Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of finding sudden problems you might find that progress slowly grinds to a halt . |
| 2 | The minister 's entourage and assembled media swept into the narrow office building only to grind to a halt on the stairs while he and Mr Fallon shut themselves off for a brief chat . |
| 3 | His progress only came to a halt when he had the misfortune to swop punches with one of the many irrepressible Cubans , the eventual gold medal winner . |
| 4 | His progress only came to a halt when he had the misfortune to swop punches with one of the many irrepressible Cubans , the eventual gold medal winner . |
| 5 | Although these activities only relate to a fraction of the total number of UK library authorities , it may be hoped that they foreshadow a revival of interest in an essential and much neglected component of the book provision process . |
| 6 | It is a curious comment on Thatcherism , however , that the administration most committed to a reduction in the role of the state , and in the need for an independent private sector , has spent more on specific urban regeneration and employment schemes and incentives to private investment in urban areas than any other in recent history . |
| 7 | Outside a car revved up its engine as it changed up a gear only to screech to a halt at the corner and roar off again . |
| 8 | But Crosby 's future only came to a head this week when he reacted angrily to claims of an approach for Crystal Palace boss Steve Coppell . |
| 9 | The car finally came to a halt outside the house , and Jessamy looked around , a small frown drawing her brows together . |
| 10 | When the car finally came to a halt , she looked straight ahead of her , not daring to look at him . |
| 11 | The car finally ground to a halt against the remains of a silk stall , a knot of scarves caught around one axle . |
| 12 | She gave the money for the words not used to a boy with ringworm throwing stones at a cat on a wall . |
| 13 | If a threat in the dark not amounting to a threat to kill within s.16 , OAPA , is not an assault the result in relation to unlawful act or constructive manslaughter is this . |
| 14 | It is unfortunate that a " prototype " approach , although repeatedly mentioned , is in practice largely sacrificed to a view of fictionality as a discrete and strictly defined category . |
| 15 | Though covenants were made between equals , the religious use of the term always referred to a relationship between a greater and a lesser partner . |
| 16 | Additional gravity data indicate that the overall excess mass of the Huntly 7 basic intrusion is small , the intrusion possibly extending to a depth of no more than 2 kilometres . |
| 17 | Its massive cyclopean ring of masonry still stands to a height of 3 metres . |
| 18 | As one Formula One veteran once said to a newcomer : ‘ Welcome to the piranha club . |
| 19 | This figure gradually declined to a low of about 25,000 in 1979 but has since climbed again , to around 125,000 in 1986 . |
| 20 | Procuring the commission of a criminal offence is not a tort unless the crime also amounts to a tort against the plaintiff , in which case the procurer is a joint tortfeasor . |
| 21 | Hence , deletion clearly led to a modification in equilibrium transcript levels in the heteroplasmic strain for genes involved in deletion . |
| 22 | Effective small talk often runs to a formula . |
| 23 | Such an interview almost amounts to a conversation . |
| 24 | And I said we just come out of the drive went across the road and there was just a bus behind us and erm I said the car almost came to a halt . |
| 25 | The lights changed and the cars grudgingly screeched to a halt . |
| 26 | A parent can grant additional privileges ( provided the parent has the additional privileges himself ) or rescind privileges previously granted to a descendant at any time . |
| 27 | I stammered out my history , my eyes occasionally wandering to a winter view of rooftops , an opaque winter sky behind his head . |
| 28 | The Yugo finally skidded to a halt upside down and straddling the middle lane . |
| 29 | PC-Xremote Edition turns a personal computer into an X Window System server so that the user not connected to a LAN can access hosts supporting X via a modem or RS-232 serial connection . |
| 30 | The next day in the House of Commons he was able not only to listen to tributes to himself — a rare experience normally confined to a man 's widow — but to perform the role of an out-of-season Father Christmas . |