Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obediently the noise level dropped to a whispered exchange , and Larsen ran his eye over the sea of faces packing the long corridor on either side , trying to pick out his daughter Karen . |
| 2 | Is not every child whose parents are on income support entitled to a free school meal ? |
| 3 | Downpipe connected to back inlet gully leading to a combined drain |
| 4 | A very interesting case study relating to a successful application of participation at Rolls Royce is given in Mumford & Henshall ( 1979 ) . |
| 5 | Thus the normal 3:1 mixture of chlorine isotopes leads to a characteristic isotope pattern for a single M-Cl bond stretch , with a stronger higher-frequency band due to 35 Cl and a weaker , lower-frequency band due to 37 CI . |
| 6 | Luckily , The Wedding Present signed to a major just before Red Rhino folded . |
| 7 | The victims had symptoms of central cerebral atrophy , or shrunken brains , and X-rays showed neck damage corresponding to a premature ageing of 10 years . |
| 8 | The one exception was at Dartford where the Payroll/Personnel Administration Department reported to a central Payroll Manager . |
| 9 | Fortunately continuing research by agrochemical manufacturers has to a large extent enabled the persistent organo-chlorides to be suspended . |
| 10 | The three principal reception rooms are well-proportioned and linked by double doors ; and the colonnaded entrance hall leads to a magnificent central double staircase . |
| 11 | The double-height entrance lobby leads to a ground-floor gallery which runs to the north end of the barn where it connects with the garages . |
| 12 | We propose that in the knee-elbow position , mobile bowel loops shift to a dependent position , while the rectum remains uppermost . |
| 13 | HOPES for an end to the recession rose yesterday after the London Stock Exchange soared to a new high . |
| 14 | How can you deliberately give yourself carbon monoxide poisoning to a mild degree ? |
| 15 | Voters therefore list candidates according to preference , as with the alternative vote — but their vote transfers according to a different principle . |
| 16 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials conceded to a congressional committee looking into the costs that the agency had made a mistake by letting the contract ‘ run over cost , over time . ’ |
| 17 | Rupert Murdoch 's mass circulation tabloid stooped to a new level of vicious scaremongering when it seemed that Neil Kinnock might just succeed in leading Labour back into government . |
| 18 | It is mere speculation on my part — and probably an oversimplification — that the confusing post-war crop of art styles in America grew out of refugee Europeans reacting to a strange land . |
| 19 | Licensees must provide a diverse programme service appealing to a wide variety of taste and interest , high quality news and current affairs and a reasonable proportion of other programmes of high quality . |
| 20 | He found the tape recorder attached to a small alcove carved out from underneath the desk . |
| 21 | A cheap alternative to a radio microphone that produces acceptable recordings of one speaker is to use a small tape recorder attached to a tie-clip microphone . |
| 22 | High costs , unsuitable study patterns and the need for substantial senior management involvement in administration are discouraging companies from signing up for TOPP — the Institute 's two-year old training outside public practice scheme according to a recent internal report . |
| 23 | A ring receiver worn by a deaf football player responded to a remote control signal from the referee . |
| 24 | THE stock market soared to a new all-time high yesterday on hopes that the painful slump could be poised to peter out next year . |
| 25 | The rate of fire decay behind the flame front depends to a large extent on fire loading , the physical state and thermal capacity of the fuel and does not appear to have been studied in the same depth . |
| 26 | Public procurement and especially defence procurement led to a double demand for semiconductors , which were used directly ( for example in military missiles ( and which were also in heavy demand from the computer industry ( for defence and other federal government use ) . |
| 27 | The project aims to investigate the methodology of establishing interactive microprocessor and large computer models relating to a wide range of topics in environmental technology decision-making and to develop representative models . |
| 28 | It 's big healthy hunks of wholesome home cooking served to a joyous family gathering . |
| 29 | A seventeenth-century Antwerp cabinet in ebony with ivory and horn marquetry went for FFr 350,000 ( £35,700 ; $64,300 ) ; a small and unusual seventeenth-century bureau with beautiful coloured wood inlay sold to a Belgian collector for FFr320,000 ( £32,650 ; $58,800 ) . |
| 30 | A readability test applied to a random sample gave almost under graduate levels of difficulty . |