Example sentences of "to a [noun sg] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , he argued , the Bank would be on to a winner once it started collecting , and selling , 12 tonnes of paper per week . |
| 2 | ‘ Just as well your particular brand of persuasion came to a halt when it did Dr Vaughan . |
| 3 | A woman who left her pet greyhound in agony rather than take it to a vet after it broke its leg in a road accident has been banned from keeping dogs for seven years . |
| 4 | Knee-high to a gnat but it made no difference . |
| 5 | But as the child could not in the very nature of things acquire rights correlative to a duty until it became by birth a living person , and as it was not until then that it could sustain injuries as a living person , it was , we think , at that stage that the duty arising out of the relationship was attached to the defendant , and it was at that stage that the defendant was , on the assumption that his act or omission in the driving of the car constituted a failure to take reasonable care , in breach of the duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury to the child . |
| 6 | But as the child could not in the very nature of things acquire rights correlative to a duty until it became by birth a living person , and as it was not until then that it could sustain injuries as a living person , it was , we think , at that stage that the duty arising out of the relationship was attached to the defendant , and it was at that stage that the defendant was , on the assumption that his act or omission in the driving of the car constituted a failure to take reasonable care , in breach of the duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury to the child . |
| 7 | It could mean that a claimant would be uncertain as to whether , on a rational basis test , an authority would apply the same meaning to a term that it had used previously , or whether it would adopt a different interpretation . |
| 8 | I saw Sophie swing lithely on to a bus before it stopped moving . |
| 9 | In fact this criticism , which was very powerful in undermining the claims of Realism , was open to a retort that it missed the point , since Morgenthau claimed only that rationality assumptions were being used as economists use them , to establish a limiting case or ideal type by which actual behaviour could be evaluated . |
| 10 | And it sailed off to a island that it came to . |
| 11 | AZT was approved in the United States in 1987 for use after symptoms of AIDS have appeared , after a controlled trial was brought prematurely to an end when it emerged that the treated group was doing better than the placebo groups . |