Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | where it came to rest . |
| 2 | The Net Book Agreement first came into force after the practice of ‘ underselling ’ in the latter half of the nineteenth century had reached a stage where it threatened to undermine the whole of the book trade . |
| 3 | The group has pinpointed 150 locations around the UK where it plans to open stores , particularly in Scotland , where it only recently opened its first store . |
| 4 | He also holds an engagement at Sandown on Friday but will only travel to Esher in the event of Chepstow — where it continues to rain heavily — being abandoned . |
| 5 | But so far , the feminist psychology of androgyny has only dealt with the power of discourses of gender in its self-criticisms , not in its investigations , where it continues to address femininity and masculinity on equal terms . |
| 6 | It moved three quarters of a mile downwind where it managed to hold station under its own power . |
| 7 | Towards the end of 1989 the Commission substantially stepped up its campaign for universal environmental controls within the EC , most notably with regard to drinking water standards , where it sought to advance its planned deadlines for water purity . |
| 8 | Any failure to press the Bat switch while the Bat diode D9 is momentarily lit results in a low output from transistor TR4 and the ball moves on to the wicket l.e.d. where it stays to let the batsman know he has been bowled out . |
| 9 | The survey also pointed to two weaknesses : marketing ( where it failed to make the top ten ) and capacity to innovate ( where it came seventh ) . |
| 10 | Even now , the extremities of the grass , where it dipped to meet the mudline , were slowly and silently being invaded by the dark water as the tide reached its zenith . |
| 11 | One example of this were the experiments of Edward L. Thorndyke who put an animal , usually a cat , in a wooden puzzle box where it had to learn a response , e.g. stepping on a lever to unlock the door and get out . |
| 12 | The noise thus created is thought to be passed up the animal 's windpipe and into the sinus cavities of the skull , where it resonates to produce the purring sound . |
| 13 | As soon as the hook went in it charged across the river into a weedbed on the other bank , where it decided to sulk and play at immovable objects . |
| 14 | Elonex Plc is to contract manufacturing of its personal computers to Cordata Ltd , described as a new company and not related to the Cor-data Technologies owned by Daewoo Electronics Co : this Cordata is building a £5.5m contract manufacturing plant in Cumbernauld , Scotland , where it expects to create 175 new jobs and make 100,000 personal computers a year , and Elonex will turn its North London plant over to final assembly and testing . |
| 15 | For my tastes , the Contour control was only usable up to about 5 , where it started to take on that ‘ no tone ’ sound , evoking images of preserve jars and trapped insects . |
| 16 | Where it begins to work superbly is in the more private , indoor scenes of the opera 's later acts , from the great confrontation between the King and Inquisitor onwards . |
| 17 | Certainly not from Parliament , for Parliament has shown itself perfectly capable , where it wishes to do so , of enacting specific anti-avoidance provisions to deal with specific cases ; and indeed it did subsequently legislate to nullify the fiscal advantages of transactions of the type to which I have referred . |
| 18 | Most important of all , the importer of goods will not have to submit these goods to duplicate series of tests and certification procedures where it wishes to import a product . |
| 19 | I know from where it comes and where it wishes to get to . |
| 20 | Any models between where the ball strikes the ground and where it comes to land are hit . |
| 21 | Once it was accepted that this kind of question could be raised , the way was open to the conclusion that the Bible should simply be treated as a collection of ancient religious literature with no special claims to be heard or accepted except where it happened to express some general religious ‘ principle ’ that could be recognised as universally valid — the kernel within the husk . |
| 22 | We must conclude , therefore , that the duty to support just institutions , where it has to do with just authorities , is parasitical on the normal justification thesis , and not an alternative to it . |
| 23 | Yet these million or so termites build their equivalent working in a coordinated way in total darkness , each blind , tiny-brained insect knowing exactly where it has to place its pellets of mud to produce nurseries , supporting pillars , living chambers , gardens , flues , defensive walls — and that extraordinary spiral cooling vane . |
| 24 | a similar point arose where it proposed to serve the writ and an Anton Piller order out of the jurisdiction on a Belgian company . |
| 25 | This type of so-called magic realism assumes major importance in the fiction of Asturias , Carpentier and Arguedas , where it serves to give expression to the magical-religious thought and mythical world-view of the Indian and Negro peoples of Latin America . |
| 26 | Ritual mourning for the divine son of a mother-goddess is very common throughout ancient polytheism — not to mention modern polytheisms like Catholicism — where it seems to represent the same situation as the self-inflicted mutilations but at one remove . |
| 27 | Or it seemed to lose its beneficial influ influence on your skin . |
| 28 | ‘ Either LIN buys the rest of the franchise it does n't already own , or it has to come to terms with McCaw . ’ |
| 29 | Another Gothic design did win a prize , although it failed to satisfy The Saturday Review that it was a bona fide Gothic scheme . |
| 30 | It found that " industrial production actually declined , as the steel sector , beset by falling world demand and heightened competition from abroad , was one of the weakest spots of the economy " ( although it continued to account for 7-8 per cent of GDP ) . |