Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remaining 90 per cent of cases remained an obstinate mystery until the middle fifties , when it became possible to culture this obscure organism on the yolk-sac of the chicken embryo . |
| 2 | Chi Ophiuchi is an irregular variable with a range of from 4 to 5 ; it lies close to Phi ( 4.3 ) which makes a good comparison star . |
| 3 | It cost 400 to book for a night . |
| 4 | " The copper ore of Greenburn was so fine in colour and texture that it came near to gold ! |
| 5 | Their mother had warned them to beg for forgiveness when their turn came to pray to their great-grandfather 's spirit before the altar , and it seemed certain to Lan 's ten-year-old mind that if she and her brothers had angered their father so deeply they must also have offended the spirits of their illustrious ancestors too . |
| 6 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 7 | It seemed miraculous to Kit that the old woman did not die ; that she could haul herself back to life by miracles of her own devising , or by the medicine Ariel applied . |
| 8 | He was late yesterday , got a brand new vehicle and , yet I mean if , if was getting here at one and yesterday he got to ours at half past eleven , so erm , it was half past eleven that 's right , it was dead on , so erm , erm whatever 's he going to be like when it gets near to Christmas ? |
| 9 | To liberate desire from oppression is not — could never be — a matter of resuming or regaining a desire/subjectivity as it existed prior to discrimination . |
| 10 | ‘ To me it sounds similar to youth training schemes — a disgrace . |
| 11 | It swung open to darkness . |
| 12 | Conversely , a golfer occasionally has a phase when the hole really seems larger and it seems possible to hole almost every putt . |
| 13 | A further consequence is , as Bogdanor states in ‘ Britain : the Political Constitution ’ in Bogdanor , Constitutions in Democratic Politics , p. 56 , that ‘ the term ‘ unconstitutional ’ can not in Britain mean contrary to law ; instead it means contrary to convention , contrary to some understanding of what it is appropriate to do . |
| 14 | Alternatively the higher mobility of the shift produced by this protein ( Figure 2b ) suggests that it may be smaller in size than Oct-1 allowing it to bind adjacent to bound NF1 and activate gene expression synergistically . |
| 15 | This recalls the sequence at several civitas capitals , including Cirencester and Exeter , but it remains unique to date at the small towns . |
| 16 | Say it rotates left to right about the vertical axis , as a line segment reaches the right extreme , it is removed . |
| 17 | It is not as though his position is remotely like that of modern emotivists who have compared ethical statements with imperatives ( and Hare 's ethics differs most from Kant 's where it comes nearest to emotivism ) . |