Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to a [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was successfully argued that the phrase " is or " could only relate to a customer when the soliciting is taking place . |
| 2 | With hindsight , there were ‘ rumblings ’ from some nursery nurses during the early stages of the course , but the matter only came to a head when a small group of nursery nurses made a formal complaint to a course tutor . |
| 3 | His progress only came to a halt when he had the misfortune to swop punches with one of the many irrepressible Cubans , the eventual gold medal winner . |
| 4 | His progress only came to a halt when he had the misfortune to swop punches with one of the many irrepressible Cubans , the eventual gold medal winner . |
| 5 | One moment a Mob is striding purposefully towards the enemy , and the next it is suddenly brought to a halt while two warriors settle their differences . |
| 6 | This power can only belong to a person if others acknowledge him to be an expert . |
| 7 | I 'm not so addicted to a television as to need that , oh far from it . |
| 8 | The undertaking by the Government not to agree to a proposal while either House maintains its ‘ parliamentary reserve ’ was embodied in a resolution of the House of Commons of 30 October 1980 . |
| 9 | Worse still , the new skiers — beginners — who should have been making up for those who stop because old age or the arrival of infants stops ski holidays — were simply not attracted to a sport when everyone was complaining about bad conditions . |
| 10 | But equally if a school does not matter to a pupil because the school itself does not try hard enough , there is as much risk to the achievement of a sound education as would arise if all the fault lay with the child 's own family . |
| 11 | One evening , three weeks later , things finally came to a head when Ned booted the former love of his life out of the basket onto the kitchen floor . |
| 12 | Taylor had consistently made it known that he would not agree to a ceasefire until Doe had resigned and left the country . |
| 13 | I like to understand the meanings of words and always refer to a dictionary when I come on a new word . |
| 14 | All SSRs which will still apply to a module once it is approved should reference the anticipated approval version of that module . |
| 15 | However , whether or not previous trading is sufficient to establish a course of dealing will be a question of fact , and will almost always lead to a dispute as to whether or not the terms were incorporated . |
| 16 | She was gabbling nervously , she realised , gradually petering to a halt as the implacable dark face did n't register any reaction whatsoever . |
| 17 | Yes I 'll just end up talking to a secretary whereas something |
| 18 | The same thing often happens to a manufacturer when he believes he can buy the public 's good opinion of him . |
| 19 | Matters are now coming to a head because of the advent of leagues next season . |
| 20 | In short , it can really add to a piece so it depends very much on how you handle the music . |
| 21 | They could n't come to a decision so they put it to the vote when — as the book put it — a pair of bearded anarchists , one with flame red hair , appeared out of nowhere and took their decision for them , smashing down the gates with sledgehammers . |
| 22 | Her heart plummeted with the thought that he would be away again , and then hitched to a halt when his words registered . |
| 23 | As expected , the results show a significant decrease in accuracy when initially pointing to a target while wearing prisms than for normal vision . |
| 24 | I think I would maybe go to a match if the women played a wee game before the men came on . |
| 25 | He 's not a proper father : he 'd rather talk to a foreigner than come and find his own son . |
| 26 | Frau Geller murmured something to her companion about it never happening to a woman unless she 'd been asking for it . |
| 27 | How can anyone seriously stick to a diet if they are hungry ? |
| 28 | We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us . |
| 29 | Girouard mentions that the Duke of Portland sacked any housemaid he met with in the corridors , and that a certain Lord M in Wiltshire never spoke to a servant unless to give an order . |
| 30 | To light it at arms length and then to stand well away while it fires and never return to a firework if it does n't seem to go off . |