Example sentences of "it [verb] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the SNP recorded swings in several seats it failed to breakthrough in the Labour seats it would need to win in any significant nationalist revival . |
| 2 | ( At the same time , the government reformed the rating system as it applied to companies by introducing a uniform business rate — set at the same rate throughout the country . ) |
| 3 | In Plowman 's case it was argued that on its true construction the restrictive covenant was too wide as it applied to goods of all kinds and would prevent canvassing by the employee in articles of trade of any kind . |
| 4 | Rhodes Music Radio ( RMR ) became the first campus radio station to broadcast live , when it transmitted to Grahamstown during the Standard Bank National Festival in July . |
| 5 | The BA has organised a meeting of trade representatives to look at the wording of the Legalities of Price Marking documentation to ensure that the advice it passed to members in September 1989 , which was approved by trading standards officers at that time , still covers all eventualities . |
| 6 | Defamatory comment may not be actionable if it refers to people by class rather than by name . |
| 7 | excluded if it refers to arrangements between a body corporate and another body corporate within the same group or is in connection with a joint enterprise as noted above |
| 8 | The main problem with nitrogen oxide is that it contributes to forms of photochemical pollution such as ozone , which in high levels can cause eye , nose and throat irritation and affect the respiratory system attacking the lungs . |
| 9 | This contrasts with , for instance , the soil scientist 's interest in weathering which stems from a concern for the way it contributes to differences in soil characteristics and the release and movement of nutrients . |
| 10 | It contributes to theories of the role of the legal and other professions by clarifying what their services provide ; their creative techniques for subversion as well as routine servicing for compliance with the law . |
| 11 | This was greeted with shock and outrage by an Italian public which , although it goes to church in ever smaller numbers , would like to see the outward signs of the Church 's existence march on unchanged , and recoils at the prospect of a sacred building housing something so profane as a fashion house , for example . |
| 12 | It goes to pieces like quicksilver under my touch . ’ |
| 13 | You know , that it helping to sort of make the reader er , the thing about . |
| 14 | It led to frustration on his part . |
| 15 | Henry went on to point out the evils of sweated labour and the pay make-up system , how it fostered a disinclination to work and how it encouraged landless men to marry just so that their income would be augmented ‘ in proportion to the number of their children ’ , and how it led to degradation of the character : ‘ The weak , the indolent , and worthless worker is now secure of the maximum payment settled by the standards you have determined from parish funds , and the industrious , skilful and honest workman can expect no more … the pernicious and demoralising practice of paying wages out of rates … ought to be suppressed and prohibited . ’ |
| 16 | i.e. Theobald 's Road , leading from Southampton Row to Gray 's Inn Road , north of Holborn , east London , so named because it led to Theobalds in Hertfordshire where King James I had a hunting lodge in the early seventeenth century . |
| 17 | It moved to Bradford on 8 May and then to Dorchester , Workington , Peebles and Hawick . |
| 18 | The Law Society was striking various poses in 1968 and 1969 , but from apparently implacable opposition to the original scheme of salaried solicitors contemplated in the 1949 Act ( to depart from the alternative system adopted in 1959 would be ‘ a serious mistake ’ ) and the proposals of Justice for All , it moved to acceptance of salaried solicitors as part of its own proposals for an Advisory Liaison Service . |
| 19 | He was recalled to GC & CS when it moved to Bletchley in 1939 . |
| 20 | In the autumn It moved to offices in Endell Street , still in Covent Garden . |
| 21 | The rate of change makes it shudder on the branches of the trees where it stands to attention in its sterile , tightly packed commercial rows . |
| 22 | As he imposed his geometrical grid of drainage ditches across the newly filled-in estuary of the Traeth , it occurred to Madocks for a brief , but anxious , moment that the whole project resembled ‘ Dutch gardening ’ ; but in no time the poet Shelley arrived to help him with his endeavours , declaiming on the ‘ poetry of engineering ’ . |
| 23 | For the first time it occurred to Katherine as a conscious thought that he might find life with her mother a trial in ways which did n't only concern her . |
| 24 | It occurred to Wycliffe with a sense of surprise that of the three brothers he had spoken only to one ; he had never seen either Matthew or Alfred in life , yet he needed to know them . |
| 25 | ‘ I know but that feckless lot up at Claro had that grand , old house given an' they 've let it fall to pieces round 'em . ’ |
| 26 | One does n't want them to sort of follow it blindly , of course , one wants them to discuss it carefully , very carefully , but it has to sort of fit into the ongoing life of the institution and not be a kind of little game that someone is playing on their own somewhere because they happen to be linked with the university or doing a degree or something . |
| 27 | AT&T Co chief financial officer Alex Mandl told the annual meeting the company is ‘ thinking about ’ an increase in the dividend it pays : AT&T has not raised its quarterly dividend since March 1990 , when it rose to $0.33 per share from $0.30 . |
| 28 | When the name was officially changed the term ‘ non-objective ’ fell into general disfavour , possibly because of a public mis-perception that it referred to art without a purpose . |
| 29 | Leskov was prepared to accept the utility of the term " liberal " , but only if it referred to advocates of moderation . |
| 30 | Essentially it adds to measures in various statutes , notably in the Highways Act 1980 — covering England and Wales — and the Roads ( Scotland ) Act 1984 , so that traffic-calming techniques of the sort that I outlined can be constructed by highway and road authorities . |