Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I once said to a small group of Reception children working in the play area : " I 've heard that this bracelet has some strange magic powers . |
| 2 | Will McLewin rolls into town 40 minutes late , parks his battered VW van on double yellow lines in Llanberis High Street and wanders into Pete 's Eats with a mirthful , wondering , combative expression on a face I once compared to a quick and breathing version of Norman Tebbit 's . |
| 3 | I ONCE mentioned to a local farmer that my grandfather had been born in the little fishing village of Staxigoe , to the north of Wick in Caithness , and he quickly warned me not to go about repeating the story , because of the supposedly dubious reputation the natives of Staxigoe have earned themselves down the ages . |
| 4 | I once suggested to a French audience that a book on Les silences du Colonel Polybe would be instructive . |
| 5 | As you know , comrade , I usually cater to a civilian clientele . ’ |
| 6 | There was a continual potential for conflict between the two cultures , which eventually came to a dramatic crisis in the San Antonio area . |
| 7 | Still compulsive viewing after all these years , the story tells of a sexual attraction between alluring femme fatale Matty ( Kathleen Turner ) and sleazy lawyer Ned ( Hurt ) which eventually leads to a murderous crime of passion . |
| 8 | The Commission considered that there was not only one beverage packaging market comprising glass , plastic and cans , but that packaging products may belong to separate markets which only compete to a limited extent . |
| 9 | Three hundred thousand foxes are killed annually in this country , either through hunting , which only attributes to a small two point percent , shooting , gassing , snaring , all of which happen during the hunting season as well . |
| 10 | He was also charged with forcing the king to bestow the earldom of March upon him in the Salisbury parliament of 1328 and then leading an armed band against the Earl of Lancaster , with procuring the death of the Earl of Rent , fomenting discord between Edward II and Isabella , and other offences which together amounted to a comprehensive indictment of his rule since 1326 , The earls and barons , ‘ the peers of the realm ’ , were asked to give their judgement on these charges and they declared that they were notorious and manifest to all . |
| 11 | Labour 's greatest ever achievement , without fear of any contradiction , the greatest achievement of the Labour movement was the introduction of the N H S which still remains to a large extent , the envy of the world . |
| 12 | For the evidence set out above suggests that the heads of the central figures , which still relate to a certain extent to the work of 1906 and which were almost certainly the first to be painted , were not executed until the Iberian stone heads came into Picasso 's possession in March 1907 . |
| 13 | In addition a bronze arm was found , 133 cm in length , which probably belonged to a colossal statue . |
| 14 | The class of shares in respect of which employees and directors are granted options will usually provide for a mandatory sale upon cessation of employment , which strictly amounts to a uniform restriction across the whole of that class of shares . |
| 15 | Yet , their combination of idealism with an emphasis on realism and ornamentation was a typical feature of their own , which often led to a clear mannerism . |
| 16 | A more sentimental genre was represented by Arthur John Elsley 's ‘ Goodnight ’ , of a night-gown attired little girl bidding farewell to her pets , a huge Saint-Bernard and her pups , which surprisingly sold to a French collector for a very strong $160,000 ( £91,900 ) ( est. $60–80,000 ) . |
| 17 | As the definition of meditation developed in scope , so prayer came to denote not just intellectually formulated structures but a desire for God which sometimes rises to a direct consciousness of his presence . |
| 18 | In summary , the detailed empirical work outlined above has enabled another general law to be formulated , the principle of circular and cumulative causation , in which the key factors are : an initial reduction in farm employment ; which is followed by a deterioration in the age structure ; which is in turn followed by a reduced rate of natural increase which then leads to a reduced population which in turn leads to reduced demands for rural services and thus a reduced demand for rural employment which then triggers another circular decline ( Hodge and Whitby , 1981 ) . |
| 19 | Even the nights were happy , full of wonderful dreams which almost amounted to a second life . |
| 20 | Whey-faced and wobbling , she slowly rises to a kneeling position behind the chair and peers out over a rampart of faded chintz , searching the room for the source of my voice . |
| 21 | you always went to a proper butcher then , you did n't go to the supermarket because you had a good butcher that you used to go |
| 22 | How would you both respond to a common allegation that dyslexia is a middle class disease ? |
| 23 | Will you both come to a little party I 'm planning for next week ? |
| 24 | Her earliest work in cytology concerned the presence of centrosomes in higher plants ; she then moved to a general study of oögenesis and spermatogenesis in Lilium martagon . |
| 25 | Wi with with with all due respect you know we we we 're talking about the precision of the word and when you actually come to a ten point scale there will be some imprecision anyway in the is it a six ? |
| 26 | There must be a steady proportion of grass-rooters who never listened to a single word of the conference proper , spending the mornings awash with coffee , lunchtime with lager , and tea with Typhoo . |
| 27 | Total , or , elsewhere , global , history assumes a spatio-temporal continuity between all phenomena , and a certain homogeneity between them insofar as they all express the same form of historicity — Althusser 's essential section — whereas in general history the problem is precisely to determine the relation between different series : whereas a total history draws everything together according to a single principle , a general history analyses the space of dispersion and heterogeneous temporalities . |
| 28 | In talking about a subject we generally refer to a given area of knowledge or to the contents of an information source of a given scope . |
| 29 | Politics , for us , is evolutionary rather than axiomatic ; we recognize , in working toward a perfectly just state , that we already belong to a different one . |
| 30 | Because we , even if we ever came to a final close if |