Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most extraordinary of these are the Cretaceous rudists ( p. 47 ) a group in which one valve became modified to a long cone , on which the other valve rested like a lid , the whole effect being most un-clammish . |
| 2 | In a period when the number of courses increased , WEA membership in the District declined by 150 and in 1931 , capitation fees from branches had slumped to a mere £44 . |
| 3 | Our vote had collapsed to a paltry 7 per cent and the alliance of the centre now seemed capable of taking everything before it . |
| 4 | By the end of 1922 the figure had jumped to a remarkable 155 , showing that recovery was on the way and economic activity increasing . |
| 5 | The catastrophic effects of the most recent drought can be gauged fact that in 1967 the country imported over 30 per cent of its food requirements and yet only seven years later this figure had risen to a colossal 96.5 per cent in what is nominally an agrarian economy . |
| 6 | The crashing wind had dropped to a vicious whine , but the rain had intensified and its thunderous noise filled the room . |
| 7 | Some medium-sized schools had shifted to a three-tier model , while some large schools were still operating a rather unsatisfactory and somewhat stressed version of Type 2 or even Type 1 . |
| 8 | During the hearing the court received information that W. 's condition had deteriorated to a serious extent . |
| 9 | The controversial contentions of German research remained confined to a rarefied sphere of specialists : but in 1863 the French writer Ernest Renan caused a major international controversy with his celebrated best-seller The Life of Jesus . |
| 10 | It was as close as Jane dared go to a direct suggestion of murder , though she could not resist one more enticement . |
| 11 | A favourable monsoon season and a record harvest in 1988-89 of 172,000,000 tonnes of food grain were not enough to prevent the need to continue to import rice and wheat in order to maintain distribution and to provide food for the country 's growing population ; however , the improvement in the agricultural sector did contribute to a major increase in gross domestic product ( GDP ) , of 9 per cent in real terms in 1988-89 , helped by increases in industrial and manufacturing production . |
| 12 | In April he and Constanze had moved to a smaller , less fashionable apartment on the Landstrasse , and Constanze was once again pregnant . |
| 13 | Ireland had crashed to a 145-90 defeat at the hands of the English losing out on all six rinks , and looked to have little chance when they took on the Scots , who had beaten defending champions Wales 130-100 in their opener . |
| 14 | Once , when they had gone on a nature walk , Eve had pointed to a small cottage and said that it was her house . |
| 15 | This was because I thought that the universe had to return to a smooth and ordered state when it became small again . |
| 16 | But in 1795 and 1796 , after seeking the answers to his problems from Godwin 's book and finding none , Wordsworth had come to a full stop : he had become ‘ Sick , wearied out with contrarieties ’ ( Prelude 1805 , x , 900–1 ) and finally ‘ yielded up moral questions in despair ’ . |
| 17 | The first part of our study , which was reported in the October 1992 issue of ACCOUNTANCY ( see p 13 ) , demonstrated that over this five year period the combined effects of mergers among the large audit firms and voluntary auditor switches among listed companies had led to a significant increase in seller concentration . |
| 18 | By 1973 the Conservatives had moved to a statutory prices and incomes policy and massive state intervention in industry ; the reorganization of secondary schooling along comprehensive lines proceeded , albeit at a slower pace than under Labour , and the trade union legislation under the Industrial Relations Act was effectively non-operational . |
| 19 | The outbreak of war in January had led to a sharp reduction in oil supplies from Iraq . |
| 20 | The report further claimed that the deteriorating security situation in Sind had led to a large flow of capital and industry out of Karachi , Pakistan 's largest city and a major port , during January and February . |
| 21 | By 1960 Sartre had progressed to a radical " post-communist " phase in his thinking , a phase which coincided exactly with Nizan 's " pre-communist " phase in Aden . |
| 22 | The place had belonged to a Polish woman , who 'd lived there as a child and then rented it to students for the past fifteen years . |
| 23 | And , after the 1988 Education Reform Act , one question was whether that reform had led to a new education service in England and Wales . |
| 24 | On August 28 , 1990 , he and Miss Jeannette had driven to a secluded spot where they had begun to make love but Nichol was unable . |
| 25 | The upper level of exposure for workers had reduced to a seventh of its level in the 1930s , for example . |
| 26 | The plaintiff had applied to a Mental Health Tribunal to be transferred from a secure hospital . |
| 27 | Foinavon had reduced to a canter and he jumped the fence off his hocks like a show jumper . |
| 28 | On the issue of financial compensation for countries unable to sustain the economic costs of applying sanctions , it was reported on Aug. 22 that Jordan faced direct costs of $1,500 million and indirect costs of $500 million in 1990 , and that the UN had agreed to a special compensation package ( thought to amount to some $240 million ) . |
| 29 | As a result , she had been able to put away a few shillings every week , and over these past three years the shillings had mounted until now the bag of coins which she kept hidden under the bedroom floorboards had swollen to a tidy sum . |
| 30 | Perfect Strangers ( 1945 ) , which he directed for MGM , seemed glib in its presentation of the changes war had brought to a married couple , changing him from timid clerk to authoritarian naval officer , and her from drab housewife to confident member of the WRNS , but the film was popular nevertheless . |