Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | American troops were deployed more or less according to a plan , Operation 90–1002 , developed in the early-1980s to contain a southward thrust by the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | It is possible to book alarm calls , make transferred charge calls , telephone for travel information , for the time , the weather , or just to listen to a story or some music ! |
| 3 | of the people in this country dislike or profoundly object to a law . |
| 4 | Do you plump for a bottle with an attractive label or simply stick to a wine that is familiar ? |
| 5 | Whatever the explanation , for some of us there was always a sense of fear in this secluded spot and that moreover linked to a train . |
| 6 | BELOW : The corn mill at Westbury was originally powered by a breastshot wheel , although later changed to a turbine . |
| 7 | At the foot of the lane stands a most interesting little building , formerly associated with Frogmarsh , although now converted to a house . |
| 8 | Although now signed to a major , The Wedding Present still retained their parsimonious values . |
| 9 | John Dearlove in his critique of the reorganisation of British local government reviews a literature that consistently points to a decline in the standards of councillors . |
| 10 | On the day Nicol fitted in as to the manor born , his electrifying pace very much in evidence , notably in a touchline burst that almost led to a try by Gavin Hastings and in a scorching bit of cover to save a certain try by a scything tackle on Jeremy Guscott : ‘ That first cap game was an amazing experience . |
| 11 | It was the president 's problems with the old guard that almost led to a challenge to his authority . |
| 12 | Between the two the unquantified aspect is easier , you just have to push and push and eventually get to a kind of measurement . |
| 13 | The Ford slowed down in front of them and slowly came to a halt , blocking the entire road . |
| 14 | Since Mr Haynes owns 62% of the group 's equity and gladly confesses to a liking for general publishing , it seems likely that his views on keeping the division will prevail . |
| 15 | For Augustine , mystical experience operated in the gap between the Creator and creature , enabling man to recognise his own true nature and so come to a knowledge of God — a process possible only because of the Incarnation , the love poured out from the being of God to his creatures which revealed how He could be known . |
| 16 | The TCCB , bless them , have tried with all their splintered might to redress a short-changing of the public by players in knockout competitions which has bordered on the fraudulent , and only came to a head following the Benson & hedges Cup final at Lord 's last year , and the Oval semi-final of the Nat West Trophy a month later . |
| 17 | It had less and less to say to a home-owning , share-owning , bourgeoisified population , at least so it seemed . |
| 18 | History , far from constituting a privileged form of ( historical ) knowledge , is simply the myth of modern man , and merely amounts to a method of analysis . |
| 19 | He said that the increasing number of pressure groups in other EC countries ( which at the moment have fewer groups than the UK ) would influence both public and political opinion and thus contribute to a situation in which implementation and enforcement of EC environmental legislation would improve . |
| 20 | For the moment it is enough to observe that the Historie/ Geschichte dichotomy could very easily end up looking rather like Lessing 's between the accidental truths of history and the necessary truths of reason , or Fichte 's between the historical and the metaphysical , and thus lead to a position open to the same charge of Gnosticism that Baur had laid at the door of Hegel and Schleiermacher . |
| 21 | The animal immediately loses its coordination and soon comes to a standstill . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's overshot the runway , ’ shouted Greg as the plane bumped sickeningly across the field and finally slithered to a halt in the long grass on the far perimeters of the airfield . |
| 23 | He ran down the first alleyway he came to , across the next street , over gardens and waste ground , and finally slowed to a stop , listening to the still night . |
| 24 | We talked and gradually came to a decision that was quite contrary to the one we had held when we hauled ourselves out of our clothes a half-hour before . |
| 25 | Rotation of the impeller was commenced at 5000 rpm and gradually increased to a maximum of 30000 rpm . |
| 26 | The pressure is then eased off and gradually reapplied to a maximum again . |
| 27 | Messengers would then , when making up numbers for ships ' crews , ignore the crowd of men outside , " sneak out and deliberately proceed to a boarding house and obtain the required number of men " . |
| 28 | Since he took up the position in 1987 , closures of geriatric hospitals , partnership with the private sector , nurse regradings , NHS trusts and a review of maternity and acute services , which will cut over 1,000 hospital beds and possibly lead to a closure of a number of hospitals , are among the controversies which have raged . |
| 29 | I like to understand the meanings of words and always refer to a dictionary when I come on a new word . |
| 30 | It is a label that cam be quickly and uncritically applied to a range of reading : such things as comics and fan magazines , the Christmas annuals , TV and cinema spin-offs , albums of stickers , the works of Enid Blyton , and so on . |