Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sentiment has not been helped by sharp profit downgrading from such pillars of Japanese business as Sony , Matsushita and Pioneer , though computer group Fujitsu recently said it expected current profits to be modestly increased . |
| 2 | It lacked five days to Christmas , and it might be , with a good wind and a following swell , that they might not have to spend Christmas at Birsay . |
| 3 | Last month Rainbow Warrior II was seized by the French navy as it led another protest to the atoll . |
| 4 | It made closer links to the army and the semi-fascist Falange movement . |
| 5 | It made little difference to the coal industry which continued to serve both . |
| 6 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
| 7 | The creation of the autonomous region had been opposed by the Moro National Liberation Front ( MNFL ) , the largest of the separatist guerrilla organizations , on the grounds that it made insufficient concessions to Moslem autonomy and failed to meet the terms of the 1976 Tripoli Accord [ see p. 28440 ] . |
| 8 | In the upshot the SEA , whilst it made some concessions to the political aspirations of the EP , was notable chiefly for its powerful commitment to the economic concept of completing the internal market . |
| 9 | In addition it made some recommendations to BRAC , one of which was to encourage BRAC to make a greater effort to cooperate with the local village practitioners . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , of course , ’ said Holly , as though it made any sense to her . |
| 11 | Not that it made any difference to the dead . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't think it made any difference to my career or Peter 's , ’ says Finney . |
| 13 | It provided simple answers to seemingly intractable questions . |
| 14 | Enthoven pointed out that whereas the NHS efficiently contained costs at the macro-level it provided few incentives to consistently reward efficiency and high performance at the micro-level , and indeed penalised both . |
| 15 | It is evident in the vitality of the arts — hardly a city in the country now lacks for an international festival — and it contributed last year to the remarkable election of Mary Robinson , only in her mid-40s and impatient with old ways , to the ( largely honorary ) post of president . |
| 16 | The Great Storm was a setback to woodland conservation because it drew public attention to trees and woods without adding to public understanding . |
| 17 | Yet it devoted more space to a rival attraction at the London School of Economics that same evening , Britain 's first teach-in ; the subject , the Vietnam War . |
| 18 | Representatives of the NAC met the Guild Council on 21 October and made it quite clear that the NAC could not continue to recognize the Guild as the youth section of the Party if it retained sympathetic affiliation to the Young Communist International . |
| 19 | It was described as Italianate , but it bore little relationship to the contemporary light Italianate villas of the United States and of English country houses . |
| 20 | Now that allowance would be nice if it bore some relationship to what was allowed in the estimated er , figures . |
| 21 | I find that kind of back-door pressure disgraceful and it caused great concern to many people in my local association . |
| 22 | Such a gene could pay for itself if it motivated little girls to in fact compete with their brothers for what their brothers might otherwise er get uncontested . |
| 23 | It attracted many workers to Glasgow from all parts of Scotland . |
| 24 | Influenced by Dada and Surrealism , it explored subconscious responses to configurations of dots , dribbles , shapes , textures and juxtaposed materials as a means of instantaneous communication … a visual music ! |
| 25 | Yesterday it added another country to its list with an order to produce nearly 5m passports for Lithuania . |
| 26 | Another criticism of the Leeds adjournment system was that it added further stress to socially disadvantaged people already living under stressful conditions . |
| 27 | ‘ It must have been obvious that we were n't going to let it slip it seemed that way to me , ’ said Morrissey . |
| 28 | GDA is not a large operation , employing 130 people on two floors , but while planning its opening in July last year it paid close attention to making the restaurant a focal point . |
| 29 | The short cloak had three advantages over the coat : it need not be tailored and so was available ‘ off the peg ’ ; it was more fashionable ; and it allowed unhindered access to the sword . |
| 30 | It cut net payments to creditors by $4 billion a year between 1989 and 1994 — twice as much as rescheduling would have done . |