Example sentences of "it [vb past] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , we also feel it got a future to the people who are working within it , , in that it will lead them on hopefully , to useful employment opportunities . |
| 2 | It concerned a challenge to a deportation order . |
| 3 | Then it became a necessity to which nearly everyone conformed . |
| 4 | It became a boon to the farming community , being used extensively to convey agricultural products and large amounts of sugar beet to the large sugar-beet processing factory at Bardney . |
| 5 | American military spending no longer facilitated the expansion of the world economy ; instead , it became an obstacle to financial regulation . |
| 6 | A Duxbury calculation could not by itself provide the answer as to the sum to which the wife was entitled , though it produced a figure to which the judge was entitled to have regard in deciding what was the right answer . |
| 7 | And it made a change to be told before and not after the job that a cow was a kicker . |
| 8 | In November Pravda still viewed the ASEAN declaration for neutralisation as denoting a ‘ far from easy task ’ since it presupposed an end to US ‘ aggression ’ in Indo-China , to China 's ‘ hegemonistic aspirations ’ and contradictions among Southeast Asian countries , and the removal of foreign military bases and foreign troops from the area . |
| 9 | This would require approval by national parliaments since it involved an amendment to the 1957 Treaty of Rome [ see pp. 15951-59 ] . |
| 10 | Its main attraction before independence was that it provided an antidote to the Government propaganda of Mambo Leo , but it looked very shabby by comparison . |
| 11 | The Irish Times quoted Craig as claiming that a reason for banning the march had been that it posed a threat to the United States military base in Derry : |
| 12 | Although initial fears that the smoke would cause climatic change on a global scale appeared to be exaggerated , it posed a threat to the health of both humans and animals in the northern Gulf states , southern Iraq and parts of western Iran . |
| 13 | The exclusion only lasted a few minutes , but it seemed a lifetime to her . |
| 14 | It seemed a marathon to me but realistically it was roughly one thirty-fifth of a mile , which left thirty-four thirty-fifths still to go . |
| 15 | However , it seemed a shame to be able to design the forms using the computer and not be able to complete them on the same machine at a later point . |
| 16 | However , it seemed a shame to be able to design the forms using the computer and not be able to complete them on the same machine at a later point . |
| 17 | He did not have long to wait , though it seemed an age to him . |
| 18 | It filed a petition to the US Trade Representative in April 1989 alleging unfair trade practices by Thailand . |
| 19 | My feeble little quip was self-diminishing , it might raise a smile , it paid a homage to her own earlier remark , and it gave us a shared history . |
| 20 | Moreover , it constituted a barrier to carrying God 's order to other parts of the human family . |
| 21 | Theudebert I authorized the meeting of the Council of Clermont in 535 : the council started with prayers for the king , and it addressed a petition to him . |
| 22 | It followed a visit to Japan in November 1989 by Kaysone Phomvihane , Chairman of the Lao Council of Ministers and general secretary of the ruling Lao People 's Revolutionary Party ( LPRP ) , which had resulted in a substantial Japanese aid package to Laos [ see p. 37287 ] . |
| 23 | Formed by the merger of Kim 's Party for Peace and Democracy ( PPD ) and the small dissident Party for New Democratic Alliance , the new party 's platform was similar to that of the PPD ; it included a commitment to a market economy , to independent diplomacy and to the restoration of morality within the political sphere . |
| 24 | The year long campaign to save it included a petition to Downing Street with twenty four thousand signatures . |
| 25 | It included an introduction to the Programme and the first theme , Communication Ethics . |
| 26 | At the same time , as with so much of the work at Oxford , it evidenced a return to the physicality of the body at the core of aesthetic experience . |
| 27 | It brought a smile to her lips . |
| 28 | It brought a smile to the dark face . |
| 29 | It brought a smile to his face because he recognised the lie though no word had been spoken and he trailed his lips across her burning cheek before catching her mouth lightly with his own . |
| 30 | It brought a tear to my eye . ’ |