Example sentences of "it [verb] to [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we use the term ‘ schizoid ’ in its clinical sense we find it refers to people who have : |
| 2 | Defamatory comment may not be actionable if it refers to people by class rather than by name . |
| 3 | In 1968–69 it amounted to £15 million and in 1969–70 £31 million . |
| 4 | Last year , it amounted to £8,150 and this year the organisers had requested an additional £190 . |
| 5 | It belongs to me. , |
| 6 | I think that the other worrying feature about the potentially obsessive nature of programming is the point Dr Frude makes about it happening to people who are already ‘ introverted and socially inept ’ . |
| 7 | Because they are hidden , it looks to people , if they try to analyse why they are getting upset and uptight , as if the cause for the bad feeling is the overload and the pressure . |
| 8 | It , it 'll take a long time before it starts to buck up . |
| 9 | AT&T Co chief financial officer Alex Mandl told the annual meeting the company is ‘ thinking about ’ an increase in the dividend it pays : AT&T has not raised its quarterly dividend since March 1990 , when it rose to $0.33 per share from $0.30 . |
| 10 | One year later it rose to 47% . |
| 11 | It is impressed with the amount of investment Intel proposes putting into Pentium saying that when the chip reaches the height of its production Intel will have spent $5bn on it compared to $100m on the 80386 and $1bn on the 80486 . |
| 12 | What reassurance does it give to people who might suffer damage due to a change in groundwater level when the Bill permits the Secretary of State to weaken the groundwater provisions ? |
| 13 | Erm now erm as regards when it happens to people erm , again going back to this B B C Childwatch Survey um of girls sixty percent reported that the first incident happened when they were ten , forty percent of boys reported the first incident occurred when they were under ten so it seems , if you look at the sort of average , averages are quite deceptive in this area but nevertheless if you look at the average um it seems to happen slightly earlier for girls than for boys . |
| 14 | With £200 outstanding , he fully expected to pay some interest over the month , but was alarmed when it came to £29 . |
| 15 | A producer recently told me of a quote he was given to use a piece of music from the '60s — for 30 seconds it came to £40,000 ! |
| 16 | The poll tax failed completely when it came to people 's ability to pay . |
| 17 | A spiritual Holiday Inn , it seemed to mc , not at all to the taste of that irascible writer , for whom the Pyrenees were so refreshingly medieval . |
| 18 | That is not how it seemed to people in Ajdabiya or Kufra . |
| 19 | However , it seemed to flounder whenever it tried to pin multimedia down . |
| 20 | Mitsubishi confirmed in February it was talking to SGS , and the SGS spokeswoman said on Friday that talks were continuing.SGS-Thomson calculates the world Flash memory market at $300m last year , and expects it to grow to $500m this year and , fuelled by demand for small , light portable storage , to soar to $2,500m by 1996 . |
| 21 | She knew it was a modern world and that it happened to people all the time and that it was n't such a big deal — medically or culturally . |
| 22 | Last year , it rocketed to £5000 million , and interest alone cost £1221 million — more than the government raked in from income tax . |
| 23 | I 've known it happen to people who get excited easily . |
| 24 | It amounts to £92.5 million over five years which is supposed to be additional money to what is already budgeted . |
| 25 | It grows to 2.1m in height with a 80cm spread and has pink-tinged , deep yellow flowers . |
| 26 | It grows to .6mm long and is .33mm across . |
| 27 | The common claim made for classical secular literature in response to the analytical question cui parte philosophiae supponitur ? , " to what branch of philosophy does it pertain ? " , is ethice supponitur , " it pertains to ethics " , and the reason : " because it treats of human behaviour " . |
| 28 | Natural rebels , backed up with the guts it takes to buck the system . |
| 29 | It applies to people wheresoever they come from , whether Africa , Asia or eastern Europe . |
| 30 | That was less than many analysts had expected , partly because the parent company had decided to defer its ‘ management fee ’ ( 3% of gross revenues until 1997 , when it rises to 6% ) until Euro Disney becomes profitable . |