Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb -s] to an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a disputed property case , because the Class F effectively comes to an end on the issue of the decree absolute protective steps mentioned in the next section should be taken . |
| 2 | The principle of orality clearly belongs to an age in which the speedy production of multiple copies of documents was a slow labour-intensive exercise . |
| 3 | The W then decays to an electron and a neutrino . |
| 4 | These examples , and many others like them , make it necessary for us to ensure that whatever reward we are offering a child actually leads to an increase in his desirable behaviour and whatever punishers we are offering actually lead to weakening of an undesirable behaviour . |
| 5 | In this respect he is something like a general on a battlefield — except that the battle never comes to an end . |
| 6 | The first acknowledgement of a possible opportunity usually applies to an area in which a company does better than budgeted . |
| 7 | But yesterday 's announcement really amounts to an admission that the Government badly bungled its first attempt to lay down by law how English should be taught in schools — only two years ago . |
| 8 | Some Latin American social scientists working on the topic have suggested a two-stage process , in which the penetration of capitalism initially leads to an increase in wage-earning workers , but this is followed by a stage of the intensification of capitalism , characterised by deproletarianisation and semi-proletarianisation ( Miró and Rodríguez 1982 ) . |
| 9 | The fiscal evidence also points to an increase in its wealth in relation to the country as a whole : between 1334 and 1515 the assessed wealth of the city increased fifteenfold in absolute terms , and from 2 per cent to 8.9 per cent of the assessed wealth of the nation as a whole ( 101 ) . |
| 10 | For another section of women , childcare never comes to an end even when the children have become adults . |
| 11 | She returns to prostitution but then the final exploiter , the pimp , forces himself onto the scene and her life effectively comes to an end . |
| 12 | However the only financial commitment a State routinely makes to an organisation is to meet its membership contributions . |
| 13 | Similarly , the reference to the barge really refers to an account in a play of a scene which we do not and in some ways could not witness , a scene which may never have taken place in those terms . |
| 14 | The simplest form of cost system merely amounts to an analysis or separate cost record for each individual contract or development project . |
| 15 | Language thus contributes to an atmosphere in the fabliaux that lies above and outside the describable details of character and setting : an all-enveloping " feeling " of sensuality , shared by the real people involved — the authors and their anticipated readers/audiences — via the medium of the tale . |