Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since a python 's skin begins to deteriorate in quality once it has grown to about fifteen feet the largest are left alone , which is just as well as each one must be caught at night , alive and by hand , with a lamp to attract them from their lairs , and at least four men to get them into the sack afterwards . |
| 2 | Today it has risen to over 40 per cent in Britain , Scandinavia , and North America , and 30 per cent in France , in contrast to less than 7 per cent in China and Japan . |
| 3 | At the turn of the century an amount equal to only approximately 2.5 per cent of the GDP was spent on social services ; by the outbreak of the Second World War the percentage had risen to 11–12 per cent , and since the war it has risen to around 40 per cent . |
| 4 | Ever since I started observing it , about 30 years ago , the magnitude has remained between 4.6 and 5.3 , with a mean of 4.9 , but there are occasions when it has fallen to below 6 . |
| 5 | Devonport 's proposal to convert reclaimed land at Rosyth for oil tanker work — which it has passed to both the Ministry of Defence and the Department of Trade and Industry — initially caught the Babcock Thorn management unawares . |
| 6 | Boil the wine rapidly in a small saucepan until it has reduced to approx 1 × 15ml/tbsp . |
| 7 | Cara broke off , but she was still it seemed trying to frantically keep her mind off how ill her beloved husband might be when , turning the conversation to her work , ‘ It 's a perfect beast that I 've got to forgo my interview with Vendelin Gajdusek . ’ |
| 8 | Nor would it do to come to too many conclusions on the evidence of yesterday 's romp in the sun on a well-grassed but hard pitch . |
| 9 | How long does it take to get to there from our house ? |
| 10 | Do you feel that that would have solved the situation on Piper Alpha altogether or how far would it have gone to perhaps lessening the the blow of the the occasion ? |
| 11 | By early summer it had moved to still more opulent quarters in Hanover Square . |
| 12 | At the time of Britain 's accession in 1973 , the budget stood at £2,000 million per annum ; in 1991 it had risen to over £43,000 million . |
| 13 | In 1950 the gross personal incomes of those living in the five Pacific states amounted to just over a quarter of those living in the 18 Atlantic states ; by 1982 it had risen to very nearly half . |
| 14 | By the end of the century it had risen to more than £300,000 per annum . |
| 15 | By nineteen ninety two , it had fallen to just about twenty percent . |
| 16 | Pollution was directly to blame for a decline in life expectancy from 70.4 years in 1964 to 69.3 years in 1990 , Yablokov claimed , adding that in some particularly polluted areas it had fallen to as low as 44 years . |
| 17 | By November 1938 it had shortened to just twenty . |
| 18 | It 's remarkable where it does go to really . |
| 19 | We have had occasions where people have mis-dialled when they 've put on their diversion , and it 's gone to somewhere completely different , and the people at the other end can not understand why they 're getting phone calls for somebody who does n't work in their office . |
| 20 | It 's gone to where it can be of use . " |
| 21 | I painted this wonderful front cloth for it — God knows where it 's gone to since — I painted it on my sitting room floor with David 's help . |
| 22 | it 's got to So if it 's got to take forty eight you would of thought you 'd have you 'd have known today then ? |
| 23 | I do n't understand therefore how you can ex say that it 's targeted to primarily to manufacturing . |
| 24 | And in only seven or eight generations , it 's dropped to less than one percent . |