Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis was plump , and rather coarse in appearance ; Williams , who has been unkindly likened to a monkey , was actually rather ethereal in manner , with his long fingers and piercing eyes . |
| 2 | Another patient with a low fistula has had her pouch excised and has been successfully converted to a Kock ileostomy because of severe ileoanal stenosis requiring pouch intubation that became socially unacceptable . |
| 3 | The Cement Garden , by contrast , seems entirely professional in its execution , the work of a young man whose private demons , however unruly , have been successfully harnessed to a career . |
| 4 | Nicholas Dyer is imagined as the builder of Nicholas Hawksmoor 's churches in the East End of London ; the enlightened edifices of a rational Christianity are thereby ascribed to a devil-worshipper , while the name ‘ Hawksmoor ’ is assigned to the Detective Chief Superintendent who , in the later narrative , frets himself into a delirium over a series of stranglings which takes place in the vicinity of the churches . |
| 5 | Venetian blinds are better suited to a study or workroom where a simple , practical treatment is needed , and where they can be easily dusted over . |
| 6 | There are pygmy varieties that can be grown in a sink , right through to vigorous kinds that are only suited to a lake or large pool in a public park . |
| 7 | Although broader in the range of their social backgrounds , they are somehow homogenized to a degree previously unthinkable . |
| 8 | They are normally pinned to a pelmet board in the same way as a pelmet , through pocketed webbing tape , hand stitched to the back . |
| 9 | Swordtails are best kept to a ratio of one male to three or four females . |
| 10 | When cleaned , non-ferrous metals are best brought to a finish before priming with zinc chromate or zinc phosphate . |
| 11 | I feel so glad that I 've finally found something that works and am not confined to a life of bingeing/vomiting , etc . |
| 12 | * A new report suggests that coastal marine pollution as a result of the Gulf War has been largely confined to a strip of several hundred kilometres along the northern Saudi coastline . |
| 13 | If this population is representative of the situation nationally , substantial numbers of patients with end stage liver disease might benefit from liver transplantation , but are not referred to a centre . |
| 14 | It 's easy to forget that you are not listening to a mate in a pub telling her latest , raucous , embellished anecdotes . |
| 15 | You are NOT CONNECTED to a LIFESPAN communication line |
| 16 | As the name implies , these are not linked to a company scheme but can be purchased independently from : insurance companies , building societies , banks , unit trusts and friendly societies . |
| 17 | You 're not listening to a word we 're saying , you 've done sponge , that 's good , now what else float ? |
| 18 | You 're er for the moment you 're not committed to a party , you 've just got to take an individual decision and I know Maastricht is very complicated but there 's a lot of gut feeling as well as precise knowledge about these things , so I want to take a vote . |
| 19 | and if you 're not going to a game tomorrow … you can switch Central on at tea time for all the football news … we 're heading off now to Milton Keynes for a story of adventure for our Friday Feature |
| 20 | I think it 's a lot more worthwhile doing a science degree because a lot of arts degrees do n't lead anywhere because then you have to find a job … they 're not leading to a career of any sort … |
| 21 | And there are many who are deeply committed to a faith which is alive and obvious to everyone with whom they come into contact . |
| 22 | Carried back to Edinburgh , James witnessed the fate of two Douglas brothers who , scorning to collaborate with the intriguers , had been treacherously invited to a feast known to posterity as the ‘ Black Dinner ’ and there beheaded before his eyes . |
| 23 | My watch must have been gradually slowing to a stop all day . |
| 24 | The grants are usually tied to a theme and conditions . |
| 25 | Any seriously ill patients are usually sent to a state hospital . ’ |
| 26 | If the consideration is securities in the bidder , the shares are usually issued to a trustee to hold on behalf of the untraceable shareholders . |
| 27 | Even under normal circumstances , however , people throughout the world are still exposed to a variety of environmental hazards which jeopardise their safety , health , happiness and , indeed , survival . |
| 28 | UNIVERSITY students are still sticking to a boozing , sexy lifestyle despite the recession . |
| 29 | The tesserae are still applied to a bed of mortar , but the client could expect the work in the room which was actually receiving the mosaic to be finished much more quickly than with the direct method . |
| 30 | The British imitators are still whispering to a city that 's still in bed . |