Example sentences of "it [verb] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it agreed to a demand that Gdlyan and Ivanov be dismissed from working in the Procuracy , and in a resolution it warned them that their parliamentary immunity from prosecution could yet be withdrawn if they persisted in making " groundless " statements attacking the country 's leaders . |
| 2 | It agreed to the sale because a refusal would merely have delayed it until the six months ' residential qualification had been achieved by the co-tenant , the committee was told . |
| 3 | This collection is a sampler only — there are no more than six poems from each poet — but it testifies to the way in which poetry can — and does — survive in the most unpropitious circumstances . |
| 4 | I , I , I think Chairman that on the , the case to which you refer as , as I recollect it was very much on the specific wording of the er restriction which erm was found to fail , because it applied to a number of houses and not to a specific property and er clearly care will have to be given by the districts that happens in imposing conditions to make sure that it will erm appertain to each individual property within a development so that the occupancy condition can be can be informed . |
| 5 | So it applied to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations for some aid . |
| 6 | In this way , it applied to the Bible the ‘ inductive method ’ of scientific study developed in the rise of modern natural science , which similarly aimed to work up from pieces of data to more universal principles or laws . |
| 7 | Do you want it to go to a radio station ? |
| 8 | Everything was the same as it had been when he left it to go to the club the night before last . |
| 9 | That 's what makes it think to the name do n't he ? |
| 10 | It 'appens to a lot of us and everyone ai n't as lucky as I was . ’ |
| 11 | I said I 'd leave it pinned to the noticeboard above the communal phone and he said that was probably best and good night . |
| 12 | Then it turns to the effect of the ‘ managerial revolution ’ ; that is , it says , to concentrate power in the hands of directors and to withdraw power from ineffective and acquiescent shareholders who only exercise it at times of crisis . |
| 13 | Erm , so I was constantly getting rises , less my service pay and erm it got to a state there where sometimes my service pay was more than what the erm salary I would have got at home was and my wife had to pay to keep my superannuation live . |
| 14 | And it got to a point where I could n't move . |
| 15 | when its like that it tries and pulls you down , and this is why there was an accident with a Wessex or something or a Sea King a while ago , where three or four people died , cos it just did n't get enough height and as , as it got to the top it just pulled it straight down to the ground , it could n't , it did n't have enough height to clear the circle |
| 16 | Well the answer is that residents ' parking was offered in North Oxford I think about ten years ago , when it got to the top of the City 's priority list . |
| 17 | There were also places to eat if you fancied ( a ) a very expensive hamburger , ( b ) authentic Austrian cuisine , if you did n't mind the creaking Or lederhosen as you ate , and ( c ) high quality Japanese food , some of it dead before it got to the table , if you had all day . |
| 18 | McLaren boss Teddy Mayer as much as admitted at the end of 1975 that he thought Emerson wanted to move — or that he was in personal trouble of one kind and another — but the official news reached Hunt before it got to the team , and got to Hunt through Domingos Piedade , an eccentric figure close to the cheerful groupie Googie Zanon , a wealthy ( textiles ) Italian aristocrat whose support has been crucial to many drivers at critical points in their career , then ‘ manager ’ to Emerson and now to Ayrton Senna — a fringe career from which Domingos , hugely personable , but also often more a talker than a doer , has made a more than reasonable living . |
| 19 | I think he did say to me once that he was very disturbed at how much coke David was doing , and it got to the point where he did n't hide it in front of DeFries , whereas he did , for quite a while , at first . |
| 20 | It got to the point where you could have one musical act , then you 'd have a puppeteering act , all on a Sunday night under the guise of the Beckenham folk club . |
| 21 | ‘ It got to the point where they were jumping on the bonnet and it would have been a matter of time before they ran over my roof . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It got to the point that if someone looked at me on the street I thought they were responsible . ’ |
| 23 | We all worked and lived at the same place and it seemed pretty cool to me at the time , but it started to become more and more negative until it got to the point where I wanted to leave … and I realised that they would n't let me ! |
| 24 | In the Central Market in San Salvador , the manager , General Noel Aparicio , created a special uniformed and armed vigilante force to intimidate the market women , " It got to the point where we felt we were entering a prison , not a market . |
| 25 | Finally , it got to the point where he was driving me nuts , because I could n't even find out the reason he was screaming so . |
| 26 | And it got to the point where our pumps were issuing the fuel in gallons , but the fuel companies were bringing it in in litres . |
| 27 | It got to the point that some of the burgers were served straight from the freezer , raw ! |
| 28 | It got to the stage where we did n't bother to ask what happened to it . |
| 29 | And then it got to the stage when I did not want to , ’ she is alleged to have said . |
| 30 | It got to the stage where there was no way I could back out , ’ he said . |