Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back at her place she offered him a large whisky and then said that she just had to slip into the bedroom to see to a few things . |
| 2 | As Hatch moved to a small drinks trolley , well stocked with spirits , Cowley took a last , lingering look at the photograph of Patrick Weaver , father of the dead bride . |
| 3 | The decision followed strong reactions by the US administration and the UN to an incident earlier in the day , when Iraq troops had fired shots in the air allegedly to deny UN inspectors access to a nuclear weapons site , which was itself the culmination of a series of such refusals by Iraq . |
| 4 | FAMILIES in receipt of state benefit are forced to go hungry because of lack of money according to a National Children 's Home survey just published . |
| 5 | City teachers , even the most experienced , are so accustomed to mobility , access to transport and social competence in getting around that they are continually surprised to find that so many of the children they teach lead lives confined to a few streets . |
| 6 | It is exceptionally ironic still to find children in a culture which has fathered half the popular music in the modern world , condemned to drone away in their music lessons over nineteenth-century hymn tunes , with dancing relegated to a few minutes at the conclusion of the physical education lessons . |
| 7 | This was printed as a limited edition of seventy-five copies for private circulation in 1876 , and a second edition limited to a hundred copies appeared in 1893 . |
| 8 | Since Gift Aids applies to a single gifts it can be a very useful means of making a charitable gift towards the end of the tax year when your taxable income for the year can be estimated with some degree of precision . |
| 9 | ‘ It took us 22 years to get to a billion dollars a quarter in revenues and , thanks to the explosion in demand for the 80486 chip , less than three years to get to two billion dollars a quarter , ’ said president Andrew Grove . |
| 10 | For ten weeks in the summer , Vorarlberg also offers the largest programme of children 's event in Europe ; the little town of Bludenz plays host to a huge Children 's Chocolate Festival , and 1000kg of Suchard chocolate is donated for the occasion . |
| 11 | For example , one director commented that when he saw a topic referred to a few times then it would ‘ click ’ in his mind , and he would then consider if it could have some significance to his company . |
| 12 | EUROPEAN lightweight champion Jean-Baptiste Mendy of France cruised to a comfortable points win after a disappointing display by Britain 's Paul Burke in Paris last night . |
| 13 | Hopkins refers to a German seamen 's manifesto of March 1917 , " with its impudent assertion that , apart from a few " isolated mistakes " U-boat warfare had been conducted with respect for human and humane principles " . |
| 14 | For a small minority , success led to A level courses the following year , but for the great majority the goal was employment either during or at the end of the year . |
| 15 | Fourth , a study in the Brighton Health Authority area ( Levy 1985 ) investigated problem drug users known to a dozen agencies during 1984 , producing an estimated annual prevalence rate of 1.5 known opioid users per 1,000 of the 15–35-year-old population . |
| 16 | Fifth , an interim report of the Avon Drug Abuse Monitoring Project ( Gay et al .1985 ) , which investigated problem drug users known to a dozen agencies during the one-year period ending March 1985 , reported an estimated annual prevalence rate of 0.5 known opioid users per 1,000 of the total Bristol population . |
| 17 | At last someone has had the nerve to bring the area in line with the rest of British climbing : no longer will it be a quiet backwater resigned to a few lines in the climbing press about some brilliant new VDiff on a puny little crag in the back of beyond . |
| 18 | Eventually I was asked if my reference number related to a low-level police helicopter flight planned in Wales . |
| 19 | He will normally find that this assumes the shape of a pyramid , with a broad base of people who had only 1 or 2 hearths tapering to a few persons or a single individual who owned a disproportionate share of the wealth . |
| 20 | Schoolgirl Claire romped to a straight sets win in her fourth round tie with Anglesey 's Bonnie Williams and without conceding a game . |
| 21 | Lurgan cruised to a five wickets victory over CYM at Terenure . |
| 22 | I must confess to a profound sense of foreboding upon making this observation which de-generated into abject horror upon hearing the said track and realising that Oldfield 's contribution amounted to a few bars sampled from ‘ Tubular Bells ’ ! |
| 23 | All are strongly seasonal , with activity limited to a few days or weeks in summer . |
| 24 | Here the land rises to a thousand feet or more above sea level . |
| 25 | After robotisation the job became less skilled , was machine paced in that the cycle time was dictated by the speed at which the robot did the welding , and the human part of the job was filled by a semi-skilled operator belonging to a general trades union . |
| 26 | All this disruption coincides with preparations to move to a new offices early next month , when all editing and layout will be done on computers . |