Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] to a " 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 | Local government was no longer boring — it was ‘ where it was at ’ , and it became elevated to a collection of grandiose projects . |
| 3 | We know then that the legend is false and that it became attached to a much older custom , but what was the Horngarth itself and for what purpose was it erected ? |
| 4 | Crucial as this innovation may have been for co-ordination , it has contributed to an increased sense of ‘ distance ’ between policy makers and implementers in a policy system that operates primarily in a unified , top-down , manner . |
| 5 | Although normally only architects qualify for the RIBA 's Gold Medal ( considered the world 's most prestigious award for architecture ) , this year it has gone to an Irish structural engineer , the fifty-six year old Peter Rice . |
| 6 | Day 11 ) The water temperature released at the dam is 0 degrees Centigrade but here , 100 miles downstream , it has warmed to a comfortable 32 degrees Fahrenheit . |
| 7 | Not only does it risk making heroes and martyrs out of the perpetrators , but in practice it has led to a damaging split between reactive strategies , which are aimed at highly specific target groups , and proactive approaches which rely on nebulous generalities , viz. , ‘ creating the right ethos ’ . |
| 8 | Well , remember that all this equality has only been achieved in one small part of the globe , and then mainly at the expense of the rest of the globe ; and that this inequality , once such a national feature , is now such an international feature that it has led to a bitterly destructive war between rich and poor nations ; and remember that that inequality is fed by an ever-hardening racial antagonism which enlightened men regard as the tragedy of our age . ) |
| 9 | However , the SEA has resulted in a dramatic increase in the activities of the EC , and it has led to a chain of events which have focused attention on the EC as being one of the most successful and dynamic economic agencies in the world . |
| 10 | While this is understandable , it has led to an inordinate number of successful appeals . |
| 11 | It has tumbled to a six-year low , but it could rise 25 per cent by the end of this year . |
| 12 | It has shrunk to a third of the original draft 's 120 pages . |
| 13 | It is not so , except perhaps in the most formal of speaking styles , where a sentence may fall to a low point in the voice and be followed by a substantial silence , and we know that it has come to an end . |
| 14 | I think that Yugoslavia as we know it has come to an end . |
| 15 | TI says it has switched to a 0.7-micron process from 0.8 , and will be analysing product from every angle before it makes any declarations as to what it 's really getting . |
| 16 | ‘ It has got to a stage where I am not looking ahead to what might happen in a few weeks or a few months . |
| 17 | It has stuck to an antiquated way of operating that harks back to the days of guild power , and has refused to countenance criticism . |
| 18 | Well then if you look it tends to change to a different variety trees . |
| 19 | The emergency services say it could cut vital minutes from the time it takes to respond to a call . |
| 20 | It appears to lead to a lessening of the constraints imposed upon the individual by the social way of life . |
| 21 | How long does it take to refer to a grammatical rule ? |
| 22 | The steady economic growth and the increasing level of wealth which it generated led to an expansion of commerce whose effects were visible throughout the whole of France , but nowhere more so than in the capital , making it more and more a commercial as well as a political centre . |
| 23 | What made it worse , was that the police had the time of the tram-cars and the time it took to get to a certain stop . |
| 24 | Erm and with the housing people putting the type of people they put in there , it did lead to a lot of problems . |
| 25 | He did so in this case ( deciding that it did amount to a material change of use ) . |
| 26 | One of our basic problems is that modern scientific medicine and the society which it serves have to a great extent forgotten who and what human beings are . |
| 27 | NEC Corp warns that it expects to plunge to a consolidated loss of $364m for the fiscal year to the end of this month , as slumps in the domestic chip and computer markets turn out even worse than feared . |
| 28 | Short answer , I mean it 's the the it 's it repeats referring to a document which Gordon had produced , whi whi which has already been er amended , erm , which bit are you actually looking at ? |
| 29 | and it had to appeal to a broader group . |
| 30 | The National Bank said that for 1990 it had to adhere to a strict monetary policy aimed at keeping the hard currency account deficit under $550,000,000 , that of the state budget under 10,000 million forints and inflation under 19 per cent — conditions imposed by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) when it approved an agreement to pave the way for additional foreign loans to maintain the country 's creditworthiness . |