Example sentences of "it [verb] to a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It refers to a paper called ’ Personnel Policy and Practice ’ , which advises the managers of all opted-out hospitals to sack renegades and subversives . |
| 2 | In general it led to a concern to examine what was wrong with Great Britain that it should have been unable to fight effectively against apparently fragile opposition . |
| 3 | Mention travel , and it led to a woman travelling alone ; lending a novel , to a circular room full of books — there was that underswell . |
| 4 | And er when it come to a vote to try and get anything passed or changed the wee branches were solid voting for the national agreement . |
| 5 | My hon. Friend the Member for Easington ( Mr. Cummings ) referred graphically to Murton colliery in the north-east and spoke about what it means to a community to lose 600 jobs . |
| 6 | On June 12 , however , it acceded to a request made by the Prosecutor 's Office to restore order in the square , the latter saying that the area where the protestors and hunger strikers had erected their tents , had become a " temporary haven for drug trafficking , prostitution and black marketeering " . |
| 7 | Gooch was the leading run-scorer in first-class cricket for the 1980s , with over 21,000 at 49 , and in view of this his Test record -4,724 runs at just under 37 from 73 Tests before the tour began — is something of a disappointment , and illustrates clearly the difference it makes to a player to belong to a successful side . |
| 8 | In very high winds it is usually better to deliberately let the glider swing into wind so that it comes to a stop facing directly into wind . |