Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In places , it defies understanding to this day . |
| 2 | But IBM immediately realized it faced a possible unexpected success , redesigned what was basically Univac 's machine for such mundane applications as payroll , and within five years became the leader in the computer industry , a position it has maintained to this day . |
| 3 | Although the executives of the rugby club were in favour of the earlier offer , the cricket club committee was firmly against it a stand it has maintained to this day . |
| 4 | From its original base in Woolwich , it has expanded to several locations in south east London , each offering a wide range of teaching and recreational facilities in attractive surroundings . |
| 5 | It has led to some funny situations , with irate daughters saying ‘ my mother would n't do a thing like that ! ’ . ’ |
| 6 | But still the habit of flying north for the summer persisted among the birds and it has remained to this day , even though the journey is no longer a few miles , but several hundred . |
| 7 | Society — for what it has done to those who are trapped by the forces of the big city . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , it has come to that , I suppose . |
| 9 | It has come to some tentative conclusions about the relationship between the quality of argument and computer software . |
| 10 | ‘ It is jolly sad that it has come to this but I am not surprised , ’ she said last night . |
| 11 | It has occurred to some that Melibee too may be a self-mocking parody but to read the work like this is to read with little sensitivity . |
| 12 | It was a phrase with many shades of meaning , but essentially in these years it came to refer to that freedom from lay intervention in ecclesiastical appointments and operations which it was Hugh 's special mission to promote . |
| 13 | But it might be months , or even years away , for it seemed to belong to another person , a different life . |
| 14 | It refuses to conform to any agreed standard even when simple facts are in question . ’ |
| 15 | When a line is good , it ceases to belong to any school . |
| 16 | ‘ Did it have to come to this ? |
| 17 | Truly it seems to belong to another world , one where contestants wrestle with supernatural strength and powers of endurance . |
| 18 | It seems to belong to another world . |
| 19 | When the campanile is seen from a distance , it seems to belong to some strange Expressionist church one has not noticed before . |
| 20 | It aims to appeal to all age groups . |
| 21 | They left after less than two hours of talks to report back to Saddam Hussein on the face of it having agreed to all allied demands . |
| 22 | In the Western media the University unrest was given prominent and extensive coverage , although it appeared to amount to little more than a mass bout of bottle throwing , which was nevertheless an act of political defiance aimed at the country 's " elder statesman " leader , Deng Xiaoping , whose last name was a homonym for the words " little bottle " . |
| 23 | Now it had come to this , the repomen at the door for the second time . |
| 24 | What had she got to lose , she seemed to be saying , now that it had come to this ? |
| 25 | Ah this was really just Yona and and me you know I mean Yona obviously felt very strongly about her father standing in the rain on the picket line worked hard all his life an it had come to this really being sacked er they were just newly sacked then . |
| 26 | It had occurred to some popular frontists that rearmament as an instrument of social control could cut both ways . |
| 27 | It had to come to this , he wrote . |
| 28 | At the beginning of the thirties it must have seemed as if the world was opening up at an astonishing rate , but by the end of the decade it had closed to all but those on active military service . |
| 29 | A Swapo representative , Mr Harmut Ruppel , announced on Wednesday that it had agreed to this , but acknowledged that this was in exchange for an executive president . |
| 30 | If a union decided to repudiate a strike , it had to write to all its members taking part in the strike to tell them that the union would give no support , and that they risked dismissal without compensation if the strike continued . |