Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] to an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end . |
| 3 | The bottom line for liability is that you are only legally committed to an agreement made by an agent when : |
| 4 | The patient described here took an overdose not long after her marriage somewhat unexpectedly came to an end . |
| 5 | I does not necessarily lead to an increase in the price of consumer goods . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In Island Export and Finance Ltd v Umunna [ 1986 ] BCLC 460 it was held that a director 's fiduciary duty did not necessarily come to an end when he ceased to be a director . |
| 8 | In addition , an increase in production , or even in investment , does not automatically lead to an increase in jobs — the norm is usually the exact opposite , and shedding labour is a prerequisite for a firm 's expansion . |
| 9 | The scheme of the 1954 Act is that if the lease is more than six months ( which is presumably the situation in your case ) and the premises are occupied for the purposes of your business , then the lease does not automatically come to an end . |
| 10 | This RTP ( reduce to products ) contract was expected to last two-and-a-half years , and has just about come to an end after less than two . |
| 11 | Before looking at local economic strategies in more detail we should point out that the decline of consensus politics at the national level does not inevitably lead to an increase in local political activity . |
| 12 | The Journal suggests that while the companies have not yet come to an agreement , and that Approach has had several approaches , the combination could give Lotus a hot new product and a defensive weapon against recent moves by Borland International Inc and Microsoft Corp . |
| 13 | Any such application must be signed by the wife ( see the negligence case of Holmes v Kennard ( 1984 ) 128 SJ 854 ) if her rights of occupation have not otherwise come to an end . |
| 14 | To the disappointment of some of its supporters , the new Labour government proved to be by no means wedded to the idea that the British empire ought now summarily to come to an end . |
| 15 | It does n't always lead to an arrest by any means but it can help to solve the jigsaw and maybe come up with a welcome " good deed " . |
| 16 | She would n't even agree to an engagement . |
| 17 | If your employment ends because of , say , revolution overseas , the contract may be regarded as frustrated , ie completely brought to an end by operation of law , because it is no longer possible for the contractual duties to be performed as you and your employer originally envisaged . |
| 18 | Hammersmith 's portfolio was almost entirely geared to an expectation that low interest rates in 1987-88 would remain . |
| 19 | Why is it that , in Greenock and Port Glasgow , genuine claims for disability benefit in respect of vibration white finger are almost always forced to an appeal ? |
| 20 | One of the more obvious disadvantages of the monist position is that it almost inevitably leads to an obliteration of the distinction between essential and inessential , or accidental ( " extrinsic " ) properties , or features of things . |
| 21 | The resulting image is then either transferred to an OHP foil by photocopying or photographed using a rostrum camera to make a 35mm slide . |
| 22 | It would be a poor sort of immortality , however , because any personal concept of time for the astronaut would almost certainly come to an end as he was torn apart inside the black hole ! |
| 23 | Failure of this citizenly vigilance can all too easily lead to an erosion of our entitlements . |
| 24 | Such a state can only arise where structural surfaces very nearly conform to an equilibrium profile . |
| 25 | Third , we will set down the perspective of the Left within the Labour Party — the party that has very belatedly come to an awareness of the significance of constitutional politics and of the need for change . |
| 26 | Anglicans were still too heavily committed to an organization suited to a predominantly rural society . |