Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Italian unions , in this respect , industry bargaining corresponded originally to a need to unite their scarce resources in order to guarantee uniform minimum conditions of work ‘ to an impoverished , fragmented and still mostly agricultural working class , privileging the weak sectors thereof with respect to the elite ’ ( Treu , 1981 , p. 135 ) . |
| 2 | In the short term , the development of the British executive search industry owes much to a mixture of both demand and supply factors . |
| 3 | Introduced last summer to bring stock car racing back to a more affordable level , their early outings showed promise , with the Christmas meeting at Foxhall producing 30 starters and some excellent racing . |
| 4 | At least London 's Notting Hill Carnival got off to a trouble-free start . |
| 5 | The court , therefore , went to Mr McTear , his living room turned over to a commission appointed by the Court of Session to hear his evidence . |
| 6 | In front of over 22,000 fans Town got off to a great start , taking the lead after 34 minutes , Duncan Sheerer the scorer . |
| 7 | He saw Antony standing talking animatedly to a rather bewildered looking police constable who looked relieved to get away . |
| 8 | Does the whole conceptual perspective of the Monitor theory narrow down to a focus on filling in the blanks ? |
| 9 | A short side road branches off to a passenger ferry across the Kyle , linking the opposite shore with a narrow strip of tarmac eleven miles long that provides the only access to the lighthouse at Cape Wrath . |
| 10 | As he bent his knees for a closer look , a single spot of blood from his cut hand fell on to a wing ; shocking crimson on the pale surface , spreading into a crude blotch . |
| 11 | As the floor levelled off the lights flickered and came up , the engine noise settling down to a steady background roar . |
| 12 | The concrete spillway below the Loch Add reservoir comes down to a stepped slope above the confluence of several small burns draining nearby slopes . |
| 13 | From a position where individual advertising was considered inconsistent with the professional image of solicitors and where there were rules determining the size and style even of the name of the practice on its premises , The Law Society moved speedily to a virtually deregulated advertising regime . |
| 14 | Other centrally sponsored events , including a Film Premier and the Battle of Britain Ball , raised substantial sums for the Appeal and the Association 's links with the Rugby League led directly to a donation to the Appeal by the League of £10,000 at the Rugby League 1990 Challenge Cup Final at Wembley . |
| 15 | In all cases consent goes up to a certain point only . |
| 16 | After more than an hour of deliberation at a North London hotel the tribunal ruled that Chelsea would have to pay Swindon 75,000 pounds and an extra 2,000 for every appearance Hoddle makes up to a maximum of fifty . |
| 17 | Above this zone the moisture content decreases upward to a point where the continuous film of moisture eventually separates into discrete droplets . |
| 18 | Beyond it , the west wall opened on to a wide balcony shaded by deep eaves supported on slender lotus-columns , which gave a view down across the city to the broad grey sweep of the river , sluggish and low at this time of year , but sacrificing none of its dignity . |
| 19 | The Windows for Workgroups beta included software to permit a DOS machine to hook up to a Windows for Workgroups network , although only as a client , so it 's safe to assume that the same Workgroup Connection software will find its way into version 6 . |
| 20 | Recriminations over the sound and an equivocal audience response ( some pogoed , most stared blankly on as a repeat offender dove on to dance to ‘ Motown Junk ’ ) sees the set and with the bass ricocheting off the backdrop , the drum kit going down to a repeated kicking and singer James making messy love to his gorgeous white Gibson . |
| 21 | THE new trading account got off to a lousy start with further bloodshed on the back of last week 's Autumn statement . |
| 22 | Meat Loaf came on to a volley of missiles and for one , beautiful moment , it seemed he was going to get down from the stage and beat some arsehole to death . |
| 23 | BRITAIN 'S first hospital burger takeaway opened yesterday to a cool welcome from the hospital 's own catering and nutrition experts . |
| 24 | To enable users to share real-time video over Synchronous Optical Network , Asynchronous Transfer Mode , FDDI II and T-1 , an isochronous Ethernet hub connects directly to a PABX or Centrex switch . |
| 25 | About halfway across the Channel a man in a plastic mackintosh came back to a nearby table and announced that the rain had finally stopped — just our luck , he added . |
| 26 | Church lane leads westwards to a row of council houses , Church Mount , the old vicarage ( no longer used as a residence for the vicar ) and Mill Farm , now empty . |
| 27 | Whether or not this pilot study leads on to a larger project depends upon first , whether or not the aid project goes ahead , and second , whether or not the pilot study indicates that a more ambitious study is feasible . |
| 28 | While Durham Cricket Club got off to a resounding start , Sunderland brought a respectable gap between themselves and Division Three and Middlesbrough remained in contention for an automatic promotion spot , Newcastle moved into the bottom three of Division Two in remarkable circumstances . |
| 29 | However , as we saw in the final sections of that chapter , a consideration of single word identification leads naturally to a consideration of the larger linguistic units in which words normally occur ; and hence we concluded the previous chapter with a discussion of contextual effects on visual and auditory word recognition . |
| 30 | Although IBM , Apple and Motorola have a forged an agreement for the duration of their project , there remain obvious legal implications for a vendor who might want to stick say Sun Sparc and MIPS RISC instruction sets on to a single piece of silicon . |