Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun sg] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly the village awakened to life . |
| 2 | Suddenly the crowd started to stone it . |
| 3 | The greatest benefit was to the local community as a whole : as Listers grew so the area climbed to prosperity from the depression that followed the collapse of the wool-cloth trade . |
| 4 | We went on past and came to Gate 6 , which was basically a staircase leading to ground level , where the rails were . |
| 5 | Figure 4.1 shows only a difference according to sex of speaker , but as this is quite consistent between generations , it has another quality : it is also a stable variable . |
| 6 | The wording of the question is not the factor leading to difficulty the same wording used with whole numbers for criterion 1 e produced a success rate of over 80 per cent . |
| 7 | Dr Pertwee says there is no longer a stigma attached to cannabis research in the scientific world , although pharmaceutical companies have been less willing to be seen to be working with cannabis-like substances . |
| 8 | Already a boy given to solitariness and a certain economy of words , he found in poetic diction ( thanks , not least to Wordsworth ) the most congenial vehicle for comprehension and self-expression . |
| 9 | They were hemmed in on all sides by thick heavy stone , but still the wind managed to snake in through innumerable cracks and crannies . |
| 10 | Gradually the greyness turned to pink . |
| 11 | Later the Mass switched to daytime as numbers grew . |
| 12 | A few days later the man came to hospital because his stomach hurt . |
| 13 | There 's also erm , that 's a fish swimming in the sea , there 's also a law related to fishing , as I mentioned before . |
| 14 | Such a ‘ note ’ would have a frequency of about 400 GHz and a corresponding wavelength of 0.7 mm , that is to say it is a microwave of about the same order of size as the ones used in microwave ovens Now the law relating to microwave transmission is very strict , and microwave ovens are suitably shielded to prevent the unwanted escape of potentially lethal radiation . |
| 15 | They repeated the experiment and obtained variable able results : often the ethylene decomposed to carbon and hydrogen . |
| 16 | Well if the Conservatives got in would you cut back the money allocated to recreation and would you cut back on the recreation services ? |
| 17 | It was really er , it was really a penance going to church . |
| 18 | It is important to wrestle with questions of how far a belief corresponds to reality or is illusory . |
| 19 | Well we do n't , we usually erm have a about an hour goes to sleep for an hour . |
| 20 | Not so long ago the water used to steam away like a perishing engine on these tables in hot weather . |
| 21 | Here the government responds to market imperfections in proportions according with the extent of imperfection . |
| 22 | Rather , like the rest of the Musgrave Park complex , it is purely and simply a hospital dedicated to healing and the relief of suffering . |
| 23 | Duncan took some persuading — £250 and the scrap option on the VW to be exact — but agreed to meet me at Blackberry Hill with his wrecker truck ( there is n't a vehicle known to man he ca n't get hold of ) in two hours . |
| 24 | He was perfectly happy that way , or had been up to now , but it was n't a body to put to competition . |
| 25 | At last a smile began to pull at the folds in Sir Charles 's face , as if his cheeks really were wallets and his smile was going through them , looking for cash , then the smile turned to laughter , it pushed between his teeth , it was dry and rhythmic , it sounded uncannily like someone counting a stack of dollar bills . |
| 26 | He smiled for a moment thinking it was a joke ( a slash of the knife at this point ) and then the smile turned to disbelief — ‘ he did n't look disabled ’ — finally he felt embarrassment that he had progressed through such sensational thoughts . |
| 27 | Then the Bill goes to Committee . |
| 28 | If one task uses only one input neuron and the other uses the same neuron as part of a pattern of input , then the system responds to activity in that neuron as if it is a part of the larger pattern . |
| 29 | Bennett had added to his original Australian Air Force training , albeit with a Short Service RAF Commission , but had accumulated almost every qualification known to aviation and beyond this , had a wealth of practical experience . |
| 30 | It says erm The theme is an urgently felt personal one , an exploration of how a woman comes to maturity in the world of the writer 's youth . |