Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It failed really to come to grips with the contribution which voluntary organisations could make to a pattern of services . |
| 2 | It has regularly proved to be one of the most popular options . |
| 3 | If it has not turned to yoghurt , then the original yoghurt was not live . |
| 4 | Predictably , it has not gone to extremes . |
| 5 | The underlying attitude is perhaps that most people accept mentally handicapped people and are sympathetic towards them , but remain inwardly glad that it has not happened to them or to their children — ‘ there but for the grace of God , go I. ’ They also continue to believe the many myths surrounding the handicapped which have been passed on for decades . |
| 6 | ‘ I have only just begun discussions with Celtic over renewing my contract and it has not got to the stage of the manager making me an offer , ’ said the player whose ability to impose himself on the opposition might be thought worthy of international recognition . |
| 7 | ‘ But supposing it has n't happened to anyone else , ’ Felicity said . |
| 8 | ‘ It has n't come to that yet , ’ began Tina , but now the van was lurching through the hospital gates , pulling up with a screech of brakes and a grinding of gears at the Casualty entrance . |
| 9 | Although it has n't it has n't come to that in Germany , I mean we 'll probably be the poor man of Europe at the moment are n't we ? |
| 10 | It has n't occurred to them that some people might actually have to survive on any money they 're given . ’ |
| 11 | No doubt your gran often gave your mum the benefit of her advice but it probably never occurred to her , as it has n't occurred to you , that your mother longs for love , company and sex . |
| 12 | Its the twelfth of May and it has n't got to me . |
| 13 | As things have turned out it has n't proved to be a serious drawback so far ; and your mother , who has temporarily left home , is very happy for me . |
| 14 | Sadly , of course , it has n't proved to be the entire answer because the original FOND resource can only cope with the four basic stylistic variations ; Plain , Italic , Bold and Bold Italic . |
| 15 | In not believing such relations to be wrong , conservatives are going against the whole ethos of the modern world , in which it has increasingly come to be held that humans should be treated as equals . |
| 16 | The IoT 's stance has angered members of the Tax Faculty who are currently considering their responses to the consultative document ; it has also led to speculation that the IoT is scared of losing members . |
| 17 | It has also led to the emergence of a handful of multi-dimensional spreadsheet products , which can typically hold data in up to 12 dimensions instead of the usual two or three , and let you ‘ slice and dice ’ the view of the information along these different dimensions . |
| 18 | This has resulted in not only strangers and professionals moving into the arena of dying and death , but it has also led to commercialisation and big business . |
| 19 | One has led to the written constitution , but it has also led to revolution and at times tyranny . |
| 20 | But it has also led to assumptions which cause religion to be ignored , doubted and re-interpreted . |
| 21 | It has also decided to expense items such as sleeves , labels and packaging ; these were previously included in stocks . |
| 22 | It has also resorted to austerity policies which have affected prices , employment and real wages . |
| 23 | And it has just happened to Kate Moss at the tender age of 18 . |
| 24 | It has just come to me . |
| 25 | It has since migrated to Europe , Latin America and the Caribbean , leaving a trail of slightly different strains in its wake . |
| 26 | It is important here , though , not to take the notion of " education " in any narrow sense , since the mission of national education as it operated between 1880 and 1920 encompassed institutions , events , and locations well beyond the scope of education as it has since come to be formally conceived . |
| 27 | And while it has doubtless occurred to the company 's editors that such a policy goes some way to covering their asses in the event of attack by ‘ patriotic ’ critics , the benefit to the viewer is no less valuable for that . |
| 28 | Confident in our own superiority over the rest of the animal kingdom , it has rarely occurred to us to question how other creatures perceive the world . |
| 29 | Is the Foreign Secretary aware that the Government 's attitude in Maastricht has left a crippling legacy of anger and resentment among our Community partners about the double opt-out , and that it has even led to a denunciation of the Prime Minister and the Government by their own right-wing allies in the European Community ? |
| 30 | It may also seem improbable that the world 's transaction processing systems will suddenly switch to Taos , but on the other hand the company is already hard at work building SQL interface objects and others that will confer Posix compliance , it has even chatted to a bank about payroll applications . |