to her . |
| 9 | I packed up and went to follow the scales and 7 lb was the top until it came to Tony who weighed 10 lb dead . |
| 10 | The programme took its usual course , until it came to news time . |
| 11 | The train was n't stopping until it got to London ; there were other people in the carriage and surely these men would n't dare try anything here , now . |
| 12 | Now the eighteen-forties sees the development of manufacturing process , clothes are getting easier and easier to make , cheaper and cheaper , so fashion is changing faster because people can afford to , whereas in earlier times , if you wore a woollen dress , it had been you know , you know , somebody had done the sheep for you , had spun the wool and woven the wool and you were damned if you were going to take this dress off until it fell to pieces round you . |
| 13 | And if it came to court she would make a plea that he be given the care of his daughter until she became of age . |
| 14 | If it came to court today Armstrong would not be convicted . |
| 15 | Susan hoped the skill would come back to her if it came to guns . |
| 16 | I note that the first thing that the Labour party would do in my Department , if it came to power , would be to change the name of MAFF to FAFF . |
| 17 | If it came to violence , he was n't going to do too well . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ I always said we would never get the title if it went to points and that 's exactly how it turned out . |
| 19 | Even if a Bombay or China voyage was as profitable as David Scott suggested , a vessel with excellent accommodation for passengers was likely to bring a greater reward to its commander if it went to Bengal , for the centre of government was the destination of many of the wealthier travellers . |
| 20 | I therefore went into a meeting at in December and er we were presented with a report , we did n't receive it before the meeting , it was taken at the meeting and we said that we would n't discuss it if it related to night flights and again I wrote immediately back to the department of transport and I suggested that they should erm spend the report which I refer to , monthly figures of night flights so that the night flights could be monitored . |
| 21 | If it occurred to Ruth — and how could it possibly occur to Mrs Peterson — that there might be a good reason for this , she dismissed it from her mind at once . |
| 22 | Leskov was prepared to accept the utility of the term " liberal " , but only if it referred to advocates of moderation . |
| 23 | The shaft was probably renewed in the 17th century and was surmounted by an oval ball till it succumbed to schoolboy vandalism some 40 years ago . |
| 24 | Public prosecutor Andrei Makarov declared afterwards that it had been significant " not so much because it punished Ostashvili , but because it brought to light the forces standing behind this small figure and exposed the fascism which is growing in society " . |
| 25 | i.e. Theobald 's Road , leading from Southampton Row to Gray 's Inn Road , north of Holborn , east London , so named because it led to Theobalds in Hertfordshire where King James I had a hunting lodge in the early seventeenth century . |
| 26 | TI blames itself for telling the newsletter that that would be the ‘ average price for 1993 ’ because it forgot to factor in the industry practice of constantly repricing in the face of better yields . |
| 27 | He called for sensible and non-sectarian dialogue to solve a conflict between the government and judiciary , ostensibly over the constitutionality of a beer tax increase , which had plunged the country into its most serious constitutional crisis since it returned to democracy in 1982 . |
| 28 | With exactly half the seats in the Congress the PSOE was without an absolute majority for the first time since it came to power in 1982 . |
| 29 | In a White Paper issued shortly after it came to office , the new Conservative administration reviewed the development of the PES system to date and argued that there should be regular in-depth reviews of spending programmes , on both a departmental and an interdepartmental basis . |
| 30 | FIGHTER COLLECTION flew their P-38 Lightning back to Duxford from Lydd on Monday September 28 , 22 days after it came to grief in a belly landing at Lydd Airport , en route to the Shepway Seafront Airshow on September 6 ( FP October , p6 ) . |