Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I can not remain married to a man who is known to be a homosexual . " |
| 2 | The two technical lieutenants who had been attached to Rostov 's staff were providing a running commentary for those who were not placed adjacent to a viewport . |
| 3 | Who knows how close the rest of Britain came to resembling Northern Ireland when plastic bullets were introduced at Broadwater Farm , but not used due to a decrease in the violence . |
| 4 | In those obvious cases , they have not been compensated properly because they were not covered due to a lapse of cover in the law . |
| 5 | A man can teach another man that a red light means " stop " ; a man can teach this to a chimpanzee ; a chimpanzee can not teach this to a man , and one chimpanzee can not teach this to another.4 |
| 6 | Beneath the hill on which the serail huddles , the great iron gates of Jaffa port still stand next to a row of small stone shops , their Arab architecture belied by the Hebrew names above the windows . |
| 7 | Detailed studies of the velocity of seismic waves in the upper mantle show that after the marked increase corresponding to the Moho at the crust-mantle boundary their velocity gradually becomes greater to a depth of around 100km , where a small , but significant , decrease is found which continues to a depth of about 300 km ( Table 2.1 ) . |
| 8 | A horse may often indulge in mutual grooming with a companion horse , and he may also do this to a human he likes and trusts . |
| 9 | During this time they had also become accustomed to a pattern of corporeal proximity , nothing like horseplay of course , or holding hands , or significant touching , but just an ordinary sort of being close together like two friendly animals in a stall . |
| 10 | Fenton also pleaded guilty to a burglary in Station Road , Billingham . |
| 11 | Bitches were often crammed several to a cage , and dogs kept in old cars . |
| 12 | Often sleeping four to a bed , they made up this rhyme : |
| 13 | Why did the banks cheerfully lend billions to a man who would never open the family books or provide them with a balance sheet ? |
| 14 | This is of great importance in practice because planning permissions are invariably granted subject to a condition that the permitted development is begun within a stipulated time . |
| 15 | ‘ Marilyn said I shoud n't wear green to a wedding , she said it was unlucky . ’ |
| 16 | The whole of the school would join in that , boys and girls were together , they were se segregated in the hall you did n't sit next to a girl or anything like that , the boys were on one side , the girls were on the other side . |
| 17 | Answer guide : This is an ideal situation to focus on how students will react to setting their own targets and having targets set for them and then relating this to a business situation . |
| 18 | If you wish to give small amounts regularly , e.g. monthly , you could accumulate the money in a separate account and then convert this to a gift to ACET every time the amount reaches £600 . |
| 19 | A scheme under which producers would have held supplies back from the market , approved in March 1988 but never implemented due to a shortage of funds , was formally abandoned . |
| 20 | The aquifer therefore becomes saturated to a level where the water flowing out balances the recharge that comes in from rainwater . |