Example sentences of "it [verb] [noun sg] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Chur , the oldest town , it turns north to Liechtenstein and Germany . |
| 2 | So it goes south to Gath , but it takes the plague with it , together with an unearthly confusion and terror . |
| 3 | As a member of the European Community Greece has accepted obligations on social and medical welfare , and it has access to EC funds and other assistance , unlike other countries with unsatisfactory mental-health services . |
| 4 | That was all he could say for quite a time ; but when he had recovered his confidence he said a lot more , all of it expressing gratitude to Sheila for her quick thinking and great pluck and shame for his own and Chuck 's roughness with her earlier . |
| 5 | However , the front-raised realization is easily perceived to be a very salient marker of vernacular speech in Belfast : as an identity marker , therefore , it marks nativeness to Belfast and adjacent areas , and it seems to be very firmly established . |
| 6 | Alsace is the only stronghold for the grape outside its native Germany , but its fashionable blandness is causing it to give way to Pinot Blanc . |
| 7 | It is interesting to note how Trade Indemnity , which has been an active user of this Z-Score approach for many years , used the technique as part of its overall risk assessment procedures to provide advance warning , allowing it to reduce exposure to MCC to a nominal sum by the time it failed . |
| 8 | Meeting in the southern Peruvian port of Ilo , President Jaime Paz Zamora signed an agreement with his Peruvian counterpart , Alberto Fujimori , on Jan. 24 , which would grant Bolivia , landlocked since it lost territory to Chile in the 1879 War of the Pacific , access to the Pacific Ocean . |
| 9 | Labour 's apparent shift towards PR to woo the Liberals , Ashdown 's insistence that he would allow a government to function only if it gave way to PR , all seemed to point to a deal being hatched up behind the backs of the voters to secure power for the opposition parties . |
| 10 | Soon the mask of mob rule and anarchy was replaced by the naked face of despotism , and eventually it gave way to Napoleon 's personal image of collectivism : an imperial militarism . |
| 11 | It sounded nonsense to Jinny , but she saw the boy 's face go pale . |
| 12 | But if it sometimes seems to be saying , on Salim 's behalf , that race or kinship wins , it is also the case that it is full of losers , that it has a lively feeling for the Africans of market and bush , and for their African troubles , and for the situation of Salim as someone evolved or emerged from a tribal narrowness to an experience of sexual love which is liberating and dramatic , and that it does justice to Metty 's last state , left behind in the dangerous town at the bend in the river . |
| 13 | A month later , PW made a breakthrough : it gained access to Mr Naqvi 's personal filing room where , among 6,000 files , it found the evidence it needed major customers colluding with BCCI in the falsification of accounting through the use of nominee arrangements , hold harmless arrangements and payment of fees to individuals to ensure cooperation , as well as proof of links between BCCI and the International Credit and Investment Corporation group . |
| 14 | The destroyer 's forward gun crew and mortarmen were all dead or wounded , her bow a cauldron of smoke and thermite fumes , even though the incendiary bomb was put out before it set fire to Campbeltown 's warhead of depth charges . |