Example sentences of "to [pron] it [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To them it sounded like a straight forward case of victimisation by the foreman . |
| 2 | To me it looked like four sheets of Kleenex wiped in something unspeakable and stapled as far away from the fold as possible . |
| 3 | It was funny — when my dad had said it to me it seemed like the rather tired , friendly sort of thing that parents often say to you . |
| 4 | Ultimately the spores of the entity would pervade all of humanity , to which it vectored by design . |
| 5 | Held , granting the application , that the Act of 1987 placed the Bank of England under a wide public duty to supervise deposit-taking businesses , the fulfilment of which often required it to take urgent action in the interests of those whom the Act was designed to protect ; that a notice from the Bank of England under section 39(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1987 requiring production of documents overrode an injunction restraining that bank from disclosure of the documents to a third party , and the existence of an injunction did not constitute a reasonable excuse under section 39(11) for failure to comply with the section 39 notice ; and that the injunction should not , in any event , be interpreted as prohibiting compliance with the notice ; that it was proper for such a notice to specify the documents to which it applied by class rather than individually ; and that , accordingly , the defendants should be directed to comply with the notice ( post , pp. 717G–H , 718C , 719B–C , 721C , 722C ) . |
| 6 | The Durham Players had found the base for their pageant wagon in a farmyard , to which it had to be returned . |
| 7 | Even so , it is not at all obvious how he relocates writing in relation to the history to which it had until then been opposed . |
| 8 | Protest attracted violence to which it reacted with sometimes devastating consequences . |
| 9 | What made this trade especially useful was the small extent to which it depended on re-exports and the very great extent to which it brought markets for English manufacturers , especially in woollen and worsted textiles of the lighter and cheaper kinds . |
| 10 | The government also began negotiations seeking membership of the IMF ( to which it acceded in October ) and the World Bank and indicated its desire to join the European Communities . |
| 11 | Wycliffe had no maxims , but that was exactly what was being done , though to him it seemed of paramount importance to build a clear picture of the victim himself . |
| 12 | To him it appeared as a sceptre , not as a sword , and perhaps he took this as a sign . |
| 13 | ‘ You were a virgin , ’ he said flatly , and to her it sounded like an accusation . |
| 14 | My Lords to come back to what it said at the end , and this is what the Noble Lord , Lord Carrigan mentioned , it talks about one of six regional short listing panels . |
| 15 | The view that this was a central organising feature of the Wolfenden Report is reinforced by the Committee 's approach , in its proposals on prostitution , to what it saw to be ‘ legitimate ’ avenues for female sexuality . |
| 16 | In Westland Helicopters v. The Arab Organisation for Industrialisation ; the United Arab Emirates ; the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ; the State of Qatar ; the Arab Republic of Egypt ; and the Arab British Helicopter Company , Egypt as a dissenting member took other steps in response to what it saw as the wrongful dissolution of the Organisation by the other member States . |
| 17 | The BIP refused to join the committee , and objected to what it saw as the more militant tactics advocated by the BNF . |
| 18 | The UK government reacted angrily to what it saw as an unwarranted interference in the affairs of the colony on June 18 , when Guo Fengmin , the Chinese senior official on the Sino-British Joint Liaison group , said at the close of the 23rd Liaison Group meeting in Beijing that the Chinese side would find unacceptable the appointment of any members of the United Democrats of Hong Kong ( UDHK ) to the Executive Council . |
| 19 | Firstly , during the negotiations the purchaser will naturally be concerned to be reassured as to what it saw at the outset as being the merits of the proposed acquisition . |
| 20 | Although convinced in his own mind that his decision to resign was correct , his confidence was slowly undermined by a growing awareness that the party itself was about to respond violently to what it considered to be a cowardly act of betrayal . |
| 21 | In the recent decision of Murphy v. Brentwood DC [ 1990 ] 2 All ER 908 , the House of Lords has put an end to what it described as the ‘ uncertainty ’ created by Lord Wilberforce 's wide principle by using the 1966 Practice Statement to overrule Anns . |
| 22 | The parliamentary chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov , has accused the media of bias and yesterday the parliament kept up its barrage of complaints against the media , saying television programmes closed the eyes of viewers to what it described as the anti-constitutional nature of the president 's seizure of new powers . |
| 23 | It therefore found itself in opposition to what it regarded as the stupidity , incompetence and prejudice of the actual holders of political and economic power . |
| 24 | The ANC had earlier resisted a meeting with Inkatha on the grounds that this would lend undue national legitimacy to what it regarded as a Zulu organization with a power base confined largely to Natal province . |
| 25 | The Lombardy League advocated effective autonomy for the region , and an end to what it regarded as the squandering of locally created wealth by central government . |