Example sentences of "it [verb] to this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Before it got to this stage there would undoubtedly have been letters flying between the two . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | With regard to an absence of market demand , the economic development strategy produced by the County Council refers to inward investment , it refers to this as being a small portion of the portion of er job growth , the county is not necessarily best placed to attract inward investment in terms of the the type of economy that we have based on small firms and the availability of labour . |
| 4 | Apparently it belongs to this boy Svend because it was he who suggested they go to Copenhagen instead of staying on in Roskilde when the pop festival ended . ’ |
| 5 | Would it object to this treatment of its old dwelling before the proper rites had been observed ? |
| 6 | ‘ I think you want it to come to this , do n't you ? ’ |
| 7 | It 's hard to see how they could ever get to know each other long enough for it to come to this . |
| 8 | Francis , hands thrust deep into his trouser pockets , said : ‘ I thought he seemed a bit queer at lunch but I did n't expect it to come to this … ’ |
| 9 | He did see himself very much as a responsible figure as far as other people 's well being was concerned when it came to this , and this was probably based on the fact that his step-brother , Terry , by his mother 's previous marriage , was classified as schizophrenic , a problem which David felt could be hereditary . ’ |
| 10 | That it came to this shows how involved Priestley was in the religious disputes and politics of his day . |
| 11 | ‘ I said when we arrived two weeks ago that by the time it came to this Test you would have to give us a 50–50 chance because this is a one-off game , not part of a Test series . |
| 12 | It meant a three-horse jump-off of the riders on four faults and , when it came to this , Whitaker had no problems going clear with his own Everest Lifestyle to leave Mark Armstrong , Friday night 's Grand Prix winner , as runner-up with Rockall . |
| 13 | So our involvement was for it to be presented to us before it came to this meeting . |
| 14 | By 1880 this was more and more a matter of Great Russian chauvinism within the boundaries of the Russian Empire , and tsarist imperialism abroad , but it had great sentimental appeal among Slavs living under non-Slav rulers who were encouraged by it to look to this ‘ big brother ’ . |
| 15 | It was a sort of like a I do n't know what i whether it was erm some sort of a private or it belonged to this Manchester Co-op or something I think it was . |
| 16 | Remark Whilst this proof uses the " contradiction method " it gets to this contradiction by supposing the existence of a counterexample , hence , by principle W , a smallest counterexample and thence the contradiction . |
| 17 | And what happens then , the electric current , as we know , flows backwards and forwards and it gets to this bit here and there 's a break , so what does it do ? |
| 18 | It responds to this helpful adjustment by promptly inverting itself into the mock-dead posture . |
| 19 | It survives to this day . |
| 20 | That it appears to this Committee that the Secretary ( Mr Huntingford ) has propagated reports injurious to the character of the Professor and that his conduct appears highly culpable in having spread such reports after he had reason to be satisfied that they were groundless . |
| 21 | ‘ That it appears to this Committee that the conduct of the Secretary has been highly culpable in inspecting and exposing the contents of papers of a private nature belonging to the professor which had by accident fallen into his ( the Secretary 's ) hands . |
| 22 | ‘ That it appears to this Committee that the conduct of the Secretary has been highly improper , in suppressing a Letter addressed to the general Committee . |
| 23 | In fact it seems to this reviewer that Quinton 's framework offers essential support for Eccleshall 's vision of Conservatism , in that the axioms Quinton describes provide for a specifically Conservative conception of political authority and social discipline . |
| 24 | The differing needs of the sailing and powerboating skipper are well illustrated by the different format of these two companion volumes which , it seems to this reviewer , tread a successful line between the flexibility needed by different owners and a too regimented approach . |
| 25 | Nature sustains our feeble reason , and prevents it raving to this extent . |
| 26 | So I thought I 'll have it cut to this length . |
| 27 | Hence it is a duty which every race owes to itself , and to the human family as well , to cultivate by every possible means its own strength ; directly it falls behind in the regard it pays to this duty … it incurs a penalty which Natural Selection , the stern but beneficent tyrant of the organic world , will assuredly exact , and that speedily , to the full . |
| 28 | It conformed to this pattern , with plenty of free time and many independent meals . |
| 29 | Has it come to this ? |
| 30 | This discovery precipitated the Red Lake Gold Rush , and their find became the Howey Gold Mine , the first in the Red Lake district , resulting in Burnt Bay being renamed as Howey Bay , the name that it retains to this day . |