Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maxim was about to explain when the lieutenant obviously came to a snap judgment on his military value and slammed out again . |
| 2 | Thus , the imposition of these preconceptions on the object of study necessarily leads to a distorted view of the history of a language . |
| 3 | If your statute obviously belongs to a particular title , like ‘ Contract , ’ take down that volume of the collection and open it at the title ( known as the ‘ group ’ ) . |
| 4 | It is plain that the notions of a superior and a supreme criterion merely refer to a relative place on a scale and do not import any notion of legally unlimited legislative power . |
| 5 | audit methodology not geared to a systems-based approach ; |
| 6 | The computer industry also conformed to a common American pattern of running into anti-trust difficulties — following IBM 's overwhelmingly successful System/360 offerings of the early 1960S . |
| 7 | The Old Testament also alludes to a three-tier universe . |
| 8 | A term often applied to a large group system is an organisation and these are usually created to accomplish a specific purpose , for example a hospital is organised for the treatment of people with disease ; and is perhaps within a yet larger organisation , a national health service , which in addition is responsible for maintenance of health , prevention of disease and rehabilitation . |
| 9 | MY PEN IS DRY , I 'm staring sadly at the dawn as I hears deep , cool sigh- Please write to a lonely girl of 16 . |
| 10 | Failure to find the right concept at the first attempt simply leads to a second attempt and a third attempt . |
| 11 | The chapter then turns to a detailed analysis of the behavioural determinants of consumer demand . |
| 12 | There was much wrath that he had been meaninglessly sacrificed and a Test career that had given so much pleasure needlessly brought to a premature end . |
| 13 | The evening takes wing in the touching performances of Michael Maloney and Saskia Reeves as her betrayal eventually leads to a fine deathbed reconciliation scene . |
| 14 | Of those pubs which are listed — and there are still dismally few — such an attitude inevitably leads to a total disregard for those special qualities which distinguish the pub interior . |
| 15 | This process of manufacture inevitably leads to a certain loss of spontaneity in the design but , as compensation , makes it possible for far more technically exacting compositions to be achieved . |
| 16 | The discovery instead went to a professional astronomer , Konrad Rudnicki , who shortly thereafter found the comet on photographs taken on the large telescope at Palomar Mountain . |
| 17 | These invisible tabs , if not removed , are responsible for text mysteriously jumping to an unexpected position . |
| 18 | He retained the Treasurership , but died within a few weeks of his retirement thereby bringing to a sudden end a lifetime 's service to deaf people . |
| 19 | Even my wife , enlightened , but energetically gregarious , upon my expressing my desire not to go to a certain gathering would say , ‘ Normal people like parties , they want to go . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Sitaki mafi zako bwana ’ ( Do n't give me your shit mister — Swahili slang ) , as my ayah once said to a door-stepping American missionary . |
| 21 | The conference also agreed to a new co-operation arrangement on fisheries surveillance allowing patrol boats to arrest illegal fishermen in the territorial waters of another member state . |
| 22 | It was clear from the type of contract entered into ( purchase of seed to grow a commercial crop to be sold for profit ) that the likely loss , caused if the defendants supplied defective seed , would exceed the purchase price by such an amount ( namely the value of the ultimate crop ) that the limitation really amounted to a total exclusion of liability . |
| 23 | And while BR gave up carrying more categories of goods and our daily newspapers overnight , the overall freight picture again improved to a greater extent than most people forecast . |
| 24 | I can exclusively reveal that Britain 's Grand Prix hero last night secretly agreed to a multi-million-pound link-up with film star Paul Newman 's red-hot team . |
| 25 | The Z2 Carbonate is also widely known as the Hauptdolomit ( Brueren 1959 ; Füchtbauer 1964 and 1972 ; Rhys 1975 ; Taylor 1981 ; Taylor and Colter 1975 ; Wagner et a/. 1978 ) but strictly speaking this name only refers to a particular part of the formation . |
| 26 | If intellectualism only leads to a cultivated despair or a hankering after dictatorship , then it is time to give ordinary intelligence a chance . |
| 27 | Keynes might well have disapproved of the ‘ Keynesianism , of the postwar politicians , but runaway inflation nevertheless led to a successful monetarist assault on Keynesian theory . |
| 28 | Rory was smiling as the small , plump figure scuttled out of the dressing-room , but the smile quickly changed to a thoughtful frown . |
| 29 | Therefore , additional evidence clearly pointing to a causal relation between H pylori infection and gastric ulcer disease has to be provided . |
| 30 | The king also depended to a considerable degree upon individuals who , like the leaders of the companies of the previous century , served in the royal army : Poton de Xaintrailles was for a period a ‘ veritable routier ’ , pillaging in different parts of France before accepting office under Charles VII ; Antoine de Chabannes , a captain of routiers , at one time had command of 1,000 horsemen before finding employment under the crown . |