Example sentences of "it [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hong Kong seems reluctant to take the pressure off China by letting the deadline slip unless it agrees to talks . |
| 2 | The success experienced among the eastern Angles with the conversion of Eorpwald may have been due in part at least to the influence of older patterns established by missionaries in the time of Raedwald , but nevertheless it testifies to Eadwine 's real influence in the East Anglian area at this time . |
| 3 | The very brief account she gave now was selective — it referred to Anna but not to Anna 's story ; Rome was a place of origin ; there was no mention of a Mena or a Mr James ( Simon she could not entirely subdue ) , the prince was a bare name . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( 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 . ) |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Why leave it to go to waste ? |
| 8 | Travel : An offer you can refuse Mark Edmonds is all for haggling — but not when it turns to meanness |
| 9 | But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers . |
| 10 | But when it turns to obscenity , their report contrasts the cruelty or violence depicted in Goya 's Disasters of War or King Lear , which appeal ‘ to our shared humanity ’ , with depictions of a more prurient kind which ‘ invite us to collude in degrading it ’ . |
| 11 | IBM AD/CYCLE STRATEGY IN DISARRAY AS IT TURNS TO AIX CASE |
| 12 | ‘ Tell him there 's a slight possibility that the horses ’ drinking water was tampered with on the train , before it got to Thunder Bay . |
| 13 | But when it got to lunchtime today it 's been quite . |
| 14 | The train was n't stopping until it got to London ; there were other people in the carriage and surely these men would n't dare try anything here , now . |
| 15 | and it worked , and it got over to Australia , it got unpacked and it still worked when it got to Australia , and it went on the stand and it stood on the stand for a week or however long it was . |
| 16 | Long before er it got to Oldfield Speedy was offside . |
| 17 | It got to Number Four in the British charts . |
| 18 | Oh I du n no , it got to number one . |
| 19 | It got to number one here . |
| 20 | And here 's the record A Hundred Children do n't forget the er the C D By Request it 's it 's just out and it got to number one this morning in the video charts . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Through a second marriage it passed to William Baker who on the death of his son in 1775 is registered as of this parish i.e. Upper Hailing . |
| 24 | For two centuries it was under the Habsburgs , but in the fifteenth it passed to Zurich . |
| 25 | It refers to G M , G M B sponsored MPs and MEPs . |
| 26 | And it refers to Britain 's own advanced passenger train as carrying ‘ its first fare-paying passengers in a record-breaking run from London to Glasgow before being withdrawn from service for further trials ’ . |
| 27 | Either it refers to behaviour which does not have to be learned or it refers to behaviour which has been so thoroughly learned that it can be done ‘ naturally ’ , ie without conscious thought and application . |
| 28 | Either it refers to behaviour which does not have to be learned or it refers to behaviour which has been so thoroughly learned that it can be done ‘ naturally ’ , ie without conscious thought and application . |
| 29 | Birth spacing is sometimes used synonymously with birth timing ( see intervals ) , but usually it refers to efforts aiming to achieve the " proper " ( healthy , economic or convenient ) timing of births either consciously ( by planning and controlling the timing of births ) or in accordance with traditions ( by following customs relevant to breastfeeding and post-partum abstinence which assure the " proper " spacing ) , and the results of such efforts as they are manifested in the birth intervals . |
| 30 | Rather , it refers to Jesus 's membership in a specific group or sect with a specific religious and/or political orientation — the ‘ Nazarene Party ’ , as certain modern experts call it . |