Example sentences of "it [verb] to [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because it applied to all bodies everywhere , the universe had at last become a universe . |
| 2 | The following features of a statutory redundancy payment emerged : ( 1 ) The obligation was imposed on the employer ; ( 2 ) It only arose on dismissal and might never arise if an employee worked until retirement , whether voluntary — early retirement — or at an agreed date , each of which was based on contract ; ( 3 ) It only arose if certain preconditions were proved ; ( 4 ) It applied to all employees who had worked for at least two years with an employer ; ( 5 ) Certain classes of employee were excluded , eg redundant employees refusing suitable alternative employment ; employees under a fixed-term contract of two years or more , who had renounced their redundancy rights in writing ; ( 6 ) A voluntary redundancy could be under a contractual statutory scheme , and under such a contractual scheme it was often the equivalent of early retirement by agreement ; ( 7 ) In no way could a redundancy payment be described as a deferred emolument or pay ; it was a monetary compensation for the disappearance of a job . |
| 3 | The Administration decided that it applied to any coal owner who had actively sought to mine the coal up to the day the law was passed . |
| 4 | When you played Hammersmith a couple of years back and it got to that point in the song , I looked around and a lot of people were craning their necks , checking out how that was done . |
| 5 | Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ . |
| 6 | There was all sorts of processes before it got to that and after it got to that stage . |
| 7 | And really it has to be said and has to be said historically that I mean the army in a way was left with a job which politicians should have sorted out before it got to that stage . |
| 8 | ‘ Before it got to this stage there would undoubtedly have been letters flying between the two . |
| 9 | Perhaps we , I mean , then British Section said to us on this erm and I 'd s , already said I think er by the time it got to this stage of conversation that we were without a prisoner at the moment , but , but awaiting one , and he said well , that would ex , that would explain it because er , until we initiate it , British Section initiates it you wo n't get another prisoner , they 're waiting for conformation from R E S |
| 10 | It refers to such resources as the overhead projector , tape-recorder , cineprojector , etc . |
| 11 | The Act provided no definition of a ‘ public place ’ , but it refers to any place to which the public have access , irrespective of whether or not they have a legal right to go there , even when there are particular and restricted rules of entry . |
| 12 | It at the beginning of the second sentence refers to coming downstairs ( and not to his head , of course ) , and then the next it refers to another way . |
| 13 | I suppose it refers to those bands who need two or three goes to start every song . |
| 14 | With bank interest over the years it amounted to some £320,000-certainly enough to meet the Ingard cheque . |
| 15 | This leads to the inevitable question ‘ Where does it all go to ? ’ and the simple answer is that most of it goes to several firms specialising in BOB ( Buyer 's Own Brand : ie , supermarket brands etc . ) |
| 16 | I believe that the Bill , as it goes to another place , has been properly and fully scrutinised on Second Reading and in Committee — as will be shown in Hansard . |
| 17 | A further merit of the presentation is the help it offers to those company functions whose responsibilities involve risks contingent upon the completion date of an R&D project . |
| 18 | A further merit of the presentation is the help it offers to those company functions whose responsibilities involve risks contingent upon the completion date of an R&D project . |
| 19 | And it led to all sorts of ‘ self-management agreements ’ between enterprises on the reallocation of foreign exchange . |
| 20 | Miss Harder even refused the offer of financial assistance , in case it led to another child losing his chance of coming to Britain . |
| 21 | ‘ It led to some confusion in the department and mistakes may have been made . |
| 22 | It led to some job losses but it was justified in the company 's longer-term interests — and therefore the interests of the majority of employees . |
| 23 | Fears of militancy resulting from unemployment and the inadequacy of voluntary efforts to relieve it led to some recognition that charity could not provide sufficiently for either type of unemployment . |
| 24 | It belongs to all nomes , everywhere . ’ |
| 25 | It belongs to that company , that |
| 26 | One of you dies , the remaining one still owns all the property cos he or she always has done so and therefore it belongs to that person . |
| 27 | She 'll also make a grab for any toy that takes her fancy , even if she 's told it belongs to another child . |
| 28 | Apparently it belongs to this boy Svend because it was he who suggested they go to Copenhagen instead of staying on in Roskilde when the pop festival ended . ’ |
| 29 | Equally remarkable were the ambition and determination that pushed to completion her final novel , which is also her masterpiece , South Riding ( published posthumously in 1936 and awarded the James Tait Black memorial prize ) : a rich regional study of social change and local government , it drew to some extent on her mother 's experiences as the first woman alderman in the East Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 30 | To the group of accountants at each location , it looks to all intents and purposes as if the group has its own system . |