Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack Berry 's colt , backed from 6–4 to 13–8 on before finishing third to Touch Silver in the Brocklesby Stakes at Doncaster , then ruined his chance with a slow start when going under by half a length to Key To My Heart at Hamilton Park last time . |
| 2 | It took Paul , Kate , Helen and Michael about half an hour to wolf down the lot . |
| 3 | 4.4 The Background to Technology in UK Schools |
| 4 | After such a blow to belief in the government 's honesty and in its all-seeing ability to fix things , the leap to anti-communist opposition was all the easier to make . |
| 5 | First was a reference in the contract to general principles of law , second a reference to arbitration in the case of differences with respect to the interpretation and performance of the contract , and third that the contract ‘ takes on a dimension of a new category of agreements between States and private persons : economic development agreements . ’ |
| 6 | All the way to Pom-land in fact . |
| 7 | I mean , change all the , paint o pa paint all the , change all the green to sort of red |
| 8 | She had watched him working delicately on the door , with all the attention to detail of the perfectionist , and had known him to be the sort who got what he wanted in life through hard work , never by taking the easy way out . |
| 9 | If you lose sight of that , all the attention to detail in the world is not a great deal of use . |
| 10 | In answer to the third question , the utilitarian might suggest that there is at least as great a tendency to convergence on these bases as pertains to any of the social sciences ( which may not be saying much ) . |
| 11 | Blundell foresees equivalent advantages in transgenic plants for foods , fibres , energy products , pharmaceuticals , organic chemicals and construction materials — in short a return to agriculture as a major source of raw materials . |
| 12 | More fundamentally … welfare pluralists can not escape opening wider the door to privatisation by the support for the commercial sector inherent in their advocacy of a plurality of sources of welfare . |