Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had most of the presents and all the adults to himself , and it only came to an end for him when he was very sick late in the morning , but whether from too much excitement or too many sweets , nobody could tell . |
| 2 | The miners ' action , based on demands for higher wages , better conditions and changes in the national political leadership , only came to an end on May 10 when a decree was issued transferring the control of the mines in the Russian Federation to the RFSFR government [ see p. 38204 ] . |
| 3 | In the 1920s America had witnessed some of the problems of the modern world that was emerging after the First World War ; the confusions and uncertainties that revealed themselves became more acute as prosperity suddenly came to an end in 1929 . |
| 4 | His examples include [ 11 ] , which is not so obviously related to an apposition of phrases : If [ 11 ] is an example of apposition , then the assumption that cases of loose apposition are reductions of non-restrictive or appositive relative clauses can not be maintained . |
| 5 | The gathering was suddenly brought to an end as a cluster of mortar bombs exploded on the village green shattering the windows of the café and dislodging bottles from the shelves . |
| 6 | The growth in the sum of will only lead to an increase in the price of consumer goods if the sum of grows too . |
| 7 | This should obviously lead to an improvement in the situation but regardless of the size of the corpus there will always be some transitions that are not found . |
| 8 | I does not necessarily lead to an increase in the price of consumer goods . |
| 9 | Thus birth control groups during the inter-war period were careful to argue that the use of birth control would not necessarily lead to an increase in childlessness or very small families , but rather would result in better planned families and healthier mothers and children . |
| 10 | If the case had been one of estoppel , it might be said that in any event the estoppel would cease when the conditions to which the representation applied came to an end , or it also might be said that it would only come to an end on notice . |
| 11 | Language thus contributes to an atmosphere in the fabliaux that lies above and outside the describable details of character and setting : an all-enveloping " feeling " of sensuality , shared by the real people involved — the authors and their anticipated readers/audiences — via the medium of the tale . |
| 12 | Reflecting the substantial barriers to international integration , prices have not come to an equilibrium across countries . |
| 13 | A brilliant student 's seven-year battle for compensation after being crippled for life , has finally come to an end with a record award of £1.2 million . |
| 14 | As this issue of The Lifeboat goes to press the 16th International Lifeboat Conference has just come to an end in Oslo . |
| 15 | Society itself and those who govern it need such understanding ; and in a democratic society this entails that the study of the humanities be widely spread , not confined to an élite of self-indulgers , the leather blotter-owning classes . |
| 16 | Most of which I know some of them have already come to an end like Julie 's E S |
| 17 | The meaning is uncertain , but it can not refer to an offering to a demon , as some suggest , for this was strictly forbidden ( see , e.g. , 17:7 ) . |
| 18 | Norway and Sweden announced on Aug. 6 that they would not contribute to an appeal for assistance to relieve the effects of the drought , in protest at the purchase a few days before the launch of the appeal of a US$29,000,000 presidential aircraft . |
| 19 | The improvement may well be largely related to an increase in volume leading to an increase in blood volume in the lungs — an effect shown by transthoracic impedance techniques . |
| 20 | But Enterprise Neptune has not drawn to an end with the successful completion of its Silver Jubilee year . |
| 21 | Even in Berlin the French legation was not raised to an embassy until 1862 ; and in the aftermath of the defeat of 1870 – 71 it was seriously proposed to save money by appointing only ministers and no ambassadors at all in future , though nothing came of this . |
| 22 | It is coming to an end in May , it is not coming to an end in practice . |
| 23 | The surrender of part did not amount to an eviction of the assignee , it resulted from an agreement between the assignee and the landlord : one can see details of that in the report of the Divisional Court decision ( 1888 ) 21 Q.B.D. 101 , 102 . |
| 24 | It was held that , although refusal to grant licences did not amount to an abuse as such , it could so do if refusal was arbitrary or if prices were fixed at unfair levels or if the right owner stopped making spare parts . |
| 25 | It had been thought at one time that the restriction did not apply to an attack on members of a party as a whole , or where the motive was simply the provision of information and not the demoting of a candidate , but Luft adopts an extensive interpretation of the scope of the provision . |
| 26 | In the case of a public company subject , at the time of its registration or re-registration , to a pre-1982 pre-emptive requirement , sections 89 to 95 do not apply to an allotment of the equity securities which are subject to such a requirement . |
| 27 | This rule does not apply to an action for the recovery of land , where the return day is that of the final hearing ( N5 — 6 ) , unless a claim is joined for some relief other than the payment of mesne profits or arrears of rent or for moneys secured by a mortgage or charge ( Ord 3 , r 3(4) ) . |
| 28 | The rules as to disclosure , participation and voting do not apply to an interest in a contract or other matter which a member may have as a ratepayer or inhabitant of the area , or as an ordinary consumer of water , or to an interest in any matter relating to the terms on which the right to participate in any service , including the supply of goods , is offered to the public . |
| 29 | There was no reason why the ordinary law of contract should not apply to an agreement under s 54 as to any other agreement . |
| 30 | As a general rule Article 85 does not apply to an agreement between a parent and its subsidiary " which although having separate legal personality , enjoys no economic independence " . |