Example sentences of "it [vb past] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | There was all sorts of processes before it got to that and after it got to that stage . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Before it got to this stage there would undoubtedly have been letters flying between the two . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | It amounted to unlikely total of 521 , and Warwickshire required 314 to win . |
| 9 | What the MacMahon Act did do was to make the British programme slower and more expensive ; and from the wider standpoint of the Western Alliance , it led to unnecessary duplication of effort . |
| 10 | Only a quarter say that it led to in-service training and a fifth think that it improved staff relations and improved teaching methods . |
| 11 | Though the six counties initially refused an offer of separation from the rest of Ireland , that was the compromise eventually agreed on , although it led to civil war in the new Irish Free State , and remains the root cause of later violence . |
| 12 | His impact was such that it led to further villainy — as the probably gay hit man in the Big Combo ( 1955 ) , as a rapist and murderer in Ride Lonesome ( 1959 ) , as Lee Marvin 's psychotic side-kick in The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance ( 1962 ) as well as more conventional heavies in Gunfight at the OK Corral ( 1956 ) , The Tin Star ( 1957 ) and How the West Was Won ( 1962 ) . |
| 13 | It led to unprecedented openness towards the IAEA . |
| 14 | Miss Harder even refused the offer of financial assistance , in case it led to another child losing his chance of coming to Britain . |
| 15 | ‘ It led to some confusion in the department and mistakes may have been made . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The first , by a Bank of England official , must be presumed to have been highly critical because it led to drastic reform of the island 's supervisory procedures . |
| 19 | As yet working-class protest was on too small a scale and too sporadic to pose a major challenge , but it contributed to official anxiety . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It is important to try to be clear about what exactly this force was and the nature of the challenge that it posed to British rule in India — for there was a profound difference between Gandhi 's perception of these things and that of the British . |
| 22 | There was a silence for the first time it occurred to first form that the spider might of been put there on purpose , they looked at one another . |
| 23 | It occurred to National Certificate staff that instead of programming say twenty subject assessors to different centres all over the country on a particular day , all twenty could be programmed to visit the same centre on the same day . |
| 24 | Furthermore , although the Commission put forward a proposal for a Council Recommendation on banning smoking in public places based on Article 235 , this gave rise to a Resolution of the Council and of the Ministers for Health of the Member States which , whilst it referred to that proposal in its recitals , claimed to be made ‘ having regard to the Treaty ’ . |
| 25 | In his few remarks on clause 56 , the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East assumed that it referred to British Rail . |
| 26 | It drove to one side , then turned 90 degrees , its tracks skidding on the rubble . |
| 27 | After the van had been loaded it drove to another loading bay and backed up against a second wagon . |
| 28 | it hardened To fossilised shell That |
| 29 | Not only had I had that run in with him over the rehearsals but he was also the fussiest teacher in the school when it came to long hair . |
| 30 | But Summers suggests , ambitiously , that there was solid evidence which , he claims , was what stopped Hoover tackling the Mob before it came to awesome power in America . |