Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thoughtfully , Andrée said , ‘ Do you think your mother cares two hoots about being married or not married to a man ? |
| 2 | The itinerant ticker of classic gritstone , steeped in the lure and legend of this most elemental of climbing forms , must sooner or later come to an end of the unusual circuit of well-publicised , polished testpieces and crowded crags . |
| 3 | Whatever the explanation , for some of us there was always a sense of fear in this secluded spot and that moreover linked to a train . |
| 4 | BELOW : The corn mill at Westbury was originally powered by a breastshot wheel , although later changed to a turbine . |
| 5 | At the foot of the lane stands a most interesting little building , formerly associated with Frogmarsh , although now converted to a house . |
| 6 | Although now signed to a major , The Wedding Present still retained their parsimonious values . |
| 7 | He ran down the first alleyway he came to , across the next street , over gardens and waste ground , and finally slowed to a stop , listening to the still night . |
| 8 | Rotation of the impeller was commenced at 5000 rpm and gradually increased to a maximum of 30000 rpm . |
| 9 | It is a label that cam be quickly and uncritically applied to a range of reading : such things as comics and fan magazines , the Christmas annuals , TV and cinema spin-offs , albums of stickers , the works of Enid Blyton , and so on . |
| 10 | The prophet Tawney , now writing for the Manchester Guardian and still committed to an extension of grammar-school opportunities could , on the twenty-first anniversary of Secondary Education for All , write : ‘ Now , at last , the reign of organised torpor masquerading as statesmanship shows signs of ending . ’ |
| 11 | Third , major landscape changes appeared to be more and more confined to a change in either tenure or farming type , and were clearly the result of well-thought-out decisions rather than the often piecemeal changes of the 1960s . |
| 12 | The boy was rushed to Nottingham Queen 's Medical Centre with severe burns and later transferred to a specialist unit at Nottingham City Hospital . |
| 13 | Aspdin set up a partnership in 1824 with a neighbour as ‘ patent Portland cement manufacturers ’ , operating from Leeds and Wakefield and later expanded to an agency at Liverpool . |
| 14 | In England and Wales these lessons were taken further through the creation of a series of urban development corporations — first set up for London 's Docklands and Merseyside , and later extended to a number of other areas , including the Black Country , Trafford Park , Teesside , Salford , Tyne and Wear , Cardiff Bay and Sheffield . |
| 15 | He was educated at Regent House School and later articled to a solicitor , reading law at the same time at Queen 's University , Belfast . |
| 16 | The military and political decline of the Roman Empire coincided with a worsening of the climate , and both contributed to a rising of the swamps in the Dark Ages . |
| 17 | Like all good selectors , they had not been swayed or influenced by the most recent of events and clearly stuck to a game plan which may well have been devised before the 1992–93 season even commenced . |
| 18 | This is very clear in Masefield 's analysis of one such romantic hero , the almost impossibly self-denying Captain Margaret , who has vowed his life to the service of a woman long loved and now married to a villain : |
| 19 | If I were a member of a species , highly evolved and perfectly adapted to a life among craggy rocks , pecking out the odd lamb 's eye , devouring a few mice , picking through a nice gamey carcass occasionally , but mostly just hovering gracefully around on thermals below cliffs , I would take great exception to being described as ‘ just ’ a crow . |
| 20 | The first female Poor Law Guardian was elected in Kensington in 1875 and immediately appointed to a district relief committee and to the workhouse visiting committee , having the special responsibility of supervising the female scrubbers and washers . |
| 21 | The Duke forced a smile and airily denied to a lady that he had any fear of an imminent French attack . |
| 22 | Mr Souness was treated for 30 minutes and then transferred to a high-dependency , progressive care unit at Alexandra Hospital in Cheadle , near Manchester . |
| 23 | ( Since then I have learned that the way it is done is in a body bag , which is much easier to handle , and then transferred to a coffin either in the pick-up vehicle or at the undertakers . ) |
| 24 | You stick the hook through the slug about a half inch from one end and then cast to a spot where the current will carry the slug beneath the roof of streamer weed , then place the rod in a rod-rest and watch it very carefully . |
| 25 | His wife had been admitted to hospital for observation , and then evacuated to a hospital in Shropshire when war was declared . |
| 26 | In France , mustard seeds are soaked and then ground to a paste . |
| 27 | Jekub emerged like a very angry chick from a very old egg and then rolled to a stop . |
| 28 | I was shaved , given an enema , sent to shower and then directed to a bed in the delivery room . |
| 29 | The car was stolen in North Oxford on Christmas Eve , but recovered just two hours later a few miles away , and then taken to a garage in Cowley . |
| 30 | If fully connected to a vision of an economic future that is ambitious , is shorn of complacency and seized of the danger of failing to compete internationally , it would be instrumental in revitalising our prospects . |