Example sentences of "it [verb] to [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Tell him there 's a slight possibility that the horses ’ drinking water was tampered with on the train , before it got to Thunder Bay . |
| 2 | Unlike lead , which the fuel companies eventually proved only too pleased to take out of petrol , sulphur does nothing for either the performance or longevity of diesel engines and it contributes to acid rain . |
| 3 | So she said well I 'll put that on the thing , but she said if it goes to Crown Court you 'll have to , I said well |
| 4 | The most obvious is a cart track leaving the road when it declines to valley level : this leads uphill amongst trees to a vast plateau but passes a boggy mile distant from the corrie . |
| 5 | Never serve cheese cold , take it out of the fridge at least one hour before it is needed and allow it to come to room temperature still wrapped . |
| 6 | The fact was , the beleaguered prime minister explained to a restive House of Commons , that when it came to income maintenance , history had turned the welfare state on its head . |
| 7 | By the end of Saturday morning the whole place was spick and span , with hopefully not too many drops of cleaner on the floor when it came to inspection time . |
| 8 | For someone who appeared so gleefully wicked and amoral , Cleo seemed surprisingly dim when it came to character judgment . |
| 9 | When I , when it came to exam time , I used to work until midnight , have three hours sleep and get up at three in the morning to carry on revising er because I was n't brilliant and I could n't remember everything and it was hard work . |
| 10 | The programme took its usual course , until it came to news time . |
| 11 | Sir Richard said sportsmen had a tremendous impact on youngsters when it came to tobacco advertising and they had to set an example . |
| 12 | That is why selection for housing is based on housing need not on financial need , that 's the point , that 's why you do it according to housing need , not for money because the money side has been neutralised . |
| 13 | It happened to quality assistant Liz Stephens , who works at Courtaulds Electrical Insulation in Runcorn , UK , but happily she survived to tell the tale . |
| 14 | Romania 's first digital telephone connection via satellite to the US — where it links to Sprint Corp 's network , has just gone live : according to Reuter , Romtelecom and Sprint both use Satellite Transmission Systems Inc digital equipment . |
| 15 | From its beginnings here , silk weaving spread to the Midlands and the north where it graduated to factory industry status . |
| 16 | Leave it in place until it warms to body heat and renew it as required . |
| 17 | no it gets to shoulder , it gets to shoulder length well remember mine did , mine before I had it cut |
| 18 | Nor , conversely , does it aspire to art-pop status , because its aim is to be truthful to its mediocre soul . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It threatened to embargo exploitation of Cambodia 's gems and minerals from Khmer Rouge areas and to freeze Khmer Rouge assets abroad . |
| 21 | The message that prevention is better than cure applies just as much to dental problems as it applies to heart disease . |
| 22 | The analytic versus holistic dichotomy as it applies to laterality research has been more often invoked to explain results in a post hoc fashion than it has itself been subjected to experimental scrutiny . |
| 23 | The name ‘ Shivering Mountain ’ sounds like it should refer to some awesome peak in the Himalayas — in fact it applies to Mam Tor , standing at a modest 1,696ft but offering a first class viewpoint on this fine Derbyshire circuit . |
| 24 | No , it seems to bit filling |
| 25 | When Carello Lighting ran into this problem , it looked to Ambit Research 's Ark modelling package to reduce the size of the data and increase the function of the model at one fell swoop , while retaining the ability to produce spreadsheet-like outputs . |
| 26 | This article gives an overview of SCOTVEC 's current position on quality assurance , as it relates to workplace assessment , which is now becoming an important feature of SVQs . |
| 27 | It helps to fuel inflation and cause deepening recession , especially in the non-oil developing world . |
| 28 | In this perspective also President Reagan 's ‘ Strategic Defense Initiative ’ was more than a Star Wars nuclear strategy ; SDI was also seen as yet another way of pumping more billions of government dollars into advanced research , much of it related to information technology . |
| 29 | It clings to pole position for nine straight weeks . |
| 30 | It metamorphosed to Wine Rack after its conversion to wine merchant lookalike with bottle green colour , smart wooden shelves , wine casks and wicker baskets on the floor for added ambience , and bottles labelled by country of origin with tasting notes attached . |