Example sentences of "it [verb] to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a consequence of its scope , its vague wording , and its proposed method of enforcement , which was mainly civil , it applied to very little business conduct and was , as discussed earlier , more suitable for the prosecution of labour and small businessmen than large manufacturers . |
| 2 | The bear outgrew the hut very quickly , and when it got to about 23 stone they decided to give it to London Zoo . |
| 3 | However when it got to about seven o'clock in the evening and she was still arguing with herself , I made the mistake of getting testy about it . |
| 4 | My second point , and it refers to again er something that Barton Willmore referred to and that 's the question er an engine of growth , and it seems to me that that that such a settlement would become an en engine of growth in in the countryside , not least because of of the it would become self fulfilling , er and it would be the obvious sort of sink hole , as Mr Thomas said , for for subsequent land allocations , I think , erm this this point has been touched upon by both the representatives from Leeds City Councils and from Cleveland , Leeds City Council appear not to want it in the Leeds York corridor for just that reason , the representative from Cleveland , who unfortunately is n't here today erm does n't want it in the North of the county for for what I understand to be to be that same reason , erm and the Inspector at the Stone Basset erm enquiry in Oxfordshire , and I I do refer th to this in my evidence , he he drew a very similar conclusion about this when he said , and I quote , once destep once established the new town would generate a momentum of growth that would be difficult to contain , such growth , if allowed , could further harm the rural character of the countryside and the villages in this part of Oxfordshire , I think that conclusion can be applied to North Yorkshire , and I certainly have n't heard anything that would convince me that that such growth once it started could could be controlled , and indeed the the record of controlling growth against erm projected requirements in the structure plan to date has has not been good , witness earlier comments on the structure plan overshoot . |
| 5 | Foucault is most explicit on this , arguing that what he terms the ‘ repressive hypothesis ’ regarding Victorian sexuality is misleading : because it points to too narrow an interpretation of the family ; because it avoids class differentiation ; and because it is based on a negative rather than positive concept of power . |
| 6 | Budhoo asserts that the IMF and World Bank are key elements in an economic order that is deepening Third World poverty , the debt crisis , and a flight of capital from developing to developed countries which has soared in recent decades : in 1986 it amounted to well over $30 billion from the Caribbean and Latin America alone . |
| 7 | Witness could not say how much help in this a girl would need from the men because it varied so much , but she did not think it amounted to much , and no special men workers were employed for it " Lifting is therefore not denied , but its importance is distinctly minimized when a woman is speaking , maximized when a man is . |
| 8 | In financial terms , it was n't a particularly large programme : by the mid-1980s it amounted to about £300 million . |
| 9 | It amounted to only a fraction of the EC budget and was designed to supplement , not supplant , national policies . |
| 10 | Jolleys reported 41% ( 343 ) of women of all ages having inappropriate leakage of urine , but in 232 ( 70% ) of these it amounted to only dampening of underwear . |
| 11 | It 's hit towards the halfway line , Alan the sole defender for Blackburn at the moment , he plays it to his right , forward it goes to now that 's a good ball down the far side of the field , plenty of er men available , 's one of them inside the penalty area , the cross was n't so good from and it 's gon na run harmlessly behind for a goal kick . |
| 12 | It led to impossibly puritan attitudes , a crusade against the enjoyments of the artisan , onslaughts on the bullfight , not because it was cruel , but because it wasted working time ; it supported an attack on charity as an anti-social habit , which merged with the bleak belief of later liberals in the virtues of competition . |
| 13 | You know what it led to before . |
| 14 | Because of its incorporation into the ‘ history ’ of mankind it led to totally fallacious ideas which even today unwittingly mislead many Marxists . |
| 15 | The NFR90 project suffered difficulties of that kind and our involvement in it led to almost two years being wasted . |
| 16 | He was saved by the fact that only the wings of the glider struck the cable but it led to more than 250 households having their electricity supplies cut off . |
| 17 | According to this theory the earlier generational pairing was abandoned because it led to so much inbreeding that people who practised the gens system were genetically more fit for natural selection and therefore survived better . |
| 18 | He gazes about the living-room , and he says it belongs to too many . |
| 19 | If a BFS is non-degenerate , it corresponds to only one tableau and the fundamental theorem allows us to deduce that , if the BFS is efficient , then ( 9.8 ) is satisfied . |
| 20 | I mean , it needs to perhaps perhaps they can do something for the first couple |
| 21 | The first stanza of the poem concentrates on a small incident and is specific about the power of the sun to wake up the dead soldier as it used to when he slept in a field . |
| 22 | The only object of any binocular interest is the long-period variable R Horologii , which may reach magnitude 4.7 at maximum although it drops to below 14 at minimum ; the period is 403 days , and the spectrum is of type M , so that the star is very red . |
| 23 | The Roman empire saw the increasing debasement of its staple silver coin : from almost pure silver in the early first century AD it sank to only 50 per cent fine by about AD200 and to only about 1–2 per cent by AD270 . |
| 24 | To do this , it has to not only come up with single products but be able to place them in product systems and even combine them in innovative ways . |
| 25 | Well that 's why I say , I do n't think it has to always be , Sue , |
| 26 | Write a short essay on reciprocal dumping because define what reciprocal dumping is you 've also got to give at least one example of reciprocal dumping , right , so you do n't have to give any detailed examples just erm E E C waste er food policy in these days reciprocal dumping would be subsidized after exports in order for America to sell its few exports it has to so it is best subsidised definition define what it is give application of concept erm if the concept involves measurement , say how it , how it can be measured say an effective protection trade , er say how it could , how it could be measured |
| 27 | Greenways which runs this landfill spends more than it has to by law to make sure the site is safe . |
| 28 | It has to though because if in the pa if they 've had this long-term sort of culture for all this time they need to be given ideas but essentially if their traditional values were so strong they would have rejected what the Communist Party was trying to say , but because they accepted it it meant they ha they did actually have the potential to be revolutionary . |
| 29 | Always Now it does n't mean to say every twenty four hours it has to quickly spin round . |
| 30 | In Catholic working-class areas like Newry , Londonderry 's Bogside , and parts of West Belfast , it rose to even 30 or 40 per cent . |