Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Expensive cuts of lamb also increased to a larger degree than cheaper cuts , apart from the cheapest cut , breast of lamb , which rose most of all . |
| 10 | They brushed themselves down and advanced towards the bridge then came to a sudden stop . |
| 11 | While the sky above darkened to a deep purple , the Marines below looked about , made nervous by the steadily increasing pace and volume of drumming that floated down eerily from the surrounding countryside . |
| 12 | Main Line 's lawyers said during a trial in state court that Basinger suffered from an ‘ ego run amok ’ and that her backing out led to a year-long delay and a loss of between £3.3m and £6.6m . |
| 13 | The independent artisan and small shopkeeper clearly belonged to a lower middle class or Mittelstand which had little in common with the bourgeoisie except aspiration to its social status . |
| 14 | North West North West match angling almost came to a total halt at the weekend with virtually all major matches called off . |
| 15 | The Surrealist School always appealed to a narrower , more intellectual band of collectors than those who bought the Impressionists . |
| 16 | The ‘ offensive ’ article in the London Evening Standard also referred to a nude poster wrongly said to adorn her office wall , the High Court heard . |
| 17 | The poll also pointed to a clean sweep for the Democrats in elections for lieutenant-governor and attorney-general . |
| 18 | The poll also pointed to a clean sweep for the Democrats in elections for lieutenant-governor and attorney-general . |
| 19 | ‘ The house once belonged to a Turkish prince when the Lebanon was still a part of the Ottoman Empire , ’ a man said , tying the belt of his white dressing-gown as he descended the stairs . |
| 20 | The blaze also spread to a neighbouring house , damaging three windows and some plastic guttering . |