Example sentences of "it [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It applied to a special form of law embodied as a matter of convenience in a single document . |
| 2 | It is always a characteristic of theories which have many other features , and since it refers to a general kind of explanation rather than to explanations which make use of any particular set of categories , it is compatible with social theories of many types . |
| 3 | The name of ‘ Derrida ’ has been used in such a way as to imply that it refers to a real person who has certain ideas and theories which he has expressed in various books and essays , and which this introduction has tried to repeat , treating them as signifieds that can be represented in a number of different forms . |
| 4 | Usually it refers to a relative address , the location of the next record when compared to the address of the record being presently processed . |
| 5 | Where information is adequate from the poorest nations it points to a close relationship between poverty , underdevelopment and the spread of AIDS . |
| 6 | In the present case the argument was at one stage canvassed that requesting the receipt with the consequent obtaining of fingerprints , should be regarded separately from the main issue , that it amounted to a separate trick within a trick . |
| 7 | It amounted to a general statement of belief in socialist realism rather than a systematic attempt to offer a coherent theory relevant to the French context . |
| 8 | However , the Divisional Court held that it amounted to a common law contempt in that the Sun had , in spite of its editor 's protestations to the contrary , intended to interfere with the administration of justice . |
| 9 | It amounted to a coded acknowledgement of the barely-supressed rage of Conservative MPs , mostly on the right , whose concern over a fresh wave of ‘ large-scale immigration ’ hitting overcrowded facilities in Britain was clothed yesterday in language close to that of Mr Gerald Kaufman , the shadow Foreign Secretary , who called the plan ‘ inherently unworkable , invidious and divisive ’ , and demanded details on how it would work . |
| 10 | If passed , it goes to a Private Bill Committee . |
| 11 | Also , the point of sharing would come much earlier as there is no need to wait for the completion of a ‘ book ’ before it goes to a central access point . |
| 12 | You can , but I 'd still advise it goes to a joint account rather than to er another person 's account . |
| 13 | Once the bill of lading became an abstract document , it conveyed to a good faith holder what became known as a ‘ mercantile ’ title to the goods — the lawful holder of the bill of lading acquired a better right to the possession of the goods than his transferor . |
| 14 | A door at the far end was a little ajar , showing that it led to a white-tiled wash-room . |
| 15 | It led to a major fracas , in which some tried to get him ‘ unelected ’ , but failed . |
| 16 | It led to a vast improvement for everybody in Baldersdale because it provided a regular income . |
| 17 | This was neither the basic approach of Raistrick to fungal metabolism , nor quite the same concept as that of antibiosis , but it led to a similar outcome , the possible discovery of a microbial agent which could destroy the microbes that caused disease . |
| 18 | She took a path across the land at the side of the house and found that it led to a small wood which girdled the top of the hill on which the house was built . |
| 19 | It sounded utterly preposterous but it led to a longer silence . |
| 20 | On the contrary , it led to a significant wave of resignations by constituency officers and cancelled subscriptions , particularly in the South of England . |
| 21 | ‘ It belongs to a certain time , but it 's been highly praised . ’ |
| 22 | It belongs to a rich American , name of Paula Reece . |
| 23 | In seventh-century Corinthian vase-painting beautiful outline drawing is still found , but it belongs to a special style which seems intimately related to free painting on a flat surface . |
| 24 | It belongs to a large question about holism and individualism which plagues every approach . |
| 25 | The POU domain of this protein is unusually divergent in its sequence suggesting that it belongs to a novel class of POU family proteins . |
| 26 | It belongs to a Hindu family that entered comparatively late into a treaty relationship with the Portuguese , and had subsequently been ennobled by them . |
| 27 | The impressive manor he occupies is n't actually his : it belongs to a minor local aristocrat who 's let it to him , presumably under a long lease . |
| 28 | As I neared it changed to a shrill triple ‘ peep-peep-peep ’ . |
| 29 | As several WACC documents point out , it is a fundamental human right because it corresponds to a basic human need both of the individual and for the development of communities and societies . |
| 30 | Eliot now tended to be interested in anthropology mainly when it contributed to a Christian perspective , so that while he would maintain that ‘ the actual religion of no European people has ever been purely Christian , or purely anything else ’ since ‘ There are always bits and traces of more primitive faiths , more or less absorbed ’ , he became more and more interested in relating such faiths to Christian problems . |